Sat. Oct. 5, 2019

It was Harriet's birthday a few days ago. Harriet would have been 70 years old. What can I say, I still miss my Girl!

I finally finished with the water leak that started at my Dad's house a week before I left to house sit in Hawaii. My friend Larry went to my Father's house every other day a drain the water that was pooling in the area of the leak. It took six weeks for that to dry up.

This water leak was a big deal and a very big project. I hauled 1800 lbs of gravel to cover the area after I filled the holes back in. You have to do what you have to do. This was not my favorite project, but it had to be done.

Tesla finally came out with the update I talked about in May. It is called Enhanced Summon. So if I am in a parking lot, I can have my car drive to where I am, then I get in the car and drive off. The max distance at this time is half the length of a football field, 150 ft. I have tried it a few times and it works pretty good. Top speed is 5 mph in this mode.

They included a bunch of stuff in this last software update. Now you can get Netflix, YouTube and Hulu on the screen in the car as you can see from the picture below that's my YouTube website.

Since I purchased my Tesla model 3 in January I received at least a dozen software updates. With each software update my car improves its ability for self driving and all the little extra features. At this point Tesla's have the ability to self navigate from the time you get on an on-ramp to a freeway, changing lanes as needed, changing freeways while in the navigation mode and then finally coming to your offramp and exiting and returning the controls back over to you. Now, the next really big software update that's coming and it's supposed to be here by the end of the year is for Tesla's to recognize signal lights and stop signs for city street driving. Slowly but surely Tesla is putting together a car that will be able to drive you to where you need to be in a couple years without any assistance or input from your part.

I watched the interview of Tesla's CEO Elon Musk a month ago. He made a good point, when self driving cars become 200% safer than a human being driving the same car, then no human intervention will be needed. Actually when you think about it, if a full self driving vehicle is 200% safer than a human being driving, then any human intervention in the driving of the car would be detrimental to the drivers safety. Because he would have twice the chance of getting an accident if he was in control instead of the computer.

That is all I know. I am getting ready to pick up the grand-kids for a Sat. outing. 

I love you Harriet,
Frank