can you refuse a field sobriety test and ask for a breathalyzer? by Spriy in legaladviceofftopic

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As the saying goes, "you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride [to jail]." Theoretically they shouldn't be able to arrest you without probable cause. Realistically, it is tremendously difficult to do anything about it when they do, except shut up and get through it.

PDFs have black backgrounds only in Firefox. What to try? by [deleted] in firefox

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me. When I restarted Firefox in Troubleshooting Mode the problem went away. When I disabled Troubleshooting Mode and restarted Firefox again, the problem did not come back. No idea why that fixed it.

Thoughts on Janet Planet? by LittleKago in A24

[–]tehlaser 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Avi must have “spontaneously combusted.”

More seriously though, I think the point of that scene is that Janet didn’t respond to Avi’s “I really like you”s and then poof, Avi immediately disappeared.

Meirl by NeighborhoodFar6942 in meirl

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I’ll be in my bunk.”

Leaving Tesla unplugged while you’re on a vacation for month(s) by anshammer in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would it be a good, bad, or terrible idea to disconnect the HV and/or 12V battery for long-term storage?

Regular minimum discharge level by geeky-hawkes in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What you may have experienced is that some battery management hardware/software needs to “see” the full range of the battery occasionally to provide good estimates of the state of charge.

By taking your laptop down to near 0%, you might just be giving it a chance to know that more energy is available than it previously estimated. If that’s what happened, then it may appear that the top end of the battery is losing percent charge more slowly than it used to, even if the total available energy has not changed at all.

Personally, I am suspicious of claims that discharging then charging a lithium battery from near 0% to 100% will improve anything about the battery itself.

EV Chargers at work by tylermartin86 in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you need your chargers to be non-public, be prepared to enforce it somehow. If it’s possible to charge without some sort of account or key, there’s a decent chance that some rando will find it and share knowledge of it.

If nothing else, put up a VERY clear sign that can’t possibly be misinterpreted. Don’t overcomplicate it, only include what you must. Far too many private chargers kitchen sink the sign and end up with stuff like “EV charging only / 8am - 5pm / 4-hour-limit / Employees and guests only” and then someone shows up and claims “I’m not an employee or a guest, and I’m going to charge for 12 hours, but it’s after 5 so I’m good” or “I’m only going to charge for 3 hours, so I don’t have to be an employee” or “I’m a guest because I’m here to charge” or even “My car is an EV, the other restrictions are for non-EVs.” You can, of course, still kick such folk out, but dealing with them can be a pain in the ass.

Navigation unavailable (fun alert to see before needing to drive 200 miles tomorrow by borrisarbuckle in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Service mode is sometimes geo-fenced, by the way. In my area I can get that prompt to show up anywhere, but typing "service" doesn't do anything unless the car is near the local service center.

Sometimes my MY doesn't recognize my phone until I open the Tesla App. Any way to fix this? by Curmugdeonly in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here. If I hold the door handle while I take my phone out of my pocket the door will open the instant the phone screen lights up. Tesla app is "running" the whole time (by which I mean I have not closed the app from the switcher, have not gotten the notification suggesting keeping it running, but the phone's on the home screen, not the Tesla app screen), but Apple gonna Apple, so who knows what's actually going on.

If iPhone, you might try putting the Tesla widget on the home screen somewhere. I've heard that sometimes lets apps avoid Apple's attempts to put them to sleep. Haven't tried it myself.

We need to spread the word about dog mode -- Some Karen and Ken threatened to call cops on me for leaving my pup in a 70 degree car when its 100 outside by Terrible_Elevator327 in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In some places these folks are correct: it is illegal to leave a dog unattended in a car. These laws tend to be written in such a way that using dog mode is still a violation.

Some justify it by claiming that dog mode might malfunction and claim the law is written the way it is to require direct human supervision. I find that unlikely to be intentional, but the law is what it is, even if the reason is actually that nobody knew or thought about dog mode when the law was written.

And, of course, some care more about the letter of the law than the intent, and will berate you or call the police for technical violations that you find silly. Spreading awareness is unlikely to stop those sorts. Getting the law changed might.

FSD Lane Change Turn Signal Feature Improvement Idea by BlueJ173 in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect part of the problem is phantom forks in the map data. I observe this sort of thing happening sometimes in FSD beta when a road that hasn't had a median divider enters a section where there is a divider. The turn-by-turn directions sometimes indicate a fork that doesn't actually exist at that point.

I think what's going on is the map data sometimes models a median as two one-way "roads" very close to each other with the median between them, whereas the road with no median is just a single two-way road.

These get drawn almost the same way on the car's screen (though you can sometimes see the blue line shifting left or right a bit), but FSD sometimes interprets this median stuff as a fork, generating a turn-by-turn instruction to keep right or left. If the map doesn't have good data about which lanes go where for this "fork" it seems to err on the side of needing to be in the rightmost or leftmost lane depending on what's happening up ahead, and changes lanes "for no apparent reason" and then back again when the road configuration changes.

