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Not many quote this way but several will break out the price you are paying for each of the coverages you do have in this way once you have a policy.

Caveat: I dwell in Phoenix, where I am more likely to use the wipers to clear away dust than hydric acid. In the rare occasions where I have driven in levels of rainfall varying from "misty drizzle" to "blattering deluges of torrential squall", my experience with the auto-wipers has been...

Yes, sometime in the 2019 revision cycle. They seemed to start trickling in based on forum and other posts around August or September, and were somethat reliably present on cars delivered in September.

Doesn't the app now have some way to relay what you say from the car's PWS speaker with a "voice of god" filter on it? Just have your car shout "hey, I am over here you silly goose" at you next time.

On Labor Day, I decided to run out and pick up lunch only to find the car not responding to my phone's proximity. This had happened before and was fixable by restarting the app or cycling Bluetooth off and on again, but this time, no joy. I started developing some consternation when the car...

Honestly for my money the worst thing about the Tesla is the lack of a rear windscreen wiper. (at least in the context of this thread)

In the interest of adding another data point to the pool, a couple days ago there were some unexpected downpours coincident with a power outage. I decided to go for a drive (mainly for the free contactless car wash courtesy of Nature). The rain conditions were highly variant over the course of...

At the time of the original post in this thread and its ancestors, the only way these Tesla API-driven apps and services could work is by storing your literal actual Tesla account credentials. This means that at the time, if you were using TeslaFi, TeslaMate, or any of the (admittedly spiffy)...

In general, for best practice, such tools should be configured so that either they can only be accessed at all from within your LAN (i. e. from your physical domicile), or if you want to access it remotely, either via a VPN (which effectively puts you inside your LAN) or through another layer of...

So your solution to being concerned about data that, if you don't opt in to send in aggregated data, are not stored in the first place is to mandate storage onto a removable medium? The video feeds from the neural nets that are part of the driver-assist infrastructures are analyzed, acted upon...

The whole point of the notes in the update though are that -- unless you affirmatively enable and opt in to transmitting data to Tesla, the image data are not stored or transmitted. The NN analyses the camera feed and tries to make a determination as to whether you are paying attention, acts...

This is by design, so that you don't share your music/podcast with the entire neighborhood when you open your door, and so that you don't get your ears blown out when you first sit down in the car. I don't mind so much, but of course whether or not this is good design is subjective.

The Taptes Qi charger is working for my 6 Pro - but only on the right side; the left has no charging point that seems to work for me.

I still get asked "Don't they all cost hundreds of thousands of dollars?" "No, the Model 3 was the one that was planned to be affordable by mere mortals like myself." Of course, this was first asked back when a $35K Model 3 was still theoretically available for purchase.

Some folks think it's reasonable to have one? I actually like the reversing noise because let's be honest, the rear visibility from the driver's seat is terrible. The "white noise" of the PWS when moving forward I have only ever been able to hear when it's reflected back to me, so I'm always...

It depends on available charger density at the charge location. If the place is lousy with them, planning for 10% SoC works for me; otherwise I try not to get below 20%.

I concur with the consensus- too close to the sidewall to likely be repairable and if it's not deep enough to cause a leak it's certainly deep enough to impair structural integrity and potentially blow out at some point.

There's always room for improvement. Looking for these ways is what engineering is (or should be). Upthread you specifically asked (paraphrased) 'why not put a yellow indicator on the MFD?' (though the term you used was "'virtual' mirror"). Given the yellow cast that the repeater cameras...

Worked this morning on my Three. Put in Park, remove foot from brake, touble-tap Park button.

You mean like how when a car is detected and the turning indicator is on, the lane and detected car and lane turn bright red on the MFD and the car chimes like crazy as you approach the lane line? Because that's a thing. Hence my earlier post about the lack of credibility I lend people saying...

I do agree that the mirrors are too limited in their range of possible configurations to accommodate people of tall stature. The repeater cameras more than make up for this however, at least for me. There is nothing wrong whatsoever for deciding that a Tesla is not for you given its feature...

I live in Phoenix, and have never been notified by the app that overheat protection has kicked in. Are you certain about this?

I will cheerfully concede that there are better-sourced histories than Wikipedia.

Ideally, but I'd suspect it's a software issue rather than hardware. In my case at least it's impossible to reproduce on demand and very intermittent, which makes it nigh-impossible to troubleshoot.

I have seen this happen, but generally quite rarely (twice in the two years I have had the car). But a fortnight or so ago it happened every day for three days running; I was about to open a service request when it suddenly self-resolved on the fourth day. Losing all of the automation really...

I'm not. Seat belts were first offered as an option by Ford in the mid-1950s. They were exceedingly unpopular. It was several years before another manufacturer (Saab) started including them as standard equipment. The first compulsory seat belt law wasn't in the books until Australia did so...

