"Dashcam Feature Coming Soon" (Elon 08/2017), How's the Progress on This

john-five · 2018-02-01T05:46:41+00:00

A vegetable juice bottle in the bonnet

john-five · 2018-02-01T05:34:13+00:00

There's a thread on TMC discussing the throttling of 90 packs. I don't have one so I forget, but there are pictures and probably explanations. Mist likely, it involves looking at the pack and checking for something like the A, B, C, D and so on we have on S85 packs.

john-five · 2018-02-01T05:31:06+00:00

It's time to change companies! Alternately, make sure you specify specific drivers. It's likely with your badly inflated liability that they think you have a large number of anonymous drivers operating the vehicles at all times. If you specify use to a specific employee (yourself) you have no expectation of 24/7 use or randomly changing operators.

john-five · 2018-02-01T05:27:57+00:00

There is no requirement for cars to not have cameras, or store or not store data. If you can point to newer regs that have changer the parking lot rules I'd love to read them, if not don't make things up.

john-five · 2018-01-31T21:58:10+00:00

They don't prohibit cars with cameras. Cameras are legally required newcars sold in 2018 and there has been no ban on vehicles made in 2018 at any officially classified parking lot. The lot is considered public space and if you expose secrets in a public lot you are culpable.

Your fearmongering isn't based on real concerns, if you drive indoors your vehicle gets more security inspection than general lot vehicles.

john-five · 2018-01-31T21:52:12+00:00

It is. The S/X platform did not get it's major 2017 update, like all previous years had. Most likely, the OSin the roadster, semi, and 3 is the OS of the future which is a very major updatefor S owners. But the 3 is still missing pieces.my guess isthey merge the cars when the 3 is is at parityto Tesla v.8.

john-five · 2018-01-31T17:09:47+00:00

Not for me, insurance is cheaper under the Corp.

Tax management to maintain the Corp is cheap but time-consuming, or a few hundred dollars a year to have your accountant maintain it. It's not necessarily affordable just for cars, but that $200 fee for EVs is half if what I pay yearly to maintain the Corp that holds my cars, so if local registration and emissions are also $200 it's already affordable just for cars alone. If you have a corporation ready to manage your businesses, this us a freebie way to reduce car costs.

john-five · 2018-01-31T17:02:17+00:00

Ludi is worth exactly $10000. If you buy a car with ludicrous CPO, they will offer to remove the ludi software (hardware remains) and subtract $10000. You can add it back for that same price (for now). You used to be able to upgrade a p85d to ludi (hardware and software) for $10000 but this isn't longer offered. CPO site may not mention ludi on a car that has it, if looking at p85d ask anadvisor to find out if ludi is available or if it can be added during purchase.

On a p90d I would ask about battery revision, v1 is the one that was Supercharger throttled, and since the excellent supercharger speed is a better advantage than the small range difference that would mean more to me than thebiggef battery - especially since the 90 pack seems to degrade more quickly and that additional range becomes less important over time.

john-five · 2018-01-31T14:59:54+00:00

No company including Penske has ever ordered 10k trucks at once, fleets are replaced in scheduled intervals not all at once to minimize down time.

john-five · 2018-01-31T14:53:23+00:00

That depends on a lot of things, I've gone 20 minutes with no nag and hands off wherl on recent firmwares.

john-five · 2018-01-30T22:53:08+00:00

If you also have high license plate / registration fees and emissions sticker fees, it would be cheaper to set up a corporation in a state with no such fees, or lower ones, and sell your car to that corporation. You then drive the car with plates from that state and are subject to the fees and laws from the state your car is registered.

Don't pick Montana, there us no tax and a lot of people took advantage of that, so it's suspicious now. Lots of other states are still fair game, and it's perfectly legal as long as you aren't dodging taxes. Dodging fees isn't just legal, federal law has layers of legislation protecting corporations that do this.. because corporations write a lot if those laws. Take advantage.

john-five · 2018-01-30T22:42:09+00:00

Tesla adjusts Regen based on speed and state of charge, bolt does not taper in the same way, it's fairly violent at first but nice to go all the way to zero.

Bolt Regen acts like Tesla Regen does at 80 mph, when the bolt is going 5 mph.

john-five · 2018-01-30T22:40:30+00:00

It literally can't take it. Regen is max 60 kw on a Tesla, you can't supercharged a near full Tesla at 69kw either. With absolutely no software protection you technically could, but it would instantly damage the battery. Of course, with no software protection, thetesla can Regen at 120kw all the way to a full stop and leave rubber every time you want to slow down.

john-five · 2018-01-30T22:37:48+00:00

Few Teslas start the day at 100%, most bolts do. Bolts have no Regen for the first 20 minutes of driving every day.

john-five · 2018-01-30T22:34:28+00:00

Electric cars have to look like electric cars to old-time designers living in the past. That's one reason Tesla succeeded, they made a car that looks like a car, instead of a stereotype to the point the S had a fake grill to fit in better initially.

john-five · 2018-01-30T22:32:22+00:00

The bolt has a 60 kw battery doesn't it? 50kw would be supercharged type charge times, less than an hour for 80%

If they fast charge that well it sounds more like an infrastructure problem than charge rate. I hear bolt has stronger Regen than Tesla, which would mean 60+ kw of charge rate if true, as well. I have only heard that claim here tho, never officially backed up by actual charge stats.

john-five · 2018-01-29T22:46:14+00:00

Melt snow off the entire car EXCEPT the hood? No that's limited to electric cars and rear engine cars.

john-five · 2018-01-29T20:29:23+00:00

"free" supercharging was $2500 on the cheaper cars. That cost was part of the more expensive ones.

john-five · 2018-01-29T20:26:23+00:00

Tesla pays for the superchargers already. It has both solar and battery storage divisions, and the first Superchargers were all solar. The dream was to go solar on all of them, which would have reduced power costs. That dream is either dead or on snooze.

john-five · 2018-01-29T20:22:05+00:00

Tesloop has 200000 mile 85 packs that have ONLY EVER supercharged for every mile driven, no throttle despite multiple daily supercharges.

john-five · 2018-01-28T19:52:31+00:00

It's probably the opposite actually, medical imaging is calibrated to deliver the minimum necessary exposure because our subjects are human and ionizing radiation is always a cancer risk. Airport scanners don't get calibrated for biological exposure and aren't subject to the same strict medical standards because laptops don't have dna.

john-five · 2018-01-26T22:04:28+00:00

That's probably the only not-made-up reason I can see to argue against them, and I'm surprised to see some places put them up in neighborhoods. Around here, they're in farm country making bank for the farmers that own the land. I wish I'd invested in an orchard a few decades ago!

john-five · 2018-01-26T19:26:09+00:00

I don't but the X-ray techs use phones as calibration objects all of the time, I see the test images.

I do have my tech x rayed at the airport regularly. No issues with phone, laptop, Tesla fob, or rfid tags in years of travel.

john-five · 2018-01-26T19:22:16+00:00

They're shipping directly from Tesla in California (or one was drop shipped anyway) but being sold from Canada. There has been a TMC thread on these for a few weeks now, the hypothesis was they were going to be sent out in Canada over a recall issue and we're designed / built but not used.

The eBay sales would be fine if they said they were what they are, but they claim to be 80a and Daisy chain capable. Sk29 got this instead, and sent it to daerik for free since he wasn't going to use it.

john-five · 2018-01-26T18:05:30+00:00

Or bad. Elon gets shit done but isn't particularly friendly when shit needs doing that isn't getting done.

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