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Originally Posted by hotrod182
You can contact Tesla, but I am pretty sure that you can't have the display angled towards you when you make the run. Do you turn it straight forward when you make the runs?
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Not to disagree, but I'm almost positive it can be angled in any direction. The thought did cross my mind, too. But, the manual (which I read in its entirety) doesn't state this and there is an "orientation" phase you take it through, which is simply a first-time straight-line drag run, so it can gather which direction is forward.
Accelerometers with the proper driver software could definitely handle the task. At a physical level, I believe they pick up changes in direction the same way throughout 3D space. Going off on a total tangent, if anyone's interested, many laptops have an accelerometer built-in nowadays. If it senses a quick change in direction, it "parks" the hard drive, to protect from head crashes in the event it has been dropped and is about to be jarred hard.