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It may definitely worth it nowadays, for the Tesla users in China.

His methods seems pretty applicable to utilize in spaceships avoiding asteroids :)

They may include this in driver profiles if the profiles become smart enough to realize whos currently sitting on the seats. They can check existence of a driver or passengers (the way they did to check for seatbelt warning) on any seat and if it returns zero, this may be used to keep BT off...

They may find a smarter way to turn on and off creep mode in the future, crowded traffic, limited spaces like garages, creep on, open road conditions, creep off, etc..

Even a tiny bit of modification on the hw setup will certainly require realworld test of millions of miles before enabled. Which will prevent use of valuable and limited resources of the company for development of newer and more advanced models. Does this sound logical? Whats going to happen is...

Their software plus their restrictions.

'This is EV, less parts to repair' sounds good but it appears they are equalizing things some other way. Losing ground...

The mayor was also there, right? He made a great contribution to the discovery of a 'new species'.

This may explain why it cannot stop and hit the garage wall as in recent accident scenario.

The key is in your mobile phone and car is smart enough to open door when your phone comes close. I hope your mobile phone is also smart enough to understand whos pocket it is in. (Actually this might be the reason of failure, they keep stay very close to car after pressing selfpark button so...

Anyone impressed here? Im not. I initially could not get the speech and thought main speaker was German, then I listen YT to understand how much I should be thankful. They seem to make a great car, but they dont know how to sell it. I wish they could have a chance to see this video first...

I have never used an awd car, but always changing all four on my ICEs every winter/summer. I dont rely on these all season whatever tires, just make it right and buy a winter set. There will always be situations where even high experience needs a bit of chance/support. We dont have all-snow...

I can understand if a car accelerates and crashes into a shop or whatever. but this is a restricted space and the car is very much able to see the restriction (wall). Why it allows itself to accelerate? prison break mode ? Tesla can easily prevent this happen by checking whether its on a clear...

Even if we find a parking area large enough to hold several panels on roof, it will also be large enough to let several EV cars parked under, so capacity will never be enough for all the waiting cars in there. Such places may only provide support for a very limited number of EV cars, means it...

I guess its easy to bend duck's head. Electric company cooperates with Tesla and a software adjusts start of charge regionally, based on electric demand data. To benefit from even cheaper charging rates, all you have to do is accept the question appears on screen, asks for joining the cheap...

Then things are turning to how to keep EV rev. in clean borders. If the trend you mentioned wind and solar continues same speed (it cannot, have to stop somewhere, lack of installation areas), 6GW clean energy will support annual conversion of roughy 1.2 million cars (6000/310 *62000) from oil...

Thanks for these informative replies, but I am not quite sure that night time charging will present a great adventage by means of load, thinking hundreds of thousands of thirsty cars. There may be more complicated scenarios, like rush for a small vacation as happened on short holidays, all...

Dont know if this was discussed before, but I wonder how much pressure will be put on energy supply, if x percent of ICE cars are swapped with EVs? I believe millions of EV cars will become the major electric consumers and wondering where we will find out a "clean" source which is able to...

Which one is worst, a drunk Tesla driver in a gas station trying to refill with a gas pump, or a drunk ICE driver in a supercharger station trying to refill with an electron pump?

This is a common problem of mugs with Luda mode enabled. The handle obviously cannot handle the handling speed. Also, its a shame Tesla relied on passive air cooling on such apparatus frequently subjected to sudden heat fluctuations.

We all waiting for industry v4.1. There will be no more handle issues when cups start to build cups.

Did you fill it from an Authorized Tea-ler?

I was very happy and proud when I bought my 55 inches samsung smart tv, back in 2012. Next year, my smart tv was looking dumb comparing to new models features. This year, they removed skype and now my tv camera (reason of great cost at buying) is completely useless (a decision from producers)...

For RainX and similars, I would prefer a longer surviving solution, there are some brands applied in stores, stays on the glass for, like six months. Are these products helpful? Definitely. Water drops over certain size immediately and quickly falls down. It also adds to viper life, since...

In initial phases , some roads will be classified as autonomous roads (there will be some gadgets to support autonomous driving). Using autonomous roads will cost you something, to prevent unfair use . Cargo companies will make great use of autonomous cars. they will start serving not only for...

To me, the only difference between current style of AP and future FSDC will be, FSDC will try to handle all the problems itself in transport between point A and B. Current version tries the same but fails due to uncapable hardware, software and other environmental factors. Question arises here...

