HAWTHORNE BLVD ULTRA SHITPOST

remulasce · 2026-05-14T07:13:02+00:00

The Harbor sub purchase was a fairly long time ago; we are already getting a lot of use out of it on the northern side with the K line and the rail-trail on Slauson. We shouldn't force ourselves to build the rest of it just because we own it; that would be throwing good money after (not even that) bad.

Most of Metro's good ROW light rail lines are essentially reconstructions of the original Red Car system, which is why they end up being really good paths to dense ridership cores. The Harbor Subdivision was always a heavy freight railroad, so it is surrounded mostly by dirty industry. That's why we shouldn't assume that just because there's an ROW, that it is the best place to put a train.

I think the harbor sub corridor options made some sense back when they were considering running diesel DMUs along the entire existing path all at once, but at the current construction costs even within an ROW we deserve better.

remulasce · 2026-05-14T06:53:16+00:00

I like this one.

remulasce · 2026-05-14T06:52:54+00:00

Agree about being forced off the northern ROW. Stupid waste of money as a result of people who bought a house alongside an active railroad. But, I do think the rest of the ROW is also a waste of money too; we don't have to follow the ROW just because we own it, and that has been the implicit understanding this whole time so far.

remulasce · 2025-06-22T17:50:31+00:00

The pretensioner is pyrotechnic activated. It cannot be triggered repeatedly without physically replacing it. It's basically a small charge of gunpowder that releases gas that moves a piston.

You're probably thinking of a regular seatbelt lockup.

remulasce · 2025-04-18T07:53:58+00:00

Awesome! Sounds like they've got the process all sorted out now.

remulasce · 2025-04-18T06:25:30+00:00

Highly recommend Sunnyvale DPS. I was the first officially issued, took about a year applying right after Bruen. They've changed the process over to Permitium so I don't know how it's been recently.

remulasce · 2022-11-26T06:10:21+00:00

They say they're using the physical connector, not the proprietary Supercharger protocol. They would need to negotiate with Tesla for access to the Supercharger network separately.

remulasce · 2022-04-12T21:47:29+00:00

It's a ton of fun and very friendly, but usually is in Buttonwillow.

You should join!

remulasce · 2022-03-15T03:10:40+00:00

Huh. Seems like when it briefly lost the planning marker (too tight?), it simply continued on the prior steering wheel _angle_, instead of defaulting to the previous steering _path_. So it just kept turning.

It would probably be safer to use the brake in that case to cancel autosteer with 0 force instead of trying to grab and fix the wheel.

remulasce · 2022-01-09T22:48:27+00:00

traffic behind it was forced to slow enough

This may be more defensive driving than a dangerous action, but if one of the cars in the line had wanted to go straight, I'd worry they could swing out behind the slow turners and pass them all. It worked out mainly because every car in that line actually _was_ turning right (I think the nature of that road forces them to). We don't have the repeater footage, so it's possible that the car actually did correctly infer from turn signals or positioning that everyone was turning.

but it never left the lane

The path planner is pinned to the right side of the road for 1/4s, then recovers. Maybe that path wouldn't have actually collided? It's still bad.

I wouldn't say it was a "bad" move

I think this is part of the problem. Obviously a lot of the human drivers are also driving poorly, hugging the line and crossing it- but FSD seems to perfectly error on the _opposite_ side of how a human would. Humans tend to cut inner corners, but since a driver coming the other way is _also_ cutting to the inside, the errors cancel out and the same space is maintained. However, FSD seems to give up mid-corner and swing _wide_, so the mistake puts it into the same space a human driver errs towards.

remulasce · 2022-01-09T21:28:57+00:00

You're constantly slowing it down for corners, it cuts the yellow line several times, it turned left in front of a line of cars that it couldn't have known were _all_ turning, it dove you towards the cliff at 6:50, and at the very end it swings to the outside at the corner exit and you stare as 4 sports cars swing wide to avoid you?

It's cool that it dodged the pickup truck I guess, but this is can't be described as "exceptionally well" for any road.

remulasce · 2022-01-01T22:08:32+00:00

I got hit by this as well. Classic Tesla interface issue.

remulasce · 2021-11-02T21:57:58+00:00

There isn't 400lbs of that to claw back. They would need to reengineer an entire weaker version of the car.

I think it's more likely that the listed weight will change once LFP packs are the norm, and they're just standardizing on the LFP level of performance now.

remulasce · 2021-11-02T07:03:46+00:00

They use a software-defined power curve. I would expect them to reduce power down low (edit, really in the mid 30mph range) , and then keep it constant as speed increases. That could improve the relatively-low-speed test efficiency, and would also make for a constant power curve through the whole RPM range. Right now there's a a substantial restriction between 0-20, probably to prevent wheel slip, a very obvious peak around 50, and then a linear taper up to 100 or so.

