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Front wiring harness failure for my new 2023 S LR, 2500 miles and two months old. Quite surprised and concerned. I was somewhat lucky, am on a vacation trip but car was in a hotel parking space, had a warning message about front drive unit and refused to shift into forward or reverse. Got it...

Same here, just traded 2018 S100D with FSD for 2023 S LR, opting to transfer the FSD as per new policy supposedly expiring at the end of September. My new vehicle and my Tesla app confirm that I have FSD, but not the beta, so what I have is presumably very old city driving AP capability. My...

Can you give us some impressions of FSD Beta running on your HW4 vehicle?

Sadly there is another in Vanity Fair today, consisting mostly of links to other hit pieces, as you say mostly misleading, half-truths, missing context.

I purchased and pre-installed the Tesla wall-mounted charger before taking delivery of my first Tesla because I wanted the mobile adaptor to always be in the car to get emergency charging from somewhere. If I used that mobile adaptor to charge at home, I knew for sure I wouldn’t always remember...

Thank you, that article in the Atlantic is an astoundingly fine one. I did something really unusual that may be a measure of it’s worth: I read the whole article before commenting or forwarding a link to anyone. I know, that is crazy. LOL I am a subscriber to The Atlantic, yet this forum is how...

Thanks all of your for your responses. I pushed the support team to give me an answer. They sent me the section of the MS manual. I said “hey I have read this, it says the MS will NOT come to a complete stop without touching the brake unless you have AP or Cruise Control enabled. Is that...

LOL “Lithium Guzzler Tax” made my day. Thx.

LOL thanks for that (your warning about the current roadtrip charging experience for non-Teslas) I had a neighbor who kept coming up with a BEV he wanted more than Tesla because bla bla, I had to keep saying “Looks good for around town. Are you gonna take it on road trips? A: Sure, that‘s what...

I would love that to be true, but … There is a section in the latest on-line Tesla Model S Manual that says it is necessary to touch the brake to put the vehicle into Hold Mode, just like with my 2018 MS 100D, and that makes me sad. Full disclosure, I am working on rationalizations to trade...

I love the “Hold Mode” stopping mode in the Model 3. When enabled, the car will come to a complete stop without touching the brake, and hold in position, even if on a slope. I am looking for confirmation that this option is available in the current “refreshed” 2022 Model S, and I don’t see it...

Yup I am aware of the bailout to Wilcox option. LOL I got hit with the two violent head-on storms somewhere around Duncan I believe, when it would not have helped to turn around. I watched my “charge level upon arrival in Deming” drop minute by minute from 15% down below 5%, and as I said 6...

No comments here for 2 years now. I see that tesla.com/findus still lists Globe for a supercharger, projected 2023. No evidence of a permit being pulled yet. Would be great for me when heading east to El Paso and beyond from the Cottonwood area, because I can avoid the whole Phoenix Metro area...

Very interesting, thanks. Any ideas about incentives for battery storage, specifically that a net metering credit to me at full retail rates eliminates economic incentive for installing battery storage? It seems to me that the utility is acting as my storage battery at no charge. If that retail...

See an update in an edit to my post, advice which I recall being critical, and a good lesson in moderating my aggressive driving habits.

Try using cruise control without the lane keep. You still get credit for the safety of your driving, but the car will be in control of following distance not you. If someone cuts in front of you, try to resist the temptation to touch the brake, letting the cruise do the braking. [EDIT] Also...

Good for Arnie. I believe there is some nuance here. I think there is some merit in the argument that crediting customers for power sent back to the grid at full retail rates is unsustainable for the utilities. If this is what California is doing, they should lower the credits to a wholesale...

I would be ok at just giving me credit for the FSD price I paid against the new higher FSD price of today. I paid $3k for FSD as part of my 2018 S100D purchase. I would be happy if I could apply that $3k to the $12k to add FSD to a 2022 MS. We paid $7k I think to include FSD with my wife’s M3...

From the WSJ article (not the CNBC or other articles about the WSJ article): ”At the SEC, the attorney had interviewed Mr. Musk during the agency’s investigation of the Tesla chief executive’s 2018 tweet claiming, wrongly, to have secured funding to potentially take the electric-vehicle maker...

Source is a WSJ article published today. Most interesting and relevant thing to me is the report in that article that NHTSA has required Mary (“Missy”) Cummings to “recuse herself from any Tesla-related matters”. That could be a good thing for TSLA investors.

It looks like this is a “feature”. You can get the speed limit AND the turn-by-turn display back on the screen if you disable “Expanded Full Self-Driving Visualization” in the autopilot options, leaving the basic “Full Self-Driving Visualization Preview” enambled. Apparently the expanded fsd...

AHA! I may be that this (no speed limit display when using FSD visualization in MS/MX) is a “feature”. On my MS, if I turn off the Autopilot option “Expanded Full Self-Driving Visualization”, leaving the normal “Full Self-Driving Visualization Preview” enabled, I get the speed limit in the...

Yes. In the last couple of days they have added lots of legacy S/X with vertical screens to FSD beta 10.8. If they are going to do that, they need to give attention to fsd issues on that platform hanging around since 10.2. I would expect something rather soon, because there is a safety...

