I use this feature on steep hills all the time. When you are on a steep hill and need precise accelerator control, in a Tesla you can left foot brake and ease up on the brake while easing in the accelerator. The screen will show a warning that says you are using both pedals at the same time.

This is once again a very simplistic view. The goal with a mass immigration solution would be to increase the tax paying and consumer population, it’s not to “fill open jobs”. There are multiple barriers to that:

Not the issues at all, but it seems people here only want to reduce problems to simplistic things like bad men or racism.

I’m not talking about keeping immigrants out, I’m talking about having an actual functioning system that efficiently processes immigration cases and helps immigrants find education and jobs in a way that doesn’t massively displace locals (which is the main reason for opposition). Although they play a part, hand waving…

Problem is 8 billion is not distributed equally (both geographically and in age). I don’t think the US is at anywhere near the same point yet, but there are other countries like Japan and South Korea that are dealing with real problems with a declining birth rate (with South Korea in particular falling to half of…

Well there are plenty of twin-turbo V8 machines (X5 M50i, GLC63, C63, Cayenne S, a bunch of different McLarens, etc) driven in much hotter temperatures (109 is hot, but not really that hot globally) and they seem to do perfectly fine. You just need some limiters in there. That is not to say the owner didn’t do abusive…

Yeah, I said as much in a previous article. If they had a year to iron things out on the software, it probably would do fine, as the base vehicle seemed fairly solid (certainly better than others still going like Vinfast for example).

From the article, the insurance company just totaled the car since there was no timetable for getting parts. They literally were pulling parts from preproduction cars to use to fix the new ones.

The Bolt did in that linked thread when a botched software update happened to a bunch of people! A workaround people found is disconnecting the 12V battery, waiting a few minutes, before reconnecting. However, in the field you wouldn’t know that and it depends on you knowing to keep a 10mm wrench in the car to…

Well with the Bolt, they omitted the emergency release cable completely, but it means you are stuck there if your car refuses to release the charge port for whatever reason. I would rather have a cable than not if that is the case.

Sounds like he yanked it too hard (he pulled it a feet away from the bodywork, which sounds way too far). The amount of times he did probably doesn’t play much of a role (although it appears he did at least twice).

If it’s like the other Tesla charge port release cords, you can open up the panel and hook it back up. You are only supposed to pull the cord enough to release the cable, not pull it so hard that it’s pulled that far.

Yeah, I noticed this too. They add lots of hyperlinks that I click thinking it gives additional related context to the highlighted word or passage, but it links to an article that has absolutely nothing to do with it. Seems like some sort of SEO hack, but done extremely poorly.

I googled some pictures of side markers (both front and rear) as a sanity check for your claim and sure enough, they are all amber in the front and red in the rear in all the examples that popped up.

Carbon fiber is weaker in compression (about 50% that of in tension) and it also weakens further from cyclic stress, but that’s different from saying it has zero strength in compression. With proper accounting for the reduction in initial strength (which they seemed to have done to even do a single dive) and cyclic…

Yeah, for example the compass I imagine had to do with the full steel construction of the first prototype, which didn’t apply to the later carbon fiber one.

The 125k annual number was only the peak factory capacity at the end of 2023 (meaning factory floor can support that much). At the same time they announced that they tempered that they don’t expect production to be significant until around 2025. It was always going to be a slow production ramp (which is why there was…

The middle two are valid questions though. The Tesla no resell policy for Cybertruck was widely reported and you didn’t even need to be an owner to know about it.

Not happening especially with the limited stock. Tesla does offer extended test drives, but I don’t think they have stock of the Cybertruck.

Yeah, I have doubts about that too. For example, is a throttle cable breaking or snagging more unlikely than the pedal sensors failing? We have been using accelerator by wire for so long and it seems pretty rock solid in terms of reliability. If similar parts are used for the steering actuation, then it shouldn’t be…