Recent content by Tronguy

Yeah, let's get this NHTSA stuff straight. Start: When there's no cross-traffic, Teslas are not coming to a complete halt at stop signs. Just like people. Next: NHTSA is investigating this. About the time that the anti-Tesla head of the NHTSA was put in place. A conference is called. Next...

And, with all the "It's horrible! Did this strange thing!" and so forth, thought I'd throw in a.. normal, non-scary drive. So, with this exercise regime I'm on, there's rewards for getting some decent walks in. I was at a threshold and decided to go out this week with a bang by hiking around...

Um. At least get your facts straight. What blew up Chernobyl was a bunch of inadvisable tests run simultaneously with inadequate planning: Using the plant's steam turbine to power the coolant pumps with a simultaneous loss of external power and a coolant pipe rupture. That was entirely...

Been to a number of these SCs over the last four years or so; it’s not a new phenomenon. Unfortunately for your cell phone idea, it’s a secure SSID connection with a Tesla name in it that the car can autoconnect to; but the password isn’t something that’s not a Tesla knows. Kind of like how the...

Um. No. At least, I haven’t heard that one. Been at sea. Got seasick once, early on, then got over it; not unusual, this happens to a lot of people. The issue, as I understand it: one is in a ship/vehicle, ship is moving up and down, pitching fore and aft, rolling side to side, and it’s all...

Interesting comment you've got there. As regards Consumers' Reports: Yeah, I've been a subscriber, for decades. And, for the purposes of this reply, I'm going to separate CU's reportage into two pieces: Reports and such that depend upon individual persons' evaluations. Reports and such that...

Back in the day, EAP was available as an FSD variant that, pretty much, ran only on highways. It would do LK, TACC, change lanes back and forth, Navigate on Autopilot (so long as one stayed on highways), and, as a bonus, would do summon and auto park. It lost the summon when everyone else did...

Trollish statement. Bought FSD back in 2020 or so with a 2018 M3; traded in that car for a 2023 variant last year when the FSD transfer popped in. The SO's been driving her 2021 MY with EAP and got the trial, just in time to head to Dallas from NJ and back for the eclipse. We were both...

Maybe, maybe not. Car internals, actual W-hr/mile, and a few other things that ABRP can't directly see make it closer. Dunno. When did that trip out to Dallas, used ABRP to figure out, roughly, how long it would take and where to stay. But than used the NAV by simply plugging in the...

Um. It's been known since the early times that the Tesla NAV software (never mind FSD, EAP, or what-all) attempts to get one to one's destination as Quickly As Possible. To that end, the software in the car and the Mothership (which knows which SC locations are crowded, which have 250 kW...

I know that when I bought FSD in 2021 (I think) they gave me a HW3 upgrade as part of the deal. Also: I sold the 2018 M3 last year and bought a replacement 2023 version. The 2018 got a bad case of the front-end squeaks when the left control arm bushing apparently ran out of grease. The...

Actually: Those NEMA14-50's get abused, more or less, by electricians all the time. And, weirdly enough, this is approved by the NEC. As it happens, if one looks at the NEMA chart, one will notice that there's 15A 120/240, connectors, as well as 20A, 30A. and 50A. But there's no 40A connectors...

Long ago, in a Galaxy Far Away, when I was much younger and was running around in a bought-from-my-dad '71 VW Beetle, I had one of those plug kits in the front trunk. (They didn't call them frunks in those days.. What was in the rear was the engine.) Got a flat on the body of the tread. I did...

Well, the good news is that the screw's on the fat of the tread; no problem getting it either plugged or patched. And, y'know, over here one Tesla happens to have a Tesla Special air pump/flat tire kit; the other Tesla has a $15 (or whatever it was) air pump from Advanced Auto or something...

For what it's worth, various CS types and/or hucksters of various flavors have been using, or maybe I should say misusing the term "Artificial Intelligence" whenever there's a buck or concept to be made. Back in the 80's people would call predictive software systems "Artificial Intelligence" if...