Have you been updated to FSD beta 10.8 (2021.44.25.6), and if so I assume the issue is still there? Sure strange that they have not fixed this problem in the any of the FSD updates since 10.2. I think with 10.8 there are now a whole lot more legacy MS/MX on FSD beta so maybe it will get fixed...

Slightly OT but maybe not: FSD city beta has started rolling out to ”legacy” MS, at least those that have AP3 and MCU2 as my 2018 S100D does (Because they were both upgraded) Yay! This is bullish for the FSD rollout. I posted a comment to the FSD driving thread: So far from first short drive...

Is this MX a “refreshed” model with horizontal screen, or a “legacy” model with vertical screen? I just got 10.8 on my 2018 S100D, verical screen of course, and have the same issue, current speed limit disappears from display behind steering wheel when enabling AP. SO, if your MX is a refreshed...

Thanks! Weird that they haven’t fixed this 10.2 issue, even though we are now on 10.8. Hard to believe there is any good reason for it, and being able to know the last posted speed limit is a good safety feature. Hmm, I suppose that 10.2 issue reported on MX could have been a refreshed MX with...

I just installed the FSD city beta 10.8 (2021.44.25.6) on my 2018 S100D, a “legacy MS) but upgraded to AP3 and MCU2. So I have the FSD city beta running on a ”vertical” screen. I also have the same FSD beta running on a 2019 M3. FSD visualiization display above steering wheel in MS is very...

Absolutely. Even an OCD nerd such as I missed several new recent great features that have been there for a while, until I was forced to review the whole UI and find “Wait! What is this? I thought this was still ‘coming soon’ … “ Important to push folks to stay up with the cool features, so...

Technique that worked well for me: drive on cruise control but not AP. You still get credit for the drive, but if someone changes into your lane it is the cruise control that brakes to move back, and you don’t get dinged. Trick is to keep from hitting the brake yourself, instead trusting the...

Or disengage using stalk, which is my preference. Quick and clean without invoking any braking. Is this relevant to an investment thread? Perhaps. We need to learn the best techniques to use the beta safely, to counter FUD.

OK I created a free TomTom account. It allows me to buy maps and navigation devices. I don’t see any way to update its maps. What am I missing? I did a quick search and I don’t see consensus on where Tesla gets speed limit data. Are you sure it is from TomTom, and that it will be updated by...

FSD beta wants to accelerate to 50 after turning into my subdivision, even though there is a speed limit sign in the first 50ft saying 25. Makes for an exciting last leg of the return home (me madly spinning the speed dial downward). Are you saying there is some way for me to submit a speed...

Yes. My car attempted to go around cars in front of me that were stopped for a crosswalk. The challenge for the car may have been that the street was turning, so it may have not been able to see the crosswalk or the people in it. And/or, that this little street section is too narrow to allow...

What other car makers in CA?

Damn. You will be sorely missed. I still say that there will continue to be constant twists and turns and surprises, about which your take would be most valuable. So, “never say never”.

I used GTeqhiq, “Ultra” I think, whatever their top of the line is, like the results a lot. I believe price was similar including paint correction, and that the warranty is more like 9 years for GT.

Thanks for all this. I may have been just incredibly lucky. I bought my S100D in Sep 2018. It was an “inventory” car with 8k miles on it, manufactured in late Feb 2018, so was one for the last S cars manufactured with MCU1 (I didn’t know squat about MCUs at time of purchase). The car had a a...

I have discussions with folks that think PHEV make more sense for “real people” because they can flip a switch to EV-only mode, meet compliance requirements when they drive into a city. That provides convenience to them but does little (or possible harm) to the reduction of emissions overall. I...

Excellent point. Can you provide links to any of those studies? Thx

Yes

AHA! Same for me. Someone doesn’t understand the concept of “filters”. Off course “off” should mean “don’t include this category”, and “on” should mean “include this category”, with no effect on any other category. So Plugshare IOS probably literally has a bug in how it processes these filter...

Thanks for all the suggestions, our messages crossed: looks like the Plugshare website shows the new Roswell location just fine, but the IOS app does not, even with all the options/filters wide open. I posted a notice to the Plugshare folks about it, hopefully they will fix it. But really...

UPDATE: I submitted an error report to Plugshare for the location, using the web app: something like “ this location not showing up in your IOS app”. Strange, you would think they would both use the same database. AHA, shows up if I log into Plugshare using a web browser, but not with the IOS...

Nope, that was already on: Hmm, can’t seem to do a copy/paste this time.

Yes: And also:

I don’t see your Roswell location (720 N Main) in Plugshare yet, even in with “coming soon” filter enabled. What am I doing wrong? Using the IOS Plugshare app.

Thanks for this update, awesome that the sheep fencing has held, great that you have some more clues on what to plant where based on science. Is the botany degree an arbitrary goal to gather the info you need along the way to best reforest your land, and/or an end unto itself? Sorry to hear...

It would REALLY help if the blog tool could organize by conversation, hiding all responses to a post with a “+” to view them. Actually it would help a lot whether one is caught up or not.

You make a good point that we should not overlook: that it should be over-the-top obvious whether AutoSteer and/or cruise control is engaged or not, even for newbies or lame CR reviewers. Of course If they don’t understand how to even look for the status, then they shouldn’t be using these...