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There's been occasional cases in Massachusetts where the local cops, upset that they're losing that wonderful overtime pay, arrest the traffic control officers or some such for some random illegality. Strange, or maybe not so strange, that the cops themselves weren't hauled into court for such...

Not that the regulars are sometimes maturity-challenged, but there's been a bunch of near-trolls and such over the past few weeks. Wonder if the moderators have been getting busy with the Boot?

Actually, had that done today! 2021 MY. It had been in an extremely minor rear-end which dented the bumper. While the insurance and body shop played patty-cake a week or so ago, the car was left outside; we usually have it garaged. This was, apparently, the final straw. The SO complained that...

Yep. Just piling on, now: At the bottom of the screen, more-or-less center, there's an icon with three horizontal dots on it. Tap on that and you get a panel with a bunch of icons, about 20. The top row is stuff like setting wiper speeds and operational stuff and are gray colored. The rest are...

Check the Energy app after the car’s been parked for a bit. On the middle tab it’ll report the “range used” by sentry, waking the car up, and several other things. One doesn’t have to guess which it is, or how much.

Ding Tesla on the app. Clearly, you’ve got a fault. It’s a new car, it’s under warranty.

Let's see. 11 kW means you've got 48A @ 240VAC; that's 11.52 kW or thereabouts, and is, actually, the maximum charge rate for your car. This works out to be about 44-46 miles of charge per hour, or converting to km, that's 70.4 km to 73.6 km or charge per hour. Your battery size is about 300...

Yep. I know this one. No shaft-reversing gears required. I'm not a motor specialist, but I am a half-decent general electrical engineer. So, I know a bit less about the induction motors used in Teslas than the PMG (Permanent Magnet) motors. So, say that you've got a permanent magnet rotor. In...

FWIW, my SO drove our M3 down to Maryland to visit a friend; I think the month in question was January or February, but the temperature was around 15F or 20F. Car's charge rate was 0 or 1 mile of charge per hour with a full 120VAC @12A and never got above that. Not that we were expecting that...

Basic point: If Tesla comes into actual possession of a Tesla, as in, “We’ve got title!”, then they can do whatever they want with the car. Up to and definitely including removing any paid-for add-ons, such as FSD, EAP, acceleration boost, and possibly free-for-life Supercharging. (I think I’ve...

For what it’s worth, Teslas come with a bunch of small software applications that do various things. As you’ll discover, there are apps to play things like Apple Podcasts, display Sentry Mode and driving clips, the manual and videos for the car, a web browser, and a number of other things, about...

And, I guess, there's a couple of other things, but for later on this year in the fall. Contrary to some panic-stricken types, Teslas generally drive fine in the cold. Modern Teslas have a heat pump system (read: Running an air conditioner in reverse) that warms the cabin. Your M3 LR gets...

Out of curiosity: Did he find that the standard, comes-with-the-car accessories of the Tesla Mobile Connector, the NEMA5-15 and NEMA14-50 adapters for same, and the J1772 to NACS adapter were all with the car? Or missing?

Um. I know DC-DC converters; DC-DC converters are friends of mine. The isolated types do their step-up/step-down business by taking DC current and, using switching transistors, rapidly run current back and forth through the primary of a transformer; the secondary of said transformer has an AC...

Actually... Forget "buffer" follies. A Tesla isn't a cell phone. But if you want to talk about intermittents on gunked up contacts, then I'm your man.

Um. Pretty sure you're wrong on that one. Go to supercharge.info and select "Changes". There have been SCs commissioned, built, planned for, and all that jazz. Maybe not as fast as before 4/29, but things are definitely being done. Further, there's been plenty of reports of SCs getting...

There's two signal leads, a ground lead, and the two power leads (the biggies). My understanding is that the longest pin is the ground, followed by the differential signal leads, followed by the mongo power leads. I'm just hypothesizing here, but I've had to work with stuff like this for a...

