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I have Michelin PAX tires on a car. The only good thing about them is that they last a long time. The four tires and wheels weigh about as much as four conventional tires and wheels plus a spare, so you gain some trunk space but that's about it. You don't save time because the effort to get one...

They said it would be down for maintenance, so that's no surprise. The other My Tesla changes are another story. They finally added 7.1 release notes, and left 6.0 release notes, and all older ones are still gone. They no longer have a link for signing up for any sort of service plan. They don't...

Based on what information?

For me, I want to be able to make a trip as fast as I could in an ICE. If I'm planning to stop to eat anyway, then I don't lose any time in a Tesla. In fact I save a few minutes not stopping for gas. If I have to stop somewhere to charge and I don't eat there, and I stop to eat somewhere else...

I have a daughter who lives not far from Fountain Valley. I live 400 miles away. If I visit her, I will likely need a complete charge by the time I get there. I can go grab a bagel at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, but it's not likely to keep me busy until I am fully charged. It might be nice to...

The last time I was there, there was a line, and after that there were many more reports of waits. But since then, Buttonwillow and Burbank have opened, which should make it easy to bypass. The lack of posts in this thread could mean that the problem went away, but it would be good to know if...

Has anybody stopped there to dine? There doesn't seem to be much choice for food, but what's interesting is the Taste of India. It got consistently terrible reviews through last December, and almost perfect reviews on Yelp since January, with notes saying it's under new management. I'm OK with...

For those driving down to the LA area, we'd hit Buttonwillow first. If I'm going for a weekend, that would be a good place to stop on Friday. I wouldn't need a charge yet if I eat at HR, and could wait until TR, but I wouldn't chance it, given the recent issues. I'd stop at BW and probably...

What happens when the car gets the speed limit wrong? It happens a fair amount. If the car misreads a "55 MPH -- Trucks" and tells me that I need to go 55 mph (60 with margin) then what should the car do when I'm going 70 in a 65 zone? Item two seems reasonable. I already expect that behavior...

That's partly true. They allow the rear camera to stay on. They don't have a nag screen. They don't allow video in the browser. They said on their web page that it's for legal reasons. (i.e. it's not legal to do so) Other manufacturers (such as Infiniti) allow video in the front as long as the...

Just because Tesla says that's the case doesn't mean it's true or that it's the entire story. It might be easier to turn it off than to have the car keep track of whether or when it's legal. For example, Tesla outright said on the website that they don't allow video on the console in the US...

We need a solution that doesn't rely on somebody else remembering to do something. In the past year, I think my wife remembered to do that once. If she forgets, there's no penalty the next time she gets in the car. If it's in my position, she can get into the car and select her own profile. Not...

I would expect that anybody who brings in a pre-AP Model S for service and gets an AP loaner would be likely to make that mistake. There were only a few weeks during which pre-AP cars were made that had the stalks in the same position as the AP cars. Before that, they were reversed. Likewise, a...

My car went into production status on 9/16/14 in the early evening. It's the earliest production date for a Model S with AP that I've seen. My 7.0 update was there by 1:30 am today. With 6.1, people had it for weeks before I did, I was one of the last, and the SC put it on for me when my car was...

That, and an end to the drought, would be most welcome. There hasn't been a good ski season since the Model S came out. - - - Updated - - - I've never seen a general parking problem at HR so I don't think they are in danger of losing customers because the farthest spaces are taken. I also...

These aren't customers who bought things off the lot. It's not as if they were invited and the delivery got sprung upon them as a surprise. They were invited to the event and had knowledge of things ahead of time in order to get things configured and to cover logistics and sign a sales contract...

To elaborate, Elon said $5K more than a similarly equipped MS. At this point it seems as if leather won't be optional. I'd say that the seats aren't "previous gen" either. If you consider that a MS would need to have a pano roof to be considered similarly equipped, then you'd have to have that...

That would be nice, but it makes no difference in the case of the S. It would have made sense to start calling them 2015 when autopilot came out if Tesla wants to use 2016 in this case. It's not just for resale value but also for other things such as insurance. Having a 2014 with all 2015...

Not during the presentation, but there was also the opportunity for reporters to ask questions and test drive it. It will be a while before there are enough articles written, but according to one of them the software for the S and X will be identical and Tesla plans to keep updates in sync...

Musk quoted $5K above the S. What we don't have is a configurator. It's safe to say that it will be at least $10K above the base level MS, because there won't be an RWD X. It would make sense for them to have the same battery options. They are already using the same motors. The problem was that...

I've been doing that my entire life and there's no stopping me. I'm talking about the breathing, not the assumptions.

No keeping us happy? How could we be happy when we still can't summon our cars on private property? I can't wait for the day when I can have the car meet me on the private street in front of my house...right after I go to the garage and unplug the charging cable. We need robots now!

I searched this forum and this thread, and can't find any recent posts about "# range charges" but since the official documentation for VisibleTesla hasn't changed, I'll assume that I didn't miss any posts. Last week I took a trip and did several range charges. Since then I've done a number of...

The Lysol solution should work. There are also commercial products available for this. Using the instructions for one of them, but with Lysol, might be a good idea. As many have pointed out, it's a very common problem. Nevertheless I never encountered it in decades of owning other vehicles until...

