Recent content by Timothyj999

Agreed! 600+ horsepower and a top speed of 100?? They should be embarrassed--that's their terrible aerodynamics biting them right in the arse. A totally self-inflicted bite.

If you open the glove compartment there’s a microfiber cloth for cleaning the screen—which you just had to touch in order to open the glove compartment!

This drives me nuts, because it seems like such a simple fix. Cross traffic is traveling at x feet per second and will clear the intersection in y seconds. We won’t be at the intersection for s seconds at current speed. If s >> y then don’t friggin hit the brakes! I don’t mind if AP drives...

I feel the same way about autopilot’s lane placement—it’s a good 12 to 18” left of where I generally drive, and it’s dry nervous-making when an oncoming car is hugging the line on a curve and AP doesn’t adjust accordingly. I often take over for that reason alone, and now I mostly limit my AP...

The brake lights DO come on during regenerative braking (at least past a certain level of deceleration). You can see when it happens in the screen animation.

Same here, which always seems weird to me. If my phone is in my hip pocket I have to take it out for it to be recognized. I thought bluetooth had way better range than that, but maybe the car requires a certain level of signal from the phone to accept it as a key.

I am also having this problem (3 or 4 times since my last software update a couple weeks ago), along with my phone not being recognized. Quick fix is to touch the LTE symbol on the screen and cycling the wi-fi on/off--for some reason this gets everything synced up again. Hope this helps.

Agreed. A Tesla taxi should hearken back to the Checker Cab or Austin Fairway (the famous London Black Taxi)--cars that are dialed up to 11 regarding ease of entry, seating capacity, headroom & leg room, comfort, luggage space, and durability; and dialed way down on aerodynamics and...

That’s really interesting—the idea that drivers often anticipate tricky situations. Maybe it would be useful if the autopilot’s goal was to communicate more often rather than try to be invisible. When it reaches some level of computational fuzz or insecurity, give the wheel a little shake or...

Thanks for the well thought-out response. Yet another layet of complexity (or maybe just noise) is public perception. As long as every fatal auto drive accident makes the front page, the longer L4 and L5 will take. We need to get past using perfection as the bar, and start using “better than...

I agree it’s probably just a consequence of noise in the measurements being displayed. But it seems like a trivial thing to fix—just display a smoothed moving average of the last 5 positions or something like that. First world problem I guess.

Wow. Troll much?

Because Until we build a perpetual motion machine and negate the laws of thermodynamics, waste heat is unavoidable. EV’s are much more efficient than IC vehicles, and they produce a much smaller percentage of waste heat per horsepower even as they avoid CO2 emissions.

It’d be a useful option for the accelerator to have an indicator at this sweet spot (either a haptic detent that your foot could feel, or a more obvious feature on the display) , so you wouldn’t have to constantly monitor the discharge/regen line. Maybe a “coast” option?

I’ve found that simply resting my hand on the wheel, so the car (apparently) detects a tiny bit of resistance, is enough to completely prevent the hands off warnings. I am in agreement that there are a few exciting moves at lane splits, but overall I find long trips much less fatiguing.