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I note a recent population split in this forum. The long time owners who resort to overuse of cynicism, and the new owners who are all over the place like a bucket full of labrador puppies. Unjaded, happy, and full of life!

Just wave at the rearview camera with both hands carrying groceries. Or maybe they'll train the AI to look for sad face standing person with hands full, and that'll plop the boot open.

Having dismissed the usual time dilation, worm hole, and quantum entanglement hypotheses, a more practical thought crossed my mind: Saved navigation points are stored on a per driver profile basis. Are you perhaps in a different driver profile from normal? Brought to you at barycentric modified...

Did you investigate the other carpark to make sure it's not where Spaghetti Industries have relocated to? It would of course be the first reported instance of spaghettification not resulting in forever departure from this side of the event horizon.

When my TP user cohort forgets to replace an empty roll, a false wipe (using newspaper/magazine paper) can yield worse results than a no-wipe. Same goes for the autowipers. Driving into low sun, a false wipe on an otherwise dry window has significant potential to cause streaks, making the...

The dry-wipe / wet-wipe ratio remains constant. It's the false-wipes and no-wipes that are causing consternation. Just like in the bathroom. 👍

I really don't want to be a party pooper. But... It might be time to remind everyone here that unless you see physical evidence of changes on a screen, or the release notes specifically state that they've addressed an issue (such as poorly functioning auto wipers), it is highly unlikely that...

That's why my Tesla has a ludicrous setting. :)

Interesting, I was not aware Telstra was rolling out 5G SA. That however is not a UE function, it's a network transport core function. Any 5G capable device should be able to connect to that network.

5G onwards is different from the 3G to 4G move. All 5G networks in Australia are still running on a 4G backbone. There are no 5G SA (standalone) deployments yet in Oz. One of the difficulties from a network perspective is the fact that 5G SA requires IPv6 and does not support IPv4. I therefore...

You can always wifi it with a hotspot... it's how I keep connected when driving through the never never. Car mounted starlink kit providing faster internet than my VDSL in the Sydney CBD!

...not mean, stupid. This is likely going to result in litigation. They take a feature away we paid for, based on a shady detection algorithm accusing us of wrongdoing, without any solid evidence (those of us who don't have inward facing cameras). I've had one strike on a particularly smooth...

@PC__LoadLetter If you set the option in Waze to play through the phone bluetooth, you'll get alerts even if anything else is playing on the car. 👍

No, it's about turning radius. The island is so narrow, any other car would need to reverse the full length after reaching water at the top or bottom. :)

implemented - pasttense? you mean while they're still working on it...

You also only seem to get speed camera warnings on the 3/Y and the refresh S and X, i.e. on S and X not available in Australia. Because the S and X are the last cars you'll ever need to buy, to quote Elon.

So... where are people seeing the speed cameras in the maps? And do they come with a warning?

Software (and car) marketing is like fashion marketing: rinse and repeat on a 10-20 year cycle - depending on how badly the previous incarnation of philosophy X tanked/failed to deliver, it takes longer or shorter. Same things with new names keep coming back. So I'd say it's the millenial's kids...

Interesting - I was proposing to go for spot price for this year while the market settles (and thus profit sooner from the lower prices), but the other committee members had no appetite for this and preferred a one year contract with known outcome. We still pay almost double what we used to pay...

This highlights a very common problem I have been exposed to for almost all my life - working and living throughout the year in Europe, the US, and Australia. The next problem they're gonna have even if the app is available globally in the app store is the credit card acceptance, lack or...

Apologies, I misunderstood. I don't see any NUOS charges in our accounting. I'm investigating and will get back on this.

While it's true that there are additional levies on top of the kWh cost, that cost is relatively small (per kWh: LRET ~ 0.3c, SRES ~ 0.8c, ESS ~ 0.3c, total 1.4c/kWh). That's on order 10% of the energy cost - so nowhere near what you stated.

2024.2.12 seems to be rolling out on 3/Y only.

Buying energy in bulk is a lot cheaper than what they rip us off for in private households. For our residential/hotel/commercial highrise towers in the Sydney CBD we pay 14c/kWh peak and 10.5c/kWh off-peak on a ~5 GWh annual contract for 2024 (used to be 8c and 6c respectively before the energy...

Did it prompt you to update the UMC in the same way as it does for a car firmware/software update?

I mean I got a new UMC in 2022. The tail says 10/10 and 15/15 on it respectively, but it only ever draws 8A or 13A respectively. So I'm assuming that can be upgraded. Unless that's a model 3/Y thing only?

My UMC died in about 2022 I think, long enough since March 2020 that they wouldn't honour warranty in any case, so there's a good chance it's an upgradable one. Will check when back on the island.

