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Ja, dit is expliciet vermeld dat de bestuurder steeds de actie moet initiëren met het aanzetten van de richtingaanwijzer. Dan start de "lane change procedure" en beginnen de 5s te lopen. Er is in een van de werkdocumenten een zeer ruime vermelding van eventueel een automatische actie van de...

For people who are worried about the back seats: have you seen those already? Storage space is the only real use. Just as with any 2+2 seater, the back seats are only useful if you have small children without legs...

Performance figures on the Tesla website are always stated in the "motortrend spec", which is 0-60mph (0-96kph) and with the 1' rollout. Adding those times will increase the true 0-100kph time with about 0.35s

Why would Elon put thrusters on the Roadster? Because he can. That's the only reason. There is no other car in the world that has this. That is reason enough. The Roadster is a showcase car.

No, you can still use "keep climate on" or even "dog mode"

From the video, it doesn't look like they do. Remember, this is a halo car and not designed to be practical at all

The Roadster is like a side project to Tesla. Not a lot of people will be working on that. And most likely, every Roadster will be hand built. But given Tesla's history with deadlines, I'm expecting the first deliveries in 2021 for the US and 2022 for the rest of the world, with the referral...

How about Tesla selling the Roadster for a symbolic Euro or Dollar? Technically, you still bought the car then and did not get it for free :p

It all depends on how exactly Tesla does the paperwork on those free cars. If fully taxable as personal income, then in Belgium that means ending up in the 52% tak bracket and a free Roadster will set me back €150k (as that's what it's likely going to cost over here). I hope there is some legal...

They are now already over 100 free ones. However, it seems that you may have to declare them in your taxes (sources Ben Sullins and Bjorn Nyland), so that could become a very expensive "free" car. Many may not be able to afford it then... By the way, it's limited to 2 Roadsters per person

I actually tweeted Elon the same question about accelerating the air underneath the car to increase the Venturi effect and increase grip. You wouldn't want to be driving behind the car when active, I guess. Any rocks and pebbles will be shot straight into the car behind you

Hovering was also mentioned from the start, when he said something like "Not saying it will fly, but maybe short hops". Maybe have speculated about the hovering capabilities. Now, he he can make that a useful function as well, that would be awesome. Otherwise, it's just an extremely expensive...

Taking testing of Tesla's autopilot to the limits with disabling the sensors and seeing what it still can do. Auto lane change now uses (predominantly) the cameras instead of the ultrasonics. Impressed by the results and I believe this is now a good implementation to keep it as much as possible...

In this video I try to find out whether getting all snuggly and cosy actually drains your battery? It turns out to be quite alright, so don't let that stop you from getting it on in your car :eek:;)

Sorry for the mishap with the video. Here's the fixed one

Am I actually responsible for making a change to the #Tesla software in update 2018.48.1? If that would be true, that would be awesome and that was also the initial setup of my Youtube channel: to help improve the product! I'm not really taking credit for this, but like to think that at least I...

Vandaag zijn de eerst Model 3s in Europa kunnen besteld worden. Maar enkel voor reservatiehouders. Voorlopig enkel de Long Range battery of de Performance versie. Aangezien velen nog wachten dacht ik een filmpje te maken over de configuratior en de prijzen voor alle opties, zodat jullie al weten...

OK, now I'm really confused by this. I was assuming (with my limited knowledge) that they were talking about centrifugal forces, maybe instead of outwards only with the combination of the forwards directed rotational vector. But you're talking about centripedal force, which is a totally...

Got this from several documentaries and car reporting websites. One of them quotes "Imagine the engineering that went into the tyres alone? Michelin had to develop a compound that can deal with 261mph any time the owner of the car wishes. At full speed the edge of the tyre is subject to 3,800...

The tires are experiencing over 3000 Gs at 250mph. That takes some special engineering to keep them from disintegrating. I do not expect the car to reach that top speed with its standard tires it's driving around now. But we'll see. I just hope Tesla also realises that a sports car, super car...

That was the idea ;-)

Assertive young Tesla driver called me out for a drag race with his P90D, claiming he would beat me #justForFun

Usually, I'm quite positive about Tesla and the way we get problems resolved and updates that make our cars better over time. But there are times when an update is not a good thing and some bugs and quirky things pop up, so your car briefly becomes worse. Since I'm not afraid to share the less...

A good bunch of thoe people are not living near California. So picking up the car is not going to happen, I guess. especially fo European owners. On the other hand, I hope they keep the counter going for some time, as in Europe we don't have access to Model 3 ordering, and I'm expecting quite a...

