Recent content by chinney

I am certainly not an unreserved Tesla fan - and especially NOT an Elon fanboi - but I will say this: My own experience with our Model 3 over the past four years has been one of minimal service requirements. The only two things that have gone wrong have been a creaky front suspension/steering...

I will add one thing to my previous post above. As I said, while my experience on the freeway was better than the basically unusable FSD for urban driving, it was still far from great. One area in particular where the Tesla FSD failed to perform was in thinking ahead and adjusting to allow...

Good to know that FSD works well for some, even if my own recent experience with it was not so positive. Your account makes me more hopeful that it will be more generally usable in the future for everyone.

My own experiments with it over the past weeks have been less positive. While the technology is extremely impressive when it works, it often does not. FSD is constantly being disengaged - either self-disengaging or being manually disengaged by driver interventions - when it cannot handle...

Good video. As I noted in an earlier post, Tesla has not accompanied the Supercharger layoffs with responsibly communicating its future plans to its customers who rely on the network. Based on what we know, and as further indicated in the video, it also has not responsibly communicated its...

I have still not seen a sourced credible explanation of why the Supercharger layoffs were done and how it might constitute a good idea for Tesla and the larger EV project. A reliable, easy-to-use, quickly-expanding, Supercharger network was a significant reason that I bought a Tesla 4 years ago...

This is a quick aside about an issue ultimately not relevant to a Tesla debate, but what you say about auto transmission was true for most of the history of that form of transmission, but is no longer accurate. My understanding is that modern auto transmissions have minimized energy loss and...

Yes. The defective part was replaced free under warranty. The estimate provided by Tesla on the Service tab of the app indicated that it would be free and Tesla stuck to that. No charge at all.

I agree with this. That position by traditional auto manufacturers is why you can now read the same thing, over and over, in media columns from 'independent' auto industry commentators that EV sales are on the 'decline', that people are not buying EVs because of concerns about EV expense...

Well, FSD did not see the wave from the driver of the other car, regardless of the number of cameras that it has. And yes, on a well-lit urban street, a pedestrian can see a driver wave them forward even at night. Will FSD eventually be observant enough and sufficiently advanced in its...

Thanks. Good points. I essentially agree with you.

The way that you worded it, I am not sure what you are saying. In relation to the examples I gave, are you saying that FSD is unsafe? And are you also saying, regardless, that human driving is as unsafe or even more unsafe? And my more fundamental question is how should an eventual...

The article provides some explanation, being the end the end of a tax incentive for battery-electric vehicles in Germany. The same thing has happened in other places where incentives have expired. Vehicles sales have some price-sensitivity, of course, and reducing or eliminating subsidies is...

A brief update. I received a message from Tesla that my free trial has started and I was able to activate the FSD that had been pushed to me in the previous update. Despite my views on FSD as noted in my earlier message above, I decided to give it a try. Tesla FSD v12 is impressive, but at...

We received the update with FSD yesterday, together with the option of activating it with a monthly subscription, but no option that I could see for a free trial. I am in Canada and my experience seems different that what at least one other person in Canada has posted on this thread: i.e...