Recent content by robbieduncan

Exactly. Which is what I wanted (and expected). However I was a little worried it'd be tied in some way to auto high beams.

I'm yet to drive in the dark (curse the lengthening days!) but this is exactly what I want to hear. This is how I hoped they'd work 🙂

If we accept the hypothesis that driverless cars won't drive like humans/complete idiots braking won't cause a pile up as no car will be tailgating/too close to stop

I actually liked the iDrive in our old E61

I installed mine yesterday. Used the rear install method. Pretty simple. I’d say it took about 10 mins including firmware updates for both devices. It looks great. I think anyone not familiar with the car would think it’s stock. At least to look at. Even the commander and cable are pretty hard...

Mine is out for delivery today. At least I assume that's what it is. Not expecting anything else shipped from Sofia! Probably won't have time to even think about fitting it till the weekend though.

Yes. Sometimes it's fine. Sometimes the app (and Octopus IO) takes ages to access the car. In the car sometimes it has instant data connectivity. Sometimes it takes 5-10 mins to connect. No real pattern observed.

Maybe Ice. Defrost melted 5cm of snow off the car!

Stopped at Rugby twice at the weekend. What an amazing services. Loads of chargers (although late Sunday afternoon 25/28 superchargers in use and all 10 of the working non-superchargers in use). Lovely services building. Even a soft play frame for the kids. Great.

Did about 400 miles at the weekend with 2023.38.6. Boy is autopilot worse! Lots of breaking overtaking cars. Seemed to me that as the car being overtaken naturally oscillated slightly in it's lane autopilot would misinterpret this as the car swerving over and brake hard.

I think it was the Facebook part that was being challenged. Facebook (even in the very private initial form) is less than 20 years old. Although scarily next year is the 20 year anniversary of the founding

We can do Eurocentral then Tebay on the way back. I think that’ll be the plan. Wife was not impressed with the cleanliness of the toilets at Perth (I’ve not used them before)

There are a few options but in terms of splitting the journey (and wee stops) they are less than ideal. On the way back down I’ll go Perth/Tebay as the diversion to Tebay is worth it as it’ll be about time to eat. On the way up it’s not I should also note we were not the only Telsa to make the...

With Abington down for weeks it’s really revealing a lack of resiliency and depth in the Supercharger network driving North/South. I drove Harrogate to Aberdeen yesterday. I’ve done this journey before with Abington/Perth being the two stops that are well suited to the car and its occupants...

I suspect what the people in the story are not telling us is that they drove through relatively deep standing water.