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  1. strider

    Top Must Features: Auto brake hold, rain sensing windshield wipers, Regen shifter and one petal Regen, roof bars agility, and wireless carplay

    Nah, it's much simpler than that. The car will just hold the friction brakes for you when you are at a stop. You regen down to a stop, car seamlessly engages the friction brakes giving you a limo stop every time. You then sit with both feet on the floor while you wait for the light to change...
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    Intuitive D/B Mode Switching - A Must-Have for Scout!

    I have driven Teslas since 2010. In the early days they had the option of light vs strong regen and creep (car would creep forward when you let your foot off of the brake, like an auto transmission ICE) vs not creeping. I do not recall a way to turn off regen completely plus you could not...
  3. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    I for one am a huge fan of Torx screws/bolts. Never stripped one in my life compared to untold numbers of Phillips and even some flatheads. I bet they are also easier for robots to use.
  4. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    I do that as well. But even on a city street one would hold a speed (35mph or whatever) for some amount of time. Holding a speed is a basic tenet of driving. Where are these places where one coasts for long periods?
  5. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    I'm really not trying to be beligerent and I am fine with OPD + paddles as long as they are not Ferrari-sized.... But since we have 2.5 years before we get our Scouts we have nothing else to do but argue online :giggle: From the discussion on these threads it sounds like a lot of people treat...
  6. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    A driver can make people seasick by surging whether it's an EV or ICE, OPD or not. Bad technique is bad technique. There is an adjustment period to having regen on the accelerator but it is measured in minutes or hours. I don't understand everyone's obsession with "coasting". One should...
  7. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    How is this different from OPD? The amount of regen is simply controlled by the position of your right foot.
  8. strider

    Intuitive D/B Mode Switching - A Must-Have for Scout!

    Here we go again. This is needless complexity to emulate a stick shift ICE vehicle that has no use/place in an EV. Please have all regen on the accelerator. I don't want to be fumbling with 26 different hand controls to adjust my speed. Put motor control on the right pedal and brake control...
  9. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    Ok, let's take a step back here. We have 2 mechanisms for accelerating or decelerating the vehicle: 1) motor/drivetrain can operate from 100% acceleration (full power) to 100% deceleration (full regen). 2) friction brakes can operate from 0% (not engaged) to 100% engaged (full braking). In...
  10. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    I completely understand what the paddles do. I am trying to figure out why they are useful. In the OPD mode, you can always have as much or as little regen as you want just based on where your left foot is. You want more? Lift off more. You want less? Lift off less. There is NO need for...
  11. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    Can you explain how they're useful? I have never used them and I am seriously curious. To me it seems like it would add a ton of time lag and require way more thinking on the part of the driver. With paddles: You are driving down the road and realize that you are closing on a car in front of...
  12. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    Agree wholeheartedly. I love the way that Tesla (and Volvo) has implemented this. Regen is solely controlled by the right pedal, friction brakes are solely controlled by the left pedal. Elegant in its simplicity. Tesla does have an optional setting to blend friction brakes when the battery...
  13. strider

    Paddle Shifters For Adjusting Regen

    NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Please do not implement this. Paddles are a gimmick. 15-year EV driver here (Tesla and Volvo) and I have NEVER wanted or needed a mechanical way to adjust regen on the fly. The ONLY thing you need to modulate regen is your left foot. Want max regen? Lift your foot all...
  14. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Don't know how they are today but I bought a TJ brand new in '97 and it was perfect. The only thing I had to do was change fluids and put in a clutch (I abused it by driving around San Francisco, towing my motorcycle trailer, and driving on the Rubicon and other trails with poor technique so I...
  15. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    It's been a wild ride for sure (15 years and counting now). The thing I keep in mind is that it's not malicious. Elon truly believes that Teslas will drive themselves any day now so why spend money on things like steering column stalks and other driver controls? He also has no filter so he...
  16. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Thanks for sharing! My daughter is 11 so a used one of these could be perfect for her.
  17. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Yep, Tesla's lying continues. I still have not received some of the features in the Model S that Elon literally promised to my face back in 2012. While I am addicted to the power of my MXP, it is definitely time to move on.
  18. strider

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Agreed. People get all fired up about super fast charging but the grid is not built to handle megawatt swings in demand hundreds of times per day. The only way to achieve this would be to have large battery packs at the charging site that could dump power quickly and then slowly recharge from...
  19. strider

    solid state battery option

    Yeah, this would be a huge distraction for SM. Best to use standard battery tech so they can focus on everything else. Once they are established they can start experimenting with new battery tech. As an aside, has SM talked about the battery at all? Format, Chemistry, etc?
  20. strider

    One feature that made you pull the the trigger on a reservation….

    This is it for me too. I think they hit the right balance of digital and analog, virtual and physical. I've been driving Teslas since 2010 and do not like the direction they are headed. I started with the Roadster which was fully analog (based on Lotus Elise), then Model S, another Model S...
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