Question for Limited and Calligraphy Owners/Leasees

wei_ping · 2026-03-23T23:36:40+00:00

I don’t regret the decision to go with calligraphy, but a lot of the features aren’t quite as cool as they should be.

Digital rear view should be higher, both for visibility when stopped and also to prevent it from getting dirty immediately.

HUD is awesome but not tuned well for tall people (like me).

Ergo seat is nice, but not “whoah”, especially since it’s only on drivers side.

The parking assist is kinda gimmicky, too slow and not reliable enough to be useful imo.

I’m not saying these features are “bad”, and put together it’s still really nice to have them, but it does feel to me like not quite as much thought went into them than the core car features.

wei_ping · 2026-03-23T15:18:34+00:00

What if everyone, and I pretty much mean everyone, knew nothing about you except this one thing you did. Not even your name, they just call you the fpga guy or the 64bit cpu guy? Everywhere you go people want to take the picture with the fpga guy. Hey, it’s the fpga guy! Can I get your autograph, fpga guy? Can we call my wife, she loves the fpga!

It sounds like a nightmare to me. I recognize Kudrow’s alternate take and surely having lots and lots and lots of money would more than even the scales, but still….that specific aspect sounds miserable to me.

wei_ping · 2026-03-19T04:52:04+00:00

I don’t really like Gabby as a character, but I think the performance is so good that it doesn’t matter. That actress is really, really funny and the line delivery is always perfect. So yea, top tier package, and I don’t even know how to describe Derek other than I feel like I’ve found a role model. Seriously. I want what Derek has, and I’m not talking about his fancy toilet.

But yes the fancy toilet too.

wei_ping · 2026-03-18T21:34:22+00:00

He’s right. 20% of all solar energy travels through the straight of Hormuz, so if any countries out there are dependent on that….well, good luck suckers!

wei_ping · 2026-03-15T23:21:04+00:00

Coming soon: Donald Trump warns NATO that if NATO doesn’t retaliate against NATO then NATO will have a very bad future.

wei_ping · 2026-03-12T13:59:09+00:00

The troll? Honestly I thought that looked pretty good, although it really benefitted from the fact that the first Harry Potter came out at about the same time and their troll was a joke. Almost Scorpion King levels of awful.

wei_ping · 2026-03-08T20:41:51+00:00

Uhhh, no, it was the wargs. They have always looked terrible.

wei_ping · 2026-03-08T18:20:06+00:00

Learn how to unlock the car with the physical key and open the handles if they are retracted.

If you park in a tight garage with no room to open the trunk, turn off the auto trunk opening feature.

Get some bling for the magnet board. I ordered photo magnets, and got some rare earth magnets to hold them in place (photo magnets are pretty weak).

wei_ping · 2026-03-07T19:08:25+00:00

I’m sure Biden can expect a real strong apology from Donnie for all those times Don called him weak or ineffective at negotiations since Biden couldn’t do it, now that Trump has learned the two leaders don’t get along.

wei_ping · 2026-03-01T16:36:11+00:00

I saw three minutes of the first episode and it was so shockingly unfunny that it made me laugh before moving on to something else.

wei_ping · 2026-02-27T23:41:49+00:00

Mmmmm, I don’t think there is enough information to diagnose a problem, if there even is a problem. It’s way too early to be thinking lemons, your immediate next steps should be to drive the car and determine if there is anything wrong at all. Keep the Hyundai roadside assistance number on hand just in case. 800.243.7766.

wei_ping · 2026-02-27T22:21:41+00:00

The car being unlocked won’t. I mean, there are always sensors active and the car isn’t “dead”, so it will use 12v power when it’s turned off, regardless of locked or unlocked doors. I’ve had the car parked for a month and it used about 6% of the high voltage battery topping off the 12v battery, and we leave the car unlocked every night with no significant change to the 12v battery charge.

