Actually FSD Beta is a completely different code base than AP. Currently it handles only the city portion and it does a ton more than the old AP code base. It has to due to the fact it has to handle making turns (including unprotected lefts), respond to traffic signals/signs, going around double parked cars or…

Tesla never marketed AP as “sleep on your way to work” though.

He said FSD Beta, not AP. FSD Beta only launched in fall of 2021 and currently is still in limited beta (not everyone has access). This case was in 2019 on the regular AP system.

“Donald Slavik, a Colorado lawyer who has served as a consultant in automotive technology lawsuits, including many against Tesla, said he, too, is unaware of any previous felony charges being filed against a U.S. driver who was using partially automated driver technology involved in a fatal crash.”

And I don’t think the test regiment runs it as slow as 15mph. From what I can find, the range depletion part of the test is done using the WLTC Class 3b test cycle, and given it travels 23266 meters in 1800 seconds that is an average of 12.93 m/s or 29mph.

Maybe because it doesn’t? The changes in range is likely to do with other changes, in which the processor change only play a small part in. You will notice the other models also are affected at different percentages, which points to other changes being the cause.

Yep, this has been going on for a long time with Teslas and no sign of any negative effect on resale values. And due to long lead times, as you say, there are even well used Teslas selling for more money than new (which is insane).

I didn’t click through the slideshow, given like many I don’t want to support the slideshow format, but I’m not surprised that’s the case. As per my other comment, a lot of these concepts are more like “driving planes” meaning they still have all the hassles of a plane (pilot’s license, still need runways to…

A long running problem of these is a lot of these are “driving planes”, not “flying cars”. Basically many of the concepts are planes you can drive on the road, but to fly them you still need to takeoff/land at a runway and need a pilot’s license.

But the other idea is the vehicle has to be small enough that it can also drive on normal roads when there isn’t traffic and also fit in a normal sized garage or parking space. That’s the whole point of “flying cars”.

I find it unlikely he paid for much of the motors. The original S motors are known to be less reliable and many have been replaced under warranty. I wouldn’t be surprised if all of them were replaced under warranty.

Right, there are a bunch of Model 3/Y aftermarket wheels also and they don’t come with airbags either. You just reuse the existing one. The rest of the parts are direct swaps.

Yep, I see it as the same thing as the CC / AP speed limit. Here in California even 1 mph over the limit is “illegal”, but few people observe that strict limit, so 5mph over is very common.

I expected more too, but the “jam” lasted seconds. Seems like the bottleneck is simply the parking situation.

When the ID.3 came out, it was projected it would easily smash the Model 3 given it’s a body style that works far better for Europe, plus with the home advantage of VW being a German brand. I’m surprised the Model 3 was able to sell almost twice as much. Would be interesting to see next year how Model Y performs. That…

This whole article glosses over that fact that fuel cells have extremely low power density compared to batteries, and hydrogen ICE isn’t much better. The whole statement is extremely handwavy, but that is par for the course for most hydrogen discussions. There is nothing substantial that suggests they will use…

But that has nothing to do with swapping chips. An exploit on their firmware process can brick their fleet even if they stick to the same chips. When they decided to have OTA firmware that makes changes to drive systems, that risk is already inherent (while most automakers only allow updates to infotainment OTA and…

The USB ports are connected to the MCU which is isolated from the vehicle controls (the whole MCU can shut down and there would be no affect on vehicle controls). They are not connected on the same bus (no engineer would design it that way in the first place).

It was not consumer grade but industrial grade. I believe no supplier made a touch screen that large in automotive grade at that time, given no car used touch screens that big. So they did internal testing on an industrial grade panel and deemed it worthy. Industrial grade is just under automotive grade, so probably…

This is how they operated from the start, including other hardware changes unrelated to chips. They have versioning and depending on what hardware you have you have a different software release cycle (for example people with cars after the recent chip shortage have reported they are much slower in getting updates).…