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The only concern in the latter is someone simultaneously pulling on the manual handle while pushing the door out in a continuous motion. If you do it fast enough, you might be able to scrape glass on the top trim. If you open it like most people (pull then push outward, or even with a pause in...

Yeah, I'll also throw in my vote for Meguiar's scratch-x first. It'll reduce the appearance and given it's not visible unless you are down low, that probably is good enough. If you want to do more, you can move on to touch-up paint. It looks like it may have gone through the paint, but given the...

If you can make a valid argument to NHTSA (via safety reports) that this is a driving related safety issue, you may be able to make it into a recall, so that even if battery warranty is expired, it is still covered. The challenges may be different however.

I'm talking about even the existing ultrasonic sensors, which my current car has. They can miss thin poles that fit right between two sensors (I remember reading a thread where someone hit one due to this). They obviously don't detect side obstacles where there are no sensors. They also have a...

Every park assist feature out there has blind spots and a long list of limitations, so that doesn't mean it's instantly useless even if there are limitations to its accuracy in certain spots.

It's contracted out to a third party shops (AFAIK Tesla SCs don't do their own paint other than minor touchups with a touchup kit) and it may be a low priority job where they only do it when they happen to be spraying all Teslas (or even that particular color), so basically you adjust to their...

They still need to update the official manual on the wall connectors for it to be truly NEC complaint.

Looks like they introduced a pure J1772 mode that makes it closer to the previous J1772 version of the wall connector. Hopefully this resolves the issues for all the J1772 cars.

Yeah, this is a much better representation of the raw occupancy network (ON) output than converting the data to virtual ultrasonic signals to use the existing swiggly line UI. This is much closer to the 3D 360 parking view that many people have been calling for (and other cars have). From the...

But the case being complained about is not about a parts wait, but rather waiting for the body shop to have a time slot available to do a respray. Tesla is paying for the respray under warranty. When parts are being waited for, Tesla already has a system where you don't bring in your car until...

Body shops like it because they get to collect storage fees. For Tesla it may just be a convenience thing, as they can send the car anytime the shop has time open instead of coordinating with owner. Of course this causes huge inconvenience for the owner.

There are people who never use TACC, so this option is perfect for them. It removes the extraneous double pull.

If you read the earlier posts, he already tried something similar (a $150 manual switch from AC Works) and it failed eventually and he does not want to risk more money on a similar device, especially if it was going to cost him hundreds of dollars (which your examples seems to be also). I...

This was a big part. Nowadays we don't blink an eye about delivering things like Abrams, HIMARS (including now with ATACMS), Patriot batteries, and F-16s, but I don't think anyone could have said with high confidence what kind of response Russia would have had if we delivered those early in the...

To be fair, someone dissected one and it appears the contacts are nickel or tin plated brass (it was not magnetic), although the screw and rest of the wire clamp appears to be steel. NEMA 14-50 outlet installed However, the half size contacts are still a problem and by far it was the outlet...

The rear parking brakes are screw drive electric motors which actuate the rear calipers and can hold that position without power. That's why they can actuate even without the brake pedal moving. The front brakes are instead only actuated by the hydraulic system and they are actuated...

The Model 3/Y does not have a dedicated cruise control stalk so it's completely different from the legacy Model S/X.

They probably changed it because there was a rush of people ordering them when the stock were intended to be for people that had the option originally and had actually broken modules (not for people wanting to add data to an otherwise working module).

Yep, beat me to it. Pressing the brake pedal would activate the front brake, which may have been enough traction. The same difference is also there when using Hold mode vs just the parking brakes. There's a warning right in the manual that this situation can happen: "Warning In snowy or icy...

That's an oversimplification. Elon have in the past not listened to his engineering team, for example for the radar removal (which from rumors, the engineers opposed removing, but Elon insisted).

Here are the conditions for that mode to activate: Model 3 automatically shifts into Park whenever you connect a charge cable or if two or more of the following conditions are met simultaneously while traveling slower than approximately 1.5 mph (2 km/h): The driver's seat belt is unbuckled...

But the cars with that option include that feature, just that it's temporarily unavailable. They could add a "coming soon" to it, but it wouldn't be accurate to remove it completely.

When you got your VIN, it would link to the follow page that says which features are currently not available yet due to the removal of USS: https://www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision

A twist to this is humans predict what they can't see. For example, when you turn a blind corner, whether from experience in that exact corner or from having travelled similar corners, most people mentally predict the road structure around the corner before they even see it. FSD Beta had been...

Yep, it seems disproportonately to affect 2018s, and there was a TSB although a narrow one (perhaps too narrow). I guess we will see.

It does, but only to run the led lights and circuit board, so minimal. It doesn't actually pull major current until the charge session starts (or if you precondition as others mentioned). If you want to stick to the current setup, the NeoCharge is a UL listed device for splitting the dryer with...

