Hey everyone, X and S owner for the last year. Love the cars themselves, but sad to report that I can't recommend and X for anyone who sees snow in their area.
The problem I've run into is a convoluted one as one thing affects the next, but here goes.
The initial issue is that overriding the door open and close is somewhat limited. It will let you to some extent force it with the dash, but it's not uncommon for the car to outright refuse to open doors. This on its own sucks but...
When there is ice on the sensors on the roof (where you can't really scrape properly), that is one of the situations where the car will outright refuse to open the doors.
The next issue is that if you heat the cabin the ducting apparently passes too close to the MCU, and overheat protection does not function.
Come January, we had several days of freezing rain. Even if I removed it, the temperature cycling from bringing kids to the daycare was enough to refreeze the sensors, standing us. So I heated up the car enough to melt everything properly.
Come the next problem, the MCU was damaged by the heat of the defrost system. This could be seen by the screen being all striped and purple and the reverse camera not working when the car was under - 10c (very normal here).
The next issue arrived in summer. Without proper control of what is considered overheating, and the default being at 40c, when the car gets above 30c (which is nor rare from sitting in the sun), the autopilot system goes astray and messes up the breaks. So poor software override capabilities and treating their user like a child who can't force the car to open the door when appropriate leads to malfunctioning breaks. I can confirm this is the issue because using the ac to cool the car is an actual remedy to the situation. See the image below.
This is what happens when you try to make everything conform to a single view of how a product should be used.
The problem I've run into is a convoluted one as one thing affects the next, but here goes.
The initial issue is that overriding the door open and close is somewhat limited. It will let you to some extent force it with the dash, but it's not uncommon for the car to outright refuse to open doors. This on its own sucks but...
When there is ice on the sensors on the roof (where you can't really scrape properly), that is one of the situations where the car will outright refuse to open the doors.
The next issue is that if you heat the cabin the ducting apparently passes too close to the MCU, and overheat protection does not function.
Come January, we had several days of freezing rain. Even if I removed it, the temperature cycling from bringing kids to the daycare was enough to refreeze the sensors, standing us. So I heated up the car enough to melt everything properly.
Come the next problem, the MCU was damaged by the heat of the defrost system. This could be seen by the screen being all striped and purple and the reverse camera not working when the car was under - 10c (very normal here).
The next issue arrived in summer. Without proper control of what is considered overheating, and the default being at 40c, when the car gets above 30c (which is nor rare from sitting in the sun), the autopilot system goes astray and messes up the breaks. So poor software override capabilities and treating their user like a child who can't force the car to open the door when appropriate leads to malfunctioning breaks. I can confirm this is the issue because using the ac to cool the car is an actual remedy to the situation. See the image below.
This is what happens when you try to make everything conform to a single view of how a product should be used.
