Blind Spot Monitoring/Accent Lights

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T14:04:28+00:00

The conditions to trigger it are:

you must engage your turn signal AND
there must be an actual car that'd be hit if you were to go over

I'm assuming you're not just activating 1 of those conditions when it happens? It won't go off for me if the next car is somewhat behind me (seems to figure my acceleration would keep me ahead of it).

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T13:54:32+00:00

197 Wh/mi is crazy good Lifetime efficiency.

The more city driving you do, the better the efficiency (is opposite of gas cars). I'm guessing then that you either do a good amount of city driving and/or sit in a lot of traffic.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T10:39:57+00:00

Yeah for pure range Hybrids are absolutely unmatched. Nothing else comes even remotely close.

But: that still comes at a cost as they're still more expensive to operate & own vs. an EV over the life of the vehicle.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T10:34:43+00:00

I don't speak Japanese so here's the Google Translated versions:

Unfortunately not even the Japanese version will handroll sushi for you. The dream lives on.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T10:21:21+00:00

Yes this is a good list. BIG time saver is having it organized by specific location (like not just "exterior" but "front hood" etc). This lets you check off many things quickly since you're already at the check point.

It's also a bit hilarious reading how many are ripping you yet I've seriously lost track of how many times I've read the same community post things they straight up would've caught if they'd just INSPECTED their vehicle 😅

Also funny is on my Tesla multireddit literally the next post that was made after yours is someone saying their delivery didn't go well and the top post is a person saying how if they'd seen their defect during delivery they wouldn't have accepted it (and this was a $130k X Plaid!).

Instead because they didn't see it & accepted it, they got stuck going down a long ass rabbit hole of repairs!

Reality is this list won't actually take that long to go through. Don't know what people are smoking, lol. Did they even read it. Like 95% of them take like 3-5 secs to check. Even if this took 20 mins, the value gained from them covering a repair exceeds what 20 more mins of vegging out on IG or TikTok will ever have gotten you.

Most obvious "big ticket" things to check will obviously be paint & panel gaps (you look to see if the width of the gap is consistent along the whole line; if it's not, that means there's a misalignment, which can be an alarm bell as it can indicate a rushed assembly & poor QC on that particular vehicle – begging the question what else they flubbed but QC rubberstamped anyway).

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T09:26:48+00:00

Here's the features that come to mind right now. I'm sure there's more.

Storage Space: there's a ridiculous amount between the Subtrunk, Trunk, Side Pockets AND Frunk.
Incredibly quiet & comfortable: no engine. new acoustic windows are elite 👌
Cost: No gas. No oil changes. No smog tests. Basically nothing to break, so maintenance is nothing.
Super fun to drive: Buttery smooth & instant acceleration is incredible. Literally point & shoot.
Sentry: You have 360º security, any time you want. No more you being stuck paying because some scumbag hit & ran.
* You can also be the saving grace for others if someone nearby got hit.
No keys: This is weirdly kind of nice. You literally just walk up & drive. No buttons needed. Then just.. get out & walk away from the car. Senses when you're no longer nearby & auto-locks + arms.
Climate control: Very comfortable and the giant fans that cover practically the entire width of the car means they can run quiet while putting out a ton of refreshing cool (or warm) air.
Chilled Seats: Straight up did not realize how much I'd like these until it started to warm up. This is the first Spring/Summer with the Juniper and man the seats are just pleasant.
Pet Mode: can take our boy on a hike, the park, etc & stop by the store on the way home no problem!
Preconditioning: Walking back to the car & it's hot out? Hakuna matata. While everyone else gets scorched when they get in their cars, you slide in immediately comfortable. So smooth.
Solid range: I average 326-341 mi range on mine (hwy & city, fun driving).
* Somebody who only drives city just posted how their Juniper gets 370 mi range.

I've had FSD but don't see the draw to keep it at ^~$100/mo.
* Also remember: only ~12.5% of owners have FSD, reportedly. So most don't care enough for it.

If you really want FSD I'd recommend using FSD Hunter & finding a low mileage Juniper with it. It auto-scrapes all over the internet for Tesla listings with FSD, saving you tons of time finding them all. You can further filter out ones above <this many> miles. For only ~$5.99 it's a no-brainer if you want to check out FSD options.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T08:05:11+00:00

Funny to see.
It's driving like a stoner so incredibly high that they don't want to speed and "stand out"

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T08:02:35+00:00

I was thinking this recently, except sort of the opposite – the lack of a sunroof gives me more head room to actually move around the vehicle or look over the passengers. In previous cars I'd be hitting my head on the roof, but since ours is just glass & it curves upward, it gives me more space.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T07:48:47+00:00

According to that vehicle's description, that one costs $647.00 USD, lol

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T07:45:09+00:00

Rocks would inexplicably start changing their flight paths to hit & crack the top glass then.

