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A Tesla Model S and solar power is a great combo. Congrats! How do you like your Model S so far? Does it meet your expectations?
by dave1619 14y ago
A Tesla Model S and solar power is a great combo. Congrats!
How do you like your Model S so far? Does it meet your expectations?
- spullara 14y agoIt is like driving around the original iPhone. Most of the awesome features of the car could be in any car, Tesla was just the first ones to really do it. As for driving performance it has been amazing. Much faster and more comfortable than my old 911. My biggest commute though is just from Los Altos to SF. One day I forgot to plug it in and it was no big deal but decided I didn't want that to happen again so I wrote an app for it using their undocumented API for the car that notifies me if I forget. https://github.com/spullara/teslalogger https://github.com/spullara/teslalogger
- CamperBob2 14y agoThat's kind of scary. The original iPhone was a pretty awful phone by any objective measure (speaking as someone who has owned one of every model and seen them improve steadily over the years.)
- hyperbovine 14y agoHindsight is 20/20. My first impression, upon beholding an iPhone in summer 2007, was that it had been dropped to us from the heavens by some benevolent, spacefaring race.
- CamperBob2 14y agoThat was my first impression, too. My second impression was wow, this thing isn't a very good phone.
- enraged_camel 14y agoNote that Model S is not a first-generation car. It came after the Roadster. So it's more like an iPhone 3GS, which was a very solid phone.
- geuis 14y agoNeither was the 286, the 486, or the Nvidia GTX 280 if you are always going to look at tech like that. It was amazing and a huge advancement when it was produced. You can't look back and say "oh that sucks" 5-6 years later.
- CamperBob2 14y agoI don't know about the Nvidia example, but both the 286 and 486 were damn nice boxes in their day, if you could afford them. The 286 was much better than the XTs, especially once the clock speeds ramped up. And the 486DX was a big win over having to pair a 386DX with a slow, expensive Weitek or 80387 chip.
- gregpilling 14y agoI paid $4000 for a 486 system in January 1990. It had a massive 40MB hard drive, and awesome Hercules card graphics.
- ricardobeat 14y agoHow is the original iPhone different? It was a nice damn phone back in 2007, a huge step up from the smartphones of the time.
- CamperBob2 14y agoIt was a revolutionary device, but it had poor ergonomics, terrible acoustics, lackluster RF performance, tons of bugs, and numerous omitted features that were already standard in run-of-the-mill feature phones. And although it wasn't the hardware's fault, its exclusive carrier was universally acknowledged to be the worst in the US. Using the original iPhone to make calls was like using a shortwave radio from the 1920s -- a lot of unlikely things had to work just right before you could get through. All of these things got better, of course, and at an impressive rate. Tesla seems to be on the same path, thankfully. 486s were fantastic machines on Day One in all respects except price. I don't know where s/he got the idea they weren't. The original IBM AT I didn't have direct experience with.
- sliverstorm 14y agoAnything looks terrible when you look back from the future a sufficient ways ahead. Holes in the ground with ice cut from frozen lakes was a pretty awful refrigerator, but it was a hell of a lot better than the alternatives available at the time.
- spullara 14y agoI meant advanced, but mostly a collection technology and software that any car company might have put together but the incumbents didn't do it. Like the 17" central console screen, a screen for a dashboard, internet access, google maps and navigation, etc.
- chenster 14y agoToo bad I can't downvote you. The first iPhone was awesome comparing to the 2nd best, namely, Nokia with its Symbian OS. I had both at the time. God, the iPhone was light years ahead. OK, I will stop digressing. This is not a thread about iPhone.
- CamperBob2 14y agoYes, because it's very frustrating when Someone is Wrong on the Internet and you're impotent to do anything about it. I know the feeling. :)
- chenster 14y agoSo help me reach 500 karma so I can downvote the heck out of it. :)
- CamperBob2 14y agoDone!
- epochwolf 14y agoUndone.
- wearetheworld 14y agounundone.
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- fusiongyro 14y agoIt's funny how often objective measures are irrelevant in The Real World.
- jacquesm 14y agoYou did not actually expect a 911 to be comfortable, did you? Also, I'll happily take it :)
- spullara 14y agoOh, the 911 is comfortable enough to be your commuting car but it is 13 years old so it doesn't have all the niceties. I guess I would compare the Tesla to the current Panamera.
- jacquesm 14y agoThe Panamera and the 911 are entirely different beasts. Plenty of people do not consider the Panamera and the Cayenne to be true to Porsches legacy. I know which I'd rather have. If it weren't for the maintenance costs and the fuel consumption I'd happily trade my golf for a 911. I'm pretty sure we'd also have the first Porsche with a towing hook for the trailer full of stuff we normally carry along ;)