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We’ve had the same issues with our 2022 SR3 but not our 21 MY. Our 3 also has issues with phone connecting (esp playing music over Bluetooth).

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Perhaps the Tesla driver hit the brake instead of the accelerator when the car phantom braked. They wouldn’t be the first driver to do that, unfortunately. Regardless, the drivers behind were following too close and driving too fast.

This correction needed to happen. The Y and 3 were overpriced, and that coupled with the anti-Tesla sentiment from Elon’s antics led to soft sales. Car companies give discounts. Sometimes it’s through price decreases and sometimes it’s through 0% financing. We bought a Toyota in 2016 and with...

After his purchase of Twitter, the talk was about how Elon was going to destroy Twitter. Instead, he’s destroying Tesla as a brand. Twitter will do just fine since its business model is based on engagement and people love to be outraged. Tesla benefited from an inflated valuation in part by the...

To add to the anecdotal evidence, I have a friend whose hybrid Hyundai burst into flames in a restaurant parking lot in LA.

Emily Dickinson used it and she was following hundreds of years of usage. The ship sailed in the 14th century. Adapting to use a person’s preferred pronouns is a simple, polite thing to do. True, politeness is seen as an affront to some — it cuts into their right to be an ass, after all! — but...

Actually English has the singular “they,” which is quite useful in exactly the situation you’re describing. Here’s a little article from Websters about it and its expanded use today: Singular 'They'

That supercharging is worth more than $500. Tesla is charging .53/kWh in SoCal, twice as much as EA and home charging. Even after Elon is gone, Tesla will have to deal with the stink his bad reputation leaves behind. A lot of us bought Teslas despite our dislike of Elon, and that was before his...

The thing is we don’t all agree on how the money should be spent. We will never have full agreement on what is best to do. So instead we have to try our best to elect people who have some wisdom and perhaps aren’t completely self-absorbed and actually have the overall community’s interests in...

Since he can never be president, maybe he will try to be the puppet master. Can't be VP, so no Cheney-level of puppetry, but maybe like Wolfowitz or Rumsfeld. If he were Sec of Defense, I could see him renaming all of our warships Boatie McBoat Face. He's got the sophisticated humor of...

If most journalists and news orgs move to post.news, Twitter will become irrelevant, in my opinion. Media report tweets because media writers spend all their time on Twitter. Once they move, Twitter will become a has been. Might happen! I am with Jaron Lanier on Elon and his Twitter fiasco...

Our 2021 Y is quiet and comfortable. Too bad they lost out on a great ride!

Dows he address climate collapse and environmental catastrophe? How these relate to population and political and economic resilience?

Hey, more great news coming on climate thanks to Elon's party: Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment So is the pro-population stuff because he knows more children will die prematurely from pollution now that his party is stacking the courts with judges...

It's interesting because Elon is endorsing right-wing politicians who are unmoved by incredible amounts of suffering and death right now. Gun violence is now more deadly to American kids than car accidents. The US has double or even triple the maternal mortality rate than in Europe and other...

There is a lot of excellent scholarship on collapse and resilience. My partner, an archaeologist, studies and writes about it and has published widely. The idea that population decrease will cause collapse is just not grounded in any data at all. Population pressures lead to environmental...

Are they? Really? Do you think that Elon Musk endorsing right-wing candidates will make them decide to get EVs from Tesla vs, say, Ford? Where's the data on that? Perhaps he's being clever and he's endorsing climate deniers like DeSantis in order to sell more cars. Or perhaps he's politically...

For what end and what purpose? To troll? To be clever? To get more likes and retweets? When does this man actually work anyway?

"Luxury" is definitely subjective. I find the Y to be very luxurious, in large part because of its minimalist aesthetic. Nothing feels cheaper to me than an over-designed vehicle or object. But of course, that is my subjective opinion. Fortunately, there are more options now, so everyone can...

We are having the same issue. It’s a new problem that seems to be related to 2022.12.3.2. Hopefully it will be fixed with the next software update.

I've never understood why some drivers don't slow down when it's raining, especially when the road first gets wet. This is a basic teaching in driver's ed for a reason. It's not that hard to avoid hydroplaning regardless of your car or your tires. Just slow the f- down. Same is true on a...

We traded a 2016 Prius for the Model Y and actually, the Prius's interior was not nearly as nice as the Model Y's. Granted, I appreciate minimalist design and perhaps others do not. The Prius was hard to keep clean, too busy, and the sight lines were absolutely horrible. It was a blind spot car...

You can take it through a normal car wash. We do it and have zero issues. Same with friends who have a M3. Kyle from out of spec fave a 100k mile review of his M3 recently and said he’d been taking his car through car washes since he took delivery in 2019. Paint still looks perfect.

We were rear ended and had to have a new hatch and bumper installed. Far less noise of any kind after the repair. Might be interesting to have the hatch removed and reinstalled by an experienced body shop.

