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Ten years though … that’s getting to the point of needing extensive maintenance.

This is similar to what I do: I keep my cars until they need too much attention. One of my criteria in a vehicle is long term reliability, but it’s worked out to 10-14 years(in my parents generation, this was 6-10 years). I’m most frustrated by my Civic, after only 11 years couldn’t pass inspection without thousands in repairs. Meanwhile I was an idiot with my Pontiac, keeping it 14 years by spending way too much on unending repairs. My Subaru is at nine and counting, so we’ll see

If you can do some of your own car work that can make a huge difference, but I no longer have time, tools, or opportunity

Wasn’t that the entire argument against COViD vaccines? “It was too fast and I don’t understand the science”? So, projection? Or unveiling yet another lie?

We’re on our way to more than a three-degree temperature rise by the end of this century.

Fwiw, I recently saw a projection that we’re currently on a 2.9° path

We passed the seventh boundary this year, and we’re in the extreme danger zone.

But that’s much scarier. These boundaries weren’t defined back when we thought it was mainly about temperature

No. Window retracting on door opening is no different than other cars with frameless windows. Most lowering the window may damage the weatherstripping but is no impediment to door opening.

True that the door latch itself is just a solenoid. I actually forgot the the outside handles don’t do anything but give you something to pull on.

The worst part of the manual door release is that it’s different on each model. For mine, the front door manual release is easily accessible to the point I have to tell people not to use it. Back door is a problem though

Or just a snow covered road

They don’t though. Waymo runs a few pilots in a few specific geolocked locations with essentially hand built cars at a huge loss. They also have human remote supervisions. They do seem fairly successful and maybe their slow careful rollout will eventually be at scale in the areas that need it most. Hopefully it will work.

While it’s easy to argue Tesla hasn’t had those successes yet, they do have the “at scale” part down and are already profitable on the vehicles. They are close enough to self-driving them at they’re willing to try their own pilots with human intervention. If they succeed, they already have the scaling up done and are profitable on hardware so will quickly surpass other competitors.

I like that different companies are taking different approaches, so we have competition. May the best technology succeed!

I loved the comic when I was a kid: I’ll always give f4 another chance.

Actually, even I was skeptical of yet another attempt, but the retro, campy aesthetic of the preview won me over that they’re at least trying something different.

Sure but if you make that argument, even relatively dumb cars have that as well. At least antilock brakes have been mandatory for a few years (in the US) and traction control might be as well. Both lead to immediate adjustments in driving, more quickly than any human can react.

More automated cars must have some equivalent feedback on balance, sharpness of turns. I don’t know what it is, but they generally execute smooth comfortable turns.

Do people really get these false alerts? I don’t recall ever getting one that wasn’t local

What’s your goal in using fake info? If it’s general privacy, it’s easy enough to register where your info is private to the registrar

They’re using it as a way to divert blame

I mean it’s all true:

• humans drive based on vision alone
• moving to one type of sensor simplifies the ai
• lidar has been much bulkier, much more expensive than other sensors.

Most importantly, since no one has self driving yet, it’s premature to talk about that as a mistake. Let it fail or succeed on its merits. Let other self-driving attempts fail or succeed on their merits.

In this crash, part of the blame was on retracting handles on the outside, not the interior locks. If the handle is retracted, it’s tough to open the door from the outside.

• model s has electrically presented handles. The car has to be somewhat functional for the handles to extend …. I haven’t heard of extend on emergency or extend on power lost, or any other failsafe
• model 3/y door handles are not electrical. You have to press on one end to extend the other. You may or may not like them, but at least they don’t have that failure case of what happens when the car loses power

Yeah but I don’t know how this happened in the first place, we’ve had decades of horse running screaming out of that barn, decades of smelling the smoke from that dumpster fire, my entire life of what a horrible person he is and why is he still in the news. Yeah, it’s decades late to close that barn door, decades late to suffocate that fire. Mango Mussolini is the very definition of failing his way upward. There was never a good reason for him to lead us out of a paper bag, and it kept getting worse

I can only assume that insipid tv show he paid for to rehabilitate his image actually worked. Do people actually believe reality tv? Did everyone forget the decades of evidence before then? Did you actually pay attention to the script?

Last night I had a three hour call with my conservative brother where he explained an entirely different world than what I live in. Many of their choices are not as horrible if you accept their alternate facts. That’s the real problem, alternate reality.

Although here’s a wholesome tale for the Lemmings …… he was complaining about the parents and grandparents, the boomers in my family, believing in all this “woke nonsense”. I don’t know how he thinks I’d sympathize with his reality

Combine them with fracking, use them as “tampons” to plug the wells, sop up the pollution

Those stats might affect the adoration of his groupies, and how many are re-elected.

Most horribly of all, we have Vance thinking he can step into the big orange footprints to be ordained next. We can’t have that weasel elected. It would be more of the same but more evil, less self-centered gibberish

If we had just moved ahead with solar heat and hot water, or even solar panels, back when President Carter was trying to encourage it, we would already be moved away from fossil fuels

My interest in renewables, in ecology, in recycling, was all from growing up with that. But how did we let fossil fuel companies take over the conversation, guide our choices down the road to their profits at our cost?

I’ll agree with we should have started 40 years ago. We knew we should have and we did have sufficient technology to take other paths.

But I’ll disagree on whether we have the technology now. There was a recent post on Lemmy that in a sunny place like Las Vegas, you could replace 97% of energy generation with renewables and batteries. Cheaper. Not just that you can but that it’s cheaper. We have the technology.

The challenge is always to bring the cost down. We do have technology to create aviation fuel from green sources. We do have several options for fueling shipping that we know how to do. Even if we’re just making ammonia or hydrogen or green diesel, that is a huge step forward that we have the technology for. The problem is we don’t yet have a compelling economic case to (especially since climate change is externalized, not counted as a cost), nor anyone with the fortitude to make it so