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Apparently a software update has deleted the headlights on when windshield wipers are on function. Noticed no headlight icon in torrential Florida rain this afternoon. This is potentially catastrophically unsafe. My 2004 Toyota Avalon still does it. This function needs to be restored now,

As I understand it, there is one brushless electric motor driving the steering with a toothed belt. There are two independently powered controllers that feed the motor. Brushless motors can last a long time and perhaps the controllers can sense degradation in the motor before it fails but there...

Monday mobile service changed drivers door pillar camera due to a fault and upgraded to HW3 all in 1 1/2 hours. Cameras calibrated in about 6 miles and progress was shown by a growing blue ring around the grayed autosteer icon. Traffic control function did not appear until next morning after...

After very heavy rains today was driving about 25 mph along curvy 2 lane road with puddles. The car edged about a foot to the left to avoid large puddles slightly over the right lane line. For a large puddle across the lane it braked almost to a stop before I took over. Version 24.6.9

In SW Florida this morning I drove my M3 to a north facing vacant lot on the river at the end of my street at 9:00 AM. There was a clear sky view 200 miles to the north to the Cape Canaveral launch complex. I opened YouTube to the SpaceX Starlink live launch and watched it out the windscreen and...

I wonder if in a few decades the electric cars of all manufacturers will be referred to as "Teslas" the same way most salted crackers became "saltines"?

In the middle 1950's, there was a lot of buzz about stereo records. There was talk about standards, costs, etc and things weren't moving very fast. Suddenly a small niche company named Audio Fidelity released a stereo record of "The Dukes of Dixieland". It had an adhesive sticker on the album...

Nags are now coming every 10 seconds instead of 30.

I have water on the garage floor from behind the left front wheel and in front of the right rear wheel but none under the center of the car after purposely leaving the AC on overnight in a plugged in car. Is this normal?

Older M S's are starting to have significant numbers of MCU failures out of warranty for $3 K expenses due to heavy logging activity in the chip. I have already had one dash cam USB failure in less than a year of use. Do all these chips have this vulnerability and does that include the M3? Would...

When navigating yesterday I noticed this message at the top of the route summary box. I was getting LTE. I double button rebooted with no effect. I finally went to the navigate settings button. "Online Routing" was turned off. I turned it on and message went away. I don't remember if I...

My Tesla Waze no longer displays the settings or +/_ zoom buttons in lower left.

The dashcam icon was gray this morning. The USB was cool and off. Took it to a computer and flashing blue appeared on it instead of steady blue. Video files were intact. Tried to reformat it but failed because it was write protected which is probably why the icon was gray. Sentry mode was not...

I thought this worth it's own thread because I think it's a flaw.

Yesterday afternoon on the second drive of the day, the car let me in but was dark and took about a minute to boot up. Everything worked including the AP but the connect/disconnect advisory tone was missing. The turn signal "click" was also missing. The "two button" reboot had no effect. I...

Discussions of the innovative design of the M3 motor wonder how Tesla has eliminated the pulsing effect of other reluctance motors. Indeed they have in forward motion but I think I have noticed it when the car starts to roll back slowly on slight grades. Sometimes the resistance stops the...

I would think that would be a nice safety feature.

It looks like it would be easy to remove the side mirrors if regulatory approval ever allowed cameras instead of mirrors. A lot less drag and interference. It looks like it could be replaced by a trim strip. The front fender cameras look positioned to provide a proper view.