Recent content by marcmerlin

thanks for confirming my understanding. Yes, I was definitely going to change the battery, but since it happened on thanksgiving, I had to limp along for a few days. Tesla replaced it for $125 onsite, which probably is barely break even for them.

Thanks. I think so far no one has died over this which is great news, but I'm sure there have already been multiple non fatal accidents due to this. I had one, ultimately it was my fault for being too tired to realize that AP had not fully engaged and only had TACC and not autosteer. My brain...

Something else, just to point out how much the current state is a mess: This picture showing single pull vs double pull, well, guess what, this isn't there on my car. I have an M3 APv2 with HW3 and FSD beta the last branch. There is no such option. So I think you get my point: having such...

And you just explained why it's even more confusing. It's not quite like having a config option on whether the steering wheel turns the car right when you turn it left, but come on, for crucial controls like this, they need to really work the same every time without thinking. There are very old...

Yeah, this, seriously. FFS, I'm an airplane pilot, I'm an engineer, I'm really not a moron, I understand all states and their transitions, and yet at times I don't really know what mode I'm in anymore or get confused by realizing I'm not in the mode I thought I was in. It's rare, but each time...

Ok, thanks for this thread, I now know not to use the lithium battery. Can someone weigh in on replacement 12V batteries for 2018 M3: OEM or 3rd party "group 51r" ok? and let me know which replacement 12V lead acid battery is a good replacement when the main one dies? or is the same exact oem...

I already saw this thread which tells me not to buy the Ohmu lithium battery https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/update-on-replacing-oem-12v-lead-acid-battery-with-lithium.313930/page-2 and Q1: My battery is almost 5 years old, so I understand it went past its expected life. Not sure if...

In the ways that I can, which aren't a lot. The least tech support person I talked to said he agreed with everything I said, had heard it before, and that more people need to report it for Tesla to prioritize this.

I already explained how the 4 indications are really only 1 you cannot say you didn't know about, the audio tones, but they do not adequately inform of all status changes, including autothrottle saying on when auto steering gets turned off. It's also too easy to engage auto throttle without...

1) 2) yes but if you're paying attention outside of the car, you're not looking at those two. 3) the tones are not always clear and do not tell you all cases like autosteer turned off but distance keeping turned on still 4) steering wheel harder, yes and no, it can be a clue, but if you're...

that's mostly what I was asking for, but didn't make it clear enough that I was proposing an actual spoken voice message, not a beep that you have to remember what beep means what. and yes, I know some users will hate actual voice messages, and I'm fine if they are off by default as long as they...

looks like you didn't read my post 1) more beeps is not more better, and after a whlie they just add to confusion. I advocated for optional audible messages. Yes, some will be annoyed by them, they can be off by default 2) blue steering wheel icon is too small and not in my field of view. It has...

As I have already written, Tesla could easily make a charger/battery-less powerwall that would have the electronics but no extra batteries. I'm not a hardware engineer, but I'm guessing such a device could be made in the range of $1000, even with a manual transfer switch and a 50A amperage limit...

Well, if that helps, I have one for sale still (from my old car) PM me if you'd like to discuss, I got a very nice one done with all the bells and whistles, but I'm not sure if it would match the color of your car.

If someone can help me push this to Elon/tesla or whatever best channels outside of reporting it to tesla tech support who told me they agreed and had gotten people asking for the same, that would be appreciated: I'm a pilot, I know about automation in planes and/or the issue of two pilots...