If the car lacks something like the tech package, chances are there will be bigger concerns than whether the mirrors fold in. Pinning these things down to a specific date can prove to be difficult or impossible. I'm in a similar situation with autopilot and am reasonably certain that I know what...

I saw a CPO that was given to me as a loaner. The documents were in the glove compartment including a Carfax report. Tesla's service records are less relevant than knowing if anything happened outside of Tesla, such as an accident. The paperwork clears up that part. Since the vehicles were...

Yes, it would warn you by giving you a message that the driver assistance features are unavailable and you should contact Tesla service. At that point you know not to rely on them until Tesla investigates it.

But the opposite is true too. In situations where it prevents an accident, there will be no mention in any newspaper or statistic in any database. It's not necessarily the case that it saves a driver who wasn't paying attention. It might save a driver who was paying complete attention since it...

It's a moot point as far as the OP goes, and nobody could tell if it's a 2014 or 2015 by looking at it. Unfortunately, mine is called a 2014 even though it has the 2015 features, reviewers called it a 2015, and all other car companies were selling 2015 cars when Tesla came out with the autopilot...

What others have said is pretty much true but it's theoretically possible for the car to have the hardware, to have the tech package, and not have autopilot. It's doubtful, but if you do get a car like that, you'd have to pay a $500 upgrade fee. As strange as it seems, for those who bought the...

I remember one time my wife wanted to buy an Acura. There was one deal breaker and the saleswoman tried to excuse it away. That made me want to buy it less. Nobody can justify the lack of those features. It's a matter of whether you can learn to live without them. Or it might be a matter of...

You have to ask yourself whether you are being honest with yourself, because if you are, there's a contradiction. If your employees are not well paid, they might resent seeing you in a nice car that you bought with money you could have been paying them. On the other hand if they think well of...

The question is whether, if they do make it more reasonable, they screw over those who ordered it by making them pay the full amount on the day of the actual purchase. i.e. the day they pay, pick it up, and sign the purchase agreement.

For those who got the autopilot hardware and "didn't have to pay for it," we (some of us) had to pay for it. Aside from the fact that the hardware became standard whether we got the tech package or not, and I got the tech package, I had to pay an extra $500 to get them to enable the updates for...

I find the whole thing rather strange. I looked over the options to see what I would order today if I wanted something similar to what I have now, and with that package my price would go up. I like the liftgate, but I have to ask myself whether a power liftgate is worth as much as air suspension...

Homelink tip, especially for gates When you program an entry for Homelink, you will get a confirmation message immediately after the car syncs with your opener. At that point, the car knows what signal to send. After you get the confirmation message, it asks you to press continue. It isn't...

I upgraded to .116 and then my wife took the car for the day. On the way home, she asked me about a software upgrade message. When she got home, I ran the update, but also noticed that the displayed Wh/mi for that day were remarkably low. Since I wasn't in the car with her, it was impossible to...

I don't have this problem but it seems like a design flaw. The recess will make it accumulate slush, while on other cars I have/had, the sensor was behind something such as a plastic shell with an emblem. I'm not sure where it is on most cars, since it's hidden, but the first car I had with ACC...

For SOC notifications it would be helpful if the notification could contain the current odometer reading.

For me, there's very little physically that I don't like about the car. But I'm not the only driver. Tesla decided that the proper way to drive is to have an optimal head position for everybody, allow drivers to adjust the seat so their head is at a given height, and then the seat belt anchor on...

I know nothing whatsoever about Travellers, but I do have experience with two vehicles that were totaled. In both cases, I had State Farm. In one case, the other insurance company paid for it. In the other, a third party, whose insurance was with State Farm, was driving my car and totaled it...

I was rear ended by an 18 wheeler back in 2001. I'm still in pain. Obviously it wasn't in a Tesla, but it did total my former minivan. It didn't damage the Mack truck. The MS has 500 pounds over the minivan. I can't say what would have happened, but I'm sure I would have survived and possibly...

It would be nice to be able to set the level of aggressiveness. With other cars, they do pretty much the same thing when it comes to keeping a fixed sized gap. But they don't do everything possible to close up the gap as fast as they can when a car in front changes lanes. They also don't try to...

As someone with nine years of experience with ACC, I can tell you that it can work very well with rain. I wouldn't ever use it in snow, nor would I use it with a setting of less than 5 on a Tesla, and if the rain were heavy enough I stall can't say. With some other cars, having the wipers on...

i know this thread is really old by now but I was rereading it to see if I could figure out a definitive date on when production started for autopilot features. I see a number of posts for builds started on the 16th that don't have it and ones starting on the 17th that do. Mine started on the...

Common sense tells you that you need to control the car and take responsibility for it. But in the USA, being an uninformed moron is a defense and a reason to sue. Most auto manufacturers address that by making you touch a button on a screen each and every time you get into the car, as if...

It's not really a question of how mangled the car was. If it didn't get mangled at all, the person's body would have hit with the same force that mangled the car. Even if seat belts held the person in place, the internal organs would have moved with the same force that destroyed the car. The...

I suppose that means I can never reboot my computer again.

FWIW, both the extension and Visible Tesla are working just fine for me. If they did something to block 3rd party apps, they somehow missed me.

I can't see Tesla complaining over the use of their logo since it's used all over the place by others, including this forum. If they don't like it, the worst they could do is sue you, but they wouldn't. Not only would it look bad for them to sue a customer for helping other customers, it would...