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I was there yesterday around 11AM. 10B was out, but 8B worked fine. I got around 66 kw. Most of the spots were empty. I go by that location a couple times a week; it looks like it's going to be a good place to get a quick charge. Previously, my main local site was Sunnyvale, which has a...

I don't buy (at all) the idea that Teslas will be self-driving robo-taxis within the next five years, and very probably not within the next ten years. Viewed as better driver-assist software, what they're doing is interesting, and attractive for a lower price, but not what they're charging...

Indefinitely - when parked.

Learn new things every day. Thanks!

Thanks. I think it's still empty. If you look at the far-right side of my picture, you can see what looks like a capped-off pad. Is that it?

What does a PG&E transformer look like?

This look ready to go. (Not that I'm an expert in these things.) The fences are gone and everything is painted up and purty and clean looking. Does anyone see anything missing that should be there before it can be turned on?

Since I first tried AP late last year, it’s improved in a lot of small ways. My most recent trip from the SF Bay area to Portland OR was much more smoothly handled that eight months ago. (Handling of merge lanes and merging traffic is vastly improved, reducing speed automatically in mountain...

Similar problems to the above in Corning yesterday. Only 3 of the 6 superchargers were functional. The 2 temporary destination chargers both worked ok. Corning is SUCH bad news, it is the smallest station on northern I5, inadequately maintained, yet an essential stop. Another, larger station in...

Lots of progress recently. Also, in the downstairs area, there was active construction going on, but I couldn’t get a good picture through the screen.

Active construction today. Got there at mid-day, so the crew was on their lunch break.

Just stands installed right now. Some stacks of supplies were present. There was a workman on site.

I don’t believe this concept will be technically possible for at least a decade.

Get what you want. I ain't buying an in ICE car in 2020, that's for sure.

I contacted Tesla support. They said the FSD option at the current price includes the HW3 upgrade. Anyone who wants to know more can do what I did: ask.

The main job of a graphics card isn't analyzing images, it's creating images, mostly for video games. In principal, Tesla, by targeting the card at analyzing images rather than rendering them, can reduce cost and improve analysis performance. Presumably that's what Tesla has done with their...

I contacted Tesla support. A purchase of FSD at the current price will include HW3 when it becomes available. That definitely makes it more attractive. Still: Positive: The price is low compared with prior prices. Negative: The major features - traffic lights and stop sign support, HW3 - are...

I bought AP for $2K today. Still mulling over FSD for $3K. The current value proposition for FSD is poor, but it looks like that's where the future action is going to be, and the announced additions for surface street driving do seem interesting. Should I buy now, while its cheap but not worth...

I’m seeing $3500; probably because I’m in the trial period. Likely at the end of the trial I’ll see $2,000. I’m ready for Tesla to take my money.

$2,000 for adaptive cruise control and lane keeping, without the other stuff. I'm definitely in. As soon as the price shows up on the website, they get my money.

I'm still seeing $3,500 for AutoPilot on the website, not $2,000. I'm not sure if that's because the site isn't updated yet with the new prices, or because there is a bug in the pricing code.

Where do you find most of the value in that situation? The automatic cruise control, the lane keeping, or both?

I would also say that autopilot's nagging about proving my hands on the wheel by tugging at it (my hands were never off the wheel, but it didn't know that) when lane keeping was engaged was annoying. For me, this was another reason for leaving it off, even when it was actually doing a perfectly...

The conditions I named were where I had problems. In mountainous roads (which I was in for hundreds of miles), turns have a vertical as well as horizontal component, which may have made it flakier than it would otherwise have been. Driving up the flat and nearly straight I5 in the California...

The weather was never so bad I couldn't drive. But it was also getting dark and there were lots of reflections from the water that obscured the lane markers. I think that had something to do with it, but it was hard to say. In anything other than very basic conditions, I found the lane keeping a...

So, I just completed my autopilot free trial. It arrived at the perfect time: I was going on a 1300 mile drive split between two days (650 miles from SF Bay to Portland, 650 miles back) and it activated the very morning I was leaving. Cool. So what did I think in my 30 day trial? I'll break it...

No. I generally have the charge limit capped at 80% charge. I only tried one full charge and got it to 308 miles or thereabouts.

So, time to share your deepest feelings about badges.

I also got an email inviting me to get it installed on Dec. 1 or 2 in San Mateo CA. I haven't decided if I want the badge. I guess now would be a good time.

I have found that the chargers in the SF Bay area are crowded and waiting to charge does happen. I did not find crowding a problem on I5 away from the bay. On my drive, none of those stations were even at 50% usage. It may be, of course, that during summer tourist season crowding at those...

It’s not bad in a fast food sort of way. But you don’t have the sort of interesting locally owned restaurants you have downtown. And my observation applies to a number of towns in southern Oregon and northern California: they have fun options not within walking distances of any...

To the folks who explained how the idle fee works: Thanks! When the app warned me that my charge was nearly complete, that would have been a great time for it to tell me the rules. Consider it a suggestion for Tesla.

Years ago, I drove 900 miles in one day. It was an insane thing for me* to do and I would never do it again. Before the end, I was exhausted and had become a real danger to myself and others. I tell “most people” that I drove over 600 miles in a day and they’re impressed. Even that isn’t...

So I drove from Los Altos CA to Portland OR on Tuesday, a drive of over 650miles. My thoughts: (1) ICE cars are so screwed. The entire negative story about EV’s is that their long re-charging times and range limitations make them impracticle for long trips. But, I drove this trip in a Tesla in...

Dude can always buy a VW. Now THERE'S a company he can trust.

Different worlds. I’ve driven manuals pretty much my whole life. They all rolled.

If you’re going to track it, at all, you should get the P. Not just for the acceleration, but for Track Mode.

I was contacted by a Tesla rep following this thread. I'm not sure I should publish their contact info here without permission. Why don't you talk more about where you are in the process?

I think I am a local target of convenience. I’m sure the work will be sub-contracted to a non-Tesla electrician. Tesla is definitely motivated to solve the apartment problem. As we’re seeing in my case, installing a single charger looks like it will enable a charger installation process for a...

Not me. I don’t track my car, and the AWD is already crazy fast for street driving.

Well, the charger is progressing forward. The apartment management has ok'd the technical part of the installation and is reviewing liability documents from Tesla – Tesla is the company that would do the work. As long as no surprises turn up, I'll be good to go. The complex has decided that it...

Just a simple poll for Model 3 owners. Feel free to add comments below if you like.

I think driverless operation in the full range of driving conditions is a long way off. (I voted 10 to 20 years.) But I see no well-defined upper bound as to how good driver assistance can get in the interim. I don’t see Tesla’s existing sensor system as a problem. It is primarily a matter of...

The “Apple Death Watch” was a running thing for YEARS. Article after article was published explaining how Apple was doomed, certain to be crushed by more established competitors. Steve Balmer actually laughed when asked about the iPhone and expressed confidence in their Windows Mobile OS, which...

Not sure why you're not seeing it. It is working for me.

There is no such thing as an ICE or hybrid brand of choice for my household.

It is WAY more convenient, no question about it.

The $1500 includes the charger. I think (but I'm not sure) that the charger remains my property and I can take it with me when I leave. That leaves me with a non-recoverable cost of about $1000. It costs about $0.04 more per mile to charge at a SuperCharger than the electricity costs for...