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It might be caused by shadows across the road. On my local street, where there are no lane lines, I sometimes get phantom braking when I'm passing a parked car. I've stopped using AP on roads without painted lane markings. It usually works pretty well on roads with clear lane markings.

While we're writing about smoothness of lane-keeping, which, I agree, is improving, we should mention smoothness of stopping for red lights and stop signs. Smoothness of slowing down and stopping was terrible in June (of this year) when I bought my M3. It has improved lately, although that might...

On the other side of the same issue, when I'm in Autopilot, the M3 sometimes brakes for no apparent reason. This has been referred to in the forum as phantom braking, and I, too can attest that it happens.

I am not a physicist or a chemist, merely an old retired country doctor, so take my comment with the requisite grain of salt. The claim is that they combine the decay of carbon 14 to nitrogen and an electron. Apparently this actually happens, and the nitrogen isn't a radioactive isotope so it's...

Good thing about that since making jokes about the government is the only way we can stay sane here in the US these days,

Sorry, I was thinking ABC in the US

Please enlighten me why you think ABC TV is taxpayer funded. It's not PBS.

If you know you're going the supercharge in a humid environment, bring a picnic chest with ice cubes. Then, put the ice cubes in a plastic bag and rest it on top of the charge handle during charging if you see the charge rate slowing down due to heat in the charge handle.

Thank you. The extension cord I'm currently using is fifteen amps but much longer than it needs to be so it's coiled. I'll get a shorter one that won't need to be coiled.

There's a setting on your app You can turn on climate remotely if you want to cool off the car during the heat of the day.

I'm not even seeing traffic. My car is new, 2 months, so it should have premium connectivity, but I never see any indication of traffic

Autopilot is the reason I bought my M3. If it weren't for that, I could have saved lots of money by getting a dumb electric car.

Taking over was the smart thing to do. I've tried AP on my local street, but there's too much fantom braking, and sometimes, my car doesn't; see things in the street. I no longer use AP on local roads. After the bit update that Elo has promised, I'll try it again.

You should find out if the car has HW 2.5 or HW 3. 3 is the latest iteration of the self-driving computer.

I'm mot an electrician so take what I say with a grain of salt, but here's my take. If you're charging at 110 volts, you're putting no more then 12 amps through the wire. That's no more than you'd need for a portable drill. I'd suggest that any heavy-duty extension cord such as one that you...

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Those 12-volt pumps are unreliable. They burn out when you need them the most I recommend a foot powered air pump available at any auto parts store or on line.

If it's the handle where the sensor resides, but if the entire cable gets hot during the supercharging process, then artificially keeping the handle cool with a damp cloth could cause the rest of the cable to become too hot.

My M3 is new so I haven't had the opportunity to Supercharge yet. Is it just the handle that gets hot or is it the entire cable?

Is there a way for the M3 navigation app to remember my preferred routes to places? The best route, even the shortest route, is not always the one picked by the navigation app when I plug in a destination. If it sees me going a different way every time I go to a place, it ought to remember that...

Limited Supercharging: I bought my M3 in mid-June. I used a referral code so I got free 1,000 miles of supercharging, but it expires in December. There's a pandemic. Not sure I'll even get to drive it 1,000 miles in six months, much less get supercharging for any part of my few local drives...

When we're driving the car ourselves, we pay attention to what's going on beyond the car right in front of us, and we do it with our eyes. We don't need radar. Presumably, our car's neural network can be trained to do the same thing our parents taught us to do when we were learning to drive.

If Tesla wants a 3D rendering, why doesn't it install two forward-facing cameras? That would help it with the 3D part just like our two eyes help our brains give us a 3D concept of our surroundings.

In theory, the camera should be able to recognize a deer or other animal and a person. A person by the side of the road could be counted on to stay out of the way of the car if they''re not at a crosswalk, and the car could slam on the brakes if the pedestrian decides to commit suicide at the...

It's certainly true that without a human driver, the Tesla would crash nearly every time. At least, that's been my experience in the month and a half that I've owned my M3. And that's during a pandemic when I'm not driving much, and there's not much traffic. It's the exception rather than the...

But not without an effective sensor suite. Apparently, that means lidar, and Musk has repeatedly claimed that lidar is too expensive and is not needed for FSD. That's the lie. His claim is that he's going to achieve FSD without lidar.

