I believe this is no longer true (though it was for a couple of years).
I own a T3. It has many wildly incomplete and "buggy" behaviors which were all forgivable when this was the only game in town. Now I'm actively looking forward to an electric Audi or Merc or VW or Ford or... the list is growing rapidly.
I believe this is no longer true (though it was for a couple of years).
I own a T3. It has many wildly incomplete and "buggy" behaviors which were all forgivable when this was the only game in town. Now I'm actively looking forward to an electric Audi or Merc or VW or Ford or... the list is growing rapidly.
Just the fact that there's no way to disable the car's insanely buggy (and almost always wrong) auto-steer feature which slams on the breaks or steers wildly left or right when the car (again - WRONGLY and NOT WHEN ON AUTOPILOT) decides (did I mention "WRONGLY") that there's some hazard that it (incorrectly) feels the need to (suddenly and without any obvious reason) needs to (spontaneously) avoid?
Oh, and don't get me started on how last winter the heat pump went out (on thousands and thousands of 3s) here in Quebec when the temperature dropped to -30º and the windows fogged over and froze and I was left stranded on the highway an hour from home and Elon Tweeted "we're working on it"... TWO WEEKS LATER and you know when they fixed it? Never. They implemented a kludge and now the car pumps luke warm air and it's sorta' kind'a driveable but still the temperature in the cabin is about 36Fº - which sure - it won't kill you but... you know... not very "luxury" feeling.
And you know what other E cars have this problem? None of them.
I don't mean to be dunking on you in any way... Just trying to keep things in perspective :)
There is plenty of electricity still produced from fossil fuels. I have an electric car, mostly because of the gas savings. But I know my carbon foot print is far from zero. There is very little electricity produced from renewable sources.
That's in part because there has been very little interest until recently. I have a design my dad developed and presented in 1957 to generate electricity using ocean waves to generate power to pump water into a reservoir in a closed system that would then generate electricity as conventional dams do. He died 55 years later with no one ever showing an interest.
Heat pumps have now replaced electric cars as the panacea of the left for climate change. They don't work well in really cold weather. Wait until the mandates kick in and Republicans get yet another item for their 30 second ads that resonate with voters.
I'm the founder of samizdatonline.org so I'm poking bears much more dangerous than Musk but yeah - given how he's reacting on Twitter - this would not be surprising.
Don't you just love being a beta tester for Musk? Of course the software never gets past the beta stage because he's probably always changing the specs to suit his own whims.
It really is infuriating. It's one thing to opt into his QA program to get a taste of what they've got cooking - but to be told that the slap-dash, half baked, frequently dangerous and obviously flawed behavior is production ready - and to not have the ability to disable it entirely so that I could just drive the fu**in' car without any extra "features" - is a level of arrogance that's very hard to swallow.
I believe this is no longer true (though it was for a couple of years).
I own a T3. It has many wildly incomplete and "buggy" behaviors which were all forgivable when this was the only game in town. Now I'm actively looking forward to an electric Audi or Merc or VW or Ford or... the list is growing rapidly.
Just the fact that there's no way to disable the car's insanely buggy (and almost always wrong) auto-steer feature which slams on the breaks or steers wildly left or right when the car (again - WRONGLY and NOT WHEN ON AUTOPILOT) decides (did I mention "WRONGLY") that there's some hazard that it (incorrectly) feels the need to (suddenly and without any obvious reason) needs to (spontaneously) avoid?
Oh, and don't get me started on how last winter the heat pump went out (on thousands and thousands of 3s) here in Quebec when the temperature dropped to -30º and the windows fogged over and froze and I was left stranded on the highway an hour from home and Elon Tweeted "we're working on it"... TWO WEEKS LATER and you know when they fixed it? Never. They implemented a kludge and now the car pumps luke warm air and it's sorta' kind'a driveable but still the temperature in the cabin is about 36Fº - which sure - it won't kill you but... you know... not very "luxury" feeling.
And you know what other E cars have this problem? None of them.
I don't mean to be dunking on you in any way... Just trying to keep things in perspective :)
There is plenty of electricity still produced from fossil fuels. I have an electric car, mostly because of the gas savings. But I know my carbon foot print is far from zero. There is very little electricity produced from renewable sources.
That's in part because there has been very little interest until recently. I have a design my dad developed and presented in 1957 to generate electricity using ocean waves to generate power to pump water into a reservoir in a closed system that would then generate electricity as conventional dams do. He died 55 years later with no one ever showing an interest.
Heat pumps have now replaced electric cars as the panacea of the left for climate change. They don't work well in really cold weather. Wait until the mandates kick in and Republicans get yet another item for their 30 second ads that resonate with voters.
Many people are saying that if you bad talk Elon while driving your Tesla it tries to drive you into a bridge.
I've heard that. Many people are saying it.
I'm the founder of samizdatonline.org so I'm poking bears much more dangerous than Musk but yeah - given how he's reacting on Twitter - this would not be surprising.
Wow, no kidding. Thanks for this link.
no no... thank you! :)
Don't you just love being a beta tester for Musk? Of course the software never gets past the beta stage because he's probably always changing the specs to suit his own whims.
It really is infuriating. It's one thing to opt into his QA program to get a taste of what they've got cooking - but to be told that the slap-dash, half baked, frequently dangerous and obviously flawed behavior is production ready - and to not have the ability to disable it entirely so that I could just drive the fu**in' car without any extra "features" - is a level of arrogance that's very hard to swallow.