Recent content by Haddock

Old-style cruise control is a minimum speed, so if you press the accelerator it goes faster, but if you release it, it goes no slower. I guess this is what you have. But how about the max-speed mode that almost all new (since 2012) cars in Europe have, where you can release the accelerator to...

It kills me how easy this would be for Tesla to fix, but they don't because they have the FSD religion.

I would certainly depress the clutch in a manual if I realized I was on ice. So I can understand people are worried about not being able to switch off regen in the snow. We just have to hope the "reverse ABS" is so good that that's not needed in a Tesla with full time regen. But that's a...

Sure. But on summer tyres (these are not winter or all-year tyres) you will still have a bad time.

No way to retrofit. You can watch Sandy Munro's YouTube posts on the octovalve. It's a complete revamp of the way heating and cooling of the cabin and battery work. Would be a huge job to change a car from the old system to the new one.

On summer tyres he doesn't have a chance. Even on winter tyres it would get really hard once the snow depth exceeds the ground clearance. At some point you are just building up a pile of snow at the front of the car and that doesn't work.

For example if I'm passing a pedestrian crossing, and I have a green, the pedestrian has a red. I don't want to slow down and prepare to stop, but I would normally move my foot to the brake to be ready in case the pedestrian is an idiot.

I'll miss this. When I see something strange near the road, I move my right foot to the brake pedal. I do this to be able to brake faster if it turns out the strange thing is a moose or something. That doesn't mean I want to decelerate with max regen. I guess I could start driving like an...

Having my car bong at me is the last thing I want. Seriously, that's the worst. The feature I want is it just silently doesn't go faster.

I'm also upgrading from a Zoe, and I'm going to miss this. Sad thing is that it's such an easy thing for Tesla to add.

I think the question is what happens next. The insurers put up premiums or dump customers because they expect to have to pay out more for future accidents. So for them the question is statistical: Is someone who lies about what happened more or less likely to be in another accident soon? The...

Even better, the cabriolet. An electric cabriolet means not having to breathe any fumes!

There have been several suggestions to rename Autopilot. I have a suggestion: "A tipsy teenager that will hold your steering wheel for you". Some samples, paraphrased or lightly altered from this thread. "Recently drove from LA to Vegas and the tipsy teenager was able to steer for me almost...

I think this is very likely and fits with the "driver lost control" description from the police. But my guess is that the AP2 didn't act up, it was just sticking to its lane, and the driver suddenly realized he was leaving the 101, when he wanted to continue. He disengages by turning the...

This is pretty poor signage. For comparison, here's what something like that looks like in the UK. Note the clear road markings. This is Spaghetti Junction in the UK and the two left lanes are exiting. They are separated by road markings so people don't change between the two exiting...