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The regulator will have a thing or two to say about when FSD becomes a reality in Australia. See today's conversation article which is also linking to the DISR consultation.

yet when reversing out of a parking spot my Tesla still doesn't warn me of any crossing vehicles or people like my wife's 200 year old Lexus does...

Not always odd, @Vostok - some providers sell subscriptions with or without tethering, or subs that are supposedly meant for telephony vs data. It's been my impression that they enforce that by using different APNs. So simply setting the APN on a Telstra prepay from whatever it's on to...

I've never had any issues like that at Broadway. Or any other Tesla supercharger for that matter. I did lodge it as a service request with Tesla, we'll see what they have to say.

I had an odd incident yesterday charging my 2020 Model S at Broadway. Started charging with the shared charge port empty, then 12 minutes into the charge, the charge power collapsed from 60kW down to 22kW and stayed there for about 20 minutes, then recovered to the regular charge curve. When I...

Interestingly, it's not actually illegal in Australia to drive with headphones. Who'd have guessed. I'd suggest the safety implications of driving with headphones is significantly higher than situation adequate speeding. Surprising the nanny state hasn't tapped that yet as a revenue source! The...

Driving with earbuds? Bah, amateurs! Real situation awareness deniers drive with a face mask! :p

In Australia they only started camera based speed limit detection a couple of years or so ago. And it's fraught with issues here. For example "Buses and Trucks" only speed limits are taken as speed limit signs applicable to us. And initially, it read the 40 signs on buses as speed limits also...

Interesting theory in that video that Saab brings aviation features to the car. My clipboard paste buffer has hard coded feedback to Tesla pretty much since I got my S with EAP in 2020 (it was called FSD then...). The abbreviated version reads: You should look at how the aviation sector deals...

Interesting lessons for driving in the country:

With FDS/EAP I've had the green light chime for some years now. Works relatively well. Don't trust it at combined light intersections though. It still doesn't differentiate between the main light and turn lights. So when the main goes green and the turn light stays red, it'll chime.

sudo halt -p And go read a book.

2024.26.3.1 just installed and it looks like they fixed the key based summon - seems to work again even with summon standby off.

isolation in the country is relative. drunk (and driving) youths have regularly pestered our remote observatory site 40km out of town. with literally nothing else there. What us city folk consider distance I don't think is a guarantee for less vandalism. The only fix is to make EV chargers...

After several more days I need to retract the statement that keeping summon in standby doesn't add appreciable battery drain. Presumably because of that it started to to drain to the tune of 10-12% per 24h period after I posted this. They must have been listening. Turning it off now. If the...

That's the keep the kids in, not to keep the bogans out. :)

EV rage in the sticks is real. Be careful. A work colleague in Narrabri had their EV vandalised in town (they've lived there for > 10 years). They can't park it on the street. And that's 2h on the safe side of Walgett still. There's a reason Walgett police station is completely fenced in. Have a...

Update: Keeping summon in standby does not appear to cause appreciable additional battery drain. And the key based summon has worked better in the past days than before when occasionally it wouldn't work until the car was fully awake after a couple of lock/unlock cycles from afar. So much for...

Same here, and work wise various flavours of linux. But when Apple's cloud borks, we're borked (moderately only in my case, I don't depend on their cloud drives). When TPGs upstream provider in singapore has a routing issue (happened last week) and no traffic gets into US AWS zones, I can't...

It's what will happen without fail when everyone uses the same platforms. System diversity should be mandated for every safety critical environment. That's why the flight control computers in Airbus aircraft are triple redundant, running on two different hardware platforms, running code...

I can confirm that since setting summon to "standby" mode, the key based summon works again as before. And make sure you don't have "exclude home" ticked, if home is where you use it.

I've used it a couple of times at work when there was a major rain downpour to get the car to come to me (which sort of worked, last time about a year ago). I'm keen to test this again soon to see how much better it got. That one is done with the app. The key based summon I use every time I...

Perhaps I need to keep summon in standby mode. Will try that. Even though that (probably) means far more battery drain when parked at home. Is seriously nobody else here using the key based summon feature? I always thought that was one of the top 5 selling points for this car! I seem to be...

This seems to be a real issue. Summon using the key on 20.9 only works about 1 out of 4 attempts. It mostly seems to work once the car has woken up. I always had to do that occasionally - but it sufficed to unlock the car from afar and waiting a few seconds then trying again. Now it requires...

Summon using the key has stopped working (almost) on 20.9. I use this every time I get the car out of (or put it back) on its spot in the garage. I got it to work twice only, 4 times it failed to do anything when keeping the roof button pressed on the key. This since yesterday when 20.9 was...

on 20.9 now and boy oh boy has the autopark become "interesting"! I've noticed improvements already with 20.7, but now it's a whole new ballgame. Nailbiters, every time. It goes sooooo close to concrete pillars and other cars that I aborted it twice already. I can't 100% for sure say it would...

