Recent content by bradtem

In Canada? Anyway, that's my brother's comic. (And his housemate Klaus, but Klaus died suddenly.) He only got out a couple of issues, which is why I was surprised to see it remembered so well.

BTW, I have to say I did a double-take when I saw your handle and icon! Amazed there are still fans today of that ancient comic.

The problem is that because FSD has no value to Tesla (it's just a bit they flip) they offer nothing for it on trade-in. To even get the $3K premium you are hoping for, you would need to sell elsewhere. But with Tesla giving nothing for it, it depresses the price even in the private market...

And a necessary part of driving. However, if doing it right, it does not enter the RoW of another road user, except at low speeds. (For example, when you do a 3 point turn, you may enter the RoW of somebody heading towards you, and they will slow.) But to deliberately enter the RoW of...

Once again, these situations are extremely rare. I've looked. There are millions of crashes every year in the USA and reports of ones where the driver had to decide between two bad outcomes and made such a decision are extremely rare. The challenge has gone out to find them. If you can...

In addition to the comment below, I see nothing in the crash report to suggest that the driver considered whether he should deliberately hit the woman and child or the other car. I suspect that driver in fact probably didn't want to hit the stroller and did so through error. In the trolley...

Really, every day? Then you should be able to find thousands of examples. So find me a couple. I think I've ever heard of one or two, out of the 6 million crashes each year in the USA and the many tens of millions around the world. It's not a thing. But people just love to imagine that it...

The trolley problem is an academic exercise, not a real problem in self-driving cars. Nobody pays it any attention in the industry, but the public absolutely loves it, fascinated by the idea of robots deciding who lives and who dies. In the very unlikely event such a situation came up, a...

Yes, the tires don't wear that differently. But Tesla tires wear out _fast_, too fast, and so you may find yourself wanting to make a warranty claim (until the taker makers learn not to warrant the tires on Teslas.) But if you want that warranty claim you have to show you did the rotation...

A year ago people who studied it suggested FSD would fetch $4,000 more, when it cost around $15,000 on a new car. Today the premium is in the range of $1,000 to $1,500. That's in private sales. In sales through Tesla, they are not known to offer much for it -- it's of no value to them, it's...

While the OP has confused level 2 charging cables with DC Fast, it's not out of the question to make a cable which did liquid cooling and plugged in. It would not be easy, you would need to get a good and verified coupling on the cooling fluid link and it might not be worth it. And overall...

Well, now that there's almost nobody working on the Supercharger team, an interesting question to monitor will be how long it takes them to replace these cables.

I'm pretty sure Tesla builds a mathematical model of expected traffic. They have precise data on how many Teslas drive every road and what SoC they are at when they drive it. They have forecasts for their future sales. They also have less precise data on total traffic of non-Tesla...

Perhaps talk to a company that does thin film panels, which are lighter, and might be within the tolerances on your roof. Or talk to a neighbor who has a strong roof, and see if they want solar. Fill his roof -- you pay for more than half -- and share the power between the homes with a...

That Tesla feels they must try to work on the 2016 hardware is their curse, not their blessing. All the other teams followed a fairly sane development process. Let the team use not just the best sensors of the day, but to plan to use newer and better ones which are not yet available, or...