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I tell people “It goes over 300 miles without needing to stop for a recharge… which is a lot further than my butt can”.

Mine makes the same noise you describe (in exactly the same conditions; when turning as the wheel is either encountering the bump or the suspension is unloading). At my last SC visit, I couldn’t get the car to make the noise, but the tech said he’d make sure to torque all of the suspension...

At the risk of sounding preachy, activation of the garage door happens when I am _outside_ of the vehicle or it is the last thing I do as I exit so that there is no chance of some part of the vehicle being activated while the garage door is in transit.

Started with a Nissan Leaf back around 2012 and have moved through three other EVs before getting my R1T. I’ve never done the nightly charging, mostly because the charger is in the garage and the car takes up any working space when it’s charging. So, I usually let a car get down to about 10-20%...

We can’t even get people to pay full attention when _they_ are driving the vehicle. If someone’s going to be texting while driving (and it seems that they’re going to be doing this regardless), I’d rather an array of unblinking, infatigable eyes are piloting the two tons of steel.

I think that assumes that every “critical disengagement” would get into an accident, but I think that would require that, even when the FSD knows that it doesn’t know what to do, it just keeps drivin’ along until it hits something, and I’m not convinced that’s what it does. I don’t know what it...

If someone were to claim that FSD is “statistically safer” than humans (in a way meant to convince others or influence a debate), then, yeah, they should have to show which statistics led them to that conclusion. But that’s not what I’m seeing. I see an insurance company offering discounts for...

You don’t have to have it drive in the edge cases. Using FSD (at least when I used to experiment with it a couple of years ago) is like driving with someone learning to drive or who just got their license. There are scenarios which will confuse them, but, to us experienced drivers, we can see...

Where can we see those statistics?

That’s interesting. We may be looking at the future of car insurance (for vehicles which continuously collect/report telemetry). We already have insurance companies trying to charge based on usage instead of flat-rate by asking you to report your mileage or by having an OBD2 dongle attached so...

I bought my Gen1 R1T used, and it did that from the day I took possession of it. I had a mobile service guy come out and listen to it, and it he said it's the "hydraulic dampers", so I have an appointment with a SC to get them serviced. FWIW, I also had a Tesla Model S with air suspension make...

In my mind, this is one of the really insidious effects that the existence of uber-rich people has had on the populace. People who are worth a million or two dollars can't take their eyes off of folks like Elon and Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and all they see is how much further they still...

I used to use the auto-wash down the street because it had a "Touch-Free" wash option that only used the water jets. Then, one day, I drove in and didn't notice that it didn't ask me which wash I wanted. They had changed it to only be "Soft-Touch". The spinning fabric flaps mostly tore the...

What a trip down memory lane! Reminds me of when Apple switched from Lightning to USB-c and people complained that they couldn't use their old Lightning accessories and had to either buy all new accessories or get an adaptor. I'll point out what others have: Superchargers are NACS and number in...

Well, there's a setting for you. It's the defroster (where the red dot is underneath the icon), where it is supposed to blow heated air on the windshield. De-fog on other cars runs the air through the A/C to condense some moisture out of the air, then heats it back up to around current cabin...

The per-kWh is still pretty much the same. Suppose you want 60kWh. That’s… 60 min at 60kW ($0.31 * 60 =$18.60) 36 min at 100kW ($0.63 * 36 = $22.68) 20 min at 180kW ($0.98 * 20 = $19.60) Looks like they’re trying to charge by kWh but maybe aren’t allowed to, so they have these tiers that...

Just got a used R1T a few days ago. As luck would have it, the long drive back from the seller was through rain and fog, so the windshield started fogging up. I turned on the defog (so the blue dot is below the windshield icon, not the red, so I was expecting to have unheated dry air up through...