That was a condition thrown out by Russia prior to the invasion, but there was nothing publicly that was announced to that effect. Perhaps you are talking about this rumor that came later about a Russian envoy prior to the invasion working out a potential preliminary deal with Ukraine about...

Tesla used Type 2 in Europe prior to switching to CCS2 so there is minimal difference between the two. Type 2 already had the latch pin on the vehicle side, just like NACS in the US does. The issue in the US is CCS1 used the J1772 top latch which lives on the handle. That top latch is very...

Sounds like you were using one-part epoxy which is considerably less expensive (or perhaps 2 parts was that inexpensive back then?). How is it holding up? Now the most common kit being used is this two part method, where a box that covers 450-500 sq ft costs about $200. You have to clean and...

No one promised *Russia* no expansion of NATO, not verbally nor written. The whole thing is a myth referencing talks during Germany's reunification, when USSR still existed. Any assurances given then was in context to the reunification, that it would only extend to East Germany; there was never...

The Samsung is a better device, but as long as it works for you, that's fine.

They can use shielded cables if necessary, but it's going to be a dedicated wired connection, so I'm not sure how there would be much interference if at all. There haven't been similar issues reported for example for accelerator by wire, which has been used for a long time and with no...

Looks like from the specs it can only supply 240V loads (says 240V AC) when used as Home Backup (without a Powerwall), also has a LRA reference which implies usage for loads like ACs. Basically the same as most solar inverters with no autotransformer (my Fronius one does not have an...

In context, we are talking about plastics specifically above. It's pretty clear there are other materials that are profitable to recycle anywhere (like wood and metals as someone pointed out in a table).

Yes, I'm alluding to those laws, but my understanding is those laws only apply intrastate, so doesn't mean if you have one out of state it would impact that state. So Tesla is not doing any dealers even in states without such a law, for other reasons, which I suggest is the precedent setting.

If that's true, that's better than Ford's solution, which requires an additional inverter, although it depends entirely on how much the Gateway/Backup Switch costs.

Here's a long piece on how China recycled plastics. Basically it's done by small families for little to almost no labor costs and they are able to make a good living on it, given the scrap plastic was brought in for cheap. The Western companies then get a source of plastic which they can then...

Yeah, the epoxy floors are really nice if you have the budget for it. If you are good with DIY, the price isn't too unreasonable, but you need to prep the floor really well, especially with the acid etch or the coating won't last.

J1772 unfortunately allows enough gray area that full compatibility isn't a given and actual testing with a variety of vehicles is required. Tesla previously didn't have to develop for J1772 vehicles and most J1772 EVSEs developers instead would test for Teslas (given they are the most popular...

Yes, I am referring to whatever option besides from the Tesla one. After the update, did you check if it might have reset to the default mode?

Did you set it to non-Tesla in the setup? That sounds a lot like it is still in Tesla mode, where it will try Tesla and then only switch to J1772 after that fails.

I'm sure some of that is going on also, but just wanted to point out it's very different from it all going straight to the local landfill without sorting it. You certainly aren't the first that observed the same truck collecting both the trash and recycling and being disillusioned, although it's...

The NPR piece points out that charging extra bottle return fees for the types that are easily recycled, seems to work, although I would add there still needs to be some more enforcement (to prevent collecting the bottle fees and not actually recycling it or from people bringing in bottles not...

Yeah, I was just planning a trip recently for SF to LA (the original Tesla route) and the supercharger situation is completely different today than it was 10 years ago. It literally is like travelling with a gas car, given it is so packed, there is no worry even if you don't plan (just leave...

You have the order of magnitude completely wrong though. For example a simple wired gaming mouse can have a latency of under 3 ms. Even a Bluetooth wireless one is on the order of 10ms. https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tests/control/latency 100 ms is like the latency going through an Internet...

In a lot of cities, the same truck picks up both carts, but when they get to the sort station, it just makes it easier to sort when all the recycling is in a bunch. That said, for the plastics, even if they sort it at the sort station, as mentioned, it typically was sold to a collector which...

The third party ones aren't fully passive. They are designed to be used for Tesla destination chargers so are designed to trick the wall connector to believe the car is a Tesla. The Magic Dock one likely is fully passive, which is why you have to set in the software setup to charge non-Teslas.

Other than cropping to simulate one of the missing cams (HW4 only has 2 cams vs 3 in front) and for front dashcam purposes, I imagine currently Tesla is doing 2x2 binning currently to emulate HW3, which would not require much extra compute if at all (depending on how much they are doing sensor...

The thing is the filter change + proper coil cleaning is a proven solution that can last about a year, so it's hard to say if the water dam and air inlet filters necessarily contributed anything if you did that also. However for the guy in the video, I don't believe he did a coil clean (at...

That may be a false positive as plenty of people reported the same and then the smell returned not too long after. This is because the filter is carbon infused. That means it has odor absorbing properties and can absorb odors while it is new. Once the carbon is fully saturated, if you don't...