You’re already required to leave the lane next to a stopped police car open or at least slow down. But not everybody follows the rules.

Holding the steering wheel doesn’t mean you are either.

Agreed on both regards. They could even be fancy and try to detect a pulse to go one more step past where people would use some sort of capacitive hand-shaped silicone attachment

Also, for California specifically:

Kids these days don’t even know

or is Tesla assuming that volume input from steering wheel buttons means that hands must be on the wheel?

Moving where the cursor is to skip through a podcast is my example of something I’m not sure you can do or am not aware of how you can do using just the steering wheel buttons. For example if you select a podcast and want to start at the middle instead of the beginning because you have already listened to the first 45…

This isn’t the only update that has changed this behavior. They added the strike system back in 2019 or 2020. I have driven in 6 different states on Autopilot in the past 6 weeks through.

For some reason nibbles at the other two graphs I pasted in, here they are:

We’ll have to wait another year or two to see if it’s a real thing or just a blip. Take a look at the sharp incline right at the beginning of 2019 and what happened right after, and in the middle of 2021 and what happened right after, for example. If you were to calculate a trend line from scatterplot data, it might…

“Hybrids are what’s hot right now”

I typically drive manually at 9 & 3, but for Autopilot I often go to just 4 or 5 o’clock, and typically I can go half an hour between it having issues with the torque.

Though it’s one of those things where the crimes of the few punish the many. Doing something like checking your side mirror for a couple seconds shouldn’t be penalized as harshly as the regulators want it to be.

In general the nags aren’t that bad if you’re actually being a decent driver. I’ve got a few alerts to pay attention while checking the side mirror for longer than usual or fast forwarding on a podcast by looking at the screen to drag my finger. But I haven’t had any of the actual “strikes” on Autopilot in the last 30,…

Livelong New Hampshire resident here, I believe the US’s 3rd most snowy state. I haven’t seen tire chains since the early 1990s

Depends what news orgs you follow.

Why Florida in the headline? doesn’t seem to be anything Florida specific.

The worst part of the video, however, isn’t even the blatantly incorrect car stats — it’s the editing. The video is put together like a trailer, quick cut after quick cut with no time to breathe or get invested in an individual model. It’s sensory overload, it’s Subway Surfers next to a Family Guy clip, and I do not…

That’s true, especially if it was bolted on in a good way so it was easily swappable with cheap bits from the dealership parts department. Though bolts can get pretty crusty with road salt hitting them over many northern winters. But so can motors that lower flaps down

Mini Cooper. I mean, it’s still a small car, but it grew a lot from its original namesake