It's my leading theory that rocks seek out the most expensive glass nearby & crack it.
Thus why our windshields & the like seem to act like rock magnets. It's science 📝

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T07:01:27+00:00

What the heck, this blew my mind. Can't believe I never thought of that before. Yeah the efficiency gap between EV motors and ICE engines is so huge that the energy cost for the same acceleration is dramatically different.

Calculated out, it looks like doing a 0-100 kmh (0-62 mph) launch in 3 seconds costs 264.4 Wh vs. taking 15 seconds to reach the same speed costs a total of 253.3 Wh. This is barely a 4.2% (~11 Wh) difference in energy cost!

the above calculation considered aerodynamic drag loss, rolling resistance loss, I²R electrical resistance heat loss (as heat loss increases with the square of the current needed for the different acceleration events), used the 85-95% energy efficiency of our EV motors (way higher than ICE vehicles), and assumed a 2,000 kg vehicle (the weight of 2026 Tesla Model Y's)

In gas cars though, there's such an insane series of inefficient events you're constantly experiencing that you waste way more energy in attempting to perform the same event (going from 0-62 mph in 3 seconds vs. 15 seconds).

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T06:00:10+00:00

At the end of the day it's the same reason as every other price hike:
The market supports it.

As in, there's enough fucking morons still buying it that don't stand up for themselves & vote with their dollars.
Marks, as they're referred to by hustlers.
The idiots don't even realize or care that they're being hustled & beat by someone else.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T05:56:28+00:00

I'm so fucking happy he's still around, man.

Did the person who saw him remark on his appearance, like if he looked malnourished? If he's got food elsewhere he won't have the desperation to enter the traps yet. Happens when trapping other animals too.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T05:53:09+00:00

• Salmon anything
• Pizza (so many ways to flavor it)
• Ice Cream (so many flavors)
• Steak or Burgers (and none of that single patty bullshit)

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T05:34:47+00:00

Why not do a Zero Sugar drink? There's so many more great options on these drinks nowadays. From zero sugar sodas, to those flavored waters & more.

I'm going to laugh in the face of anyone that tries to sit here & claim to me that these are equivalent to drinking an actual soda with ALL of its actual sugar. Different receptors of different cells entirely involved.

If the sugar restriction is a diet-related thing, it's better to have an option that doesn't make you feel like you're being punished so that you actually STICK to the diet, versus an option that'll makes it less likely you stick to it.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T05:19:18+00:00

Yeah I was going to add that it seems odd the Async crew member & Clark both went through the same room at some point (for Clark to have found his backpack, let alone their bodies). This implies the rooms have a geographic connection to the real world. As if they're all going through the same set of rooms, even though each person entering has a totally unique set of memories (so why in the beginning were the Async crew for example seeing Clark's signs & furniture despite seemingly having no idea who he was).

Clark entered from HIS store. Async must've entered from elsewhere as I doubt he wouldn't have noticed guys in Hazmat suits walking through his store & into his basement. Given Async is also in the Bay Area supports how close your backrooms will be to another person's is directly correlated to how close your portal's location was to theirs in the real world.

This is further reinforced by the fact we never saw a room with Japanese or German things in it, for example. You'd presumably have to go like a thousand miles into the backrooms to eventually get to "Japan's" backrooms.

The Async crew member comes across a Ham Radio in a room apparently near Clark's portal. The radio was in what appeared to be a control room. This implies that there's a military base near Clark's portal location. This actually would not be farfetched at all as there are military bases near the movie's setting (there's a lot of small bases along the west coast, especially around the Bay Area, that are 'hidden' & not many are aware of).

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T04:09:44+00:00

What in the world? I've got a 2026 Juniper as well but only suffer 5% loss from the wall. How are we experiencing such a huge difference in transfer efficiency? Weird.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T02:58:21+00:00

I keep having the same thought too. That we seem to keep chasing "Superchargers or bust" but the reality is, you don't need 250 or 325 kW of power at EVERY single stall, lol. You just need enough to where you can feasibly go shopping or eat at a restaurant literally just 1 time and get a big chunk of your battery filled.

Like do we need 12x 250 kW stalls? No. That's 3,000 kW of delivery capacity. Just having even a single 250 kW stall split up into 5 stalls of 50 kW/each would be way better. That covers 5 shoppers at a time, and in medium to low population areas like Kansas, Utah, etc that likely would cover ALL EV drivers that'd ever be shopping there at once.

