No, the trailers don’t just bring in level 2 chargers, they were fully sized superchargers!

It’s been known for many years (your article points to a 2015 example) Tesla sometimes hauls in generators to handle peak demand, especially during holidays. No one gives a shit because it’s negligible in terms of impact, as it doesn’t change that probably 90% of the charging is still done using much cleaner sources.…

I expect the way they implement it is a coating on the glass and a strong projector instead of something like a transparent OLED which would be much more expensive.

The lost of sales from the bad press that will happen, and the lawsuit that will happened due to breach of contract?

They have some goodwill upgrades in the past for special cases (free acceleration boost, HW3 upgrade, slight range bump to unlock parts of LR battery for cars that had the batteries before they officially updated EPA), and given the population affected is tiny, they might do the same this in this case.

This is to make it slide under the tax credit limit. I’m sure there will be people pissed, but given it only happened for 2 weeks, that amount of people will be negligible. And if it’s a software lock, Tesla can easily offer a free unlock if necessary.

It would only be annoying if the system has a lot of false positives. Tesla’s system is pretty bad at this because it’s mainly relying on the steering torque (only recently switching to more camera). Steering torque is very prone to false positives given it requires the user to hold the wheel in a certain way to avoid…

Hate to break it to you, but that’s how all L2 ADAS systems (ACC+lane keeping) work. If it comes to a situation it can’t handle, it can just drop control immediately and you are expected to take over.

On the issue of cross traffic, no general L2 ADAS system is tasked to deal with that. Being an L2 system, by definition there are situations it can’t handle, but that is not a safety concern because it’s not supposed handle everything anyways. The real fix that satisfied NHTSA is increasing attention detection nags…

That requires however the meter maid to reach the car while it is still stationary. Point is once it starts moving, any stupid thing it does gets a free pass currently, as the law does not cover it. All the city can give are parking tickets, which have relatively low penalties.

By the time they come, the cars may have moved already. Although 15-20 minutes is a long time for traffic, SF’s meter maids may not reach the scene that quickly.

Yep, there’s a screen that shows estimated range based on 5/15/30 miles. None of the journalists ever bother to mention that.

“It’s not this specific case, it’s just in general. If it leads to people engaging in poor behavior at the wheel, it’s just as bad. Trust me, I’m in IT where users think turning off the computer means turning off the monitor, there has to be some dumba$$ somewhere that still thinks Autopilot means do whatever you…

Actually it does do that. If you ignore the escalating warnings, the car will eventually come to a stop with hazard lights on and AP is disabled for the rest of the drive.

Yep, it’s opt in and you get a credit. there are also simpler programs where they can shut off your charging (and other connected appliances or your smart thermostat) when demand is high and you get a credit for that.

Yeah, given it all happened in very recent cars, it's probably an assembly error and they would have to trace it back to the time period it was installed and the batch that were installed.

This is very much a L4 vehicle, but it is a L4 vehicle under test. The safety driver has an explicit responsibility to intervene when things go wrong (which is expected, that’s why they are there in the first place).

In context, the system that was disabled was the Volvo’s built in AEB. I think it is standard practice in the industry to disable factory AEB systems for L4 cars and use their own, as the factory one may interfere with operation of the custom system. As such, I’m not sure if necessarily it doesn’t make sense.

I totally believe that ships are not equipped to handle fires that involve EVs (involve meaning it counts even if the fire did not start at the EVs), but that is separate from the whether the fire started from the HV battery (which is the only case the suggestion of disconnecting it might help somewhat). Other than…

Tesla closed their PR department years ago, the media knows this and it’s disingenuous for journalists to suggest it means anything when they don’t reply (given the journalist KNOWS there is no one there to reply).