This doesn't work on the pre-refresh MS? My UMC which I normally charge from only draws 8A (but the tail claims 10A).

2024.8.3 just installed (remotely). Main news seems to be the ability to set the charge limit higher than normal for one time only (when charging prior to a road trip for example). New wifi and bt menus for 3 and Y. What are some people are talking about here being able to upgrade the firmware...

Thread intermission with this fun story from two days ago regarding Telstra: I installed a $200 prepay data-only eSIM on my phone via the MyTelstra app. Worked a treat. Then the next day I decided that eSIM needs to be on another phone. Telstra officially supports this via the MyTelstra app -...

@paulp I've never driven to SA so am not aware of the apparently lacking SC network there. It's pretty good over here in the banana shaped region of the east coast, where I do all my driving (south of MEL to north of BNE). Regarding TACC, I strangely don't suffer the frequent phantom braking...

@Tiger presumably means "features", not "performance"? Because in the performance department, nobody else comes even close to my ludicrously ludicrous Raven. It's a sad state of affairs if the only upgrade from a Tesla money can buy is nicer (faux)leather stitching, even door gaps, and fixed...

So what alternatives to Tesla are there in the dawn of 2024, really? Some of the most important features for me that have historically separated Tesla from the rest are: - Car remote controllable for parking: can park itself in and out of spots via key or phone activation without being in the...

Oh, so you did get it in Oz after all? yes on the non-refresh Model S they never rolled it out claiming a technical hurdle. But I thought it wasn't available on any Teslas in Oz. My bad!

That's only a few minutes of video plus logs. If that's what it was? I suspect they pay Telstra for a given data volume across the fleet - which is why updates don't come down via 4G, and probably also why we never got/never will get remote sentry view.

A bargain at today's AUD exchange rates. :)

That's unfortunately not universally true. TACC+AS often shows that behaviour, but TACC without AS more often does not, neither slows the car down nor speeds it up. Tesla years ago told me it's a matter of whether the detected speed limit matches with what's in the database, and what category...

Not even Sydney's rabid bike lane fancier city planners that start foaming from their mouths every time they hear from my strata via me are going to be able to tilt the scales to turn us into a new Amsterdam. Bicycles just are not in true blue's blood - no Aussie ever thought I was talking about...

I have historically been a generous patron to VICs state revenue. And in NSW where we have compulsory third party insurance (aka CTP, the "green slip"), and private insurance companies are administering this public liability in a privatised manner, they have started taking demerit points into...

TACC actually signed, sealed, and delivered a speeding ticket to me. Just after I got the car in 2020, driving south from Melbourne on whatever that freeway is that was then new, TACC volunteered me to drive 110 in what apparently was 100 km/h limit. In TACCs defense, this is one of the most...

Umm... you guys are missing out on one of the best TACC features: Automatic handling of stop and go traffic. In congestion, regardless of what type of road your're on, it's a godsend.

Public transport is only an option where it is dependable. Dependable meaning availability and on-time-ness at the 99.999 percentile. Australia is neither culturally, socially, nor economically capable of providing that kind of uptime. Not for any service. I live right above town hall station...

In the age ubiquitously available handheld computing devices, one might even go so far as to use a smooth algebraically derived curve for the kilometre cost rather than a primitive step function which inherently disadvantages those just over the steps. Like tax brackets... Something like...

That is my understanding, yes. The tyranny of mediocrity.

No. Perhaps between models, I don't know if they train all model's neural nets on the same training set. But definitely not on individual cars. AI works by training a neural network on a huge data set (millions if not billions of kilometres of video). It takes a supercomputer to run this...

The real question is whether your 12km bread is any good. Instead of living rural vs suburban vs urban, perhaps you could rate the various breads you get on a bread quality index scale of 1/10, 10 being the best. Then you divide the distance to the bread by the bqi. So if your 12km bread is...

well, sort of, but not really: In bioweapon mode the aircon system simply pumps massive amounts of air into the car via HEPA filter to create positive pressure inside. Of course the air leaks out (as fast as it comes in once sufficient pressure has built up inside), otherwise you'd end up in a...

That happened to me on the 2024.2.2 update as well. A few days later it went straight to 2024.2.3.

Indeed it's much more efficient for the AC to cool pre-conditioned (cooled or heated) air, so in auto recirculation mode, it will normally switch to recirculate. What's missing in this setup is a CO2 sensor on the inside air flow to draw in fresh air if it CO2 levels go high - although I doubt...

That's the air quality sensor data. The Aircon system uses those to automatically switch to interior air when they drop, e.g. in a tunnel. 100% means the NOx (nitrous oxides) and carbon monoxide parameters are of good quality. When they drop, they are detected.