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    Why do our cars have oil pumps?

    There is also an oil pump for battery cooling.
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    Tesla coercing software updates!?!

    Seriously. Software releases fix bugs. Do you think Tesla has found no situations where there was a bug on an opportunity to improve a safety feature such as lane-change warnings and cruise control? Over the 8 months I've had my Tesla I've seen numerous improvements in the UI, like much more...
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    Rear ended another vehicle, not blaming Tesla but wondering why AEB did not activate?

    Looking at the video it appears that @kaelendavis1 had moved from the entrance ramp into the traffic lane, which was slow, was checking the mirrors for an opportunity to move a lane to the left. The cards in front slowed down more and KD's car hit the one in front. The discussion of this in the...
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    Rear ended another vehicle, not blaming Tesla but wondering why AEB did not activate?

    This seems unrelated to the thread. Did you mean to post it another thread?
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    Rear ended another vehicle, not blaming Tesla but wondering why AEB did not activate?

    I remember reading this explicitly in the M3 manual, virtually the same as was in the manual for my 2017 Volt. The AEB system is NOT designed to prevent a collision; it is designed to reduce the damage. I have assumed this is because the system gets too many false positives if it were sensitive...
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    Things my wife said about Navigate on Autopilot tonight

    Right on, friend! I would add that it's not limited to nav on autopilot. The same lack of a low-pass filter is a significant issue for traffic aware cruise control. The first TACC I had was on my Chevy Volt and it is nearly perfect, but I understand that GM and other manufacturers mastered the...
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    Tesla Insurance Launches in California

    Anyone who's ever had an accident knows that the critical quality factor is the customer service as you go through the process of getting an estimate and getting paid for medical expenses. Based on my own experience with Tesla support (wait times, evasive answers, dropped calls, and failure to...
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    NOA sent me the opposite Interstate direction (pic)

    Comparing the answer from Watts_up to this one, this one seems a little more likely. Although GPS has gotten somewhat more accurate I think we have all seen GPS systems get confused between two parallel roads that are close together, like a highway and its access road. For that reason that I...
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    Blog Report: Tesla Employees Pressured to Take Shortcuts to Meet Production Goals

    I agree. These people calling everything negative about Tesla "fake news" -- even if they mean it to be funny -- are painful because of what's going on in the bigger field of politics. Every company -- especially a good one like Tesla -- needs to be viewed critically. Total worship leads to...
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    Poll on Model 3 Air Vents

    Agree. You can turn off a level, but not a side. And when doing so you turn off Auto. It would be valuable to retain auto control over flow even when one side or the other is off.
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    What do I have to do to "like" a post?

    I want to apologize if this is posted in the wrong place. I couldn't see a forum for the operation of forums and I have reviewed the Forum Rules without finding the answer to this question. I have been lurking here since I took delivery on my M3 Long Range. I recently saw a post that I would...
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    FSD With Purchase Or Wait

    I agree with all three observations, particularly that AP is "not soup yet." In particular the system perceives false threats such as confusing a car in another lane on a curve with a car ahead on thse same lane and over-reacts. Likewise the speed control responds to changes in the speed of the...
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    Tesla Software 2019.16.3

    (New owner of M3 in California) Does the Phone App show all three fields of the car's software version number? My phone says 2019.16 so that either means I'm 3 updates behind 2019.16.3 or I have an unspecified sub-version of 2019.16.
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    Model S, Model T

    Sorry about my previous reply ... apparently, as a new member, I can't edit what I accidentally posted. I enjoyed the Model S+T pictures and agree that both cars were revolutionary. But the Model T truly was the Everyman's car, engineered to meet the economics for creating a mass market. The...
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    Model S, Model T