More and more I'm convinced that buying my Honda Accord 11 years ago was one of my better life decisions so as not to have to deal with the BS that is the modern automobile. I do wish it had CarPlay, but the phone mount is a good trade-off if it means I get a reliable car with physical controls.
To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
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Re: To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
#592Earlier quoted context omitted.
"first gen" Model 3s didn't have an emergency rear door release for when the electrical one failed. they've since added that to more recent generations. but- a car company that doesn't see the need to have emergency rear door releases has systemic issues. someone, anyone involved in approving that design could have said "no. i will not sign off on this", but they didn't. it makes me wonder what other corners they cut…
One corner they are cutting is replacing radar with the camera. IMO that’s ridiculous, but it’s certainly made a few million extra.
Removing the ultrasonic parking sensors was a downgrade, but removing the radar wasn't. The vision stack was consistently superior to the radar at the time they stopped including them; today it's leagues ahead. Even if you have an older Tesla with a radar sensor, it's been disabled in software because the camera-derived data is so much better.
The scary thing about radar is how terrible the raw data is, and how utterly compromised the filtered data is. Stationary objects have to get substantially filtered out when driving at high speeds, otherwise false positives would be unacceptably common. This affects all brands of car with radar.
This shouldn't be surprising. Subaru managed to jank together Eyesight using a couple of cameras and an in-house team, and they were able to make it outperform radar in most respects. Unfortunately they didn't think to make it self-calibrating, so it requires a trip to the dealership any time you replace the windscreen.
Re: To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
#593Let's remove Musk from the equation, because you can like or (most probably) hate him, but I own a Tesla and I have the opposite experience. Everything worked out of the box. Just one piece of hardware started to fail (the charger plug making some noise) and they changed it in warranty. First: has the author tried a tesla before buying one? I'd never buy a car without trying it. Because comparing it to a Clio just be…
"has the author tried a tesla before buying one? I'd never buy a car without trying it" This reads like gaslighting, trying out a car that works and getting one that doesn't wouldn't have changed their outcome.