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“All input is training data” or “all input is an error signal” is very different than “all input is error”. I hope he wouldn’t misstate that, but who knows. He’s not what I’d call a glowing presenter. ;)

I’m pretty sure I know how the settings are supposed to work, because I’ve been living with TACC for 4 years. This seems to be a problem with the FSD stack. The problem I have is that it DOES automatically slow down when the speed limit changes. And it DOES automatically speed up when (it...

OMG, I'd pay $10K for this. I find I'm constantly fighting the so-called "TACC", because it's neither traffic- nor speed-limit aware. Some of the stupidity I've come to hate: I'll set the cruise just above the posted speed as I come into a new speed zone, and it'll immediately drop the setting...

You will want to look at CRA’s “attribution rules” for gifts to minors. The short version is that CRA by default will tax any income from the investments as though they are in your hands, but capital gains should be taxed in the hands of the recipient. I’m just a random dude on the internet...

I went with option 1, and the Pilot Alpin has been a good tire for me (Calgary & area, lots of weekend snowy mountain trips). I pay about $180/year for two tire swaps and it’s all fine. If I were doing it again, I’d move to an 18” or 19” rim. The 20” is basically an expensive rubber band on a...

You can control cooling, just not directly. Cooling kicks in (as needed) during charging, so one can avoid cooling by avoiding charging. To avoid charging, one can set the car up with a full charge before leaving, and then lower the charging limit so the car doesn’t try to maintain 90% over...

You really don’t want the car to be doing a lot of cooling in an enclosed garage… there’s nowhere for waste heat to go, and it’ll just wind up being a really inefficient space heater. Have you checked the optimum temperature range for the pack? I suspect that’s documented somewhere or even...

Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m only familiar with AP/FSD on my Model 3, so it’s useful to hear about the relative merits and drawbacks of other systems. i think there are a few of us still on the fence about the MY vs something else as our next vehicle, so please keep sharing these...

Yep. And if wishes were horses, this beggar would ride. ;) Your note reminds me of the first time I took a trip in my M3P. It’s amazing, nothing like it, clearly this is the future. It’s an awesome feeling. I was about to trade that car on a 7-seat MY, but I put it on hold after the...

I was in exactly your spot last week. The radar removal seems rushed and the lumbar excuses are flimsy & pathetically unbelievable IMO. So I told the delivery advisor to put my order on hold until next quarter. They unmatched me from the VIN and now I’m not stressed at all. I’m not suggesting...

Tesla has always been at war with Eastasia.

These aren’t mutually exclusive: some people are angry *and* not buying the car. I was in line to trade my M3P on a new MY, but without radar I have no confidence it’ll be safe for dark snowy mountain roads - that’s a must, because this will be my ski vehicle. The lumbar thing is just adding...

If they only get a percentage of the revenue, why economic incentive would they have to sell a vehicle? They could maximize revenue by owning all the cars themselves - why share the revenue with Average Joe? It's not efficient to use their capital to make vehicles and generate revenue for...

This is interesting math. If a Tesla becomes capable of earning $30k/year for the owner, one presumes that Tesla will then stop selling cars and start owning robotaxis. Anything else would be a breach of their duty to maximize shareholder returns. In other words, you’ll know Tesla has FSD...

My M3P cost me $2K to add FSD. I don’t think I got great value for that. At $10K, it’s laughably bad.

Ok, don’t go looking around Canmore. Definitely nothing to see there....

People should look more closely around Canmore...

I just dropped my M3P off for service in Calgary, and found out they added a “FSD computer upgrade” to my work order without my asking. We’ll see if it actually happens, but it’d be a nice little surprise if it did.

Just FYI, Canadian Tire carries a Reflex brand which fits the Model 3 perfectly. I believe it was the Reflex Gold, but their in-store tablet had the right fit when you look it up.

Great point here... Wind speed is an underrated factor in vehicle efficiency. The aerodynamic drag on a moving body is proportional to velocity squared, which means that any increase in wind speed has a punishing impact on efficiency, and therefore range. In practical terms, it works out...

There are good CHAdeMO options all along that route, so you could put your ICE rental money into buying an adapter...

Wait, what? AC is a closed system, so unless yours is leaking, there aren’t any chemicals to be “used up”.

@lloydbrokeit has a picture of some pedestals up on PlugShare... looks like they went quickly at this site inn the last week.

That looks.... interesting. Somebody’s going to come by and make a “looks like a car charger birth control device” joke about that. I mean, not me. I’d never do such a thing. But I bet somebody will.

Did they happen to have pedestals installed yet, or was that still to come? I’m wondering if that November timeline is to allow Elon to announce it on the earnings call this month. Maybe they are stealth-commissioning all these TCH stations “under the radar” so they can add them all to the...

This will be a welcome alternative as it gets cold... Medicine Hat to Calgary is a bit of a long leg with a headwind. I fought winds 30 gusting 50 km/h last week and was seriously looking at a stop in Strathmore to top up at the Peavy Mart. Having this and Bassano as options is pretty deluxe...

Or maybe after that, they become superconducting!

Yeah, good point... I’d forgotten that. Maybe they’ll head westward then... Moose Jaw and Swift look ready for pedestals, and I’d bet that Maple Creek could be ready for electricians to install the switching gear by next week, if not the actual pedestals. For anyone that wants to check, ~...

Another no-update update. Well, except that the fence is gone now. Still need pedestals. Maybe the crew that just hit Regina will be here next... one can imagine that they’d work down the TCH to Swift Current and Medicine Hat, but they could equally head east to Whitewood, Portage, etc...

Swift just needs pedestals by the look of it. Question for the power nerds: does 2 x 500 kVA transformers imply a V3 charger? it does to me, but I ain’t an EE guy.

So Maple Creek is making progress... curbs and conduit are mostly done, looks like a transformer pad going in today.

Is there a stage for “awaiting installation”? Looks like they finished the construction work (modulo a tiny bit of paving) and just need to install the transformery-thing, the cabinety-things, and the charging pedestalamacallits. I’m guessing power gets connected via a transformer in the big...

Moose Jaw looks like it’s all done except the charging pedestals. Now if somebody could just drop by to install those...