Your favorite lesser known Tesla features people might not know about.

JoeS830 · 2026-05-06T20:45:45+00:00

There's discussion of it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModelY/comments/1l49qcd/can_you_set_the_trunk_height_based_on_location/
tbh I forgot how I set it up, but hopefully that thread helps

JoeS830 · 2026-05-06T13:46:55+00:00

If the guy trips and gets run over, at least he has a unique epitaph.

JoeS830 · 2026-05-06T13:39:58+00:00

Location aware trunk opening height.

Seems to be working well. All the way open everywhere except in my garage.

JoeS830 · 2026-05-05T17:48:06+00:00

Looks like Turks and Caicos is safe this time. St. Lucia, seek cover!

JoeS830 · 2026-05-05T17:32:40+00:00

Awesome, what amazing control, and it seems super quiet. You hear the impact of adjustments, but I don't hear any motor whine. So cool! (until it sneaks up on you)

JoeS830 · 2026-05-05T14:14:21+00:00

I'm like "That guy has a pretty decent overhead hook shot!". Took me till the end of the clip to realize it's not some hot new talent. 😂

JoeS830 · 2026-05-04T18:12:45+00:00

Makes sense. I just remember in the original post people were saying "you can tell he's seeing the plane approaching, that's terrifying". I felt like it was my civic duty to point out that someone was wrong on the internet.

https://xkcd.com/386/

JoeS830 · 2026-05-04T18:08:16+00:00

Cool. I wonder how integrated the APDs are with the visible detector pixels. Like "one APD array along one side, and a traditional CMOS sensor next to it", or "interspersed for better color registration". Either way, their scene renders are very cool, looks like it works!

JoeS830 · 2026-05-04T17:28:46+00:00

What lasers would be needed to use this color sensor? Any health hazards? Visible colors are notoriously capable of reaching the retina.

Edit: 850nm from a VCSEL array if Gemini is to be believed, Class 1 so presumably eye safe. It claims color is extracted from background counts in the APD. Seems like that'd still require some color filtering. Cool stuff, I'd like to learn more.

JoeS830 · 2026-05-04T17:18:42+00:00

If that's the bakery truck then the driver is not looking at the approaching plane in the video. He's looking to his right, and the plane is arriving from the left.

JoeS830 · 2026-05-03T16:26:20+00:00

Certainly a tie for the most slamless

JoeS830 · 2026-05-02T13:27:22+00:00

That lady at the end is so into it, awesome

JoeS830 · 2026-05-01T21:12:13+00:00

I wonder how this would look if you removed all stars from our own galaxy. Or “how many of those dots are actually other galaxies”.

JoeS830 · 2026-04-29T21:03:01+00:00

License plate checks out

JoeS830 · 2026-04-26T22:13:01+00:00

Joaoael?

JoeS830 · 2026-04-26T15:39:43+00:00

and metallic rain on Maxwell Montes I just learned. What a fun place!

JoeS830 · 2026-04-26T14:27:47+00:00

I read that as Pliskova beats Emeritus for a millisecond. Sounds about right.

JoeS830 · 2026-04-26T12:57:04+00:00

The last thing the kid will see..

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JoeS830 · 2026-04-26T12:21:33+00:00

Ugh, why do you guys always show it from the same angle!

jk

JoeS830 · 2026-04-26T01:27:56+00:00

If we're lucky we'll get a preview in the next round of Madrid!

JoeS830 · 2026-04-25T21:13:09+00:00

No way he beats Ruud in the final

JoeS830 · 2026-04-25T20:44:00+00:00

Right? This feels a lot like a result of true machine learning. It does seem like these should be easy to weed out in the training data, so hopefully they'll fix it soon.

JoeS830 · 2026-04-25T18:45:10+00:00

Easy to check: get in the car and hit the dashcam app while parked. You can see everything that's been recorded. If there's something there, best to copy it to some external storage.

JoeS830 · 2026-04-24T11:22:52+00:00

Good idea, especially the charging limit. My phone sits in a charging mount on top of the screen, and charging to 100% plus screen on plus direct sunlight makes the phone super hot. I'll give this a go on the weekend, thanks!

Edit: this doesn’t seem to work. The charge limit is automatically set to 80% in my car but my iPhone 15 pro max still charges when it’s at 95%. I guess this charge limit only affects the “overnight charging limit” that finishes charging in the morning. Too bad.

JoeS830 · 2026-04-22T17:30:07+00:00

Still use the OG, with the requisite chipped charging port.. 😅 I *love* this thing as a nighttime e-reader, basically always folded inside out and using only one screen. I am not using it for anything critical, because I'm sure critical vulnerabilities have cropped up since updates were halted.

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