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It is safe to assume that the swapping in of "Supervised" where "Beta" had been is to make investors believe that progress is being made, and to deceive them into believing that Tesla has some special sauce that the other auto manufacturers lack. People could be deceived into thinking that...

KSHB uses apartment size washing machines as their standard measuring device. Typically, their news response units include a truck (one about the size of a swimming pool) loaded with 3 x 10^1 such washing machines. For very large measurements, they use mobile homes. They take all this very...

You said "the way they’ve settled on now seems to work very well." FSD does not work well in the US, and Musk has indicated that it cannot work with HW3 or HW4, and that the 10 times greater compute of an imagined AI5 could perhaps make it work. But he has been saying such things since 2016...

We should have an award for extremely good posts, and that award should go to this one! I had not fiddled with lumbar support adjustments to my model Y until today, and the control did not seem intuitive. This post helps tremendously.

They haven't settled on anything in the US. AI5 (at least) will be required for functional FSD, but AI5 is not yet available.

Musk's admission that 10 times more compute and 50 times more inferencing capability than current hardware is required seems like strong evidence that they are currently at the limit of their computational budget. Will 10 times more compute work? Track record says no. Too bad that now that...

And if you do the research, you will not make the purchase. Every year since 2016, Elon has promised that all Teslas have the hardware for FSD. In light of HW2 HW3 HW4 and AI5, that claim of adequate hardware has never been true. It is unlikely that AI5 will be "The Answer", either. No...

I'm not sure if you are being intentionally deceptive or pedantic here by using the words "any of their materials." I consider Musk's recorded words from investor conferences to be "Tesla" making a specific claim. (You may say that a video of him speaking is not their "materials".) Otherwise...

Using TACC, my 2024 MYLR slows dramatically at the same location each day, and sets the speed to 50mph (from 65 or so.... whatever I have it set for). There is no speed limit change posted. There is a bridge, but the response is the same in different lighting conditions, so I don't think the...

I've been a hang glider, an aerobatic pilot, and a motorcycle racer. Danger is my middle name. Driving the Tesla is only slightly more dangerous than those activities, provided I use the work-arounds of avoiding FSD use, click five times to get high speed wipers, and avoid using TACC in heavy...

You are misinterpreting what he said. His word"now" meant "at the beginning of 2019". Of course it did not work then as level 5, nor does it now. But in the paragraph before, he states emphatically that it will work as level 5 is defined: no need for intervention. Every year he repeats the...

Seems that a class action lawsuit would make more sense. Why take a loss on the car? In the meantime, the work arounds have improved functionality to nearly the level of a 1988 Yugo.

That is a symptom of the problem, not the root of the problem. Eliminating the rain sensor is obviously idiotic. The root of the problem is a level of arrogance that permeates the corporation, so that idiocy is not recognized as such. That, and a lack of ethics, results in numerous features...

Yes! Every other car manufacturer has wipers that work. Every other car manufacturer makes stuff work before unleashing it on the customer. There may be some capable people at Tesla, but I have yet to see any software from Tesla that rises to the level of average. It is as if everyone in the...

"It's not noise. " And it is not for "no reason". You wrote "The car NEVER runs the HVAC for any purpose except creature comfort. " That's untrue. Stopcrazypp was correcting your slip-up for the benefit of others here who might like to know how the system actually works.

What he described in 2019 is Level 5. Musk in February 2019: “We will be feature complete full self driving this year. The car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up, take you all the way to your destination without an intervention this year. I'm certain of that. That is not a...

I'm not sure what you meant to say here, but hardware and software always have to work together. Bloated software can only run on a relatively fast machine. The Microsoft/Intel lockstep collusion demonstrates this. Elon's admission that the current hardware is woefully inadequate demonstrates...

Of course not. But it is the way honesty works. Thousands of customers were promised that their cars would function with FSD with HW3 and HW4. Turns out that was a lie aimed at boosting stock prices and making the company seem like something it is not. A company that could provide Level 5...

So Elon has publicly acknowledged that to have any hope of real self-driving, 10 times more computing power is required and 50 times better inferencing is required. The computer, at 800 watts should be capable of cooking your dinner with waste heat.

Your experiences sound very similar to mine. I don't play with FSD anymore because I find it stressful and fundamentally unsafe. From the visual display, (on my car and others I've seen) it appears that the position of other vehicles and objects is very low resolution and dithers (in other...

Yes, it sounds like an expensive job, and probably fairly priced. I'd go for a Wall Connector for the better performance, and because there are fewer plug/socket connections (failure points) involved. You would be wise to read through all the covenants before approaching the HOA. The...

But only a bit clearer. There is still the glaringly obvious lie of "Full Self Driving Capability" which, to be truthful, would be called "Beta Prototype of a Possible Self-Driving System that has Never Gone Beyond Level 2 Capability." Granted, that's a little cumbersome to say. How about...

It is discouraging. Tesla is "Lies are Us" in a way that no other Fortune 500 company is. Rain Sensing Wipers? A lie. 10000 lb ft Cybertruck torque? A huge lie. Full Self Driving? A lie. "Additional Savings" in lease payments and financing (from comparisons with a hypothetical ICE)...

