The new ChargePoint Home will be able to send reminders. Then again, maybe version 7 will have more full-featured charging options and notifications.
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kuttakamina
Member
Is HPWC we call wall connector ? What is HPWC, the full name?If you're worried about power drain, you might want to turn your home AC setting up while your car is powering it
Oh wait, you meant HPWC. Yea, sorry, it was too good to pass up.
Half Dollar Bill
Traveller, teacher, poet, accountant, innkeeper
High Power Wall Connector.
The original post said HVAC which is a residential air conditioning unit. Just trying to be funny by inferring that they were using their car to power their home.
In the first couple weeks with the car I was doing things in the garage and had this same problem with the handles. I took the key out of my pocket and left it on the windshield right above the wiper to stop the madness. Later that day we drove home about 90 miles on the interstate, only to find I didn't have the key in my pocket. Then I remembered I had left it on the windshield. Sure enough, there it was, resting on the wiper. I have to imagine the only reason it managed to stay there was that I had one of those silicone fob pockets on it so it was quite grippy. I got lucky but I felt pretty dumb.
CHG-ON
Still in love after all these miles
I make giant floor pillows for a non profit as a volunteer effort. Well, I went out the day I was to drive them down to deliver them and I couldn't find my key anywhere. (Note that I have already lost one key in the house and still cannot find it. I know it's in the house because I was detailing my wheels the night before (in my PJs-of course) and went straight to bed when done. Nowhere to be found in the am. So it can only be in the garage or my bedroom. Yes, I checked the washer and dryer...8 months later-still haven't found it) But back to the story...So I was particularly annoyed at losing yet another key in my own house.
I searched everywhere for an hour or so. My blood pressure raising by the moment. Then I looked at all the bags of pillows piled up in my garage waiting to be loaded. I says to myself, I says...self, could the key be in the pillows??? It was in my pocket when I was sewing them up. So there I am (again in my PJs-must be a theme here), picking up the 3ft square pillows and holding each one to the side of the car in the hopes that it might open. Well, there were 50 of these damn things piled up. About 2/3rd's the way through, low and behold the car opens up! Yes, I had sewn my last Tesla key into the pillow, destined for a far off place (well, not far: Big Sur). So I cut a hole in the pillow, got the key out and sewed it back up again.
Oy.
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Now that sucks.
I searched everywhere for an hour or so. My blood pressure raising by the moment. Then I looked at all the bags of pillows piled up in my garage waiting to be loaded. I says to myself, I says...self, could the key be in the pillows??? It was in my pocket when I was sewing them up. So there I am (again in my PJs-must be a theme here), picking up the 3ft square pillows and holding each one to the side of the car in the hopes that it might open. Well, there were 50 of these damn things piled up. About 2/3rd's the way through, low and behold the car opens up! Yes, I had sewn my last Tesla key into the pillow, destined for a far off place (well, not far: Big Sur). So I cut a hole in the pillow, got the key out and sewed it back up again.
Oy.
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Now that sucks.
Moved the right scroll wheel to change the audio input while driving in a hard rainstorm. Why is the fact that it was raining significant?
Because I had last used the right scroll wheel to open the pano roof.
vdiv
Chief Grump
Just earlier tonight I parked in a car garage. Pushed the button to open the power lift gate and to fetch the J1772 adapter while gawking at the shiny red Model S charging next to mine. Then suddenly realized that the garage floor beam that I was parked under is dangerously low and the lift gate was going to hit it so I scrambled to stop it from lifting any further. Fortunately it stopped by itself no more than a couple of inches from the concrete beam.
I'm a lucky bastid.
I'm a lucky bastid.
grichard
Member De-Luxe
Old thread, but I'll add my dumb moment:
The first autopilot upgrade came over the air, and so was very new to me. I engaged the autopilot... it seemed to work fine, but I was still nervous about it and kept my hands firmly on the wheel. I put on the turn signal for a lane change and loosened my grip on the wheel to let the car maneuver. Sure enough, the car changed lanes. I looked down at the display, and autopilot wasn't actually engaged at all. I suppose I'm lucky the car drifted in the correct direction.
The first autopilot upgrade came over the air, and so was very new to me. I engaged the autopilot... it seemed to work fine, but I was still nervous about it and kept my hands firmly on the wheel. I put on the turn signal for a lane change and loosened my grip on the wheel to let the car maneuver. Sure enough, the car changed lanes. I looked down at the display, and autopilot wasn't actually engaged at all. I suppose I'm lucky the car drifted in the correct direction.
This has happened to me. It happens, IMO, due to a light grip the wheel. -- similar to how a Ouija board planchette moves around.
DDotJ
Member
I'll do something similar. There is a part of my commute where a carpool lane begins on the far left. In my usual fashion, I'll get into the far left and pull the stalk twice for AutoPilot. But with music on and just a force of habit, I sometimes don't notice that AP is temporarily unavailable (Usually happens for about 2 seconds while the car readjusts to the new lane). I've caught a few times myself letting go of the wheel and failing to notice for a good 3 seconds that AutoPilot failed to enable. Sometimes the Lane Departure Warning goes off and the car doesn't steer when the highway takes a very slight curve. I've tried to force myself into the habit of double checking before letting go of the wheel. Hasn't happened any time recently though, so it seems like that strategy is working.
satoshi
Electrical Engineer
Anyone and everyone who gets into an accident because they "trusted" autopilot, and then ALSO blames autopilot for the accident (rather than taking responsibility for their decision to be an inattentive driver) should be posting here and receiving a boot to the head.
