Recent content by Spudford

My daughter had the best expression for how AP makes driving easier: she asked, "So what do you do with the extra bandwidth you're not using to drive?"

You may be right, coleAK, and as an Alaskan you have tons more experience with winter driving than me, obviously. I hadn't driven in winter conditions for 15 years until then. But the circumstantial evidence still impresses me: I turned the heat completely off, and the energy use remained...

The unit, of course, should be Wh/mi. [embarrassed emoticon]

This story is a few months old already, but after telling it at a party this afternoon, it occurred to me that it is worth sharing. I took delivery of my Model 3 AWD in early November, and the day after Thanksgiving, I took off on my first road trip from Pensacola. My first objective was to see...

Even redneckier than that: Pensacola. Actually, outside Pensacola. Where a guy was going to shoot a puppy, and the puppy got him first. (Puppy shoots Florida man, deputies say)

For once, I'm in the top quintile of a distribution! I've been waiting for over 20 years to buy an electric car. Every car I've bought since about 1996, I've wondered if that might be the last ICE machine I would have to buy. The memory came back to me recently of my (late) dad talking about...

I'm waiting for an AWD with no EAP, and it just occurred to me that I have no idea if the car is going to have a non-enhanced cruise control function. It's hard to imagine that it wouldn't, but I haven't heard anything about it.

I predict a telepathic interface option to control the entertainment, climate and FSD systems. $5000/$6000 after delivery. Maybe not for 2019.

I want to see Grand Theft Auto as an Easter Egg. With real-life integration of semi-automatic weapons and carjacking. :cool:

I read last year that the Porsche 918 has a metallic paint option that costs $63,000. Seriously. For the paint. Porsche 918 Spyder Liquid Metal Silver - Photos

Here in the Sunshine State, we have to get the headliners of cars replaced after maybe 8 years of baking. Panoramic glass roofs mean no headliners, but they also increase the greenhouse effect, and I'd expect the interior surfaces to show the results. In my day, we had...

Now, I'm no engineer, and I know jack squat about electricity and physics, but I know some statistics. My impression of modern manufacturing is that tolerances are very closely tracked, and when there is a statistically significant variation identified on some parameter during production, it...

There is a white interior option and I think 20-inch wheels. But mostly it is the acceleration and top speed.

I chose to pay cash. That ought to speed things up.