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I love my Model S and all t can do but lets be realistic. Elon has made many, many wild claims about Full Self Driving being just around the corner. In the mean time development has moved forward at a much more realistic pace and Elon's claims have, time and time agian, proven to be wildly...

Navigate on Autopilot is pretty good overall but it does try and hug the fast lane far too much. This is really bad driving but having lived in the USA for the past 30 years I can understand why it has not been an issue for the development team. In general, American drivers behave in much the...

I read lots of reports about how Tesla service centres are terrible and the service sucks. I don't know the details about these reports but in my experience Tesla service is the best I have ever found and I cannot imagine how it could be made better, short of giving you the opportunity to...

There are quite a few ICE cars that are extremely quiet. Are they going to have to make stupid noises too for people who cant be bothered to look around them? This is too ridiculous.

As far as the back seats are concerned, cars have been fitted with child locks for many years that disable the ability to open the rear doors from inside the car. This does not appear to be a problem for any other car maker so why would it be a problem for Tesla?

This makes no sense. The motor drives the handles out then stops. To bring the handles back in the motor reverses. The handle may well be sprung against the motor to prevent it from providing undue force on trapped objects but it will still require power to reverse the motor to allow the handles...

Auto wipers on the my two year old Model S with AP2 hardware are not good enough to rely on. The auto wipers on my 2008 GMC Yukon are FAR better! Come on Tesla, fix it!

We should all take what Elon say with a massive pinch of salt. He told us that autopilot was going to be silky smooth in the next release 18 months ago but I am still waiting for that one. The last couple of round of updates have made it even worse. The car drives like a teenager is taking it...

At the current rate of progress for the past two years I would guess that we will get the ability 'to go from your garage at home to parking at work with no driver input at all' in about 2040 unless they hit any snags. The car still can't even park itself properly even if you have it lined up...

Unless there is some option to retain the confirm or at the very least reject the lane change this will be a complete disaster and extremely dangerous to boot. Driving north from Tampa last night I found that my Model S was completely ignoring the right hand lane and in fact it was trying to put...

Superchargers are for high speed charging so you can 'continue' you journey without having to wait too long. They are NOT for local people to charge their cars for free. As such they should be located on major routes and the fact that you don't have one near you should not be a problem. You...

What has this got to do with the Autopilot automatically reducing your speed? The settings here have no affect on what the new speed that Autopilot adopts is. If I am driving at 45MPH on autopilot and come to an area with a 35MPH speed limit Autopilot will change to 40MPH. Not 35MPH, 40MPH. 5PMH...

Why does Autopilot want to break the speed limit all the time? When entering a section of road where the speed limit is lower than the one you have been driving down, autopilot will limit the speed but not to the actual speed limit or even the limit plus what you told the car you want it to...

As an update, many thanks to CDalton for this excellent work. I installed the software on a Raspberry Pi and wrote the necessary code to sit between my battery management system and the TWC Manager to control the charging rate. I have one Model S and I can now leave it to its own devices to...

Thanks gork and acho for the links. This looks to be exactly what I need. I will report back on my experiences when I have had a chance to check it out.

I can turn it off, this is true. The problem is that when the sun is not shining fully on the solar panels I still get a lot of power available, just not enough to charge at the maximum rate. If I only allowed it to charge when there is full sun I would lose a lot of charge time. If I set the...

I charge my Model S entirely from Solar power in an off grid location. When the sun goes behind a cloud I need to adjust the charge rate down a bit so I don't flatten the house battery. To do this I need to talk to the wall charger to tell it how much it can have dynamically. I am 99.9% certain...

A quick squirt of WD40 into the door mirror pivot point fixed the mirror sticking issues on my Model S. Both started sticking frequently and the service folks told me it was a firmware issue. It wasn't. It just needed a little lubrication. Door handles too. One application of WD40 and I have had...

There are quite a few things I dislike about the Model S but nothing bad enough to say hate! The seats are not even close to most competitively priced machines. Go sit in a Jaguar XF(¾ of the price), back seat in particular, then compare that with the 2017 Model S. The navigation system is in...

There is a lot of misinformation about the glass roof. There is very little Solar energy transmitted although a high quality film applied inside does make a difference for the better. When under way there is no problem at all and the roof gives more headroom and a nice airy feeling. If you park...

I have looked at the output from my single charger. It looks like the packets are 17 bytes long. They start with c0 f? and end with c0 fe. This is the start up sequence from the single charger I have. c0 fc e1 03 8c 49 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b9 c0 fe c0 fc e1 03 8c 49 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00...

Is the anyone within a couple of hundred miles of Gainesville Florida with two or more chargers who would be willing to let me come and sniff the network. I only have one charger and car so I can't see the traffic between chargers. I want to control the available current in my Solar installation...

Tesla, please add the capability to set the charge rate of the car from the app.

Way points in navigation. This is the only car I know that does not have this, at any price!