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When I'm the passenger, I'm much happier when my wife engages TACC and Autosteer. It's much smoother, and I can nap. I'm just saying! :)

What file format are you using for your 256GB drive? (One of the linux filesystems? Which are supported?) I have a 128GB drive and had to partition it into four disks and format them using FAT.

I love to choose hotels with destination chargers, and enjoy arriving with a low SoC and leaving with a high one. Superchargers on the road in between. Might as well enjoy the "free" kWh.

It's most easily explained by a patch of bad map data showing some section of highway as not being limited-access. You may find that it always repeats in the same spot until it's fixed in a map update.

I'm in town for the Bridge Nationals at the Cosmopolitan. :) (North American Bridge Championships)

I'm charging right now in the big new Supercharger v3 site under The Linq and High Roller in Las Vegas. I don't need a lot of charge, and I'm in a Model S that can't take the full charge rate. Right now the car is charging at 66 kW with 68% SoC. The site needs a PIN code to enter, which you'll...

I was at the "Hawk's Nest" near the Vandenburg AFB entrance gate off Hwy 1, Avalea Rd. I had silly hopes that it might be above the fog, but could see nothing. The site was pretty well packed though, seemingly about 40% Teslas. I drove up from the Pasadena area in the morning. Could see...

Sadly, service is very hit or miss. The hot spots of Tesla ownership appear to have the biggest bottlenecks right now. Understandably. Here's hoping it's all better soonish.

Three Teslas waiting for an open charger at the Madonna Inn. Overhead in the queue, "Everyone was at the launch! It's going to be like this all the way back to San Francisco." He seemed more amused than upset.

There are a lot of LA trips (San Diego, too) where the current build of NoAP gets seriously out of whack. Have you run into the occasion where it gets into a loop of "Changing lanes ..." then cancels, then "Changing lanes ..." then cancels, over and over? I've seen that a few times. I'll still...

I have to say -- it's been a while since I saw an elevator with a manual up-down-stop control. :)

I took delivery of my Model S on December 17, 2018. My first extended drive was from Pasadena to Scottsdale, AZ ... ... on December 22, the Saturday before Christmas. We paused for a driving break at Indio, found a stall and plugged in, though the car said we really didn't need to. It had our...

Working well in April, 2019

I have a problem with false alerts from one of my proximity sensors. The Service Center could see that the particular sensor was misaligned. It was probably caused by landing the car on a parking barrier before I took delivery. It's been a couple of months since the diagnosis, waiting for the part.

Hey, that's a clever trick. :) Have to try that.

Our last Texas stop in Texarkana, all "pull in forward" chargers, and again we're the only customer for the moment.

I appreciate that, but we're quickly on the road to Memphis early.

Charging Toothless at the Old Irish B&B in Denton, TX. 8kw charger.

Thanks all for the update! I watch the machinations in Texas with interest (and a big bowl of popcorn). (Tesla AND SpaceX.) Meanwhile, got a great overnight charge at the Home2 Suites in Amarillo.

Cute, after dinner in Amarillo we came across this parked car truck with a load of Model 3s. You can't buy or service a Tesla in Texas, so these are probably headed east.

Just a couple of fun pictures, stopped by the Cadillac Ranch neAmarillo. In the distance are the famous planted Cadillacs.

No problems here on a Tuesday. Walked to the Pilot nearby and had a Subway. Only user today.

Gallup working well today.

Our charger appeared to max out at 60kw, but it did go up a bit to 74 towards the end of our charge. (Backwards!)

I'm at Kingman right now, by the bail bondsman and Carl's Jr. Report from a Model 3 that pair 1A and 1B we're only serving 17kW. Couple of pics:

You don't have to trust them with username/password if you provide them with an API token. That turned out to be easy for me, obtainable with a curl command: On my Mac: #!/bin/bash curl --data @./req.json -X POST \ --user-agent "mojotesla/1.0" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \...

Oh! Maybe it does. Here I was thinking "no radiation signature," but that makes more sense. "Never mind."

