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So, does that mean its constantly draining battery when parked? Is this drain significant?
"Tesla keeps temp below 40C/105F by automatically venting cabin & turning on AC when needed. Can do this for up to a year on a full charge." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/778602694399320065
I hope that besides cooling the car it includes a feature that pulls down some signs in the windows that says "no really the A/C is on and my kid/dog is fine, don't break the glass".
I mean I'm kinda joking here but not really. This has been a problem for Prius owners for a long time (they can have a/c on manually when the car is off)
The link now seems to 404
So a touchscreen meant you lose tactile feedback. We knew that already. But now all the buttons move around too?
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
> Every time we get a new update it seems like something got better [...]
What? Is not that the main purpose of an update? To make things better?
From the video at the bottom of the page [1] at minute 00:31: > Every time we get a new update it seems like something got better [...] What? Is not that the main purpose of an update? To make things better? [1] https://player.vimeo.com/video/183523845
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So, does that mean its constantly draining battery when parked? Is this drain significant?
"Tesla keeps temp below 40C/105F by automatically venting cabin & turning on AC when needed. Can do this for up to a year on a full charge." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/778602694399320065
What if I park a black Tesla at the San Diego airport for a week-long vacation, and it's 100 degrees and unmitigated direct sun? Will I come back to a battery that can't get me home?
That would be when I would want this feature to avoid damage to my car from it overheating. But also when it's most likely to run down the battery.
So the biggest news here seems to be the upgrades to Autopilot. ( https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-... ). They describe a fantastic amount of new technology, including using radar to make a point cloud despite the fact that "[s]omething made of wood or painted plastic ... is almost as transparent as glass to radar." This venture reeks Murphy's Law. I'll let someone else be the guinea pig in…
What, they're not getting range rate directly from the radar? You can tell if an object is moving towards or away from you from one frame if you have range rate. Bosch automotive radars do return range rate.[1] Even 1990s automotive radars returned range rate. That's one of the huge advantages of radar over vision. Range and range rate go into a very simple formula which yields time to collision. Vision is lousy at range rate and gets worse as the distance increases. Radar is good at range rate and the error is constant out the range of the radar.
Whomever wrote that piece of PR probably doesn't really know how it works.
[1] https://etd.ohiolink.edu/rws_etd/document/get/ohiou130408338...
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"Tesla keeps temp below 40C/105F by automatically venting cabin & turning on AC when needed. Can do this for up to a year on a full charge." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/778602694399320065
Well, sure, if it's 72 and partly cloudy out. My car can do that for years by leaving the windows open. This feature only really matters when it's swelteringly hot out. What if I park a black Tesla at the San Diego airport for a week-long vacation, and it's 100 degrees and unmitigated direct sun? Will I come back to a battery that can't get me home? That would be when I would want this feature to avoid damage to my c…