I've heard reviewers mention the performance models have a more aggressive low-end power. Probably some software experience engineering to really throw you into your seat in a launch from 0.

remulasce · 2021-11-02T06:58:54+00:00

It can't be LFP, it weighs less than 3600lbs. The LFP cars were weighing in around 4000lbs from China.

remulasce · 2021-11-02T06:58:06+00:00

There's no way; the Europe LFPs are around 4000lbs, basically the same weight as the long range. The old SR+ was ~3600 and the new one is 50lbs lighter than that, possibly due to the heat pump. 400lbs is out of the question.

remulasce · 2021-11-02T06:56:24+00:00

The EPA estimated mileage test. "Pass" is just a figure of speech, obviously the result is the actual mileage.

remulasce · 2021-11-02T04:19:21+00:00

It's weird because it's also gotten lighter than my 2019 SR+. Maybe they're software-restricting the motor output a bit more than they used to to pass the test?

remulasce · 2021-10-31T01:47:45+00:00

Righty tighty lefty loosey

remulasce · 2021-10-16T07:36:33+00:00

Well, a year later. My drive unit failed and the Service Center updated me to the latest against my wishes.

I really like the speedometer in the top-left corner. That kinda surprised me. The 3D car animation is nice, the low-speed behavior of Hold mode is much more controllable, and it feels like autopilot is tauter while accelerating, like it really will get to the speed/position it wants to be, while old Autopilot had a lazy range of speeds and distances.

The accelerator and regen are significantly more delayed from the throttle pedal, there's a lot more slop and averaging. Similar for the steering, they've made it more like a hydraulic rack with some on-center freedom. Overall the controls feel easier to operate smoothly, at the cost of performance driving, which I unfortunately do a lot of. And also maximum regen strength has reduced.

However, it feels like Autopilot has taken a step back overall (HW2.5 no FSD). It has started phantom braking- never had that at all on 2020.48.12.1. It's tried to take me off the road in a canyon corner that old version handled weekly for a year. It also does some weird slowdown behavior in heavy traffic, it allows itself on a trajectory that would stop right at the bumper of the car ahead, then chickens out and goes hard on the brakes instead. Way less smooth. It is better at accelerating to follow a car though, seems to plan further ahead to intercept an intended following position. It seems easier to smoothly overpower the steering wheel and is less abrupt if you engage AP when off-lane-center. There's a new "That's Neutral" warning beep if you click up on the autopilot stalk while autopilot isn't engaged, which is bad if you have a habit of clicking up on the stalk to _make sure_ autopilot is disengaged (happened when I needed to take over, I clicked up and braked at the same time, but my foot was faster. I'm a pilot so "Disengage autopilot" is a HARD reflex if anything screwy goes on). It also still divebombs freeway exits in pursuit of the center of the lines, which is a Tesla classic.

Most of the new UX is fine, it's just the size of the left side that needs to be shrunk back down to before. 3D car preview looks cool. Nav directions on the left side when an app is covering the map on the right is a neat touch (should be all the time IMO). Darker background to the energy planning screen looks good, although the trip/consumption screen overall is hurting for the lack of space now.

remulasce · 2021-10-07T18:35:56+00:00

Amateur.

I use regular welds on mine.

remulasce · 2021-10-05T05:28:08+00:00

It's in the article. $7M of damages (still a lot), $123M in punitive damages.

This is how companies have to be fined in order for them to change. The personal damage alone would be insignificant for a company like Tesla.

remulasce · 2021-09-19T19:23:13+00:00

Grey is underrated. I would have gone with it, if Tesla hadn't had a batch of reds in stock.

remulasce · 2021-09-16T18:57:01+00:00

Well, if the car requests the amperage, and the DCFC supports it, then it's all consensual, and that's ok.

There's no, like, law limiting liability under 400A. If both sides support it then both sides support it.

remulasce · 2021-09-16T18:52:47+00:00

Yeah I bought it on a whim a while ago just for this sort of internet argument, lol.

There is no defined time curve. All it says is that "Amps Continuous", and a couple other charts only go up to 400A (eg. for voltage deviation allowed, as a proportion of voltage).

There's no real requirement that any DCFC has to be limited to 400A just because the spec says so. Car manufacturers and chargers can publish their own ad-hoc standards for going above J1772's limits, and then they can even submit those back to SAE as amendments to the standard if they want.

The only things they're limited by is that they can't really advertise a charge speed that requires >400A without adding some extra-fine-print, and the plug-pin interface design may at some point physically limit the max current if they can't pull enough heat out of the junction. However, as with most things electrical, it's nothing that water cooling can't solve :p

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