Recent content by MikeK

As much as I think it's really not necessary, I will say that I've both driven a LEAF and listened as one has driven by, and I don't find the sound offensive in general. On rare occasions, I've driven somewhere remote and really quiet, and there the lack of any propulsion sound is really quite...

Indeed. I hate all-red signals with a passion, because there are ambiguous states that take longer to interpret than the unambiguous use of distinct colors for braking and signaling. The case you cited (fog) is a counter-example of ambiguity, because you couldn't tell the front from the back...

They looked exactly like the photo TEG posted. I didn't have long enough to study them to notice the details like the lens color.

That seems much closer to the BMW Estoril blue. Gorgeous color! I would have chosen that in a heartbeat.

Greetings, I know that there was a lengthy thread about amber turn signals some time ago. I believe the conclusion was that they were not available nor would they be. And yet. The other day, I saw a Model S on the road with normal plates (not dealer or manufacturer plates), and it had...

I have the sense that Tesla isn't taking the media playback very seriously. There are so many strange bugs and limitations that should be trivially fixed. For example, if you play a multi-disc album, the car ignores the "Disc #" tag, so you get the first track of one of the discs, then the...

A question for you guys with the various coated finishes: what's the standard procedure for washing the car once these have been applied? There's a waterless car cleaning place in Redwood City ("Eco Green Auto Clean"), and they had the gig to periodically clean all of the showroom cars at the...

In almost two years with the S, I have never used a public charger or parked in an EV spot. I've never needed to. Unfortunately, I'm afraid some EV drivers think that the EV parking spaces are a perk, sort of like the HOV stickers. The spaces are often in prime spots because that's where you...

Are you just assuming that the Honda was driving at the speed limit, or was that reported somewhere? Do we even know for sure that the Toyota was in motion at the time? It could, for example, have stalled. One scenario that has almost bitten me in the past is that I was driving along in the...

The metadata situation with music on USB sticks is ... puzzling. I did test AIFF (created with iTunes) at one point, and the metadata was correct, although I think the car fetched its own cover art over the air rather than using what was in the file. Also, beware. The car's player does not...

Ahhh. It could be either of the possibilities mentioned above -- I may have pressed the brake while the door was open, or the fob might have been pressed against my house keys in my pocket. I will attempt to reproduce the chimes deliberately with these actions and see what happens. In all...

Greetings. This evening, I when I got in my car, it played three slow chimes, and at least one of the signal flashers also blinked. I've heard the three-chime thing before, but this is the first time I've been parked where I could also see the reflection from the flash. I moved the car...

Let me put it this way: anybody who argues that FLAC (or ALAC) sounds different than WAV is either: Doing it wrong. Misinformed. Delusional. It would be equivalent to saying that if you created WAV files, then compressed them into a Zip archive to email them, and un-zipped them on the...

Nothing sounds as sweet as a nice V-12. But I sure wouldn't drive one every day.

As far as I'm concerned, if this is actually their plan (to eliminate USB music storage), and if it's in favor of caching Google maps, then I would be okay with that. But, I sort of doubt it, because the car was advertised as having that feature, and in particular greater song storage was one...