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It's harder to look, yes, but IMO easier to get into since you can always sort of reach in and feel around. The folding seat means that it doesn't fall through, and for some items it's really troublesome—a pencil in particular (easy to wedge in-between the components) and a whistle (cord got...

I've had a few instances where the touchscreen glitches out and it cannot turn on massaging (it looks like it's stuck in an inconsistent state in the UI, the button turns itself off), but then I have a custom shortcut set on the physical buttons and that seems to work all the time and bypasses...

So when I swapped wheels with @Jackles about a month ago, I did have to change wheel size and despite the fact that the manual says you should be able to update the wheel size in the app (under settings → general → tires & wheels), for the life of me I couldn't find it nor could anyone else...

So I discovered a design flaw in the second row seats today. My kids typically sit in the back row, and as you can imagine, kids are messy and they have their toys all over the place. They lost a couple of pencils, candies and random items—nowhere to be found, not in the third row, not...

So it's been a few weeks since I've posted this thread, and I've observed the car's behavior over this time. Here's what I can surmise: When I plug the charger in, the car schedules a charge in the future—in my case, to start at 12 am. This shows up in the car's dashboard, and the phone app...

I've had this happen 2× as well within <2 months of ownership of the vehicle. Strangely enough both times my kids were at the same time trying to get into the backseat from the driver's side and had to hop out quickly since it wasn't clear whether the motors would stop.

Well, that's the thing: in some ways I'm more comforted that it's mostly a bunch of software issues, particularly when it's widespread like the keyfob detection problems, because that means they have the means to fix it and there's plenty of instances for the engineers to use for debugging and...

It's somewhat reminiscent of the iOS widgets framework—the widgets can receive some of the data as the full apps themselves, but are limited by the OS on the frequency/timing of the updates to save battery (and to prevent apps from taking too many resources). Now, a phone has these restrictions...

From the mobile tech, it sounds like what 3.3.5 did was turn on all the external antennas outside the car so it can better detect the fob for unlock. Apparently whatever's inside the car is much weaker/less reliable.

Android is the common denominator for a lot of hardware (also phones, e-readers, IoT devices, etc.), but that's actually one of its strengths: it's free and widely used, a lot of the bugs in the OS itself have been hammered out just because there are so many applications of the OS. What it is...

I didn't see this get posted on here yet. The video features overviews of the car as it's launching in the EU in their Munich studio, but other than a few tidbits it's mostly high-level marketing which feels like a missed opportunity. That said, some things I learned along the way...

It means you can just plug the car directly into the dryer to charge.

Seriously, do people think that the same engineer who needs 3–4 years to help develop autonomous driving models are now trying to write firmware code to reduce dashboard notifications? It's like going to a restaurant with great service but crappy food and expecting the waitstaff to double as...

I have that problem as well on occasion, even with the 3.3.5 + keyfob update. It's almost certainly a server + software architecture issue. Think about it as 3 systems that need to be in sync with your car status: The car itself (which has the advantage that it's all local hardware) Your...

Oh boy, if that was actually true...

Yeah, you actually don't want this. Remember that the hardware between the 1st generation of Air and Gravity are at least 3–4 years apart, so trying to build software/firmware so many years in the future guarantees either overengineering, and/or artificially constraining your hardware to fit...

Here's another review that popped up on YouTube for me; the pros/cons are very similar to other reviews, where the driving + space + comfort are up-notch but its potential is stymied by software and fob issues (I guess if you're here none of that is a surprise). I was encouraged to see her...

For better or worse, Tesla's success has set up the playbook for how EV startups can survive that initial, extremely challenging ramp to mass production: Start with a luxury vehicle to establish an R&D arm, focus on something on the high-end that differentiates the vehicle/brand Move...

Yeah, I think that's how most EVs/software-defined cars handle this nowadays, analogous to the different levels of sleep that you can put your computer in (e.g., "deep sleep" where it turns off multiple systems, flushes out any temp memory, etc.). I had to debug this first-hand, not with the...

Remember that these are the heads of design and infotainment, who: Are certainly referring to the state of the software from a different point of time, months/years earlier Are likely referring to different parts of the software stack; "common codebase" can apply to everything from UI...