Recent content by mycroftxxx

On my end-of-day commute, I consistently get the “Routing With No Traffic Data” caution on the map display, at pretty much the same place every time. I still have LTE connectivity, and a few miles back when I started my route, Tesla Maps had traffic data, and if I peer at my phone, Apple Maps...

Agree, but too many were “new for the sake of new” IMO. Maybe things are starting to unfreeze a bit with the blended wing-body stuff, at least for cargo and tanker aircraft; I’m not sure that passengers would take well to sitting way off the centerline in roll maneuvers though.

Burt Rutan is not really any kind of expert in type certification of aircraft; pretty much all of his designs were one-offs and/or designed for kit building, not production aircraft. And Rutan didn’t certify the Beechcraft Starship - Rutan built an 80% scale demonstrator for Beech, then Beech...

And your point is…? Again, the FAA primarily mandates reliability. If you can demonstrate to the FAA via rigorous design review and testing that the failure likelihood of your simplex vehicle management system (that’s what the fly-by-wire system is called) meets the FAA’s probability of loss of...

”manned drones“ is a bit of an oxymoron ;) As someone else said, the FAA mandates reliability: how many loss of control and loss of aircraft accidents per flight hour, where the causal factor is failure of the aircraft, not pilot error, poor maintenance, etc. Redundancy is one way to achieve...

If the upcoming A6 e tron is within a reasonable distance to its hype…I maybe foresee one in my garage in a couple of years, taking the place of my M3 (which is a very good car but I’m starting to tire of its compromises, all of which I went into eyes-open). But…that’s a good-sized “if”; we...

Upvoted for knowing who jwz is!

I was using the app today on my iPad, and noticed this: I opened the app on my iPhone as well, and got the same thing. It appears that the Tesla app is using Apple Maps, at least on Apple’s devices. Anyone noticed this before? Has it been this way all along but the logo is new? Personally, I’m...

Check the log; there should be an error code showing up. Send it to Tesla Service. My charge door on my 2021 M3 had the opposite problem: sometimes it wouldn’t open. Tesla Mobile Service replaced it under warranty. Took about 30 minutes.

Keep trying and it may work eventually. Tesla seems to use the same crappy WiFi setup in their cars and the HPWC; I always have to try multiple times to get it to accept the password. I don’t have that problem with any other WiFi appliance.

I recently did a 250 mile round trip in my ‘21 M3LR; 90% of the trip was limited-access divided highway with the prevailing traffic running between 65-70mph; there were maybe 10 miles or so of slow freeway traffic in the 20mph range. Nice SoCal weather. Charged to 100% before leaving and got...

Which is about two-thirds of what I typically charge in a month. TOU5 works best for me. But if one only has one BEV, and/or doesn’t drive more than a few dozen miles per week, has a small house, has solar…a different plan may be better. Everyone is different.

Tesla offered to send me the correct HPWC, but I decided I would just keep this one; not worth the hassle. I did spend $50 on a J1772-to-Tesla adapter to dedicate to the new HPWC, but this way I’m future-proofed if I switch over to a non-Tesla at some point (that decision is at least another 3+...

Many thanks for the reply! After I posted yesterday, I read some of the various threads about the “CCS compatibility“ update and figured out that I was seeing that show up in the app because my M3 (September 2021) wasn’t built with the right parts to be compatible with the CCS chargers. (My...

I just got forcibly converted to the J1772 HPWC, at least for now… My 2.5-year-old Gen3 HPWC started overheating and automatically reducing charge rate; I contacted Tesla last week, they pulled some logs, determined that my HPWC was irreversibly dying, so they said they’d ship me a replacement...