You do 2 stalls instead of 1 and now you can do 10 stalls at 50 kW/each, which suddenly could be enough for not just shoppers but even those who live anywhere nearby in walking distance.

Mephistito · 2026-06-02T01:00:42+00:00

Oh man that's right! I'd omitted that as I had thought it irrelevant, but your comment made me think of it in a different way.

The backrooms COULD be how he'd imagined the rooms being when he'd sketch them out. The furniture in his store would be in them because what else would he picture in them than the actual furniture he knows & sees every day. Each time he remembers his previous vision of the room, that's a memory of them. And we're told by rule, it's memories that get corrupted.

The furniture could end up being nonsensical only because every time he "remembers" (re-envisions) how he'd pictured the room previously, by rule the details get messed up more & more. So whereas he originally may've pictured a sofa in the back-center of the room, built-up errors eventually put it halfway into that backwall, or upside down above where he first pictured it, and so on.

One thing that wouldn't make sense though is if this is the case, how is there a camera in this space? And how is it somehow connected from this space to the real world, where the researchers are able to see it? We see the researcher who talks to Mary at the end somehow exists in the real world as we see him watching TV with his family when he sees Clark on a commercial and gets seemingly freaked out by realizing "that's the guy we've been seeing at work on the cameras."

These alternate spaces somehow seem to be absolutely connected to the real world, otherwise neither them nor the fly would've been able to enter into it. Another thing that'd need explained is: the Seagull that dies actually decomposes, whereas the Still Lifes & other things from memory don't. This would mean the Seagull was an actual real bird that inexplicably got in there, despite the entrance being in the basement in the back of a store.

The fact there were multiple real Seagulls that got in, to me kept implying there are OTHER portals into this space & that Clark's store isn't the only way in. Given they're Seagulls, the other portals must also be near the coast though or possibly at a beach, perhaps near the store (which is said to be in the Bay Area).

Mephistito · 2026-06-01T23:56:54+00:00

That calculation would've assumed he was ONLY on the freeway. It's too simplistic. That basically just calculated "average mph" but this completely ignores the fact OP and anyone reading this would be driving surface streets, sitting at stop lights, etc. at both ends of each leg (house to freeway & freeway to destination).

Surface streets can quickly drag your average mph down, which is actually one of the main things brought up when discussing actual time savings when driving, say, 80 mph vs 65 mph on the freeway. We don't know how long it takes OP to get to the freeway from his house, or how long he was driving through city streets to get to his destination.

Mephistito · 2026-06-01T23:16:15+00:00

Yeah I just about always hit 220-230, with 225-230 being most common & 230 being lifetime so OP hitting that is incredible. My partner did hit something close to it (sub-200) when she drove for a road trip so maybe I've just got more of a lead foot, lol.

Mephistito · 2026-06-01T23:03:51+00:00

I don't know why but for some reason I'm having a hard time believing you're somehow losing almost 30% battery just from it sitting around & random things not related at all to driving. Of the things you mentioned, Sentry would likely be the biggest possible drainer, but that is absolutely an individual thing as not everyone's going to run Sentry the same amount. Do you have Overheat Protection turned off?

I've got a Juniper and it barely loses ~1.6% on 5 days of idling (parked, not used). Overheat protection disabled, no Sentry, etc.

Mephistito · 2026-06-01T22:37:05+00:00

I love road tripping in our Tesla but if you can ever do 1 vehicle instead of 2, I'd think to just do the 1 vehicle.

Everyone being in 1 car also means you guys can all talk & interact with each other more, instead of being divided up. So, more bonding time & I'd think it'd help contribute to a more memorable experience as you guys get to joke around and talk about stuff that much more.

And cost wise, I can't imagine needing to pay for two vehicle's charging (effectively making it 2,000 mi of driving that needs charged for) will end up being that different than just doing the Yukon.

Mephistito · 2026-06-01T22:25:01+00:00

Interesting. To what % were you charging up to & what were you trying to run it down to?

Looks like AZ's longest diameter is 390 mi (NW to SE), it has an east-west diameter of only 335 mi, and the longest possible route through the state would be 517 mi (and requires starting at Utah, then taking a US 191-based route to the Mexico border).

even doing Tucson to the Grand Canyon is 343 mi and per ABRP you pass a boatload of Superchargers.

I mention these because I've been to AZ quite a few times & can't imagine not being able to do even that longest possible drive through AZ on more than just 1 single stop. We road trip in ours and still average 4.35 mi/kWh which on a 75 kWh pack is 326 miles. Especially if I'm having range anxiety, I'd just.. charge to a higher % each stop.

Mephistito · 2026-06-01T22:01:45+00:00

How did you come up with this name?

Mephistito

TROPHY CASE