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Recently got into the EV game, and honestly, I’m pretty impressed with how fast the tech is advancing. Thinking of swapping my old ride for something electric soon, just gotta figure out the best charging setup. Anyone got tips on how to make that transition smooth?
 
Burses said:
Recently got into the EV game, and honestly, I’m pretty impressed with how fast the tech is advancing. Thinking of swapping my old ride for something electric soon, just gotta figure out the best charging setup. Anyone got tips on how to make that transition smooth?
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So you just registered and decided to put your first post on a Canes site in the OT section. Let me predict how that will go. You'll come back at some time down the road and edit your post so you don't run afoul of moderation. Your edit will be for some shady scam site that might install malware of be a crappy gambling site.

Or I can just ban you right now and save myself the headache.
 

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Mike Thot said:
Still going 99 per month because I'm not 100% invested yet and I don't drive that often
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Starting their Robotaxi service in Austin today. This is with Alpha build a level past whats in customer cars, though I expect it to likely get pushed to customers in a month or two (they'll use a few weeks of this test fleet to do some updates). But then they already have a massive upgrade in training that is like 5x the parameters. However I fully expect that to ONLY be available for HW4 vehicles (think that all late 2023 S/X, and all 2024 3/Y, and ALL Cybertrucks).
 
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Tony4Canes said:
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If they are software updates, who cares? Not sure how many that is the case for regarding Ford, but the media always brings this up about Tesla meanwhile legit like 98% of all "recalls" are just software updates that improve the vehicle after purchase.

NHTSA needs to start differentiating between PHYSICAL recalls and Software recalls. Or maybe have different levels of safety recalls. Because it just muddies the waters....
 
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Calinative said:
If they are software updates, who cares? Not sure how many that is the case for regarding Ford, but the media always brings this up about Tesla meanwhile legit like 90% of all "recalls" are just software updates that improve the vehicle after purchase.

NHTSA needs to start differentiating between PHYSICAL recalls and Software recalls. Or maybe have different levels of safety recalls. Because it just muddies the waters....
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I’m pretty sure Ford recalls are not software updates

Wonder if there is a website that tracks recalls?
 
Tony4Canes said:
I’m pretty sure Ford recalls are not software updates

Wonder if there is a website that tracks recalls?
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NHTSA has the
And every manufacturer is required to have
I believe

As far as tracking which are Physical vs Software fixes that probably has to be a little more to find an actually useful tracker, and is likely just customers/clubs that track it or some insurance blog or some****...

For example at one point in 2024 Tesla led all companies with Total Vehicels that faced a recall with 5.135M. However 5.096M of those vehicles were "fixed" with just an OTA update. Basically Tesla generally has fewer recalls that effect MORE vehicles, but >98% of the time are literally just software update fixes. Like stuff as stupid as them needing to slightly increase the font size of the PRND indicator and stuff...
 
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