I've been on 20.6.2 for my last two drives to the snow. The nice behaviour in the videos you've seen in my posts on June 26th is no more. The car behaved like a total moron these last two drives (>1000km each), including hard phantom braking which I never really had a problem with before (brake...

20.6.2 installed today, no new goodies.

@Jules22 @moa999 @elddum I have a 2020 Model S Performance (aka Raven), the last iteration in the S series lineup we got in Oz. I use Josh Wardell's dual bus CANserver to record the power and chassis CAN buses: CANserver. I added a little 12v to 5v step down converted into the CAN bus connector...

And a little later on, a lovely meteor streaking across the front camera. Looking at the GPS position and direction of travel, it was heading straight for Canberra. We almost got a fresh start! Don't blink or you'll miss it, at 9:02: P.S. As an astrophysicist I can disclose that the meteor...

Video below. With some bonus excitement at 8:10, big rig swerving into my lane as I'm passing them. Pay attention to the ALC indicator just below the forward camera on the right. You can see this flip flop between ALC unavailable and ALC right only / left only. This leads me to believe it's a...

Yeah this is a known problem. Which is why I was so surprised to that NoA worked so well on its own (on the Hume Hwy). The problem on the Hume has nothing to do with road camber, but with the road not being officially "qualified" as a highway, because it has unprotected crossings. So in Tesla's...

The grandest illusion (delusion?) of them all!

There's no avg speed section outbound of Canberra along Lake George, only inbound. Just drove that yesterday going to and coming back from the snow. Model S still doesn't show the average speed in the section (not the one between Bredbo and Cooma either). I did notice a vast improvement in NoA...

2024.20.3 installed on my 2020 S. Other than having lost the satellite map (and having to re-enable it) I didn't notice anything new on a short drive just now. notateslaapp release notes seems to suggest they keep tinkering on the AP lockout strike numbers. Makes me wonder if we're ever going to...

It is patently absurd to offer two different charging standards and by doing so, diluting the already ridiculously low charger density we suffer from in Aus even further. Chademo is out. CCS is in. Buy an adapter.

Don't be so down on yourselves. Your opinions are just as valid as those of the Tesla employees under whose watch the features we have to contend with have been developed. Most - if not all - of those on the software side of Tesla know as much about automotive engineering as our merry little...

Nope. No. Just... No. There is no left/right coding. The NN stack does whatever it does because of how it was trained using our videos and a bunch of data labellers (humans), subsequent automatic labelling on the vast majority of the training footage, and then some real-life verification done...

In over 4 years of ownership and updates I've never lost trip data after an update. But... why don't you get Teslafi, that keeps track of all your trips and tons of other interesting metrics automatically.

TACC (traffic aware cruise control, not TAAC) is useless in tunnels, even if the car knew that you were in said tunnel, because it keeps misinterpreting the enormously densely placed overhead speed limit signs as traffic lights. Kudos to the company that sold the government that amount of...

It is absolutely *not* OK and under no circumstances acceptable to video the people working on your car. Unless they have agreed to be filmed. Besides, you will see their nose hair, not the work they're doing. The cameras are facing the wrong way.

What's that PWS so many of you keep talking about? Postprandial Whinging and Somnolence? Perennial Winning Streak? Pulse Width Sodomism?

My average is 12 days between updates. The longest stretch being 35 days. So whatever new bugs appear, you don't have to live with them for very long. If you wait with the updates until they're forced on you, your own adjustment is going to be more profound. The upshot is: You can either have a...

Hm. If there's no perceived dimming to oncoming traffic (i.e. they flash at you), then the dimming hasn't worked, even though you *think* it may have worked. Perhaps your lights are not leveled right? It's like arguing with your wife. You can be right all day long, it's their perception that...

I have EAP on my Model S. Smart summon works well, but I mostly use it with the key though just to back into/out of the parking at home. But even with the app in a parking lot it makes for a good show pony experience, and occasionally it's actually useful when it's bucketing down rain and the...

I probably would, I still think at this point in time Tesla makes the best EVs by far. But I'm not in a hurry... which is good considering their plans. For Australia, my preferred transport would be a Range Rover form factor and suspension but with Tesla drive train and tech in it. The roads...

After replacing 4 21" rims I swapped to 19" 2 years ago. Haven't cracked one since. So for me at least it has worked. But now I can't get the full power on the ground and the cornering is not what it used to be.

the reverse facing fender camera views shown in my S are way too small to be useful, and the mirrors only show a tiny fraction of the scene. I rest my case that this could be vastly improved with a birds eye perspective assembled from the surround camera feeds (and yes, distorted obviously).

2024.14.7 just installed, and I can confirm that on the Model S, there is no additional parking visualisation available. No flaming turds for this flaming duck. :)

Maiming or killing a small animal or child - for those who like them - hiding behind your car while you're reversing has nothing to do with basic driving skills. It's the result of not using technology that is already built into our cars and is not being made available to optimise our...