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Tesla's navigation takes a lot of things into account, including rain, wind, elevation changes, tire pressure, driving speed history of driver, number of passengers (in two ways, both the effect of the additional weight and the effect on the HVAC drain), it even takes into account the draw from...

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Mine has the 22 way comfort seat upgrade along with the sports package, after nine hours on the road it left me beat to pieces, nine hours in my Tesla and my back is still happy.

Regular glass is a combination of silicon dioxide and sodium dioxide. This combination has a band gap of 4 eV which gives it a sharp cutoff at 310 nm, it absorbs all wavelengths shorter than 310 nm. However, laminated glass picks up most of the rest of the UVA, absorbing 98% of all UV light...

Same here.

You don't need any help for UV, transparent glass filters out all UVB and a portion of UVA, and whatever Tesla puts on the glass filters that out, too.

Um, most auto forums are much worse, and sports forums where they question your mother's morals.

A quick search shows complaints about curb rash on forums specific for VW, BMW, Porsche, Ferrari, Jeep, Subaru, Honda, Audi, Dodge, Mustang, Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, etc. It's a driver problem, not a car specific problem.

Glad you like George Howell coffee. Illy has made a long series of limited edition guest artist designed espresso cups. Here are my favorites, the Illy Alien cups, the sugar bowl is the flying saucer.

That didn't help mine, but a later software update did.

And makes ramping up to scale slow and very, very expensive.

FWIW, robotaxis are currently operating in about 20 cities worldwide; Waymo just received permission for robotaxi service in Los Angeles. It's a bit later than Musk predicted, but it turned out to be a lot more difficult than everyone originally thought. And for the record, he wasn't the only...

The model 3 seats changed with the refresh, the model Y's refresh won't be out until 2025 so the seats on the 2024s should be identical to the seats on my 2020 Y.

My understanding is they are exactly the same seats except for color and the Y's being mounted 6" above the floor.

It is, I have FSD which puts me on the older version.

Still working fine, software update fixed it. So far.

Here are some accidental latte arts I did.

Let me know how you like it. The Ceremony Coffee ones are worth trying, too. And Espresso Vivace was one of the first, I bought their book. :) Some nice coffee out there, some skunky stuff, too. I have a small collection of espresso cups, limited editions, it's an addiction for sure.

Unfortunately, he does not. My sources for the others are: Black Cat Project Espresso | Our Signature Espresso Collection | Intelligentsia Coffee Hair Bender Espresso Can't believe I forgot George Howell coffee, I like it better than either Black Cat or Hairbender. My particular favorites...

Oooo... I use this Bunn for my drip coffee at home, have the filtered water supply plumbed in. WAVE Combo - Iced Tea - BUNN Commercial Site For espresso I use this, also plumbed in with a different filter system. GS3 - La Marzocco Home For espresso I usually use a local roaster, his beans...

That has been an episodic problem for me. The car suddenly doesn't even recognize a device is plugged in. I tried thumb drives, SD cards, microSD cards made specifically for hot car use, Tesla sent a tech who replaced the USB hub in the car, all to no avail. Then after a software update it...

Here, when I bought mine in 2020 I saw another one on my daily 40 mile round trip once or twice a month. Now I may see 5 or 6, occasionally twice that each day

I have found the Tesla nav to be very accurate. On one trip it predicted I would arrive at home with 7 miles of range left. I didn't drive the speed limit, but I didn't drive 80 mph, either. As I backed into my garage it clicked from 8 to 7 miles. Telsa takes all kinds of things into account...

This may be helped when a new software version comes. I had the problem in the past, storage devices stopped working in the car, weren't even recognized as being present so I couldn't reformat it, rebooting the car sometimes helped for a bit. Those same devices check out normal in a camera, a...

I've muted and unmuted the navigation voice via voice command, haven't tried to increase or decrease volume by voice command.

Didn't he say that would happen when robotaxi software is ready?

Same here. still doing well after 4 years.

I haven't seen a UI that I like better in any other car. Which one do you find more functional? UI preference is pretty individual, for instance some like Apple Carplay, I used it for several years before car software eclipsed it but I certainly don't miss Carplay in my Tesla, and I don't miss...

Sounds like a Tesla definitely isn't the car for her.

I would almost prefer the manual charge port to some of the slow, jerky opening ones from the legacy automakers. The Tesla charge port rocks! At the end of the day the E-Tron is a tarted up iD4, for better or worse.

If my windshield washer fluid is low I can hear it sloshing around. Easy to see if that is the cause, filling it eliminates the noise.

Actually Smart Summons (ASS) is on the horizon. Current version definitely needs supervision.

Does the Audi still come with rear drum brakes? If they go with the Audi they should wait until Audi comes with the Tesla charging port.

Indeed. I carry all three in my car at all times. Just in case.

I have all three and in nearly 4 years of ownership have never used any of them.

I bought mine when they first became available, haven't installed them yet.

I have an invoice in my service history that is not my car, was a no charge install of a front bumper license plate holder, done in Maryland a year after I purchased my MY. Different VIN but Tesla hasn't changed it despite my request.

Looks like you rashed your rims, too.

What I'd like to see in FSD is to recognize dump trucks and avoid them, stay as many lanes away or as far behind as possible.

Rock + glass = bad juju for windshield. It's not brand specific. A brief perusal of discussion sites for other brands reveals: Ford Bronco -- "Comically fragile windshield" 3/2022 Mustang Mach E -- "Fragile windshield" 12/2022 Tacoma -- "Fragile windshield glass" 1/20 Hyundai Pallisade --...

Are the fog lights on? Does that change its behavior in FSD?

I had a nail in the same area of tread, tire place initially said they wouldn't patch it because it was in the outer section of tread, but once they got the tire off they were able to get a patch on it. Total cost $25.

“Turn off seat heater.” “My ass is hot.” No need to look at the screen.

It happens to me when it is pitch black out with no lights visible to the camera. Also happens every time on my way home when I am on a feeder road with a very high Jersey wall to my left.

Unfortunately you can’t break the laws of physics. 1) It isn’t a one way tint, it blocks light in both directions. Any tint that blocks visible light reduces visibility in dim light, and some things that are just barely visible without tint will be invisible with tint. 2) Regular glass blocks...

In low light levels I would think visibility must be affected, the tint allows less light through the glass. Help me understand how tint doesn't affect the amount of light that passes through. I thought that was the raison d'être for tinting in the first place.

For safety and visibility reasons I'm not a fan of tinting, but those are sweet wheels!

My initial point stands, no matter what we think of buttons, they are going away for many reasons. 1) Cost. Sandy Munro, who was in charge of parts for Ford before starting Munro and Associates, said just managing an individual part cost the car company ~ $25k per year in addition to the cost...

I was hoping for Midnight Cherry, but still only from the Berlin factory.

Zoomer0056 gets it. In the scenario you describe, I accomplish that without taking my hand off the steering wheel by pressing the right scroll wheel and saying, “Turn on defroster.” Why in the world would I want to take my hand off the wheel, lean over and reach out for a button, taking my eyes...