I am not so quick to blame the media, given that no Tesla driver would say "self driving" to mean TACC or AP or anything other than FSD. The medium in question, the LA TImes, at least has some journalistic standards, and my inclination is to consider them innocent (of sloppy journalism) until...

Only if your electricity comes from a pollution free source, which does not yet exist. If I set my cabin overheat protection to "On" my battery is more quickly drained. Keeping the car at a comfortable temperature while I am not in it uses even more battery charge.

This seems to be meaningless drivel to make gullible investors think that Tesla will compete with Uber sometime "soon". "Summon" is intended to strongly suggest that the summon feature from the Model S will be available again, after it magically starts to work right. It won't be available...

The driver attention monitoring features don't work reliably. Numerous YouTube videos show distracted drivers, drivers with hands off the wheel, etc with fsd engaged.

Given that the caption for the photo in the news article says full self driving mode was in use, I have an idea what was in use. I'm thinking the full self driving mode. My own experience with FSD is that it is the most likely of the driver assist modes to cause an accident, so I have no...

Thanks! Well done.

Yes! Sandy Monroe's sycophantism makes me want to vomit. I think all your points are very sound. I have seen nothing from Tesla that indicates that they can produce solid software; better that they should focus on being a car company. At least they have been able to bring their fit and...

What on earth does this mean??? Tesla has no commitment to cutting edge technology. Companies that do (regarding rain sensing wipers) use rain sensors and develop systems that actually work, and do not release beta systems on an unsuspecting and gullible public. They also do not use AI in...

I've had robotic surgery performed on me. Does that count?

From the app you can select Service/Battery and charging. Then describe issue as "loss of range", then submit that. A test is performed and if you are ok, you will see "no issue detected."

Based upon that graph, the curve of best fit intercepts the 69kWh line at about 12,000 miles. To me, that looks substantially worse than the fleet average -- the slope is quite a bit steeper. I can't speak to the validity of Tessie, however. The fleet average looks almost perfectly linear...

About 1/4 of the way to red, after 2 years. That seems to suggest an 8 year battery life, which I would find concerning. Is the graphic posted from the app? My app doesn't appear to have a battery tab.

I was involved in developing some stuff that passed for AI in the first wave of investment in AI (early 80's. ) Then, the industry was loaded with jargon-spewing hucksters who were selling vaporware. The climate seems exactly the same now. Elon has been promising full self-driving by the end...

In a way, I wish I have had a time when I could feel comfortable with the car driving itself, but in my shorter ownership, I have never had an inkling that any of the automated features work well. So, from my perspective, the car is just awful in many respects, and I don't have memories of...

I don't fly for a living, but have flown with autopilots, (and used to develop training for airline pilots) and agree that a real autopilot is far better than the Tesla's pretend autopilot. My Tesla is a 2024, just a couple months old, and it acts just like your car. Thanks for the great post...

You have my admiration. I know almost nothing about flying helicopters, but in attempting to fly one in a simulator, found it to be at least twice as difficult as flying an airplane. Fixed wing flying is hours of boredom punctuated by the occasional second of stark terror. Without...

I have flown a little, and developed a short course called, if I remember, Human Factors in Flight Safety for Fokker. In it, we talked about the research on the "appearance" of multi-tasking, actual multi-tasking not being something that humans do well. I just read the pretty good Wikipedia...

I'm trying to think what car you might be referring to. Having designed and built an electric car and a couple electric boats, I can't see much in the Tesla that is particularly advanced. The GM EV1 was considerably more advanced, for its day. Today, The Hyundais and Kias are electrically...

If a normal person were heading the company, that person would be embarrassed, and would make a fix happen. I suspect that Elon does not have the capacity to feel embarrassment.

I have found a functional work around that is contrary to the work around suggested in the car's manual. However, I would call it an indecent work around, because it is a moderately awkward fix for a problem that scarcely any other car has. I have seen nothing to suggest that the Tesla cares...

I always try to overstate my positions a bit. Otherwise, they seem kind of dry. Or excessively clinical, such as "Studies have shown that using a touchscreen is 30% more dangerous than texting while driving. "

Another low-budget possibility: find two 120 outlets that are fed from different sides of the breaker panel. There might not be two in the garage, however. Search this forum for "Quick 220" or "quick 240" Local codes may forbid such things.

Just as there can be numerous 15 amp outlets on a single 15 amp circuit breaker, there can be two dryer (or dryer like) outlets on the original pair of breakers. So adding a new high quality outlet would make sense, so that nothing has to be unplugged repeatedly. Of course, charging and...

We'd need to look at functional MRIs of drivers driving (a tricky experiment) to know whether texting or using a touch screen is more dangerous. Good texters can text with one hand without looking at the phone while replying, and while reading, the phone can be held at eye level, against the...

Correct. I am aware of that and other work arounds for a badly-designed system in which the automatic feature does not work reliably, and in which the manual controls are cumbersome. When a downpour comes along, I'm already slightly overworked, and am staring out the obscured windshield to...

My 2024 MYLR operates exactly as you have described... nearly word for word. Fit and finish on mine are very good. Better than I expected, given the reputation for poor F&F. The ride is a little jiggly, but generally the vehicle dynamics are quite good. Seats are comfy and supportive; audio...

Yes! They are broken. No analysis needs be done by the customer. Tesla needs to fix this, like a real car manufacturer would.