I bought my first electric car in September 2023, a Tesla Model 3. I had solar panels installed in December 2021. I hope to share some of the experience with you.
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@@joseargonza7984 It sure does. Yes, I believe everyone is getting a free 30 days. I paid for 3 months with referral credits, and Tesla did extend that 30 days for me for free.
@@ken-mb5cp Yes I'm enjoying the smoothness of it! My wife actually let me use it for quite a while because she finally wasn't immediately getting car sick. It needs to get better with speed, and it accelerates too hard often. The navigation, which is separate needs to fix its major issues.
@@ken-mb5cp I also had it not move on a completely clear blinking yellow light. I do wish it slowed down earlier for lights, but it is better than it was. Scary to have it run a red light, bad to have to slam your brakes for it.
That is a public road with street parking on the top half. It’s just setup as a lot but on street maps I guarantee it’s listed as the access road still. Many parks are like this.
When it thinks it’s on a public road it’s so annoying. I had mine give up in the middle of the parking lot and I had to run over to get it. Everyone was pissed behind it.
Well...try this again, but instead of standing in front of the car, just lie down right in front of it when before it starts and then try again. It'll run you over since it has a massive blind spot at the front.
@@doanduzz I was really hoping to have the update before this trip! I just got it 2 days ago, and am editing my first attempts with Actually Smart Summon. I'll be doing a local drive to see if any issues have been fixed. I won't be taking any really long drives for quite a while though.
Thank you for your kind message! 4.6 mi/kWh is equivalent to 155 mpg of gas. My old car (2013 Altima) would have gotten about 35 mpg for the trip. Though since I charged on solar power to fill up before the trip, and a little wind power on the trip, I did even better than 155 MPG-e.
Dude just calm the f down unless you are part of the fsd development team or can create this all on your own. It's still years ahead of other brands out there. Just stfu n observe its evolution whether it's slow or fast
The problem is that earlier versions didn't have this major safety issue. This should be an immediate recall. This is a degradation of quality of FSD. Also, this was most frustrating because over four weeks the issue did not improve at all.
LOL - funniest is when you drive on the highway and a sign reminds you that the MINIMUM speed is 40 mph. But FSD immediately adjust the SPEED LIMIT to 40 mph. Then, 10-20 seconds later, somehow the Google Maps metadata prevails and the speed limit is re-adjusted to 70 mph. Then.... another 40 mph MINIMUM speed appears and FSD, again, resets to speed limit to 40 mph.
@@TCPUDPATM Seems to happen every single time a minimum speed sign is posted. FSD 12.3.6. Also, sometimes car appears unable to distinguish 5 from 6 on speed limit signs. So a 65 mph limit is interpreted as 55 mph.
The only way this will ever work in every situation and scenari is when it has general intelligence equivalent to human and probably carrying with it the definition of what it means to be sentient/ conscious. If it ever got to that state you'd surely have to ask its permission to drive you round . Otherwise thats slavery . If you did, you might find it had better things to do. For me, thats the ultimate reason why FSD will always fail./
@@ElectricBrian I remain unconvinced. What about all the almost inifinite varaiations of situations that can emerge. Machine learning can learn it all - given infinite time and infinite processing power -but thats not realistic. Consider a dog running out on the street. Most people would emergency brake or attempt to sharply steer around to avoid. Now consider a plastic bag blowing out in the wind. Most people can recognise in milliseconds and just run over - without overreacting on the brake. Now consider a dog with a plastic bag attched to its collar. Then consider a blowing bag with a dog's picture. You can invent thousands of possibilities just for this one scenario. It might be unlikley but it could happen once in your lifetime as a new event. And many more more unlikely events could as well. Most humans can make quick decision and react appropriately in most novel situations . Maybe FSD can - but not seolely via machine learning approach - it has to process genuine new unecountered scenarios. I believe only by accumulating as much intelligence and as much life expeience as an average human could it do that. And that may never happen.
@@bbbf09 I agree with your assessment - there exists a vast number of unanticipated "edge cases". Like, the whole world is edge cases. The moral problem of enslaving a sentient being is interesting, but is there any reliable way to assess sentience (like a legit Turing test)?
@@blacknbluereign8567 Imagine your driver driving you 60 on a 50 mph road and suddenly slowing down to 15 mph, time and time again. If you don't get angry at your driver for consistently doing that, will your driver ever learn?
After *four* *long* *years* in beta, FSD is still primitive and very prone to errors on any challenging drive. FSD cannot be trusted, and full autonomy is years away .
2:28 Abrupt stop. 3:05 FSD goes in the wrong lane. *Human* *intervenes* 6:05 FSD fails, does not have right of way. 11:53 FSD thinks speed limit is 15, but it's really 50 15:11 FSD goes 35 in a 25 zone I GIVE UP omg the very latest FSD still has tons of problems. Maybe v13 will be better ?
That is one I recorded of many samples. This one the car slowed only briefly. Other times it stayed thinking it was 15 MPH for much longer. It's very dangerous. 💀
There are two preloaded on the car (and I think a new one is coming with the end of the year update). You just go to the Toy Box to access them. There are a couple websites that allow you to download other light shows. You have to download one show onto a blank thumb drive, then put that into your Tesla's USB port in the glove box.
Yeah...night and day difference. My wife bought a mach-e last December and the first week or so it was on level 1 until I could order the parts and install the nema for level 2. She had to limit her driving because level 1 was so slow. The hardest part was fishing the 6/3 wire out of the box. That stuff does not like to bend easily. We sued the supplied ford charger for a while until it started going into thermal limit and reducing charger rates. I installed the same emporia charger you have ( a friend has been using one for his BMW too) and it have been great. It charges at 9.8 - 10kw on 40amp setting. I do have my outlet and charger mounted on the ceiling with most of the cord raveled up. I use a cheap tool balancing gimmick to help hold the useable length of cord up to the ceiling when not in use. Here is a link of the tool load balancer. You can use a zip-tie to connect it to the load balancer. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0952PJ1Y8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
The Spring Balancer looks like a great idea. Thank you! I do have something else in mind that I will hopefully be doing this weekend, and getting a video out about it.
It’s interesting to see what it priorities are. It seems to want to make space in case a car is coming from the other direction. Also I’m guessing the distance calculation from the stopping point and the stop sign is off because the location of the stop sign doesn’t matter all the stop sign tells it to do is stop not where. I think it’s looking for the white line to tell it where to stop. Judging from the video there wasn’t a clear line and it got confused. As far the driving over parking spots and getting close to the curb humans do that all the time and it’s ok cause we are the ones in control. I think it just does that because its confident in its systems the same way we are.
