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So it looks like the consensus is that I should push to have a service center look. If it’s damage and they tell me to go to a repair place I can accept that... but I did want experts to look first. And yeah I think what I hit was about the height of the curb dividers in the photo there, with...

So what exactly does service now handle? Last night in changing lanes on a freeway in dark conditions I “fell” off of some height difference and slammed the underbody of the car against a low divider (half curb height in the upper side, I think - only saw it briefly when slowing down to the...

This whole idea bugged me until I read about the increase in blind people being hit by cars since Hybrids and now EVs - all that increase being due to such cars... Sure we could remake ALL of our roads to have sensors for blind folks... or have Elon make them all smart glasses that self walk...

Well pointless post to say I am waiting now as of yesterday. Hopefully it won’t be 4 weeks... but we’ll see. Someone was selling hov sticker wraps that you could put under the sticker to protect your car... gotta find those again now.

My thought on this is that it is a very smart move. Many of us are familiar with the news about a half decade back where the showed a hacked car that the hacker was able to stop or accelerate. One can only imagine what could be done with a self driving car. Better to get out ahead of that and...

Tesla’s Model 3 will be the prime target at upcoming hacker contest — The Verge “ The Pwn2Own contest is one of the biggest events in competitive security research, a place where up-and-coming hackers can show off their skills and earn money by finding new vulnerabilities in widely used...

What possible better method could there be? - noting that one feature of v9 is updating from you phone precisely to answer that question... There are people on the road today driving ICE cars that have a driver airbag full of metal shrapnel... A recall has existed for years to fix that... At...

A percentage is just a vague score with no context. “Captain before we hit Warp speed to go to the nezt Galaxy we’re at 73% of dilithium crystals.” “So... do I hit the button? What’s 73%?” “Captain, we’ve got three galaxies and a billion Starbucks we can reach, punch it.” Give me some...

Have you ever been to my hometown? Doubt it. If you have, I actually hope they key you. Your attitude is why the problems exist. Somewhere above half of all San Francisco homeless are former residents. Mostly renters, likely some owners who lost in the financial collapse. - read studies done by...

I’m not going to worry too much about this as I drive past all these old BMWs and Subarus that still have cassette tape players... Maybe I will worry about it when a newer Tesla flies by over me...

I was born in San Francisco at the dawn of the 70s. Lived there off and on over the decades. A lot of people mistake this for a rich person’s car because of the S and X... San Francisco’s homeless are mostly working poor that got priced out of their tiny apartments by wealthy techies... Heck...

Applied start of Oct and the website still just says paperwork received... I suspect all the folks who bought at the end of Q3 just beat me to applying by a few days and the 1 state worker assigned to this went from filling out 1 app a day to 23,732 a day... :D

I guess even another EV can be a pickup driver sometimes... Get them towed. Make a daily complaint to building management until it happens. Put notes on windows of other EVs asking them to help you report the offender. You’re probably not the only person being inconvenienced. Set up an...

If your state requires front plates, look up the “Bandit” plate for the M3. You can find it reviewed on YouTube. If your state wants you to put paint-destroying “special access” stickers all over your car that expire a few years later and have to be removed along with half your paint job...

@dd564: on the benefit of doubt side the last year has seen dozens of attempts by Wall Street short sellers to claim all the car sales are fake news, tesla is hiding the cars on lots over in Area 54, or selling them to dealers (Tesla doesn’t sell to dealers at all, period, btw. It is actually...

Free supercharging simply isn’t a sustainable business model. The benefit to the customer is a couple dollars a month, but the cost to the company and the infrastructure is extreme. They cannot sustain global range with charging stations anywhere you go if those chargers are being used by...

I don’t tend to do professional racing in my car so no. My whole focus was all on range. My car is for commuting not drag racing. LR RWD was exactly what I wanted.

Aside from the issue of 60 minutes chopping the interview in a TV-Click-Bait fashion... If Musk respected authority figures Tesla would still be 2 Silicon Valley guys giving demo rides to their friends of a modded “build your own car” kit...

Every page I try to reach in the manual comes back with this screen... Thoughts on what I can do here?

Any car driven by a joyriding teen basically...

As a counter to this. Remember the story of the M3 that flew through the air, crashed into a tree, and fell into a pond below? Fireman that cut the survivors out of that car, and all 4 teens in it survived, included the driver that had “taken” his dad’s new car without permission... Well that...

Most likely a software glitch. I believe the Tesla operating system is the same for all the cars. That means that hooks for features might be present in all of them even if the thing it could hook to is not there. This is like the holes in a prefab bookshelf that you could use to put a shelf...

There’s a lot of stuff I have read the manual for but I still like to talk about. I am a software developer and a Star Trek geek so my analogy is pretty geeky... Next Gen episode where Jordie uses a hologram of the engineer that designed the ship to help solve an issue. Jordie is a mechanic...

I see another thread today linking this exact same video for the topic of “90% the new recommended SOC”. I’ve got a different topic here, but this might still be duplicative to be coming from the same source...

