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Less rear headroom and hip room than my current Model X? Growing kiddoes won't be happy. Then again, we also cram them into a Model Y so it will feel roomy by comparison.

I really appreciate that they designed the headlamps to be lower to the ground than traditional trucks. Every modern pickup truck and jeep blinds me, even when they're on low beams. The hoods have gotten so high making the front fascia a flat wall, pushing up the headlamps.

I'm much less experienced on the mechanical engineering side of steering systems since my domain is purely software and the accompanying knowledge required to fulfill that role. In my mind, far in the future when we have hub motors and full independent 4-wheel SbW, I don't see why we couldn't...

Tesla's SbW patent only shows front steering and it shows a dual pinion EPS on a single rack. It shows a single rack bar and the dual EPS are for safety redundant purposes. It's not entirely clear if the primary EPS can handle all steering torque assist and the secondary is redundant standby...

I agree with you. In the absence of any pictures showing the rack, I'm guessing it will use a high gear ratio pinion w/ traditional EPS for the front and SbW for the rear. Since the road wheels move at a steady deflection throughout the hand wheel rotation in the video, we're not looking at a...

That caught my eye too, but I'm not sure it confirms steer by wire yet. It does confirm a high steering gear ratio. To confirm steer by wire, we would need to see the same hand wheel angle travel with low wheel deflection angle. Then we would know that the hand wheel isn't mechanically...

Another data point about the timing between delivery events and customer delivery: My VIN #807 Model X was delivered to me in April 2016. I had to drive to the Cleveland center since none existed in my state. So 7 months between the delivery event and my low VIN, in the midwest. I'm hoping...

I'm a little late to this discussion party, but I hope I can add some useful information. My background is as a software engineer in the automotive industry with 8 years working on software for instrument panel cluster (IPC) and 4 years on electric power steering (EPS) products. The company I...

Can't really tell from this video. You can see the tierods and bellows, but no sight of the eps powerpack or pinion. Not sure it's something you can really see without really getting up in there. Kind of neat to see the tirerods and bellows on the rear steering though.