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  1. Kitfox

    Other car's paint left on my M3, how to remove...

    Just plain old magic eraser and water. The eraser can scratch the paint if you rub with it for ten or fifteen minutes by hand, so if the black isn't off within two, it might be a gouge instead of a deposit.
  2. Kitfox

    Off topic router and wifi discussion

    This is why I prefer UniFi APs. They track the client data directly on the AP and consolidate that data to the controller. I think there is a way that you can make a reporting server that takes the snapshot data from the Edgerouter regularly and keeps track over time that way. *Checks* Okay...
  3. Kitfox

    Off topic router and wifi discussion

    The UniFi AP would need to feed the Tesla. Network devices can only get data on what they talk to directly. And yeah, the router is focused on routing and not on keeping stats, so it is a very short rolling window. Knowing far too well how WiFi works, I wouldn't touch Orbi with a ten foot pole...
  4. Kitfox

    2020.12.1

    If your internet speeds are not above 600 Mbps and you don't mind wearing out your flash more quickly and getting a new router in about five years, you can activate Traffic Analysis to Hosts Only mode and get the total data, though not historic information. If you are using UniFi APs along with...
  5. Kitfox

    Odd rollback effect - Ideas?

    Near the end of backing... Hmmm... Are you in the "red zone" for the proximity sensors at the time? My garage is rather tight, and depending on how I park can have proximity sensors in the "Stop!" zone. I wonder if it might be related to something akin to 'pulling away from something that might...
  6. Kitfox

    Odd rollback effect - Ideas?

    The inconsistency is what makes me wonder. It doesn't happen to me most of the time. Normally I put it in reverse, it's in Hold, and there is no power shown. I back, pause, and there's no roll forward before the brakes engage. But sometimes I put it in reverse, and it's in Hold mode with about a...
  7. Kitfox

    Odd rollback effect - Ideas?

    Then I may be wrong about the theory. I noted that when the Hold is on, there's a tiny, tiny length of power consumption showing on the screen. It doesn't happen most of the time for me. If you're seeing it in situations where it's not cold and after driving a lot, then my theory is likely to be...
  8. Kitfox

    Odd rollback effect - Ideas?

    Finally figured this out I think. When the system is rather cold, it sends power to the motors to create some heat to warm things up for the batteries and motors, and "Not enough power to make the car move". However it is a tiny bit of forward torque that's normally defeated by the Hold brakes...
  9. Kitfox

    light hearted request... your car name? - and why

    My wife does online comics and art and so we have a number of original characters that are in the art and comics. So the cars get named after characters whose colors they match, and despite the name being rather cliche, the midnight silver Model 3 became "Dusk"
  10. Kitfox

    Hit a squirrel, Broke my grill

    What's up with squirrels?! Last week on a residential street, a squirrel ran to the middle of the road and stopped as I was approaching. So I slowed down in case it darted in front of me. It stayed put until I was even with it, then jumped in through the driver window, ran across and leaped...
  11. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    It's tricky, I'd think. The AP system has to be relatively conservative when it knows things so that it's not at fault legally as much as possible. If given the choice of two systems, one that kills 125 people per ten billion miles, and one that kills 31 people per ten billion miles, with no...
  12. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    Three-second video, so it's a little short on context. Even checking frame velocity gets to be difficult in that short a view. I see a few things that would generate appropriate braking, and a few things that could generate inappropriate braking. Most likely, assuming the inter-lane stripes at...
  13. Kitfox

    Funniest Tesla Question Thread

    How many batteries does it have? "One battery with a few thousand cells inside. Kind of like the 12V battery in your car is one battery with six cells. Just a lot more cells for a lot more power." "Yeah, I worried about that before I got it. but then I found out that my old gas car is five...
  14. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    Everybody has a difference of subjective opinion about braking. Some people call full regen braking "hard braking". Since nobody's expected to naturally know that "Losing more than 10 MPH/s is hard braking", and even if they did they're not going to be using a stopwatch and eyes on the...
  15. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    With an extremely reproducible case like that, have you put in the bug report when it happens? Does your car have daily access to WiFi to upload the data?
  16. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    Because of the patents most likely.
  17. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    I can click a thing too! XD You're in Seattle. Have you driven the 5 southbound through that no-longer-really-construction zone in South Tacoma approaching the 16? There is a major mapping problem there that ends up effectively confusing the car about where it is. It's most easily seen when...
  18. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    Are you short, apathetic, or do you want answers and fixes? If you are short, sorry about your recent losses. Consider a long position for the time being. If you are apathetic, then I don't care either. If you want answers and fixes, get data. See #3 above, repeated here for your convenience...
  19. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    Do you have a short position in Tesla? You're trying really hard to declare that the half million Teslas on the road have a huge problem and are saying "many are experiencing" without coming up with even 50 non-anecdotal people who are. <.< ^.^ (Yep, I can do that silly stuff too.) What I am...
  20. Kitfox