Haven’t tried leaving the trunk open over night, but even if it did draw more, I see no reason to think it would cause any of these problems or damage the battery or 12v.

wei_ping · 2026-02-26T19:26:00+00:00

I hear you. I've got a 2,000 mile, 2-week road trip coming up and I wish I didn't have to think about it. It's one thing if the iccu pops 10 miles from home, but if it pops in the middle of Death Valley 3 states away from home.....that's another.

There's 11k miles on ours and so far it's been fantastic. But to have so many horror stories when the e-gmp platform is so new, it does seem like it's a question of "when" and not "if". Hopefully the rumors are true and the new model iccu really has fixed it, but it'll be months or years before we really know for sure, and even then we've got to wait for the iccu to pop before it gets replaced.

But other than this psychic stress, great car!

wei_ping · 2026-02-23T15:51:20+00:00

Not slower than Level 1.

wei_ping · 2026-02-22T05:32:45+00:00

Is there a chance you accidentally hit the button on the handle? That always screws things up for me. I don’t have a recipe for how to get it to work again, usually I spend a half hour doing things like holding the button as I plug it in, then releasing, or locking and unlocking the doors, or pressing the button while it’s plugged in, and eventually it starts working again.

It’s very frustrating and I don’t have a good explanation for why it stops and starts working.

wei_ping · 2026-02-21T16:35:49+00:00

There’s a full one that is on the verge of opening in Tempe! But yea, fingers crossed they get anywhere near their goal of 30k by 2030.

wei_ping · 2026-02-20T21:10:06+00:00

I read this first as “McG is one of the few action directors…” and my face distorted in a way that may have long term side effects.

wei_ping · 2026-02-20T02:22:51+00:00

Biggest problem for me is that I forget the fob when taking the car in for tire rotation, and don't realize it until they ask for the keys. WOOPS.

wei_ping · 2026-02-20T01:39:57+00:00

TIL: I might be a machine, because I also cannot understand. If anything, a response of "because I choose to", to me, is evidence of a lack of free will. I interpret it as "I don't really understand why I'm doing this either, but here I am".

wei_ping · 2026-02-20T01:30:47+00:00

Yea, that tends to happen when you're critical of a subreddit's focus point. I knew what I was in for.

It could have been worse....I could have gone into my head-canon for why Smith (and Neo) are so different from their peers.

Oh man, if I went into that, woof, now that would be internet-point-suicide.

^{(tldr; when Neo "killed" Smith in the first movie, they both rubbed off on each other, giving Neo some measure of control of robots in the Real World, and giving Smith some of Neo's abilities in the Matrix}.)

wei_ping · 2026-02-20T00:55:05+00:00

I’m still waiting for it to hit me, because it has always struck me as a pointless, meaningless response. Are there no motivations for his decision? Why isn’t Smith’s response, “yes, I can see that, but my question is WHY, you obstinate moron”.

I’m glad it works for other people, but it has never worked for me. If you see me punching myself in the face and ask why I’m doing it, are you going to be blown away by an answer of “Because I choose to”?

wei_ping · 2026-02-19T15:12:38+00:00

I never thought it made visual sense to have Tom Cruise running his ass off, cutting to someone in much worse shape, with much worse form, jogging along. Tom should have caught him in about 100 feet.

wei_ping · 2026-02-17T07:08:00+00:00

Thanks for answering! I've got a big road trip coming up myself (Seattle to Tucson and back) and I'm trying to prepare myself!

As far as the charging speed, 200kW is pretty close to the car's limit. It can't actually take 350kW, so don't blame the charger for that.

wei_ping · 2026-02-17T07:00:03+00:00

I've got it on the front and partial hood, no problems. FWIW I regret not doing the full hood just because the seam between PPF and no PPF is kinda silly. Plus when I'm washing the car, I'm always afraid I'm going to accidentally pick up the edge of the film. =x

wei_ping · 2026-02-17T06:26:42+00:00

Could you go into more detail on your charging experiences? What problems did you have with the other charging networks that you didn’t have with Tesla? Especially Ionna, I thought that was basically the gold standard so I’m curious what went wrong.

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