Hold one of the app buttons until the full menu appears, then drag the new seat warmer/etc apps down. They don’t appear in the regular menu accessed by the three dash symbol. Have to hold an existing app on the bottom menu down to access them.

A black Sharpie is your friend! We keep one in the glovebox now. Honestly works better than the expensive paints, in my experience. It doesn't filling in the gashes, obviously, but it matches the color close enough that you can't see the rash unless you look really, really close.

With over 10k on our 2021 Y with induction wheels, we’re at 272wh/mi lifetime with a lot of very fast highway driving. EPA estimates were wrong for every car we’ve owned. Our Prius was off even for the car’s own estimate. The car would say we were averaging 48mpg but calculating at the pump was...

We have a Y and have a 3 on order. But then, we once bought two manual transmission Jettas on the same day and we both ride Triumph T120s! Never had a problem with duplicates when we both love the same vehicles. Personally, of the non-Tesla EVs, I think the mustang mach-e has the best styling...

It was the test drive that convinced us that we should by the Y instead of the Mach-E or id4.

I have this problem sometimes with my iPhone 12 max pro. I have it have the phone unlocked sometimes. Sometimes it works with the phone locked. Spouse’s iPhone 8 works fine.

Wow. Yes, that's a great way to visualize it and feel its weight. We have some solar panels and it's been interesting to track the energy we've been producing and how much we need to 'fill' up our Tesla. I think I would have been more cautious about driving so much in our previous ICEs if I'd...

Not when it comes to the true emissions. That’s the rub for ICE vehicles. Gas production is ongoing and continuous. The exploring, extracting, refining, processing, transporting, and burning just goes on and on. That 10-year old car demands the same ongoing extraction process throughout its...

I wish we could opt to have a 'dumb' cruise control. I just want my top speed capped. That's it! The phantom braking business is ridiculous.

Yeah, you shouldn't have terrible efficiency on short trips unless you're going uphill, which since you're in Chicago, I know you're not. We take short trips all the time and have never had such lousy averages as yours when we get home (yes, we have really lousy numbers sometimes for a few miles...

Yeah. That seems absolutely wrong. The good news is you can sell it for what you paid, most likely, and then buy something else if you want. There are more EVs on the market now, if you want to stay with EV. The others might not perform the way you'd like, but most other brands are offering a...

I will say, though, that we get better efficiency if we can pre-heat the car before leaving in the morning on cold days, and use the seat warmers instead of the heater whenever possible. I lived in Chicago for most of my life and lived in a high rise until 2016 when we moved to LA. If you can...

Wow. Maybe time for the lemon law. The inefficiency of your 3 doesn't make any sense. We have a Y on 20" induction wheels and we have a lifetime average of 272 wh/mi (odo at just under 10k) and usually make 60-70 mile trips under 250 wh/mi, even with a TON of highway driving at 80mph, mountains...

Interesting! I thought they were more like the adaptive headlight I have on my motorcycle, but this is different.

Yes, Valerie Workman just left. And sadly, it seems that Tesla wasn’t just ignorant of the problem, but basically encouraged and shielded the abusers.

Certainly musk is a “no publicity is bad publicity” asset to the company in the eyes of many. He gets Tesla in the news all the time, and they’re counting on the cars being so superior that people who are offended by him will buy Tesla anyway (like we did). This lawsuit is something else though...

When we first started test-driving EVs, we were dead set against buying a Tesla because of Musk and his offensive antics. But after we test drove the only cars available that weren't Tesla, we decided to test drive the Y because it seemed foolish not to, and like so many other people, we bought...

Saw the Rivian at their showroom in Venice and it is beautiful. The bed isn’t huge but the interior is really fine and the truck has a ton of awesome features. It’s solid.

Well, you and everyone in your community will have to breathe in the fumes created by your car. That should be some consideration in your decision, don't you think?

It is really depressing. I don't remember the actual quote from James Baldwin, but the sentiment was about how the cognitive dissonance of living in a country that presents itself as the champion of liberty and justice but that actively oppresses Black people leads to a sort of illness, that the...

There is no way not to be complicit in the systemic racism of our country. We cannot buy ourselves into a better country or world. I hope this lawsuit leads to real, substantive changes at Tesla. The executives and managers who have enabled, and probably encouraged, this sickening behavior...

Actually, we're doing fine here. Come on by and check it out. California is still as beautiful as ever!

You have to go car icon — controls — trips for that info. I loved the efficiency cards too. Oh well!

I like a lot of it but not all of it. I would love it if they made the shortcut menu from the car icon that opened the tutorial real. Even better if it was customizable. I liked driving with my efficiency card open — I’d adjust my driving to be more efficient. Unfortunately, there is no voice...

Thank you and happy holidays! The light show made our Christmas Eve even more special. Joy and laughter are underrated ha ha! My one UI wish would be to have shortcut-from-the-car-icon be real. Even better if that shortcut menu was customizable with different items from controls (like trips...