So basically, Elon Musk was lying to us when he said that his neural network would lead to FSD, and that we'd be able to send our cars out to work as taxis when we didn't need them ourselves.

But there's also radar in front of the Tesla. That should be able to distinguish between a stopped object not in the travel lane from a stopped object in the travel lane. If it can't then a higher definition radar should be installed. This is a "can't do without" issue. Another issue that a...

I understand that the neural network has to distinguish between truck effectively stopped in the travel lane and a shadow across the road or a change in the color of the pavement. If the sensors can't distinguish between a three dimensional object and a change in the color of the pavement, then...

I'm not a computer guy. I'm just a very old guy. But if I were a computer programmer, and if I were designing something that deserved the name, neural network, I'd design it so that if a particular picture appears, in this case, a solid object on the road in the travel lane that's not moving...

Oddly, people seem to be buying Teslas even though they can't go anywhere. I did.

I thought FSD would handle it because there was a fatality that made the national news of just this kind of thing over a year ago, and recently, there was a Tesla that crashed into an overturned trailer in the left lane of a limited-access highway that got lots of views on YouTube. I thought the...

I gotta say that with update 2020.24.6.9, my car in FSD on a city street didn't notice a white semi with no painted signs on the truck or on the trailer that came out of a parking lot perpendicular to the traffic flow. I had to apply the brakes myself. The truck didn't show up on my center...

I had a similar experience with my new M3. I engaged FSD on the on-ramp, and the car stayed on the on-ramp despite no traffic in the travel lane until the on-ramp disappeared. Then it followed the solid white line into the travel lane.

I always buckle in groceries so they won't fly off the seat if I stop short. Is there a camp mode for the M3?

NoA,, navigate on autopilot, is still a level 2 driver assist feature. It requires significant driver intervention, and it doesn't drive as smoothly as a normal human driver would normally drive. It certainly doesn't drive as smoothly as my wife wants it, and me, to drive. That doesn't mean it's...

Dog mode will keep them temperature controlled, but if they open the door, something an unattended dog is not expected to do, the alarm might still sound.

I got the M3 SR+. I have no regrets. I'm sure I'll regret not getting the long-range the fi. rst time I go on a road trip, but who knows when that will be safe for an old guy like me. My single electric motor gives me more pickup than any of the ICE cars that I've owned over the past...

I'm a new Tesla owner, too. Every time I walk to my car, the fan is on. I just figured that the car sensed my phone and turned itself on.

Speaking of FSD behavior, it's movements are abrupt. Lane changes are abrupt. Lane centering when I turn on FSD is abrupt. Accelerations and decelerations are abrupt when they don't have to be abrupt. I'm new to my M3, but I have to say, if this is the way FSD behaves now, after all the software...

Review of FSD after software update end of July 2020.24.6.9 There has been an improvement. FSD isn't accelerating when it sees a red light or a stop sign before it stops. The car isn't swerving as abruptly to center itself in the lane when I turn on the FSD. It's coming to a stop at a red light...

The Blossom Hill Supercharger shows up on Plugshare. 7/26/20

If so, where can I buy one?

I have a question about charging while on a long trip. I imagine that every so often, all the Supercharger slots are in use. Is there an adapter that would allow me to charge my M3 at a CCS fast charger?

This afternoon, I had a strange AP issue. I was in the right lane of an Interstate highway. There was no reason for me to switch to the left lane, but AP kept asking me to confirm a lane change to the left lane. Traffic in the right lane was not slowing me down. I was eventually going to take a...

Today, I had an experience with autopilot reminiscent of a fatality I read about some time ago where a white semi pulled out onto a road in front of a Tesla on AP, and AP didn't recognize it. The driver wasn't paying attention, and he died. In my own case, I had AP turned on while on a local...

During my career as an emergency physician, I had the opportunity to meet lots of drivers who swerved to avoid a deer and hit a tree instead.

si Had two interesting STOP sign experiences in my M3 today. There was a flagman on the left side of the road holding up a STOP sign.. My M3 didn't see him or the STOP sign even though it looked like a regulation STOP sign with octagonal shape, white letters on red background in the regulation...