Recent content by m-i-l

My Churchill renewal came through at £1069.36. Last year it was £842.24. So I went on comparethemarket and got various quotes, starting at £701.50. Interestingly, a Churchill quote was listed at £841.52. I made the mistake of calling Churchill to see if they could do better than £1069.36 for my...

I did my first Model 3 MOT last week. I went to the nearest reasonably reputable sounding local garage (the nearest HEVRA garage was a bit further away). They said they'd done quite a few Teslas, and like them because there's not as much to test. They also said the only unusual thing they'd...

These are now being installed. There's a fair bit of digging involved:

The speed of auto-park is one of the major issues I have with it (other than it crashing my car - see Auto-park bashed our neighbour's car - should Tesla pay both repair bills?). When it unexpectedly swerved it was going so fast that (i) there wasn't enough time (0.1s) for a human to react to...

Thanks to those who provided level-headed replies (and no thanks to the mean-spirited replies). To answer my second question - Tesla do have a process for requesting an investigation/diagnosis. You need to raise a service request via the app (I used the "Other / Something else" category), and...

Thanks. So to the original questions: - It sounds like we (or our insurance) will have to pay for the damage to both cars, even if we can prove it was caused by Tesla's "Full Self Driving" with no time to manually override. - Still not clear on whether there is a process for reporting bugs in...

It didn't let me attach mp4 files, so I put them inside zip files - sorry for the extra level of indirection. Timings are: 00:03 - autopark starts moving the car 00:06 - impact To re-iterate the points above, the issue is that autopark turned the front of our car too soon hitting the back of...

It is not consistent with a driver having hit the accelerator by mistake, because the issue isn't so much the speed but the fact that it swung round way too early. Looking at the video, the speed of the impact is consistent with the normal auto-park speed. I described it as "at speed" because...

Studying the video carefully, the time between auto-park starting and the car making impact was under 3 seconds. It is hard to tell from the video at what point the auto-park started behaving unexpectedly, i.e. swung around too soon, but it is likely to have been well under 1 second, which isn't...

My wife has just used auto-park to park our Model 3, and while on auto-park it swung round way too early at speed damaging the left rear of the car in front and right front side of our car. It did it too quickly to have cancelled, and there were no obstacles and there was plenty of space so...

In many cities and towns you can pay large sums of money for a flat or house and not get a drive or garage, and it isn't unusual to see some very expensive cars parked in the street as a result, so a higher price per unit for electricity is likely to be an okay trade-off in return for having...

Ah, I thought the pole popped up and retracted. I guess it makes sense having no moving parts. There are some lamp-post charging points nearby, and you have to pay £299 for the special SmartCable to use those, so this isn't dissimilar in terms of setup cost. But one of the things I like about...

Just had a leaflet through the door for On street EV Charging that benefits everyone - Trojan Energy , who are going to install some "flat and flush" on-street EV charging points in the area, and are looking for people to pilot. They install 15 adjacent charging points on a street, so even...

Thanks for the tip. Restarted a weekly trip to Westminster this week. Just put the minimum 10 mins on with the RingGo app, and that seemed to be it (no fine so far, and if there is I'll contest by directing to Visitor parking information | Westminster City Council ). Cost was £0.43 this time -...

Yes, pretty sure he's partly doing it for the lulz. But he also knows that he could buy $1.5bn of pretty much anything, get large number of followers to buy in and drive up the price, sell it for maybe a billion or so profit after a very short period, and face no consequences for doing so in an...