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Did you ask your SA about the Headlights for the Canadian bound vehicles?
No I did not ask the SA. I was reading through this forum and saw people here were receiving their M3 with the matrix lights

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OK, here is some good hope on "Headlights" topic... but as usual lets take it with a grain of salt untill we really see it in-person...

Per my latest converstion with the Tesla advisor (she was super nice on providing the info), upon asking about the Matrix Headlights she initially provided generic update saying your vehichle (based on my VIN) is coming with all updated package like Li Ion battery, Ryzen, heated wipers etc. so it should have the latest headlights. Then I mentioned, inspite of having the updated package few cars (recent VINs just before mine) does not have Matrix Headlights. She then put me on hold literally for 5 mins and went on to check something....then she came back saying I really dont want to hold you up until I get the information so let me text you once I get it. I said ok and disconnected.

10 - 15 mins later the text arrives... "Hello :) i have confirmed your vehicle is coming with the new matrix headlights - xxxxx from Tesla" !!!

BTW my VIN is 246xxx.

Not really going to hold on to this... but it certainly makes me feel happier and thus sharing too :)

Guess we will have to see once I get my VIN if it comes with the matrix lights
 
I think red/blue state doesn't matter much here, it's more a matter of states recouping lost gas tax revenue.
Yup. Mostly they just want money for owning cars in the state. Used to be gas taxes, now it's registration.

For those curious, here's a map of state gas taxes as of 2020.

Gas-Tax-July-2020-FV-01.png


And a map of electric vehicle taxes (fees) as of 2019.

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OK, here is some good hope on "Headlights" topic... but as usual lets take it with a grain of salt untill we really see it in-person...

Per my latest converstion with the Tesla advisor (she was super nice on providing the info), upon asking about the Matrix Headlights she initially provided generic update saying your vehichle (based on my VIN) is coming with all updated package like Li Ion battery, Ryzen, heated wipers etc. so it should have the latest headlights. Then I mentioned, inspite of having the updated package few cars (recent VINs just before mine) does not have Matrix Headlights. She then put me on hold literally for 5 mins and went on to check something....then she came back saying I really dont want to hold you up until I get the information so let me text you once I get it. I said ok and disconnected.

10 - 15 mins later the text arrives... "Hello :) i have confirmed your vehicle is coming with the new matrix headlights - xxxxx from Tesla" !!!

BTW my VIN is 246xxx.

Not really going to hold on to this... but it certainly makes me feel happier and thus sharing too :)
Same range as my vin hoping mine comes with them
 
OK, here is some good hope on "Headlights" topic... but as usual lets take it with a grain of salt untill we really see it in-person...

Per my latest converstion with the Tesla advisor (she was super nice on providing the info), upon asking about the Matrix Headlights she initially provided generic update saying your vehichle (based on my VIN) is coming with all updated package like Li Ion battery, Ryzen, heated wipers etc. so it should have the latest headlights. Then I mentioned, inspite of having the updated package few cars (recent VINs just before mine) does not have Matrix Headlights. She then put me on hold literally for 5 mins and went on to check something....then she came back saying I really dont want to hold you up until I get the information so let me text you once I get it. I said ok and disconnected.

10 - 15 mins later the text arrives... "Hello :) i have confirmed your vehicle is coming with the new matrix headlights - xxxxx from Tesla" !!!

BTW my VIN is 246xxx.

Not really going to hold on to this... but it certainly makes me feel happier and thus sharing too :)

This is positive info! It seemed the VIN cutoff was around the 240xxx and around 4/25ish. Yours coming with the global/matrix lights is one of the first piece of data saying it has reverted back to matrix production or its starting to be a mixed bag for headlights.
 
Ouch. Texas is trying to do something similar based one some articles I read a couple of months ago. The only negative with New Mexico has been that they don’t allow direct sales for cars in the state. Which is weird because there is a store in Santa Fe, but I think it has do with Tesla getting around New Mexico’s laws by buying an old casino on an Indian reservation and renovating it to their current store.

Texas is the same way with direct car sales. It's the car\oil lobby IMO.
 
OK, here is some good hope on "Headlights" topic... but as usual lets take it with a grain of salt untill we really see it in-person...

Per my latest converstion with the Tesla advisor (she was super nice on providing the info), upon asking about the Matrix Headlights she initially provided generic update saying your vehichle (based on my VIN) is coming with all updated package like Li Ion battery, Ryzen, heated wipers etc. so it should have the latest headlights. Then I mentioned, inspite of having the updated package few cars (recent VINs just before mine) does not have Matrix Headlights. She then put me on hold literally for 5 mins and went on to check something....then she came back saying I really dont want to hold you up until I get the information so let me text you once I get it. I said ok and disconnected.