I started as an 80%er but have been doing 90% for the last month.

She recommends charging to 100% about once a month to help with rebalancing your battery. Does that sound like a good idea or bad idea or just neutral? She got to this point after regular charging to 50-70% for the life of her M3 over six months and then seeing range display as 260 miles on a...

Tesla Model S becomes sneaky undercover police car Let’s see Instant torque Fast speed Extremely safe Long range Few mechanical breakdowns Charging up is cheaper than fueling up. If you’re a police department why would you NOT want all of that? So not surprising news, just good news, IMO. A...

Added context of this being an industry wide issue: Tesla has a problem with racism in its factory—so do many of its rivals No excuse... but this shows it will also be that much harder to fix. The pool for blue collar auto workers is just tainted... All I can say is that I hope that most of...

Fremont plant is about 5 miles from my home. This is one of the most diverse AND socially integrated places in the world. Racists are all over the place, but a level of them where they’re willing to say something that can be heard or act openly is pretty bizarre out here. Usually guys like...

It reads like they brought in a lot of rural whites from the Central Valley, out of state, or something... I’ve worked in a place like that described here, but that was back when I was in the Air Force so had to work with a lot of back-country low education whites... Menial Tasks, Slurs and...

Well we can add Kanye Wannabe-Klansman West to the list, but not in a good way... Kanye West Sparks Uproar After Parking Tesla In Handicapped Spot

They’re voting choices hurt us all, but mostly them. They had every reason to know better. They voted against their own futures out of racist spite and fear of change... We even fought to give them unions and political leaders that would hold their bosses to task, and still they abandoned that...

For me it is a point in the bend. My driveway slants up coming out of my garage and then slants down sharply at the sidewalk. Pulling out once from the left side (if facing towards house) managed to knock the undercarriage of the passanger side of my car loose (it dropped free from the car by a...

Same problem here. No solution yet. I have actually been wondering what it might cost me to repace the “lip” of my driveway or perhaps put something down there...

But that is faulting Tesla. ICE makers didn’t adapt when Tesla came around. If not for Tesla, they could continue to not adapt. As for sympathy for the workers... I have zero. They’re red staters. That means they’ve been voting against climate policy and against unions and against education...

Article mentions wondering who to blame, and I have to wonder if the answer isn’t Tesla. GM’s issues seem to be the precursor of what all ICE makers will face as EVs take over. Yes this is a PHEV, but it is just a part of what GM is shedding in an attempt to refocus away fron areas Tesla is...

The biggest issue I am seeing is that after purchase, it’s a bit difficult to finance that EAP purchase. Auto financing is generally based on the ICE notion that your car is in a slowly falling apart cycle the moment you leave the dealership lot... The idea that a car could need more financing...

A good idea but I immediately began thinking of police objecting to it. Hard to shoot one if us 17 times through a bullet proof windshield... This whole thing of people throwing rocks off if overpasses is not a good trend to see...

I get excited when I see a car on the road that isn’t an EV. I start to wonder if I should chase them down yelling out my referral code. Not many of them left these days in the Bay Area after all. :p

It should be an opt-in from your phone app, not an opt-out popup on your car screen. This is bad ui design in that it forces a decision of major consequence on you at a moment in time where you are not previously aware that decision will have to be made and are likely otherwise mentally...

Screen went away today and I got the EAP trial back... Wish I could have delayed it but my only choices were accept or reject.

Did I missread the articles on this? It all looked like a problem created by government regulation out of the hands of Tesla or even any other car maker.

There’s a 1,2,3 switch on this one too, but I can basically leave it in “3” for the next four years. That spot isn’t easy to reach while driving but is easy to hit the switch if still. I guess there are no issues having this thing next to a monitor screen?

Got a new FastTrak tag in the mail Thursday. Realized it fits perfectly behind the tablet display. Any reason to not place a toll tag / RF transponder somewhere like this? Sorry my garage light is reflecting so strongly at the bottom of that image...

That’s a good question...

I have the card inside my iPhone case right behind the phone. So if the phone fails I can just put it next to the center spot and the card handles things. That said the “buttflesh” advice was really good. Got it from a YouTube video. - basically don’t have your butt between your phone and your...

It’s been a pain having it. A day after I got it it vanished, and a day after that I got the “trying to update” bug that requires resetting my car every morning... at this point I am hoping they can just figure out how to get rid of it without needing to go in for service...

License plates are so 20th century. We could replace the whole system with a Bluetooth (or other system) chip...

Tesla Model 3 protects owner from unsafe air even without Bioweapon Defense Mode “Keeping the same settings, the air quality inside the vehicle continued to get better, hitting 5 μg/m3 within nine minutes. For a vehicle with a filter that Elon Musk simply described as “good,” the results of the...

Customer Service told me over the phone this was a rare bug... It is trying to connect to a version of the EAP that bo longer exists. For me they said it was trying to find the 14 day one and not the current 30 day one. I called them last Saturday. Still not fixed tet, so I need to call again...