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The remote parking can be convenient when you're in a crowded garage where some pickup truck is spilling over the lines but there's still a "compact" spot next to the wall ... Except when I tried it with my e-tron GT, it would refuse to go whenever the car was closer than about 10 inches, which...

> After collecting the signals from all the keys used during the day in the street the thieves return at night and unlock the cars they like before driving off. This is why rotating challenge/response keys are used in modern systems. "recording the signal" is something that garage door openers...

> Unfortunately, thieves love Porsche too. I don't get it. It's essentially impossible to start the drivetrain without the encrypted key. Nobody smashes the window and shorts a couple of wires and drives off with a modern EV; that's simply not a thing. Are you worried about key...

I get this when I drive towards the sun in the morning, too. Seems the camera will be blinded at times.

well, now you know why!

The instruction manual claims it does: Might be a Mini vs regular difference?

But is she sorry?

Starlink generally needs a wide horizon view. Maybe you could somehow glue it to the ceiling or something and try to get >110 degrees maybe, but I wouldn't put big hopes on it. The "starlink for aviation" FAQ says: Performance may vary significantly depending on the specific aircraft, the...

Just euro things ... When renting a car in Europe I noticed it came with a charger "extension" cable, and apparently the reason is that charger boxes don't have a fixed attached cable; you have to bring your own. In the US, the boxes all have a fixed cable and the car needs to carry nothing. To...

We recently moved the company into a new office, and now I go 45 mph instead of 75 mph to and from work. I noticed the guess-o-meter has significantly increased -- 263 miles on 80%, so 329 miles at full charge. I guess those "air drag and rolling resistance increases by square of velocity"...

In San Francisco, Waymo costs more than Uber, but is still popular, for two reasons: 1. the Jaguar EVs are nicer than a typical Uber accord 2. people like not having to interact with a driver

If you drive less than 250 miles a day, and live so that you can charge at home, an EV is the obviously superior choice. Most people drive much less than 250 miles a day. However, many people feel that maybe they will drive 600 miles one day, and wouldn't it be nice if they could? In which case...

Done that, too! (Service also recommended this) It doesn't help. I mapped the diamond button to "lift car" (because it's also helpful for other poorly constructed road situations around here) and I live with it. Although it's a little annoying, because "don't scrape the car going out of the...

Sounds like I need to go to service again, then. One difference might be my driveway; it's a good 15 degree incline it's parked on ...

I think that is for the yellow exclamation mark triangle when following too close?

No it won't. I have smart lift on my driveway. But when I come out in the morning, the car is not lifted, and smart lift does not lift it. It may be that this is a difference between "brief stop" versus "deep sleep" -- how long the car sits with the power off.

That's not what the service people say. It's just hair trigger sensitive, way too early in advance. The e-tron GT had a setting for cautious/normal/aggressive, and I was OK with the "aggressive" setting; this one behaves very much like the "cautious" setting, and there's no way to change the...

This! This is the exact conclusion I have as well. The J1 platform is very nice, firmly planted, and does a lot to mitigate the weight, but it's just too low and impractical for daily use.

Because 1) in the US, it *would* be legal to disable the AEB, and 2) the Porsche Macan seems to suffer more phantom false positives than the previous three cars I compare it to (Volvo XC90, Polestar 2, Audi e-tron GT) It's not bad enough I'd actually defeat it myself, but I can see how someone...

It is a legislated required feature in most countries, and will likely soon be in the US as well. (Currently in the US, it's a voluntary target of 99% of vehicles.) Thus, it's unlikely they built the feature to be fully defeatable.