10 - 15 mins later the text arrives... "Hello :) i have confirmed your vehicle is coming with the new matrix headlights - xxxxx from Tesla" !!!

BTW my VIN is 246xxx.

Not really going to hold on to this... but it certainly makes me feel happier and thus sharing too :)
A new hope!!! May the 4th be with you! 🙏😝
 
the first time I am hearing of ML engineers interacting with QA -- ideally it would be an ML engineered production model, wrapped in a callable service that a web-dev would further wrap into another service callable either via backend or front-end and then the QA would bother the SWE that you cannot have EDD field as None when its clearly supposed to a 4 day EDD window -- and then the SWE would go to the ML engineer and be like what's this 0.0000001-4e score casting to a NoneType and ML would be like, who knows it probably one of the hidden layers in the neural net

All the while it was Elon Intercepting the network packets to make people refresh their screen 100 times
I love this ML talk. I'd like to add that however strong the ML architecture is, it can only go as far as the historical data allows it to. With supply chain issues that are pretty unprecedented and with order and production volumes trending up, it is very hard to predict the future. I fully expect ML models' predictions to be more accurate than a human would be able to put together though.
 
I agree that QAs don’t always know how the systems works especially when they are limited to black box testing. Not much to say about how well the EDD is working without knowing the expected behaviour.
Saying “how anyone in their right might signed off on it” is mostly my rant as a consumer, with the assumption that the EDD should have some level of accuracy. especially as my EDD has been changing daily since 4/25, it feels like a lazy placeholder, which I suppose is part of that “feature” instead of a bug🤷‍♀️
that daily change is most likely something that was hardcoded on top by an SWE to account for edge cases. MLE's dont hardcode things.
 
This is the first time I am hearing of ML engineers interacting with QA -- ideally it would be an ML engineered production model, wrapped in a callable service that a web-dev would further wrap into another service callable either via backend or front-end and then the QA would bother the SWE that you cannot have EDD field as None when its clearly supposed to a 4 day EDD window -- and then the SWE would go to the ML engineer and be like what's this 0.0000001-4e score casting to a NoneType and ML would be like, who knows it probably one of the hidden layers in the neural net

All the while it was Elon Intercepting the network packets to make people refresh their screen 100 times a day.
Hey... They didnt approve 100% of the budget for the project. So we had to make some cuts. :p

As for the example about 0.0001, I have been totally in that place multiple times in my life. Though in my case I tend to start explaining the rationale and the assumptions behind the number, and 15 mins into the conversation the other person says, "can you just tell me how to fix this"
 
that daily change is most likely something that was hardcoded on top by an SWE to account for edge cases. MLE's dont hardcode things.
As a SWE, I'm not certain how they would hard-code daily changes. Generally hard-coded things are static and don't change. The fact that for some folks it's changing everyday, means it's not hard-coded. It could however be programmed to change or update more or less frequently based on certain conditions. Perhaps those are the "edge cases" you're referring to.
 
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Hey... They didnt approve 100% of the budget for the project. So we had to make some cuts. :p

As for the example about 0.0001, I have been totally in that place multiple times in my life. Though in my case I tend to start explaining the rationale and the assumptions behind the number, and 15 mins into the conversation the other person says, "can you just tell me how to fix this"
Haha -- best way is to calibrate the model and change the raw scores to probability estimates
 
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I love this ML talk. I'd like to add that however strong the ML architecture is, it can only go as far as the historical data allows it to. With supply chain issues that are pretty unprecedented and with order and production volumes trending up, it is very hard to predict the future. I fully expect ML models' predictions to be more accurate than a human would be able to put together though.
However -- I do not think there is an ML model doing the EDD estimates. Supply Chain Management often use optimization models which are different than machine learning models Council Post: Four Key Differences Between Mathematical Optimization And Machine Learning

Optimization models do not "predict" the future but use statistical & mathematical methods to find the most efficient path optimizing for several parameters, such as materials coming in, delivery routes (existing one and planned ones) etc -- this is why we do have outliers such as an east coast April VIN getting their car before Fremont Feb VIN

This is the reason, even in absence of this historical supply chain disruption, the EDD shown on the order page is still pretty accurate. It is the output of a mathematical optimization function and not a regression.

P.S: Customer Experience doesn't seem to be a function the model optimizes for lol