    3d Printed Frunk Leveler

    ...? Pizza... Aware Cruise Control. (Pizza mode switch sets it into low regen, chill mode?)
  21. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    While the AP behavior is not what you'd do, it is what you should do for safety. Until you are fully in the next lane, you should not infringe on the safe follow distance of the vehicle you're overtaking. Engage the change sooner in these situations. You can see the vehicle you intend to...
  22. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    Yes, and this is precisely what I mentioned above. It can result from GPS drift (the constellation is still dying), or more commonly from out of date mapping information, such as when a road was redirected, even months after construction. There is a section of the 5 in Washington State between...
  23. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    The condensed version for everybody: It's probably not a problem. It's likely just something that you're not used to. However if you truly think it's an issue, contact support online and provide Teslacam video (with original filenames) within 24 hours of the event occurring. If it isn't a...
  24. Kitfox

    Phantom braking is the biggest issue with AutoPilot.

    If overpass slowing happening at the same location consistently, then it's a mapping issue and the map data provided to Tesla is incorrect, causing the car to think the speed limit is lower in that location and slow down as a result. If somebody is getting into the lane in front of you, the law...
  25. Kitfox

    Odd rollback effect - Ideas?

    This is not a complaint or decree that something's broken. Just trying to get feedback and see if anybody else has encountered this or has ideas on it. The M3 is parked in a rather narrow garage and regen is set to Hold. The vast majority of the time when the car is moving and the accelerator...
  26. Kitfox

    Stuck on 2019.40.50.5

    Special Builds. Things that will cause your build to differ: * Country/Locale - Some builds do not go to all countries, states, or localities * Hardware/Options - Some things only go to HW3 and some only to HW2.5 and so on * Rollout Holds - They discover a silly thing and stop the rollout...
  27. Kitfox

    Sudden unexpected shift from Hold to Park at very low speed

    One other item of note: "After actively braking Model 3 for approximately ten minutes, Model 3 shifts into Park and Vehicle Hold cancels." Can't say this is a thing based on the description, but it's something to consider.
  28. Kitfox

    Sudden Acceleration - NHTSA

    So basically it slipped on an icy patch? Going from stopping to not-stopping will create both the visual illusion and overall feel of acceleration.
  29. Kitfox

    How can this be....?

    Tire or wheel change (including (very) substantial inflation pressure changes) will also do this if the car meters based on axle rotation. Also could be a failing rotation sensor not triggering and causing low count. But that should also trigger a "Needs Service" indicator on the display as the...
  30. Kitfox

    Camera miscalibrated

    The screen being .75 seconds behind is consistent and not concerning to me. 10.2 improved it a touch too. What concerned me* and I have not yet tested on 10.2 is lane line detection being the same delay, which when going into turns and coming out of turns on the highway causes the car to first...
  31. Kitfox

    Left door pillar camera blocked or blinded

    It may have to do with the recent .40 upgrade. Never had it before, but got it on a dark night on a dark highway in the dark darkness.
  32. Kitfox

    Should I buy FSD before Nov 11, 2019, price hike? [Update: OP did not buy FSD]

    I had a loaner without FSD. Made me seriously miss having FSD. So far in the 2600 miles I've put on it, I consider FSD to be worth it.
  33. Kitfox

    Musk confirms purpose of inside cabin camera

    Sleeping drivers are nothing new and they cause many, many accidents in normal cars. People are not necessarily falling asleep because of autopilot... They might be alive despite falling asleep, because of autopilot. They'd possibly fall asleep anyway. Because of autopilot, we see them get...
  34. Kitfox

    Tesla Practical Jokes on Non-Tesla owners....