CuriousG
Active Member
Mine happened a week ago on a Friday. This was at the Folsom Supercharger. I was coming back from charging and another person was standing to the side eating some type of chicken or tuna salad in his container while he was charging. As I approached he asked if that was my car, I acknowledged that it was and the older gentleman asked how to turn on scheduled charging at home.
So I hopped in his car thinking I knew exactly where it was. The charging screen was already up since it was supercharging but the schedule time option was grayed out. This got me thinking that I needed to stop charging before the option was available so I pressed the stop charging option on the center console. Once it stopped and the option was still grayed out, I then realized that you wouldn't have that option for superchargers and that it was location based charging so the option wouldn't be available until then.
Once I explained that to him and showed him where he needed to turn on schedule charging, he proceeded to ask on opening the frunk. His Model S didn't look new so my guess is he bought it used from private seller, CPO or borrowed it from someone. After I showed him how to open it and to carefully close it since it is prone to dents, he thanked me by offering me the book of Mormon.
After politely declining and continuing on my way as I had an appointment to attend to, I realized that once I got on the freeway I don't think I started the supercharging after manually stopping it from the screen. I hope he didn't stay there too much longer waiting for it to charge or is still waiting there.
Sorry book of Mormon guy, my bad.
So I hopped in his car thinking I knew exactly where it was. The charging screen was already up since it was supercharging but the schedule time option was grayed out. This got me thinking that I needed to stop charging before the option was available so I pressed the stop charging option on the center console. Once it stopped and the option was still grayed out, I then realized that you wouldn't have that option for superchargers and that it was location based charging so the option wouldn't be available until then.
Once I explained that to him and showed him where he needed to turn on schedule charging, he proceeded to ask on opening the frunk. His Model S didn't look new so my guess is he bought it used from private seller, CPO or borrowed it from someone. After I showed him how to open it and to carefully close it since it is prone to dents, he thanked me by offering me the book of Mormon.
After politely declining and continuing on my way as I had an appointment to attend to, I realized that once I got on the freeway I don't think I started the supercharging after manually stopping it from the screen. I hope he didn't stay there too much longer waiting for it to charge or is still waiting there.
Sorry book of Mormon guy, my bad.
I prefer Creep off and before the Hold feature came out and was not expecting the car to roll on me while stopped at lights.
Also guilty of trying to put the car into Drive while still plugged in.
This last one never happened to me but I'm sure that not having reach down for the shifter b/w you and the passenger seat confuses some.
Also guilty of trying to put the car into Drive while still plugged in.
This last one never happened to me but I'm sure that not having reach down for the shifter b/w you and the passenger seat confuses some.
I just took delivery of my MS a few days ago and during the delivery inspection, I noticed how high the hatchback goes up. The delivery specialist showed me how you can set the hatchback to only open at a certain height...very smart feature.
This is indeed a good feature. My 9-year-old son uses it because he can't (easily) close the trunk when the liftgate is all the way up, so he stops it part-way up.
The idiot moment comes after he says, "Hey, Dad, can you help me load/unload [whatever] in the trunk." I duck under the liftgate to deal with [whatever], and then promptly forget that it's at a lower-than-normal height, straightening up and hitting my head on the liftgate. I've done this at least twice.
GlmnAlyAirCar
Active Member
Similar thing happened with me. I had music cranked up (which I rarely do). I engaged AP but didn't hear the ding-dum. Continued driving along wondering why AP was doing such a lousy job on a well-marked highway.
jkliu47
Member
That happened to my wife once. We were just back from a 2 week road trip driving the Model S, took the BMW ICE to pickup our dog from the kennels. Stopped by the gas station on the way back. Driving away she heard a clunk... looked back and saw the gas nozzle with hose dangling and dragging. Quickly put the hose back (without re-connecting it - didnt know how) and made a quick exit before the station manager made his way out front. Made me promise not to tell our friends. Hahaha.
I had the opposite experience a couple weeks ago. I thought I turned off auto-steer (or was forced to by an HOV lane change). I later did a lane change pretty much as I normally would but (1) didn't notice autosteer was on and (2) didn't get a ding + disable from too much torque applied to the wheel by me. When I get bored travelling sometime (a few roadtrips planned this year) on a mostly empty freeway, I might experiment a bit with it.
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Word to the wise: empty the car not from the middle. Hitting your head on the lock mechanism is very painful. I've done it at least half a dozen times.This is indeed a good feature. My 9-year-old son uses it because he can't (easily) close the trunk when the liftgate is all the way up, so he stops it part-way up.
The idiot moment comes after he says, "Hey, Dad, can you help me load/unload [whatever] in the trunk." I duck under the liftgate to deal with [whatever], and then promptly forget that it's at a lower-than-normal height, straightening up and hitting my head on the liftgate. I've done this at least twice.
Drove my rental car to Togo's in Milpitas. Got out and walked into Togo's. Realized halfway in the line that the car was outside, still running.
Nearly every day of having a rental car on business trips: turn the windshield wipers on as I want to back out of my parking spot.
Nearly every day of having a rental car on business trips: turn the windshield wipers on as I want to back out of my parking spot.
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