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Anonymizing your location - until you put in route and your car asks for traffic information from teslas servers.

If the map can't talk to Tesla it'll use Google maps directly. I usually don't allow connections to Tesla on my rooted Model 3

Hoe did you root yours? Did you lose out on any functionality?

There's some functionality loss but it's mostly been mitigated. I have a custom app I wrote since I can't use the stock app.

The one feature I miss is that there's no voice commands since that requires Tesla's servers but at the same time I also haven't been bothered enough to plug in a custom backend

wait

So the company that goes "we don't need physical buttons since we have voice commands" also goes "you don't need those in underground parkings"?!

It’s ok, the voice commands are barely understood anyway. At least in the UK they aren’t. Gets it drastically wrong and messes up your navigation destination, because you asked it to open the glovebox “navigating to Columbia”

I also would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I've got a blog if you're interested haha https://fn.lc/post/

I've been hacking on my car and creating my own self driving models

Code is at https://github.com/d4l3k/torchdrive

Very cool, am going to eat this up. FYI some of your images won't load for me, shoots me a 502 here https://fn.lc/post/diy-self-driving/

Not sure why they aren't loading, seem to be fine now

They're also at https://github.com/d4l3k/fn.lc/tree/master/static%2Fdiy-self...

Is that legal?

Is getting married at 15 in Georgia?

How does this work with their charging network? Are you still able to use their chargers, or are you stuck with home charging & third parties?

Supercharger auth is between the car and the charger and doesn't require an internet connection. I get billed the normal way via my Tesla account since the VIN is registered

Oh no, don't give them ideas. It'll become the HP instant ink of car charging

Your L2 charging wire is low on copper, please replace the entire cable.

Are there api keys for google maps in the car? Or does it emulate some client like a browser or android phone?

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