Joshua

No, I'm not Santa Claus. Side-by-side we look nothing alike -- I would think. Ret. Energy Management Systems Principal. Enjoy Coding, Cubing, Go and Minecraft

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@lippyent Cherry bomb and M80.
Never used either.

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@lippyent Bailey (on the right) of course.

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@lippyent 21

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@SDembraski Until Unsupervised:
My number one wish for FSD(S) is better speed control. If I'm supervising, I should be able to set a max speed.

Right behind speed control is better pothole avoidance.

Parking is far down my list for Supervised FSD.

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@lippyent Young Frankenstein. Great cast.

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@TeslaKing420 @Out_of_Spec @itskyleconner In this case it was a used EV under 25K that they were looking for. Tesla owns new car buying. I'm not sure that it is fair to compare the used car buying experience with Tesla's world changing new car buying paradigm.

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@SDembraski I typically set the max to 60% when charging at home for local travel.

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@lippyent I really want to like this, but it’s at 99 likes. Barbara Feldon or Felton or something as Agent 99 on Get Smart.

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@lippyent Nancy Sinatra, methinks. Deez boots were made for walking.

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@DirtyTesLa @wholemars It’ll go away if you leave a voice note. Alternatively, you can click the voice command button twice and it will go away.
Frankly, I sometimes like the “survey”, and to the extent it speeds product improvement I’m all in.

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@lippyent Casper, the Friendly Ghost
I enjoyed the cartoon.

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@lippyent We went outside and sprayed each other down with the hose! (After or before we drank from it, of course).

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@TeslaPatriot @j0hnwang The best door handle is no door handle.

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In April, supervised V14.2.2.5 in Perl (2023 MY) out to California and V14.3.1 back to Alabama.

Overall, maybe 97% of the 6000+ miles were FSD.

Would have been more but for a System Error before my first charging stop that required a front camera calibration clear and recalibration to get FSD back, so drove about 20 miles sans FSD that time. Later, FSD shut me out once on the way back for helping FSD too much with the accelerator pedal, and I had to drive like a Luddite for maybe 40 or 50 miles before I could get off the highway at a rest stop, park, pee and crank FSD back up.

My biggest complaint involved FSD 14.3.1 often changing across multiple lanes for no reason that I could see, though it seemed mostly to be near to exits that it was not going to take. I disengaged it doing that so often for no reason, that I got irritated every time it started moving over to the right again, and I managed to twice override it and keep left when it was actually moving to take a planned exit, which we missed because of my disengaging it.

Of lesser import, FSD V14.3.1 (and 14.2.2.5 before it) tended to drive the CA highways faster than I thought prudent, though if I stayed in Standard it was generally alright. Also, I could not trust FSD with Auto HOV set to stay out of the HOV lane when I was alone in the car nor to use it when I had passengers, so I had to manually set the HOV setting.

Bottom line, FSD was extraordinarily safe, fun to watch and efficient enough. Most of its problems were very, very minor, and most of my irritations were overreactions. (apologies to the poor souls who may have had to listen to my salty opinion of FSD's lane migrations).

There were other things FSD 14.3.1 did that were really, really great, like making extra room for lane-splitting bikers on the highways between San Diego and LA, and I think FSD has finally learned to leave enough room behind the car ahead to please my wife.

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Your (or I guess Grok's) math is very suspect regarding mileage cost. It will depend on where you charge and how much your home rate is if you charge there. At home on TVA in Alabama, I get energy at about 12 cents per kWh. Each kWh can take my Model Y (not quite as efficient as your Model 3) typically 3 or 4 miles. Assuming 3 miles, that is about 4 cents per mile or about 2.5 cents per km or about $2.50 USD for 100 km. Currently, with gas at around $4/gallon, and my old mustang getting around 25 mpg, it would cost about 16 dollars for 100 miles or around $10 USD per 100 km, making my Model Y 75% cheaper (some would say four times cheaper) than my Mustang to drive around. I admittedly made a few assumptions to favor my old Mustang here, but regardless, so keeping it in gas for local travel might be more than four or five times as expensive, but it won't be six times.

On the road, charging the Model Y at superchargers costs much more (typically 3 or 4 times as much), plus it is less efficient on the highway, depending on various factors (weather, temperature, speed) so I expect it would work out to be about 20-30% cheaper than gassing my 30 mpg on the highway Mustang.

Regardless, assuming 4 miles per kWh, your M3 must be getting power at around 6 & 1/2 cents per kWh. This is possible, I suppose, but what I can't figure out is how it costs you nearly 20 dollars to drive only 60 miles in a gas car that isn't an RV or some other ridiculous vehicle. A 2025 ICE vehicle with a reasonably efficient engine should easily drive that far on two gallons of gas. Which could in some venues be much higher than our local gas prices... so is that it are you paying $10 USD/gallon (about $3.50 CAD/liter)?

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Brilliant idea! But could we add extra sensitivity for turtles, and maybe frogs, regardless of size?

On a more serious note, one would hope that the car wouldn't brake for a small animal were there a chance of causing an accident with another vehicle whose driver might not be paying attention.

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@WilliamShatner But what if the kid was a "Denny Crane" fan?

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In 34 months of owning Perl (2023 MY), I've had Mobile service at home now 4 times, gone for service at one out-of-state services center once and visited our NEW in town service center twice.

Sounds like a lot, but of those, 4 were tire rotations (Tesla recommends every 6K miles). One was a glass replacement, one some minor maintenance I should have done myself (wipers), one was to fix the passenger seat controls that a passenger broke by accident a week after I bought Perl, and one was to check camera alignment and check for why autopilot and navigation were only working sporadically (in Fall of 2023) -- turned out to be a firmware glitch that the next OTA fixed, it has not happened again, since.

As I recall, the only actual non-maintenance problems Tesla had to work on were the windshield replacement in January, 2025, and the seat controls fix and camera alignment check in 2023.

Now, at 28,554 miles, I'm on my original tires and have had no oil changes, nor tuneups, nor had to check any fluid levels, except for the washer fluid. I've probably lost over 10% of my range by now, but still have more than I need for daily use or even long trips at reasonable temperature, I might keep Perl for a long time.

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@congressdj I think of Perl as my Magic Carpet. FSD is like flying, except for that it is less noisy, more comfortable, and not as high.

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@lippyent The old spice theme.