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by _ea1k 3y ago
Agreed, and regardless of state after impact, it should have been able to determine that someone had been hurt by the collision. That might be the fix in this case, just hard stop for all cases of pedestrian impact.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It should be able to, but what if the person was unconscious? As a human, we'd detect this in other ways. I'd expect the car to use cameras and sensors.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
You are right about one thing, it isn't strange in the sense that it is unusual. It is in fact nearly universal. Being too dead set in opinions not well supported is always error but only sometimes a problem. IMO, that latter part is a
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by _ea1k 3y ago
No, because fixing all humans is impossible. Fixing all Cruise vehicles so that this doesn't happen might be hard, but it isn't impossible.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yes, and it sounds like a fairly fundamental flaw. Does the car have sensors that can determine pulling over is the wrong thing to do in this situation? In general, getting out of the way is the right course of action, but this clearly show
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It is bizarre tbh. I've had people say "why are they only talking about covid heard damage now, after the vaccines?" But we were all talking about this way back in 2020. People just have strange memories and attention windows
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> It's not. HN is obsessed with trying to "gotcha" electric cars, any form of power generation other than nuclear, public/alternative transit, etc. I've noticed this happening with off-grid setups. People will po
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I think F-150 Lightning is the closest to what you are looking for. But it has its own type of beginner's mistakes with the batteries. The charge curve isn't great, if that matters to you.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Despite claims to the contrary, I haven't really seen evidence of this with Tesla. The giga casts have pretty conventional crush structures ahead and behind them. It seems like the kind of crashes that'd cause massive costs are bi
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The i4 doesn't seem exceptionally bad to me. Although they really need NACS in the US.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I've often wondered about this, especially after the repeal of the mandate. It seems like the most useful provision was taken away by that. What are costs like for unsubsidized plans now?
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Of course not, but the people getting paid the bills also understand how to say "it is a complicated and difficult regulatory environment" frequently. If leadership isn't careful (and it seldom pays to be careful), it becomes
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by _ea1k 3y ago
This often depends on how the program is funded. The state may be able to get money to run the system and if they are ok with becoming dependent on that, they might take it. See also, NEVI, where the government is spending billions of dolla
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by _ea1k 3y ago
BMW seems to be doing pretty well at everything but styling.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It would be interesting to hear the real story here. These cars tend to have artificial power restrictions for reliability. It is possible that they did test it, but there were late software changes to reduce the power restrictions for mark
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by _ea1k 3y ago
IDK, I think using an axe instead of an eraser is still weird. Though the terminology is somewhat more common.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> suggests that perhaps the shine is wearing off, maybe they've saturated the market of people interested in the brand I think it is that they've saturated the market. Y is literally on the brink of being the highest selling ve
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by _ea1k 3y ago
To be fair, most of the orders were with the prices from the announcement. It is just that noone expects those to be the actual final price after these past few years. Which is crazy, considering that 3 and Y are pretty close to their price
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> While I'd normally assume this is just review samples, 125K is far too many for that. The 125k is the capacity of the line. The industry always exaggerates these figures and Tesla is no different. For example, I've heard esti
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The problem is that they started by implying the opposite. They should have been at least this ambiguous to begin with.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Red Hat owns Quarkus, so they are a risk or a benefit depending upon your perspective.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> I can't tell if Rivian is doing really well, or really badly. They are doing both! Their production ramp is fantastic and they have three products that their customers love! But they also have significant engineering and productio
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The BBC came out on the wrong side of this initially and are now pretending that the proximate cause is harder to determine than it is.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I do expect that EV 18 wheelers will have their biggest strength in areas where distances traveled aren't always particularly large. Transporting gasoline and diesel to stores perhaps...
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The hail chasers aren't only lurking around beaches. It is a trend happening throughout the country and leading to a lot of roof replacements.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
But not all paperclips are the same and not all crude oil is the same either? We sort of pretend that they are for the purposes of price comparison. And realtors do the same with houses. Have a home on the noisiest street in your neighborho
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I think this makes a good case for something in between that can display the annoying popup chat bubbles, but can't override toasts.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I've never heard of a manufacturer of a regular passenger car covering a hydrolocked engine.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I agree. They should be much more robust against this than they are. I think Rivian does quite a bit better. I'm not sure how other manufacturers compare.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The batteries have breather valves. If subjected to enough pressure, they can lead to water ingress. Despite Musk's statements, submersion isn't recommended. I have never heard of one failing from a puddle or just "rain"

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