It appears everyone is blaming maker of whatever he/she is using. Try MS. *grin*

You are taking a mid range mid class family grade EV car and adding all the possible bling to make it an entry level Model S, a sport car. Then complaining about the price. You have to use it as is or just add a few survival grade extras for you. Price then will settle around 40-45K range. If...

My example about apple was particularly for iphones . I am a samsung owner and my (premium paid) note 2 phone received only one upgrade , from 4.2 to 4.4, that's it. As @Gizmotoy indicates, Apple has a good record on this. Plus, all updates are still free (contrary to MS). The software-driven...

Worlds fastest supercharger unit ! 0-100% in 2.54 miliseconds! (available for french drivers, only:D); Now serious stuff, I wonder whether its safe to let car keep charging at the open, when we start seeing lightnings around. Are there any charging stations with lightning rods in vicinity...

Our current overlords will be very pleased with ban of latest human driver from traffic, just not sure if we can see this. I heard going from A to B as a straight line with AP is not yet restricted in Mars. Can be a good selling point ;);)

I dont think they will be called as car, after some point. See Google's egg. And when our expectations on "how a car should look like" once excluded from equation, level number will become a technical issue.

Dont you think we are half way there, already ? (ok, I am excluding the turbo boost from todo list). I strongly believe that all these things are products of our unrealistic expectations. Personally, I will continue to expect the unexpected.

As long as these features continued to be called as "drive assist", you (driver) are the responsible. If they start giving drivers licenses to blind persons to travel in driver seats of (much advanced versions of) these kind of cars, I believe then we can start sueing the car maker for the...

Even if autoparking disabled accidentally, at least car should be able to rise some collision alerts. My poor, el-cheapo aftermarket reversing proximity sensors can do this.

Agree on this. With new hadware, there may be a limited ability to go backwards. In emergency cases, it might become a lifesaver. Its possible to think on some critical scenarios. A command to let car drive backwards 300 feet, to get away from a threat on the road. Or ability to pull over...

I concluded on the same. But I believe Tesla can arrange something to prevent this happen again. Like a different kind of friction on the gas pedal or an audio signal on sudden press of break, etc.. Or, simply introduce an Eco mode, prevents Immediate response of gas pedal.

Then we may start thinking recent accidents with sudden self -acceleration of the car might be related to initial stages of evasive action training :) The question is, who or what scared it? :D

Since ap system is learning from real world by help of human drivers, do you think one day may it learn to take evasive action where necessary, ie in case of car fire on road, etc? Also wondering if AP is capable of riding backwards in case of emergency?

So you actually prefer Microsoft in the car.. :confused: Whats the update status of v1 Teslas, btw? (V1 shoulder be Roadster, I guess).

Apple has the best record for bringing updates to every possible device they sold, I would be greatly relaxed if Tesla could let development of operating system to apple's hands. In other scenario, we likely to survive in a samsung-like environment where firmware updates quickly forgotten, in a...

Thank God a final solution to my reef aquarium issues. Excess CO2 is lowering pH level and bacteria cannot consume excess nutrients due to lack of carbon source, like ethanol. Now both seems solved :D couldn't be any happier!

I wonder whether real world data captured by human Tesla drivers are processed specific to the roads they were captured in, or generic manner. Because things discussed here may just be a reflection of what human drivers normally perform at those locations.

Count hotmail and whatsapp too. I cannot send / receive photos at the moment. Messages also slowed down.

The owner of the car shoulder explain the reason of parking that way, to the rest of the humanity. We deserve an answer ! :)

It may be the reason of delay actually. Making a movie of a learning machine can be as difficult as filming an animal starring in a movie. If it decides to park to an unwanted gap, skips the fixed camera. Then Retake the scene, etc.. Not as easy as it seems... :) (unless you switch to 'slave'...

The AP will avoid mud pits at all costs :)

(Of course dont want to blame the driver who parked the car right side, he/she is just a human, in the end :D).

Actually, they did not announce a major change. We all were waiting for ap 2.0 (the press release calls the current as "first generation ap"). Do we have 2.0 now? No. Just the infrastructure of it. As Elon stated, every new sensor config requires millions of miles before making it public so we...

Here is the scenario. An accident blocks all the lanes except outer half of left lane butyou are not aware of the accident, all you seeing is everyone slowly moving over left line. Do you (or AP) stay and wait in the lane endlessly?