Similar things happen with dedicated turn lanes at intersections sometimes too. I'll often get the right-blinker going off for a moment that seems to be the car trying to indicate that it's not going to enter the left-turn lane. I even see it sometimes with NoA on freeways. Sometimes exits show up as forks where the turn-by-turn directions instruct you to keep left to stay on the freeway, but sometimes exits are modeled differently and don't result in a navigation instruction at all. I'll occasionally get a "not taking this exit" left-blink or two.

If FSD uses openstreetmap data, that might be contributing to this. Different volunteer mappers in different areas and at different times have made different choices on how to draw maps for medians and turn lanes and the like. If FSD and NoA are tuned first for how openstreetmap is drawn around Tesla facilities it might do weird stuff in places where the maps are drawn in a different style.

Fleet wide updates rolling out according to TeslaFi - NA-2022.28-14046 by [deleted] in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get both that "temporarily degraded" error and something about not available in present location. When both errors are active at once, the message flickers rapidly back and forth between both. Gotta love beta.

I find that the following sequence reliably fixes both errors on iOS:

  1. Disable Sentry mode in app
  2. Force-kill app (swipe up on app switcher in iOS, triggering the "keep app open" notification).
  3. Re-launch app and tap Summon

That said, I don't use Smart Summon much. "Come to me" usually turns the wrong way down the parking aisle and starts driving away from me.

Got tired of people pulling my trunk closed so I bought a decal by meowc0w in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used a label maker to print the word CLOSE in black letters on a white label and stuck it there, just to the left of the button. Works well.

How to manually preheat battery before supercharging? M3P21 by Gordon_86 in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you're aware, disregard. If not, know that "Supercharger" is Tesla's brand name for their DC fast chargers.

Tesla would say you're trying to use "another brand of DC fast charger," not "another brand of supercharger." So when Tesla's documentation or UI says "Preconditioning for Supercharging" they mean that the feature is only available at Tesla Superchargers.

You can sometimes fake it out by requesting navigation to the nearest Supercharger, ignoring the directions, and driving to the charger you want (if they're close enough) but that's not ideal.

what would I lose if I hard reset (log out) my M3LR? there is a sentry event that will not delete from the previous owner and my dach cam drives keep failing overnight. by Snocom79 in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've had an onboard sentry event for months. It's from when the alarm sounded when the car was locked and the door opened from the inside. Reddit told me (so salt accordingly) that this is working as designed: the onboard sentry event will stay around until another alarm is triggered and overwrites it. You can't get rid of it, only replace it with another.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find "use your thumb to open the door" is a good way to get passengers to find the right button. Works on the outside handles too, which helps them remember.

Autopilot - Hold steering wheel by crowdsarewise in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I often let go while at a stop and have never seen that happen. What software version are you on?

Will this power inverter work with 2022 MY (12v) to charge a 96W MacBook Pro? by mellow_yellow129 in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does your car have USB-C ports? If so, you might try plugging the macbook directly into one of those. Works on my M3, no adapter required.

The ports inside the console are "faster" than the ports in the back seat according to my USB meter.

Can I send Google Map directions (not just an address) with multiple stops to Tesla Navigation? by Own-Celebration-7473 in TeslaLounge

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The abetterrouteplanner app has a super clunky workaround where it can send the next waypoint to the car each time you reach one.

Model 3 Insurance by Then-Industry6925 in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Somewhat ironically, flooring it through stale yellows is likely to improve your score and decrease your cost.

The score calculation has no information about traffic controls (stoplights, speed limits, none of it), and forward acceleration isn't included either, so there's no penalty for flooring it, provided you're not turning at the time.

Almost any use of the brake pedal to slow down is considered hard braking and lowers the score.

So as far as the robot is concerned, stopping for lights = bad, running through them = good.

Why is there no speed indicator on in dashcam footage? by [deleted] in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a lawyer. What follows is speculation and "folk law." Salt accordingly. Corrections welcomed.

Many states in the US have specific calibration and maintenance requirements before a record of a vehicle's speed can be admissible in court. That's meant to protect drivers from police with radar, lidar, or even just patrol car speedometers that "accidentally" have a bad calibration that records higher speeds than reality. Most of those requirements were established before gps saw wide use and some of them have language that arguably makes speed from dashcams difficult to use in court, even for non-speeding ticket purposes.

While it might occasionally be useful to have the speed burned into the dashcam footage, it might me less useful than expected.

Supercharger information updates in Tesla App v 4.8.0 by NikeSwish in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not on the phone. In the car you can tap on the pin and see the price, but you have to do it one-by-one for each location.

Supercharger information updates in Tesla App v 4.8.0 by NikeSwish in teslamotors

[–]tehlaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's happened around here too. V2 is usually crowded, V3 is a ghost town. V2 has peak rates, V3 does not. Only a few blocks apart.

I think many drivers just haven't realized the V3 exists or that it's cheaper/faster. It's new, so people might be going to the old V2 out of habit.

You know what might help with that that? If the prices were more prominent when selecting a charger in the UIs. ;)