V9 has a big problem with camera alignment it seems. This causes the auto lane change to be disabled. I'm guessing it's the same issue as with the original AP2 roll out, where I had to go 4 times to service center to re-align the cameras. Right now they were able to remotely reset the entire AP...

There is no efficiency change by itself. But the same application of the go-pedal yields different results, resulting in different consumption. I used to drive in in Sport because I found Ludicrous too jumpy. It also made a launch more of an occasion. Now I've learned to feather the pedal more...

In this second part of my 1280km road trip, I got some good aikido practise, but also got confronted again with the camera issue, but Tesla managed to solve the issue remotely!

This weekend, I took the car out on a 1280km / 967mi road trip to Germany for another aikido seminar. But along the way I discovered a few issues with the update and the autopilot cameras, disabling the auto lane change. Seems there are some issues with the alignment, like they had in the...

I have 3 kids. The 2 oldest have now outgrown the child seats, but I've been on vacation with them all 3 in child seats in my Model S. Not all brands fit that well, but if you look for it, you'll find them.

Nav on AP will definitely be useful, especially when having to transfer between highways on long trips. Sometimes the navigation is hard to follow, when exits are complex or very close together. HW3 will be required for FSD, but as Elon mentioned, the only difference is the processing power...

As usual, I've taken the Tesla for a spin on my test route to see where we got some improvements. Compared to the unofficial release I tested last week, there are some minor improvements. But in general, I really love the progress V9 brings us!

It's quite simple now. V9 which has just been released has surpassed AP1 greatly. And it will continue to improve. AP1 is stagnated now and won't get much improvement anymore, if at all. So, if AP is important for you, definitely go for AP2 now!

The arcade games are not the Easter Egg. Pressing the call button is. Changes the label to "ahoy-hoy"

I personally would have loved to keep the next gen seats. They were the best and still are. Unfortunately, Tesla made the stupid decision to package that with the automated lift gate and sales was not able to separate the two, so I was stuck with those ventilated seats :-(

If you have ventilated seats, then you get that option. However, in my 2017 car, the ventilated seats do diddly squat. That's why they removed them, together with the fact that the seat quality was really bad as the leather wrinkled and tore. Now they are back, but have not been able to verify...

Of course, we need to do the mandatory V9.0 interface review as well. A lot has changed and even though I was afraid it would not be good, it is actually a quite logical makeover. Camera at the bottom of the screen should be resolved in a next release, Elon promised. Please forgive the static...

The neural net has been expanded with a lot more information and needs to continuously be trained to refine it further. This is to be expected when you rewrite stuff. One things improves a lot at the cost of other things. Keep in mind that AP is still only meant for highway driving. Everything...

The fact that nobody in Europe has the update officially yet, combined with the Elon tweet that EU needs to wait "a few more weeks"...

Power is drawn from the OBD port. For some reason, European cars do not have that connector behind the microphone grill. I had it in my early P85D, but it did only deliver 3V and not 12V. Also, OBD is fused separately, so there is not interference with any other system on the car when you just...

Today I had the opportunity to test the unofficial version of V9 (remember, us non-US folks do not seem to have the right to get the software update officially yet :-( ) Thanks to the new neural net that also take all 8 cameras into account, the improvement we're seeing is unlike any other. Even...

Yes they film 24/7, but only record to disk when movement or impact is detected. Since the devices take max 4W per set, this can last for up to a year, if that would be the only power drain. ;) For comparison, the AP2 computer alone uses 250W. So you don't even notice it in your consumption.

What do you mean with "how the install looks inside the car"? How the install is actually done and where the wires run?

Yesterday, I installed another 4-channel dashcam in a #Tesla Model S, so I thought you might be interested in the way it is set up. And I've also included footage of the coverage around the car.

While I was somewhat worried about Tesla's own dashcam feature, when it turned out to be pretty lame in feature-richness (but good video quality), and the fact that the feature is only for HW2.5+ cars :-(, I don't see the dashcam business collapsing anytime soon :). Proof of that was when a...

Any chance you could do the same in that blue color from the Aston I posted above? Would love to see that on that image

Please do. Always fun to see what others think would be great colors.

Any metallic box basically does the trick. But I also had the discussion whether you'd want Mickeysoft to charge for every security patch they release. I feel Tesla should have know and they commissioned an order for those specific keys. Somebody did not check the specifics, it seems. Could have...

It's in the video, guys! ;): €132 each

At first Tesla couldn't confirm, but now they've called me to ask whether I wanted to order new key fobs to replace my old ones that have the security flaw. But I would have to pay for them.

While this update has virtually no differences with 2018.32.4 (which introduced the PIN to drive feature), the latest version has introduced a new safety feature that beeps at you when you use AP on intersections that it's not comfortable handling. And that's a good thing! Now, before I get the...