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From my experience, during the day it's all about the particular road. The highways I spend most of my time on yield at least 95% success rate of auto-lane-changes (some days 100%), expect for a couple of sections which it just doesn't like for reasons that I've never worked out. There is...

I also took a photo of the low beam on a gravel road at night (I chose a gravel road because it shows the light much better than a black tarmac road surface). The way it blocks the beam to the right is very evident with the sharp edges of the pixels. The suicidal kangaroo waiting to hop in front...

@Sir Surfalot You asked previously on another forum about pixels in the adaptive headlights changing in update 2024.8.x negatively affecting the forward right vision on low beam. I happened to be on 2024.2.7 up until today and I just updated to 2024.14.3. (I skipped 2024.8.x) I made the point...

It's downloaded and waiting to be installed on my FSD Model 3.

OK, you're not driving it wrong... :cool:

Yes, indeed. You can even check for updates over cellular while driving. Like I used to do... every day... until I got over it. Does car wash mode disable the auto-boot? Or locking the car manually via the phone?

You're obviously driving it wrong.

The voltage of the pack reduces with a lower SOC. This reduced voltage reduces the maximum power available from the pack. Not particularly noticeable with LFP batteries due to the flat voltage vs SOC curve, but more noticeable with NMC/NCA chemistry.

I doubt the sky will fall - building a charging network is a long-game. It takes years for some sites to get from planning to completion. What it does illustrate though, for those who may not have noticed already, is that putting all your eggs in a basket tightly controlled by an eccentric...

With a human plugging it in and unplugging it, I guess. Now we are going to need "manned" Superchargers... Remember when a service station employee would fill your ICE for you? Wait for the 360 degree circle to turn...

Hmm. He said "Europe and China, and, of course, Australia and UK down the road". Quite annoying him using the phrase "of course" as if it's common knowledge... I have heard very little about FSD v12 coming to Australia other than that they employed some test drivers last year... which could...

I'm not sure how this affects Australia - have any Australia-based employees been affected by this? (Or does Tesla use US-based employees to manage/install the Australian Supercharger network?)

I hope not. My ICE is a Ford Ranger. Not a Raptor, although I've poured enough money into it to buy a Raptor 2x over...

I'm interested in feedback regarding the non-Highland adaptive high beam.

Scientists in Australia live below the poverty line. The politicians see to it. They don't own Teslas.

Nah - we are in complete agreement. It's not the valves that impress me. I'm impressed by the implementation. ;)

It's not hype - that phrase was simply my description of it, and I stand by it. As far as I am aware, Tesla is the first car to extract heat from over a dozen heat sources and distribute that heat to places that need heat (or dissipate if necessary). That makes the car very energy efficient (I...

I'm pretty sure that in the US, those without SFSD are in the same boat as us. Park assist only with EAP. Those without SFSD are up to version 2024.8.x - same as us. Those with SFSD are on a separate branch 2024.3.x.

The UMC and TWC are high quality and inexpensive. The UMC lacks a 32A pigtail but you can buy a good one in Aus if you want one. On that basis, I would not be purchasing an AliExpress charging device. These devices carry a lot of power and it's just not worth messing around with no-brand crap...

Indeed, and I believe the liquid heat transfer in the vehicle is very sophisticated and extremely well designed. I'm guessing that the primary driver for this is energy efficiency. It feels like somebody important stood up at a meeting of engineers one day and said "Look. There are a lot of...

It works if you just select "climate on" from the app, if the battery needs to be warmed it will warm it. The app tells you if it's doing this (which is how I know). It also works the same if you use a phone automation to turn climate on, which is what I do quite often rather than using...

I can only speak for Australia, but our supply is similar to Europe. I don't think 48A/230V single phase is "a thing" here. You are generally limited to a 32A connection single phase. If you want an appliance to use 48A the authority will tell you to wire it up 3-phase at 16/16/16, and if you...

It'll be fine. It doesn't just use UWB, it uses the camera as well - they'll just reuse the auto-wiper code.

I like this logarithmic graphic on Wikipedia, which helps visualise scale if you can cope with log scales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#/media/File:Interstellar_medium_annotated.jpg

Yeah, that was my first thought - but no, my normal profile. This one seems to be the nugget I was looking for. Even going through my "Recents" in the Nav system - not only did my place of work no longer exist, it never has existed, and I have never been there. Ever. Fortunately, my employer...

