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The "headlight gills" (not sure if that's the official name for them or not) are going to be tough to disguise, but if you haven't seen it, https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+model+3+honda+civic+badge&tbm=isch. I'm not 100% sure that it's not just photoshopped, but it's still funny.

When I went in to place my initial order and plunk down my deposit, the SA asked if I had taken any time playing with the online configurator. I gave a "placeholder" configuration code, based at the time more or less completely on distilling down what options various magazine/website reviewers...

I think I'm squarely in the middle ground. I've been driving the same ICE car for 25 years, and told myself I would keep doing that until there was an EV that I was really excited about buying. I suppose the fact that it's a Porsche brought a level of excitement that wasn't present for any other...

I suppose, but I don't know anybody who commutes primarily on abandoned airstrips.

That's a great example, because the lock/key metaphor used for encryption is typically spot-on in many ways, the most important and easiest to explain being that "whoever has the keys has access". The sort of "on-device encryption" management envisions is far too often the sort you reference as...

I think this is what solved the problem, based on your first picture. The white Tesla infected the Taycan with a virus. When you opened the charger port covers in succession, it achieved two important therapeutic goals. First, fresh mountain air entered the system. Secondly, the Taycan was able...

I think Android's implementation of "rolling cold standby" where there are two boot slots and the bootloader will automatically switch to the inactive slot if the active slot fails to launch within a specific time window is pretty cool. Being able to manually switch slots has also saved my...

Looks that way to me. I see OEM part number 9A7-915-989-B.

I probably fit in that demo, and here comes the part of the post where I embarrass myself by blowing decades of dust off my undergraduate economics degree. At the time, Adam Smith's supply and demand was taught as the greatest single economic insight, but I have always been more of a Ricardo...

If that's true, how did this project happen?

You might want to go through this thread section, especially concentrating on posts by @ciaranob. From afar, your situation seems like it may be related.

At the risk of losing the entirety of the audience that's under 50, that's the donkey hiding behind door #3 that Monty Hall is offering to trade you for the 5 $100 bills that he just peeled off his stack and handed to you. The Taycan is perfect. The door is installed improperly, and should...

Good luck delivering on the other seven once you've set the bar here.

My takeaway from this story is that the adults were lying to me all those decades ago. Santa Claus does in fact exist, and he lives in Western Mass.

I figure a concrete example of this (in a much lower-stakes environment) is the fact that game console OTAs always carry the weird-at-first-glance exhortation not to eject removable media or attach/detach external hard disks. If you're going to mess around on /dev/sdb3, you don't want it to...

Even if there's no amendment or delay, you've got to have very few concerns in your life if you can spare bandwidth to worry about your automotive purchasing options six years in the future.

Then I'm happy that you have found it, and maybe this is just me, but that table sums up pretty well why I declined all of the "quasi-autonomous" features. I think they treat the driver like another of their CANbus modules, and I don't think I'd be a very good code module. So I chose several...

In case you hadn't heard, another option (not sure if you'll consider it cost-prohibitive) is to retrofit the newer charger. https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/2022/products/porsche-taycan-on-board-charger-reduces-charging-times-30721.html

Here is an official Porsche PR piece about the "uPdate" that specifically mentions OTA capability. If that update has been applied, I would expect OTA update to be possible in general. I cannot think of any reason that the software that manages authentication for OTA would be model-year specific.

How about printing out the URL to this thread in 140-point font and putting it on the dashboard? The cops will be too busy laughing to write you any tickets.