In no particular order: One is on a 45 mph local road and is coming up on a town center. Speed limit signs go from 45 down to 40, then 35, then 25 as one goes through the center of town. On the other side the reverse is happening. Mapping data may have the speed limits present, but, often, the...

Not that what I'm about to suggest will help much, but: From what I've been able to find, your car has a 48A AC charger built-in. With the appropriate AC charger, that means you've got 240 VAC * 48A = 11.52 kW. Battery size is 90 kW-hr. EPA rating for a 2017 Model S.. one sec.. Looks to be...

Actually.. An extremely close relative was dirt-bike motoring back home along a two lane, striped road in CO a couple years ago when the relative came across a school bus, stopped, on the other side of the road, with the STOP flags out and itty bitty kids getting off after school. Naturally...

FWIW, I've seen behavior on 12.3.6 that looks extremely like it's reacting to hand signals. Situation: Somewhat wide, two lane road with, if memory serves, a double yellow line. Light traffic, not a major road. On the left, there's a piece of large backhoe yellow gear being backed out of a...

Um. "Emulation". You guys are using that word in ways that it probably doesn't mean to be used. Say that one has two CPUs, an old one and a newer one of the same general type. The newer one can do everything the old one can do, possibly with an additional step or two in the microcode, but the...

The general rule is that if one is one a limited access highway (on ramps, off ramps, no lights, stop signs, or right-angle entry local roads) one gets a V11-like experience. As has been previously mentioned, one can tell from: The "tentacle" leading straight ahead of the car shifts size...

Ha. So, I've had auto accidents in states that have At-Fault rules and in states that have No-Fault rules. In pure At-Fault states, one has to go after the insurance company for the driver that caused the accident. This can get interesting because you are not the customer of the other insurance...

Back on Netnews, on a forum that handled various versions of Abuse, some fellow from Papua New Guinea showed up and rattled along in pidgin, confusing the heck out of the regulars. It sorta looked like English, but was indecipherable pretty much to native English speakers. Then another regular...

Um. My personal trick has been, with two hands on the wheel, to lean one way on one breath, then lean the other way on the other breath, lather, rinse, repeat. I don't know if that counts as "wiggling", but it works.

Ran into it years ago on Netnews; have used it from time to time. I never looked it up; cognoscenti translates pretty directly into English from Latin/Italian as, "Thems that knows." The regulars on this thread definitely fall under that category, at least when it comes to FSD(S). Just checked...

Control loop: some kind of input, followed by some processing/filtering, followed by some kind of output, then feedback. A standard way of looking at the world and doing things in engineering. You want your FM radio to lock onto the subcarrier so it can extract the stereo audio? Control loops...

Not sure, either, but: Most modern wheels have tubeless tires, where the air seal is a bead on the tire going around the rim of the wheel. Getting that bead seated usually happens at tire shops where, after getting the tire roughly in place, a Blast of Air seats the bead. And then the tech...

Good, solid report. Interesting bit about FSDS not getting into the correct lane, even with big white arrows saying that a particular lane is right turn only, left turn only, or is ending. Actually - I've had the opposite experience, that FSDS has been paying attention to those arrows. About...

Ha. Speaking as a control loop guy, the "actuator" part of a control loop is usually easy. It's the sensor, filter, compute parts, nominally in the brain, that require the heavy lifting. And looking at one piece of a control loop and declaring that the difficulty of that part means that the...

For what it's worth, it's not the "Minimum" speed that the FSDS-enabled cars I drive around have trouble with here in NJ. It's the "Trucks" bit on a sign: As in, Limit 50, Trucks 45. It's probabilistic. About 3/4 of the time the seed gets set to 50; the other 1/4, 45, and this has been going...

Funny. Right. You put that sarcasm everywhere these days. I’m on one of my periodic trips to Boston this week. There’s been some trouble, mainly to it being construction season, but I’ve been pretty much letting FSDS do its thing. Lots of UPLs, oddball traffic circles, and you don’t want to...

Good enough. So, did you get a jack, jackstand, and the lift puck(s)?

