Had a 2014 RWD Model S; gave that to my wife's parents when we bought a 4WD Model X last month. We drove the S from California to New York and back, as well as several other half-way across the country trips for a total of 150k miles, 75-80% of which have been long-distance trips (I work from home; my wife commutes via bicycle most of the time). We spent this last winter up skiing in the mountains every weekend. We've camped in the car, including when stuck in a snowstorm that dumped 10 feet of snow overnight (by having a giant battery, you can keep the climate control on over-night, which makes camping quite comfortable).

Mechanical problems:

- In good-weather conditions: no significant issues. The sunroof had a bit of a rattling sound, and the drive train for the 2014 made a loud humming noise after a few years (this was apparently common for the 2012-2015 Model S, and has been since resolved). Both were fixed under warranty.

- Often when parked outside for 8-24 hours in the freezing snow storm (overnight temp of around 10 degrees and near constant rain/sleet/snow), the areas around the windows froze. To make a frameless door window on the S, when you pull the door handle to open the door, the window rolls down a little bit before the door opens. This means the window freezing shut kept the door from being opened. Pre-heating the car (by using the mobile app to turn on the heater) solved this (it took about 5-10 minutes to warm up enough).

- Twice when parked outside during extreme storms the front driver side tire froze up, such that the other tires would spin but that one would just slide. Had to roll it back and forth along dry ground in order to get it to break free (which was hard to find due to the several feet of snowfall the night before)

- Once the front outside passenger door handle would not work during the snow storm. It resolved itself 48 hours after driving back to the coast & being out of the cold.

- There is no spare tire, so getting a flat means you'll be towed.

Software issues:

Numerous small annoyances. It's got the best entertainment system from any car I've been in, which also leads to all sorts of small bugs (some of which may be by design). Several of the bugs that existed when we got the car have been fixed by over-the-air updates, and we've gotten lots of new features as the cars have aged.

- Podcasts don't always remember their place where you were listening.
- The 2014 would always start the audio system on your phone, even when not playing the audio out loud, which would mean you'd lose your place in an audio book or podcast if that was most recently playing on your phone.
- Voice recognition for navigation or dialing numbers works properly about 80% of the time. Enough that you still use it, but not enough that you ever feel comfortable it'll get it.
- Randomly the compass will think your car is pointing the other way, so the mini-map will spin around in a circle to match up to this orientation, and then it'll realize its mistake and then spin the map back to match the proper orientation.
- Switching driver profiles restores the last used climate setting, so if you're up in the mountains and turn the heater on full-max heat, then your spouse is the one who drives the car back home to where it's warm out, then the next time you drive you're getting full heat even though it's already hot outside.
- The feature for automatically opening your garage door when you get home is based on your address, not your GPS coordinates, so if you have a long driveway, it will signal the garage door while you're still too far away from it.
- If the rear-camera is displayed on the screen when you launch some of the games or easter eggs, there can be some display issues.
- Autopilot is simultaneously amazing and rudimentary. Viewed as a driver assist tool, it is often helpful and makes long distance traveling easier. Viewed as self-driving car, it's still got a long way to go.

The biggest issue with driving a Tesla is that every time you drive a non-Tesla afterwards you'll feel bad. You get totally spoiled by the instant acceleration, the huge map & great navigation, the automatic turn off & lock upon walk-away (each time I've driven a non-Tesla, I've either left the car unlocked or even the keys in the car at least once), and never having to stop & gas or take the car in for any maintenance, just plug it in when you get home & you're ready in the morning.

Or you just get an electric car that can do long distance trips. I'm posting this while riding in an electric car on my second 1500 mile road-trip this summer, and having driven from CA to NY on a previous road trip.

Let me guess, it will be in the form of a ring that changes colors....?

Your memory is off:

"Those who voted overwhelmingly chose statehood by 97%; turnout, however, was 23%, a historically low figure."

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I've been reporting issues of my phones crashing in cold temperatures for the last 3 years to Apple. They tried replacing the phone, but it still crashed.

To reproduce, take a phone at 50% or less charge to a location that is below freezing, and then go take a bunch of pictures. Make sure the phone is outside and not put back against your warm skin. The phone will shut off, and won't turn back on again until it's warm. Once you warm it up, it'll power on and say it has 30-50% battery remaining, and so long as you don't do anything taxing, it'll still last a long time.

Worse than just that, the subject is "You may like to read" ... "10 Confirmed Dead."

Even if these articles were related, I certainly would not like to read that 10 people were confirmed dead.

While true that the P100D will be Tesla's quickest production car, the news is that it is *the* quickest production car that is currently made and available to purchase new. That one little word makes a difference.

Replying to remove wrong moderation; I meant to say this was Funny!

Yes, but typically wordpress blogs don't need to store local content for a fancy HTML5 app.

Nice to meet you, Buckaroo

Because there's never a reason that a passenger would want to take a phone call. Or for a driver to call 911 for any reason...

And apparently female boa constrictors are able to be born without original sin too (what Immaculate Conception really talked about; Virgin Birth is a separate idea).

Quality of Service is not what "Net Neutrality" is about. You've described a QoS system, which, while some people may not like, is not the fundamental threat of a non-neutral net. In the world of the non-neutral net, AT&T wants Google to pay them money for the right to be viewed by their customers. In a non-neutral net, Yahoo could partner with AT&T and together say that AT&T customers cannot access Google search, but rather only Yahoo search. Or if they're not so evil as to block Google search, they will just purposefully send Google queries over a slower pipe than Yahoo queries, making people think that Google is slow, when in reality it's an artificial speed degradation meant to line AT&T's pockets by blackmailing content providers to pay them more.

Throttling on the application layer (BitTorrent packets can arrive out of order, or arrive later, than Skype packets since P2P doesn't need real-time access) is one thing. But the big ISPs want to throttle on the end-point, in order to extract money from Google, Hulu, Netflix or any random new web service that provides cool new content.