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i personally don't want my car 'guessing' what's around me as my only input.
i do love the hyundai/kia/genesis feature of in gauge camera display when you turn on a turn signal...
even doug demuro has said over and over it's a fantastic feature he wishes all cars had.
I have seen these in the Kia/Hyundai cars and think it is a great solution. Do you feel you use it often and have you relied solely on that or do you still do the shoulder check? The one thing I do like is my BMW has a bright orange triangle on the side view mirror so at a quick glance I can see that when moving over but I still don't trust that fully and still look over my shoulder. My Lexus' had something similar on the side view mirror but it was more of a diagram of a car but it was so faint that it was hard to see.
1, 3, 4 are all based off the same cameras.
2 and 5 are you
i don't trust camera based detection for such things which i still believe tesla only went that way for cost reduction. "virtual mapping" sounds cool except when it's wrong.
In most cases it works. It may occasionally mis identify an object like thinking a car pulling a trailer is a truck (or thinking my recycle bin is a vehicle), but you can be sure something is there regardless. And no matter how good the tech, it shouldn't be 100 percent relied on. Which is why I still check the mirrors
Interesting story. I made friends with one of our companies lead R&D engineers who was a former engineer at Tesla and was part of the team that developed the electric motors for the Model S. Young guy in his 30's, really smart. We talk EV's a lot, he has a Model Y like mine, only White and the Performance model. Anyway I'm outside enjoying an Espresso shot and getting some air, when he pulls in the parking lot with a Jeep Grand Cherokee. I don't think much of it, I just head back into the office. He stops by my desk, he feels he has to explain himself...LoL! He tells me how his wife's hybrid is in the shop and assures me this is just a loaner. LoL again . Than he tells me how it feels really ancient, how he feels the engine and all the transmission shifts and how it's so loud 😄
I just found the whole thing funny because if he saw me pull in with my Sienna or another gas powered loaner, I would probably feel the urge to explain why I'm not driving one my EV's as well
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I've had no issues with my Model Y since taking delivery in May...except for a minor rattle in the passenger seat when on rough roads...and we have a lot of them here. It's a very small rattle, my family thinks I'm being silly, but a rattle is a rattle, and even small rattles annoy me. This coming Wednesday Tesla will be completely replacing the seat. Hopefully that is the only issue that pops up, as I plan to keep this car 10 years or more
Tesla Model Y HW4 Infotainment System Has Half the RAM and Storage of an HW3 Unit
Tesla began to deliver the Model Y with Hardware 4 Autopilot computer, which also integrates the infotainment system. A new teardown revealed that the HW4 infotainment system only features half the RAM and storage capacity compared to the HW3 infotainment. This basically rules out Steam support, which requires 16 GM of RAM
what a shock, the 'improved' hardware is cost reduced by hacking off half the ram.
could be that hw3 never uses all the ram it has.
It's not as big a deal than they are making it. iPhone runs on way less RAM than Androids due to Apple controlling the hardware. If the software is properly implemented, than you need less RAM
Back from a long road trip in the Y you guys must drive like maniacs I got slightly less (5-8miles) than the EPA rated range. 65-ish on flat terrain and through the mountains. Weather was mostly mild so not much A/C use. Car is a beast through the mountains steep grades are irrelevant to the car.
Back from a long road trip in the Y you guys must drive like maniacs I got slightly less (5-8miles) than the EPA rated range. 65-ish on flat terrain and through the mountains. Weather was mostly mild so not much A/C use. Car is a beast through the mountains steep grades are irrelevant to the car.
We Americans don't drive as slow as you Canadians I don't know if you were driving 65 km per hour (or MPH), but that's freaking slow when converting to MPH, which is 40 mph here!
08-02-23, 07:16 AM
. Than he tells me how it feels really ancient, how he feels the engine and all the transmission shifts and how it's so loud 😄
I don't know if you were driving 65 km per hour (or MPH), but that's freaking slow when converting to MPH, which is 40 mph here!