    Phone hidden in hand backing car out of spot with stupid summon after "calling for it" vocally. <.<
  35. Kitfox

    slight vibration at highway speeds

    If it's everywhere, all the time, then a tire or more is off-balance. Keep in mind that a lot of highways are also woobly and will cause vibration, and that will generally change depending on anything from the lane to the stretch of highway you are on. If you get the same frequency of vibration...
  36. Kitfox

    Concerned about rear collision when car slows on its own

    The speeding up and slowing down on TACC is quite literally following the actions of the vehicle in front of you. You don't notice the vehicle in front of you doing it, but the car does, then you notice the actions of the car. But trust me, the car behind you won't notice your car doing it any...
  37. Kitfox

    Sentry mode wierdness

    "Beta software?" Yes. And... Motion (change) occurring at certain locations in the video frames will trigger an event. This includes flickering lights, flickering shadows, people walking by, cars moving past, etc. If you are just seeing brightness level changes (No motion, just the brightness...
  38. Kitfox

    599 Sentry Mode Events

    As long as you didn't return and find damage. Then looking through that all would be a pain. O.O
  39. Kitfox

    599 Sentry Mode Events

    Depends on the events. Events with a full ten minutes take about 1.28 GB each. Events with less take substantially less. About 320 MB per minute of video. Old events get erased, and you can clear the drive manually. I would not normally expect ~600 events though, but to put it into perspective...
  40. Kitfox

    Front Sunroof Tinting

    Common options: 1: Tint up to the top electronic line on the back window only 2: Tint the full back window including the roof 3: Tint the front roof window (With or without either of the back window options) Doing #1, you cannot see any difference from the outside and from the inside you can...
  41. Kitfox

    599 Sentry Mode Events

    Interior mic (the one used for voice commands and phone) and stuff like glass breaking or other high pitched, sharp sounds that indicate a collision with the vehicle by something. I'm not sure on the exact location of the "watch areas" for the cameras (Might be something to check sometime), but...
  42. Kitfox

    How to add FAST wireless charging.

    Are you familiar with how the voltage handling of Qi 1.2 and various phones with wireless chargers works? I'm not at all, so I'm wondering how that factors in. Does the wireless charger have a boost circuit when it's only able to get 5V, or does it just limit itself to feeding the phone five...
  43. Kitfox

    What did you name your Tesla?

    Midnight silver with some blacked out chrome - so it's Dusk
  44. Kitfox

    What's your top feature request that could be accomplished via software update?

    Bluetooth device priority. My last car had that. It saved my wife from needing to turn off her bluetooth radio on her phone if she got to the car before me, since the car would recognize mine was there and reconnect to mine.
  45. Kitfox

    Snippiness 2.0

    You were wrong about what I was right about from the very start. I stated that it does not increase the amount of charge on the battery pack when it's quick-charging a device at a higher amperage than the car provides. You didn't bother to read that before decreeing I was wrong. So yes, you were...
  46. Kitfox

    How to add FAST wireless charging.

    Which is exactly what I said at post #31 in this thread ( How to add FAST wireless charging. ) It sounds like just difference in the meaning of "charging" to us. We're both right about our respective things,but we're talking about two different things. Make sense?
  47. Kitfox

    How to add FAST wireless charging.

    All of my statements are based on my defining charging as the battery level is going up, not 'it's getting external power and says its charging but the battery level is going down'. If you want to define charging as the latter, then that's fine. It's charging. Its battery level is going down...
  48. Kitfox

    How to add FAST wireless charging.

    You said you didn't read the proof. Let's see if this is a matter of semantics. To you, the word "charging" or "charge" means... (Pick 1:) A: The X6 battery level has to be going up. B:The X6 is "charging" but the battery level can be going down, like when a phone says "charging" but Pokemon Go...
  49. Kitfox

    Snippiness 2.0

    You're right and wrong at the same time. You're right about it doing the thing, but wrong about me being wrong about well-established physics. If you are just trolling or willfully ignorant, then we can leave it at this. If you'd like to know why you're actually partly right without breaking...
  50. Kitfox

    Using magic eraser (no soap version) on the inside of the window.

    Walmart also has melamine sponges that are relatively inexpensive and a usually better quality than the cheap ones on Amazon. Check next to the Mr Clean Magic Eraser stuff for the off brand. Some folks also use #0000 steel wool, but that's more of a pain on the inside of the windshield because...