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by Fins 7y ago
That's regional accent. In Moscow it would be like that, but in other parts unstressed "a" would be pronounced more like "o" instead.
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by Fins 7y ago
>Nobody reads JP to become a better person, they do it to feel better about being a shit person. Isn't that the case for any other pseudo-profound pop-philosophy as well, not just JP? And isn't JP so popular exactly because the
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by Fins 7y ago
Indeed, there's too much political BS about climate change in the US (although I also haven't heard of any ICE bans in the South America either). China is very much a separate market (aren't most well-selling German luxury br
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by Fins 7y ago
Did anyone in the Western hemisphere make any similar commitments? But my point is that anyone's electric marketshare in 2019 is pretty meaningless as a predictor of 2040 or even 2030 results. And the 2019 rankings very much remind me
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by Fins 7y ago
That's really depends on what you want from a car, doesn't it? For me, all personal and IMHO, of course, multi-month repairs over trivial issues, having to plan your trips around charger stations, and, yes, lack of luxuries that
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by Fins 7y ago
Most of them look down on actively killing their customers. How did that full-self-driving trip across the US in 2016 go?
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by Fins 7y ago
What, Elon came to his senses and added a vented seats option back to Model S? Not that this were even a particularly high-end luxury feature now.
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by Fins 7y ago
This mayu or may not portend the end of Germany's auto industry, but what exactly is the marketshare of electric vehicles globally, and would BMW or Mercedes really notice what Hyundai or Nissan are doing?
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by Fins 7y ago
Well, I'll take the Audi. And according to someone who was bragging about how great Tesla does it (with all their software updates I will not insist that my experience several years ago is indicative of today's UX) claimed that yo
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by Fins 7y ago
Well, Tesla lovers do seem to believe that recalling a saved seat position from several layers deep in the center screen menu is more convenient that pressing a button on the door, but I will just respectfully disagree here. I suppose there
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by Fins 7y ago
Maybe TM3 is a great improvement over S, which wasn't all that impressive. But there's a little problem -- if you take all of this stuff out you end up with a car that can't even be controlled in any way. I don't think y
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by Fins 7y ago
(sigh) that;'s exactly what I am talking about. I drove a Tesla (not 3, it wasn't even out yet). And you know what? I was not impressed. Sure, it got nice electric torque, but in every other regard, from fit and finish to UX to dy
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by Fins 7y ago
Can we please put to rest that canard that only people who did not drive a Tesla criticize it? Depending on what you want from a car it is entirely possible and reasonable to discover that while Tesla is the best EV on the market, they do p
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by Fins 7y ago
But realizing this about the mural would require being able to see past the immediate thing that is depicted, or, God forbid, doing some research. Neither is something the radical fringe (left or right) feeding on outrage is either interest
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by Fins 7y ago
Exactly the point. But on some cars pretty much everything requires you to interact with a touch screen (cough, Tesdla, cough), and even if it does not, there's usually not enough buttons. On my wife's Sonata, e.g., sure, you can
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by Fins 7y ago
Certainly an understandable choice. Myself, after a year I got bored of looking in the window in the morning and not knowing if it is June or January. Of course if I had the same living conditions in Chicago as in Bay Area and had to dig th
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by Fins 7y ago
I am not sure if I agree. Culture-wise (IMHO, of coursde and all the disclaimers) it is lightyears ahead of the Bay Area. In education, both schools and universities, Chicagoland would compare very favorably with Bay Area (stepkid went to s
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by Fins 7y ago
Oh sure, a report created to justify a massive assault on both speech and rights of (possibly unsympathetic, but still) sexworkers makes the chose scapegoat look bad. Not exactly surprising. Just as the absence of any significant numbers of
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by Fins 7y ago
Shouldn't you also count the absence of the state income tax (at least for Dallas) and lower prices for pretty much everything else?
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by Fins 7y ago
That very much depends on the area. E.g. Chicago suburbs may not be quite as cheap as "get an acre of land" but you can absolutely have significantly better access to cultural, educational, academic, etc. opportunities than anywhe
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by Fins 7y ago
Pretty much top of the line. There's a big difference between what is safe and convenient when you are sitting at your desk, lazily poking at the screen, and what is acceptable when you are barrelling down the highway, with the screen
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by Fins 7y ago
I've tried Android Auto in a Sonata with touch screen, and Passat and a Q5 with rotary controller. The latter were far easier to use, once you've spent 5 minutes making sure you understand how it works. Maybe if the touch screen w
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by Fins 7y ago
I've tried Android Auto in a Sonata with touch screen, and Passat and a Q5 with rotary controller. The latter were far easier to use, once you've spent 5 minutes making sure you understand how it works. Maybe if the touch screen w
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by Fins 7y ago
I think it would be a reasonable argument that if you need to fiddle with navigation while driving, your nav system failed. And honestly, whether I am using Waze on the phone, or built-in nav, short of "crap, I've put a wrong dest
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by Fins 7y ago
It is interesting that Tesla fans can't even imagine for a moment that someone might have actually tried it and did not like it... In this case, though, this has been basically a solved problem for the past 50 years, if not longer. Yea
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by Fins 7y ago
One thing people tend to miss is that all of those "obvious and incredible" benefits of touchscreens are applicable or should ever be applied top operating a moving vehicle. And if there is somebody who does NOT fail at this, I&#x
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by Fins 7y ago
If you are stationary and can dedicate your attention to looking at the screen, sure. In a moving car, not at all. Using touch is a spectacular failure to apply even the basic common sense. Of course, needing multi-touch to do scrolling is
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by Fins 7y ago
Better than touchscreen, though, especially when moving (only doing it as a passenger, of course!)
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by Fins 7y ago
Possibly. If the only thing you're used to and expect is a touchscreen, you will long for a touchscreen even when it is objectively a worse experience. Seriously... I've seen people right here on HN claiming that "look, navig
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by Fins 7y ago
But you can do CarPlay/AAuto without the touchscreen idiocy.

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