Recent content by mgboyes

Strikes me the better question is "Which is more likely: that a Tesla employee wrote this form but can't spell PERMANENT, or that this was filled in by someone at the EPA and they wrote the wrong thing?"

A UK Facelift Model S owner is reporting that on his facelift S the center 12V outlet is connected to the same circuit as the OBD-II permanent supply, and has only a 5A fuse (he keeps blowing the fuse every time he tries to use a tire compressor). The pre-facelift car has a 15A circuit for the...

There's one RHD Model X in the UK (demo car). It has AP2.

Actually legally you can only overtake a parked vehicle, pedal cycle, horse or road maintenance vehicle. Pedestrians don't count :)

tbh I'm assuming that's just marketing spin designed to drive upsell of the full autonomy option. No reason to believe they will actually choose not to use the data from the 4 side cameras in order to give the best implementation of autopilot features like blind spot detect - that would just be...

I assume the answer is that they need this for the Model 3 whose screen is smaller, and they're softening everyone up to it now. Totally agree though - it's beyond insulting that 4 years in the satnav is so lacking in basic features.

The download occurs BEFORE the notification. No connectivity is required during installation.

Nothing to do with the SC wifi, but the car detects (by GPS) when it is physically near to a service centrer and notifies the mothership of this fact, so there is some anecdotal evidence that this might well increase the probability of a software update being triggered.

AFAIK the estimated install time given for updates is always the same, irrespective of whether it's a one-line bugfix or a whole new software release. It's 45 minutes on pre-AP cars, and 1h40m on AP cars. Also I need to pay £130k ($169k) for my XP100DL next month - I'm assuming the "next...

Am I missing something? There are no comments.

Well-written and generally very positive article where everything works out OK and the reviewer admits that nearly running out of charge was basically entirely his own fault and that he had to ignore warnings from the car to get into the situation he did. Nothing to see here... move along.

Members have been running polls about most requested software features on here for as long as I can remember (at least the last 3 years). I've never seen any evidence to suggest it has the slightest impact on what TM actually deliver. Unless anyone out there already has key memory, multi-stop...

ROTFLMAO. Of course they won't offer AP1.0 -> AP2.0 upgrades. That's what the trade-in program is for. Or have you not noticed that Model S sales figures aren't exactly soaring of late...

Because keeping something cooled to within 100 degrees of ambient is much harder than keeping something cooled to within 1000 degrees of ambient.

Mostly because those are renders, not photos, which don't include lots of the practical stuff like the parking sensors or front radar.