Recent content by tahdah793

Thanks much for the reference to the CleanTechnica article and it's pointer to an exhaustive forum entry on this same subject! I'm glad to read that you have confidence in their design of the powertrain but as a still naive Tesla observer if the TACC software is capable of acceleration then a...

I'm not sure what a nhtsa petition is. What I see are "complaints" that are tied to a specific vehicle and a specific situation. The article does have an apology associated with it so it's discarded input as far as I'm concerned. Thanks.

This is helpful. I'll chase it down. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I agree there's no perfect software out of the gate and machine learning is still in it's infancy. But there's no such thing as a random VIN. It's a structured string that includes manufacturer ID, model, other attributes, e.g.AWD, model year, etc. and a sequence number...

I appreciate the responses so far but dismissing the complaints as a bunch of short sellers doesn't work at nhtsa.gov. To file a complaint you need to provide a VIN. So if it's a short-seller, they own a Tesla. Maybe shelling out +- 50K is a small price to try to cover a short-sale but it...

We're fairly deep into our exploration of ordering an M3 LR. We still have some reservations related to various threads concerning manufacture defects. But here's the real issue holding us up right now. I saw a couple of articles about run-away acceleration and other speed control problems. So I...