Tesla 14 lite phantom breaking, poor lane selection and more. There have been a lot of reports about issues with FSD v14 Lite on Hardware 3 (HW3), and I’ve been experiencing them firsthand. Beyond classic phantom braking, I noticed a weird bug at a red light: every few seconds, the car would momentarily release the brakes and re-apply them ~500ms later. I’ve also had to… Read More
Tesla stock jump, Hertz, and FSD 10.3 test drive SOoo much to unpack from yesterday. Ok, lets take this one at a time. First the stock jump to over $1000 a share. In less than a week, TSLA went from $775 to close at $1080 today with a peak at $1094. This 25% jump is pretty crazy. So what is going on? Two things.… Read More
Tesla adding USB 3 support could open interesting possibilities for FSD So seems confirmed, all Tesla vehicles going forward are going to support USB3. Recently I was invited to update my M3 to HW3, but I’m holding off to be sure that the upgrade will include USB 3. Why? Well aside from WAY better wireless charging, the faster data throughput could be interesting. Sigh… have to add… Read More
Tesla Smart Summon. A few experiments + New Samsung Fold phone So as far as I know, I may be the first person in history to use the new V10 Tesla Smart Summon on the Samsung Galaxy Fold phone. So shameless plug, I work at Samsung and I think the Fold is amazing. Yea it has its issues, its new, but I love it. I’ll write… Read More
Why my Tesla M3 feels like my first iPhone and my M3day plus 30. Long long time ago, I got the new iPhone. I was one of the first. So I used it for a week and thought, its nice, then discovered jail breaking! Oh man, Apple fan boy overnight. My favorite thing was to show off what this amazing new phone could do when I went to events/parties. … Read More
First video evidence (I’ve seen) of self driving car avoiding an accident All this talk about self driving cars causing accidents, very little about how they avoid them and save lives. So here is the first video clip of a real world situation where a Tesla avoided an accident by stopping way faster than I could have. Also note, its wet. So if a human was driving,… Read More
In 5 years you will no longer need to buy a new car. The coming Autono-cab Now there are exceptions to this of course, but when I tell people that in five years they will no longer need a new car, I get a look like I’m nuts. But once I explain that you are getting a new(ish) car and its a ‘need’ not want, then they are a little less… Read More
One thing about driverless cabs; Joining the mile long club Yesterday a story came out about New York authoring 5000 driver-less cabs for limited use. Here is the thing though. You know, YOU KNOW, some people are going to have sex in those cars. Having condoms you can buy in the car will be a money maker. Basically people will get into the cabs, and… Read More
Driverless cabs on NY streets by 2016?? Ehh.. I’m not sure about that Ok, so this article on driver-less cabs just popped up saying NY’s Mayor de Blasio just signed with Google to have them put out a fleet of 5000 driver-less cars in Brooklyn and Queens. They will be called Zippie. Nice. And that is not all; order now and get an ATM machine, vending machine spitting… Read More