I find it fascinating that so many people in this thread are equating "the blind spot monitoring is not presented in the way I would like" with "there is no blind spot monitoring". This is a distinction that is important to keep in mind - one loses credibility with one's valid complaints when...

Did you get anything in writing declaring FSD to be a feature on the vehicle you were purchasing?

I believe a poll can only be posted as part of the OP of an entirely new thread, which would probably be perceived as a form of 'forum pollution'.

If the car detects that you are actively steering to cross the line as you describe, the car assumes that you know what you are doing (i. e. avoiding a pothole or road debris or somesuch) and won't trigger LDA. If the drift is too fast laterally the car also seems to presume intent. I can...

Trip report. Took the Jeda v1 wireless charger inside to test, the Pixel 6 Pro will not charge on it at all. The Taptes v4 charger does work. I'd rather have a Jeda due to it being a domestic company, but I had a less-than-stellar experience with responsiveness to shipping delays last time...

I have the first-gen Jeda Qi charger and it worked perfectly for my Pixel 3XL; also running it into not charging the 6 Pro. Much as I hate to, I have seen reviews of the 4th gen Taptes stating it works with the 6 Pro, so I'm going to give that a shot.

If this is not an exaggeration, you either seriously need to get your alignment checked, or you need to perhaps stop treating every intersection with a red light like a drag strip (:

I would imagine the argument could be made that using cable-routing mats as demonstrated upthread is evidence of a good-faith effort to not create a hazard or obstacle.

The door pocket bottle holder was the first place I thought to store mine too, but the rattling irked me. If I used it more often than once in a blue moon, I'd probably make a Nerf "sock" for it to drop into, but as it is I'm happy with it quietly sitting in the glove compartment, its rolling...

Honestly I would have given up the ability to set the wiper speed manually entirely in favor of an actuated rear windscreen wiper blade if I had the option.

I thought you wanted an auto-wiper sensitivity setting? But either way, I don't work at Tesla, so I'll have to decline. I would if I could, but I can't so I won't.

You realize that this is not a "zero-sum game", right? It's highly likely that the person tuning the sensitivity of the auto-wipers; the person in charge of determining whether or not that bunch of pixels is an elk and if so whether it's prancing laneward; and the person in charge of...

For every "they're terrible" post, there's another "they're fine" post. Different persons have different tolerances for how many fluid droplets accumulate on the windscreen before wiping is perceived to be necessary. Some people will let water accumulate to a degree that others consider...

If the computer is in such a bad way that it's not able to communicate with other parts of the car on the same physical network, it makes sense to not entrust a firmware update (which could turn said computer into an expensive paperweight if it goes sideways) to be successfully delivered...

I'm not sure if many folks here have access to the limited Beta of the upcoming FSD capability update, but I have seen many videos showing it off none of which appear to answer this question: On the current public build, if I am toodling along the surface streets on Autopilot, I can use the...

Once the taxes are on a level playing field with ICE cars, there is still an incentive. Just not a particularly eye-popping one- the 'blue sky' plate which is a pass into the HOV lane when there is one.

Honestly that was more of a dig at the perpetually ongoing nature of the project itself than anything resembling a prediction. (:

Yes, paying more dollars in taxes than before hurts in the wallet, but they're not raising the VLT. They're reducing a reduction of VLT so that we with EV/AFV cars pay the same tax rate as everyone else. Sure it's a distinction without a financial difference, but it's an important semantic...

They're still welcome; the state is just rescinding an incentive to purchase (or more specifically, register) them: they're not going to be more welcome than other cars for the purposes of registration taxes. Fortunately for folks who already have AFVs such as Teslas, those bought before the...

It's so that they don't have to maintain two separate versions of the UI (one with the swipe-to-drive, and one without) at the same time. It's easier to maintain one UI version that works on all Teslas than to have to keep four (or more) (by my count we'd then have at least: yoke, wheel...

Yes, you can use the app to 'start' the car to allow it to be driven. However, in order to add a new key (card or phone) you need a keycard.

The consensus seems to be that the most arduous task would be maintenance on the brake calipres. I have had the tire rotation done by Tesla for me once before (cheaply and conveniently!) and it was no issue. I'd just ask in the app when making the appointment whether a mobile tech can handle...

I seem to recall seeing an interview where someone from Tesla said that the Model 3 Frunk was designed to at the very least be able to stow one FAA carry-on bag per then-current FAA regulation. I don't know if the 2019+ frunk got smaller when they took away the take-out-bag hooks, but I don't...

I can assure you from firsthand experience thanks to a pedestrian with questionable timing and 'look-both-ways' skills that AEB absolutely does engage without AutoPilot (or even TACC) being engaged. (No one was injured, thankfully) They absolutely are. If you are feeling experimental, slip...