Sorry, @Mathman , but I won’t be buying any of these charlatan’s cars anytime soon.
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I don’t blame you. With the NACS thing coming in 2025, Tesla loses a massive amount of ground on one big advantage it’s had for so long: charging.
Tesla has mostly great tech, and generally compelling products - except the Cybertruck, woof. But others are gaining ground quickly. If it was in my budget I’d have a Lucid Air right now.
I don’t think the word recall is accurate given that it’s being fixed by a software update. Just like smartphones, Tesla has had quite a few of these “recalls” (I mentioned this back in April).
And how does a Tesla get a software update?
And how does one permanently turn off such hazardous accessories?
And how does one completely rip out the dash and install one that actually looks and feels like a car, and is safe like one?
Long overdue. Glad they are finally making their vehicles safer.
Over the air. My car prompts me and asks if I want to install it now, or schedule it for 1AM, or snooze it for later.
In this case, just don’t engage Autopilot to begin with and you’re good.
Buy a Ford or an Audi, or the new Polestar/Volvo things look promising.
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It is simply safer.
Safer than a screen would be a car that will obey commands about the volume or the radio station or podcast and the temperature and fan level. Do cars do that?
I agree, but that doesn’t mean you kids shouldn’t stay off my lawn :heynow:
And there are cars with voice commands that do some things. I have to press a button on my steering wheel to activate on my car (I don’t have a car version of “Hey Alexa”), but I don’t use it much, so I haven’t figured out what all it can do. I don’t assume that it is super flexible in interpreting what you want. My mom’s 2014 Ford does this too. You have to use the specific commands/word order it understands.
I think they can in theory. How well it works in practice is another question altogether.
Our 2011 minivan has voice controls for stuff like air conditioning and making phone calls. It’s a bit tricky to make it work properly though. Seems it responds fine to my voice but weaselette has a hard time with it.
How well it works in practice is another question
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I debated whether to write it out as “all together”, but I figured you’d respond either way. 
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Going for the “comedy comes in threes” bit.
Tesla is actually quite good at doing this. Setting temp or fan speed, opening and closing things, turn on windshield wipers, navigate to home, play this song.
I’m still with DTNF that I’d like to have like six buttons or knobs, however. Old habits, man.
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I saw that. There is very little about how they did the analysis, they do specify it’s on a per-person basis rather than per-mile, which isn’t great. Can’t seem to find what all, if anything, they used to adjust.
They do note Teslas tend to be relatively quick, and I suppose turning people loose with cars that do 0-60 in 4s or less could be driving some of this. Jury is out on Autopilot safety I think.
Germany is testing out tractor trailers that pull electricity from overhead lines. Hmm.
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Do you think? Really? I thought every Tesla owner was a tree hugging, Birkenstock wearing hippie who does zero to 60 in 5 or 6 minutes to help save the planet.