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by floxy 2y ago
I wonder what the human-caused "accident" rate would be if we subtracted out the mayhem caused by fleeing felons. From the sounds of the article, it could be a significant factor. On the other hand, I suppose it won't be lo
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by floxy 2y ago
> Yet, the list price of new vehicles is easily 1.5x - 2x that in the US I'm assuming this is because of taxes or import tariffs, or something similarly self-imposed?
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by floxy 2y ago
Seems like food delivery might be the killer app for drone deliveries. You need to get it there fast. Fairly bounded load weights / sizes. Hardware/Drones should scale. Could do mostly automated deliveries, with human interven
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by floxy 2y ago
>2) People don't plug in their hybrids Does anyone know why they don't? It seems strange to me that you would pay extra for a feature, and then not use it. But maybe these people are getting governmental subsidies that end u
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by floxy 2y ago
>There's a car I'm interested in being revealed next month, but it's almost certainly EV only Care to share what car that is? Always looking to see what's up and coming.
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by floxy 2y ago
General Relativity simulations. Of course I'd need to learn about general relativity first. But it would motivate me to buy a book. https://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Relativity-Starting-Thomas-...
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by floxy 2y ago
>In a passenger vehicle you'd think they'd be able to get away with a small motorcycle engine. The range extender on the BMW i3 EV is a motorcycle sized engine at 647cc: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews&#x2F
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by floxy 2y ago
>Make me the equivalent of an 00s Honda Civic but is an EV? Base model Nissan Leaf? https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/electric-cars/leaf.html ...still some cameras, but no lane centering, no adaptive cruise co
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by floxy 2y ago
See also the 2025 Ramcharger https://www.ramtrucks.com/electric/ram-1500-ramcharger.html https://www.caranddriver.com/ram/1500-ramcharger
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by floxy 2y ago
And I know 2 people living in condos with garages, where they could charge an EV. And you can charge an EV from your driveway, even without a garage. What would be your estimate of the percentage of households who could have an EV (beca
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by floxy 2y ago
Here's a pretty scathing mechanic's review of the BZ4X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2tzln6UD-Q
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by floxy 2y ago
Anyone have stats on what percentage of households living in a house/condo with a garage also own an EV? I see from: https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/how-many-elect... ...that there are about 3.
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by floxy 2y ago
That's great! Is that described in the documentation? I can't seem to find it.
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by floxy 2y ago
Since everyone likes something just a wee bit different, I'd also like to see something where most of the functions in :COMMON-LISP are made generic, so you can overload '+, etc. to work on vectors, etc.. Obviously you can do it
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by floxy 2y ago
>Without that money, the US economy would collapse over night. But that money would just get spent by other government agencies, or the taxpayers, right? And if the military vendors aren't efficiently using that money, then society
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by floxy 2y ago
Anyone know the current state of the art on "tabletop" particle accelerators? https://newatlas.com/berkely-world-record-compact-particle-a... https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/09&#x2
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by floxy 2y ago
Does anyone know if there is some reason a Chinese manufacturer couldn't just as well setup a manufacturing plant in the U.S.? I mean besides the higher costs of labor in the U.S. compared to Mexico. Like are there U.S. laws in place
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by floxy 2y ago
I recently went into my local Ford dealer, and they had a Bronco in the showroom with a sticker price of $98,000 .
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by floxy 2y ago
One man's slump is another man's highest ever volume of EV sales: https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q2-2024-ev-sales/
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by floxy 2y ago
Tidal forces at the event horizon of supermassive black holes are negligible. https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/blackh/4Page33.pdf
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by floxy 2y ago
Anyone know the trend in new gas station construction for the recent past for the U.S.? Also would be interested to know stats about gas station trends in places like Norway, where new car sales are something like 90% EVs. https:/&#x
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by floxy 2y ago
>How would you detect one? I wonder if the gravitational wave signature of a merger between an extremal black hole with something else would give us any clues.
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by floxy 2y ago
How does the fare pricing compare between Waymo and Uber or Lyft? It is generally less expensive or more expensive, or about the same? Or are the ride prices highly volatile, as they try to A/B test things, or have down times related
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by floxy 2y ago
CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation by R. Jacob Baker https://www.amazon.com/CMOS-Circuit-Simulation-Microelectron... I'd looks like there have been many revisions. I've got the first edition from 1998 w
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by floxy 2y ago
Thanks, that's very interesting. Does Top Gear have a similar long term review for a Tesla model (with the average efficiency calculated over something like the 10,000 miles in the Toyota review and presumably with the same group of d
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by floxy 2y ago
>their first real EV has half the efficiency of a Tesla. Which model is Toyota's first real EV? The BZ4X efficiency (131 city/107 hwy MPGe), while less than the Model 3 (138 city/126 hwy MPGe), isn't half the efficie
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by floxy 2y ago
Toyota Mirai https://my.caredge.com/buy?radius=7000&rows=20&zip=99301&mak...
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0.15% the speed of light
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by floxy 2y ago
Seems like we might be in the post-modern C++ age, since the Andrei Alexandrescu "Modern C++" book came out in 2001.
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by floxy 2y ago
What would be the energy source for this underground life on Mars? No photosynthesis available 6 miles down. Could there be things like hydrothermal vents at these depths on Mars?

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