Strange Nav thing happened recently - my work car park, which was saved to my "WORK" favourite in the Nav system as a POI (Tesla maps knew where "Spaghetti Industries Staff Car Park" was located) - suddenly ceased to exist! I only realised when the car started taking a different route to "WORK"...

They seem to have dropped the price since I last looked. The RWD is now $58900 (was $61900 - $3000 drop). The LR is now $67900, not sure what it was previously.

One metric we haven't been able to measure yet is the "rate of improvement" of V12 in successive updates. Until then, I doubt a timeframe can be estimated.

This discussion prompted me to look up where we are at with remaining Plutonium 238, because I was aware that NASA was running out after the US ceased Pu-238 production back in the 80's. They did buy some from Russia in the 90's, but then the Russians ceased production also. The Dragonfly...

Q1-Q4 2023: BEV 7.51% Q1 2024: BEV 8.70% https://data.aaa.asn.au/ev-index/

Each to their own. I stop every 150km as it is. I can't sit in a driver seat any longer than that. I haven't tested the range of my Model 3 towing a trailer because I don't even have a tow bar fitted. I'm not sure it would have the towing capacity for a caravan or a race car. But there is no...

You are absolutely correct that the US version of FSD won't work in Australia due to traffic light complexities, amongst other many other things. US traffic lights tend not to use turn arrows like we do (although I have seen arrows occasionally over there). They put the lights over the lanes...

Oh, I went one step further than that, and just fixed the two bad bricks with a S3XY knob. Haven't had an "auto-wiper" problem since, because my wipers haven't been in "auto" since. :cool: (Plus it has an ambient LED ring around it, so I can dream I'm in a Highland...)

I think I read somewhere a while ago that only 1 camera is currently used for rain detection, and that "actually auto-wipers (AAW?)" will be coming that will use more than 1 camera. I have seen no evidence that that has happened yet, so any observations of improvement are, as you say, likely...

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You'd be surprised. Whilst not road legal and not a lot of comfort, these are quite amazing vehicles in the environment they are designed for. Farmer Joe could choose between taking one of these or taking the Hilux/LC-79 ute down the paddock. These are cheaper, more rugged, and less likely to...

Yeah, I don't need to watch it to remember it... I was intrigued last summer to see a few EV's turn up out our annual family campground where we invariably bring a trailer with all the gear. I brought my ICE with trailer and left the Tesla at home. I don't have a tow bar on my Model 3 yet, but...

Same price as their similar 110HP XD1500 ICE model: https://www.polarisaustralia.com/ranger/ranger-xd-1500/

Why? People tow. People have EV's.

Yes indeed. The stainless steel in the black gemini covers has a direct and influential effect on the HW4 flux dispersal.

How does it go following other cars? I find that the current auto-high-beam switching is good for on-coming cars, but not so good when following a car at a moderate distance (i.e. it doesn't dip for tail lights when I definitely would).

I purchased a S3XY knob. The app provides all kinds of CAN-BUS data on your phone.

Correct. I use a combination of Tesla scheduled start time (midnight) and also phone automations to achieve what I want. I try to keep my third-party app usage to a minimum, but others here might be able to suggest apps (like Tessie or ChargeHQ). For your stated goal (charge 1100-1400 highest...

Isn't Albanese handing out money to support Australian manufacturing in the renewable energy industry? Oh hang on, he said Australian manufacturing. Oops. Missed by that much.

I think there is a difference between plugging in at a lower %, and noting the charge rate as it reaches 80%, compared to plugging in at 80%. I've seen the higher charge rates when first plugging in at 80%. When I road trip I start at 100% and just charge every time I feel like stopping at a...

Is that all? I've had a RWD at 80% charge faster than that (>100kW I think), but tail off after that.

Could be. All I know is Tesla blamed Telstra when I logged a service request one time it happened last year. There were some on the interwebs blaming Telstra screwing up their LTE IOT WUS messages. You could be right. I should change my wording from "the car was charging" to "the car was...

I wonder if something like this would be effective: https://www.telstra.com.au/internet/mobile-broadband/prepaid/telstra-pre-paid-4gx-wifi-plus It says 8 hours battery life, so would keep running for a while when the USB power goes off. I'm not sure how often the USB ports in the vehicle are...