@S4WRXTTCS and @Mader Levap I do find it interesting that in greentheone's development videos of autopilot in action, many of the vehicles are labeled with "No Rad sig." So the software is already listening for comm.

That was me a day ago. Today the app is offering me a software update. Surprise! I don't know what's in it. Will find out tomorrow morning. :)

Point conceded. :) I too can see much of this happening. I think the most difficult hurdle for people to overcome is this: A self-driving car will never drive exactly the way they would, be it choice of route, following distance, whatever. It might drive a lot safer than you or I do, but it...

A thing has to be worth more than its price to you at the time of its purchase. If it's not, there's no reason to buy it. If the price goes down or up after you've bought, that doesn't change the value it had to you at the time of purchase. You still have a car that's worth whatever it's worth...

@John G Despite the wording of that email (I got it too) I'm not honestly expecting anything to happen until someone emails or TXTs me to set up an appointment for a hardware upgrade. There have been no software updates offered to me as yet.

Yes, quite. +1

Yes, that's how Automatic Lane Change works with generic autosteer. When you're on Navigate on Autopilot, the gentle press is enough to confirm a lane change. It will carry on on its own.

Pulled the trigger on my own $2k FSD update. I'm assuming that there's a hardware upgrade required, despite the implication from email that "It may take up to one hour for your Tesla to update."

It will already cancel the signal automatically. Let me suggest: Change the way you confirm a lane change. Instead of doing the full "lock" on the signal stalk, just give it a half-press, as if you were doing a "four blink" signal. The stalk returns to center, but the car continues signalling...

Yes. It's something of a non-obvious feature, but can be pretty valuable. Find a destination in Google Maps, and you'll often see a "Share" button by the site description. Click "Share," and along with messaging apps and such, it will offer the Tesla app. The Tesla app will send it to its...

I was able to share from Google Maps to Tesla app yesterday on Android with no problems. (Google Pixel 1)

My Model S 100D from Dec. 2018 AP2.5 still has the FSD offer for $3,000, as of Wednesday morning 3/6.

Avoid a pothole Shift a few inches to not ride on a road seam Let the fellow signaling for a lane change in Invite someone to go next Avoid a tire tread in the lane Give a little more space on the side with the oversized flatbed trailer Avoid driving directly between two other vehicles (Remember...

I believe they need third party authorized service badly. In this day and age, I don't think they need third party sales at all.

If you read the forums here for a while, you'll get the impression (as I have) that you're much likely to be treated better during the transaction by a private seller or 3rd party dealer. Sales service from Tesla appears to be nightmarish right now. If you're willing to put up with that, in...

Just for sake of comparison: Until a couple of years ago I was using a Tomtom GPS standalone navigation device which had speed limits based on location data. My impression is that it was significantly more accurate than the data Tesla is using. It's not a bad way to go, they just need a better...

It seems like the wording of the law would become critical. You say "no car dealership ...." Tesla is a manufacturer, not a dealer. They have no dealerships, only store fronts. There's no third party. I think it will take a judge to parse out that language. :)

Yes. Nothing has changed the value my car has for me personally. (S 100D purchased Dec. 2018) Capitalism works because a buyer values a purchase more than its price, and the seller's price is more than his cost. (That said, Early Access Program does not have value for me, so I'm glad I didn't...

At this stage in life, I'm not willing to pay for the privilege of testing someone's buggy software. :) I admit I had been considering springing for the $5K FSD upgrade for fear that the price would go up, and I'm glad I didn't.

I have to admit, having them LOWER the FSD upgrade price is catching me by surprise. :)

OK, that's a pretty well-distributed software version at this point, with about 14% of the Model S & X cars running it. Source: TeslaFi.com Tesla Model S X 3 Data Logger That suggests to me that you have a hardware failure that needs attention, most likely a solid-state disk (SSD) failure. If...

I bought my S online Dec. 18, and the drive home was my first drive. It was a "new" inventory car with 500 miles. It has this one issue with the front right ultrasonic sensor knocked out of position, pointing a bit low. As a result the proximity alarm gives out many false chimes. It happened...

Sounds more like a SSD hardware failure. But you might post your firmware version for reference.