Given that the car's unresponsive, I take a wild guess and state that this might be the Pyro Fuse having blown. Or some similar activity that has the same effect. Of course, my household has an M3 and an MY is the garage, neither of which is an older MS. I am aware that MS's also have a Pyro...

The M3 that I spoke about was a 2018 model year M3, bought in 9/2018. So, while not the oldest old codger on this forum, I'm up there a bit. Initial problems with getting tires repaired had to do with the foam on the inside of the tire; that was newish, put in there by Tesla to cut down on road...

Hm. I've been scanning the thread and, once in a great while, adding some info-or-other. Honestly, I haven't noticed too much of a change.. except there is a fair amount of negativity. But, if the FUDsters and bots are at it, well, this wouldn't be the first time: They collectively did in the...

Um. Guess I should have mentioned the following: The SO and I decided to drive her 2021 MY to Dallas and back for the eclipse. So, in the run-up to going, we thought, “Maintenance!”. Turns out that the wheels hadn’t been rotated in quite some time. And, doing a quick web search, discovered...

Hokay. So, I’m on the other side of the pond, running the FSDS 12.3.6 package, and the car’s running around the landscape doing a pretty decent job driving through whatever the local DMVs and other drivers throw at it. In fact, tomorrow I’m planning on driving a couple hundred miles for a...

Y'know, you-all on this thread seem to be talking like the SC network is dead and gone. No new chargers, no new stalls, no new installs, etc., etc.. I'll grant you that, during the four-day interval from the Monday when the dismissals were announced to Friday morning, there was nothing new over...

Um. Back when my M3 developed a bad case of the squeaks last year, I thought to myself, "This is the suspension! There's nothing particularly EV about a suspension!" and took the car to a local tire shop/service center down here in NJ whose work I had trusted in previous years. They correctly...

Tesla might know. I get that. (One can turn that off, though.) Did you see the line above where location data is kept separate from the identity data, and neither leaves the company?

He ain't the only one. With 12.3.6 the car has been hugging the right lane of a three-lane high-speed road, nominal speed limit of 50 mph, with people in the left lane going 55+. The right lane moves at 35 mph with semis and little-old-somebodies crawling along. The car's not trying to move over...

As it happens, I was reading Tesla's statements on what data they collect and what they do with it recently. A friend of the SO's bought a MY last week (yea! We got a referral!), so I was very carefully going over the buttons and settings on the car. Especially since, since she was on the...

Actually, your problem is likely less with Tesla and more with the NHTSA. The NHTSA wants drivers to have their eyes out the window and paying attention. Other car companies have instituted IR eyeball tracking for that function; Tesla’s has a regular camera pretty much doing the same thing, as...

Looks like the EU, mainly, and they don't, AFAIK, have any FSDS 12.x branches available. The loads before the 2024.14.3 have 11.4.9 baked in. Looks like better eye candy on the screen but no current FSDS 12.x. We'll see when TeslaFi catches up.

So, here's maybe a better way to handle this, at least in general. Over at the EPA, they have the following for energy usage per mile on the MXLR and MXP, as follows: MXLR: 320 W-hr/mile MXP: 350 W-hr/mile So, I point at you, sir, and say, "What are your driving habits in terms of miles per...

I think I’m going to disagree with you, here. Image recognition with impairments is more like detecting a signal in the presence of random noise than it is, I dunno, calculating the precise impairment of droplets of water, then subtracting that impairment out of the image to get the underlying...

Know a number of the free trial folks, including the SO and her 2021 MY. They all ended up with the current shipping versions of 12.3.x, getting updated with everybody else as per usual. They all started with Tesla loads that had 11.4.x loads built in, but not enabled, from 2023.

Hm. In the six years the SO and I have owned Teslas, there's been one serious flat: Coming down a hill on a two-lane road, no curbs, in the dark, with a police car with flashing lights coming the other way. On my side, all the cars kind of shifted to the right, including mine, which is when the...