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by jaxbot 9y ago
Has anyone tried one of the newer revisions of the Protect and had any experiences, positive or negative, with it? I was initially excited when I heard about the product announcement. It seemed like everything I wanted in a smoke detector:
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by jaxbot 9y ago
I drove a Leaf for a while and one issue fellow owners faced was that regen braking plus one-pedal driving meant the car could slow down very quickly without people expecting it. The Model S/X do put on the brake lights when this happe
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by jaxbot 9y ago
I think D.C. has some mixing zones that are gold standard: https://i0.wp.com/www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/201... Would love to see this in more places, because seriously, no other method is safe. Fo
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by jaxbot 9y ago
It sounds like the problem isn't the existence of a bike lane, but the construction of a really half-assed bike lane. Here in NYC, we have some of those, and I avoid them like the plague. If someone doors me, I'm going flying into
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by jaxbot 9y ago
How do cyclists get to their final destination, then? Do we have equal numbers of bike routes and driving, all the way from A to B? If so, that's pretty much just a protected bike lane.
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by jaxbot 9y ago
I agree with this. We have both here in NYC. First of all, cyclists need a way to get to their destination. Nobody is going to ride on the greenway and then walk a few blocks to their destination. Second of all, motorist behavior has really
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by jaxbot 9y ago
1) crashnotaccident.com 2) Sucks, but unavoidable as a pedestrian too. Hopefully the next few years will see some decent gains in electrification of road vehicles.
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by jaxbot 10y ago
Is it really "cheaping out" when you computerize a system. CBTC systems cost in the billions, and as such NYC's subway is almost entirely running on 1930's relays. It's a solid system, but it requires the drivers to
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by jaxbot 10y ago
This is why many are worried about Level 3 autonomy vehicles -- that is, driver assist where the car can drive ~95% of the time, but the driver may need to intervene at any moment. So far all the studies I've seen indicate that the dri
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by jaxbot 10y ago
If I'm entering an intersection and there's a driver that I suspect hasn't noticed me and may take a turn, I'll make eye contact and point, then signal a full hand for 'stop'. Seems to work.
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by jaxbot 10y ago
It's more than just paying attention: if the conductor can line their finger up with the zebra board for their train, they've guaranteed that the train is completely within the station. Opening the doors where there is no platform
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by jaxbot 10y ago
This is my stance. Texting (and apps) while driving is a huge issue, but so is road rage, DUIs, forgetting to check the bike lane when turning, loud music that makes it impossible to hear ambulances approaching, massive A pillars in newer c
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by jaxbot 10y ago
My partner and I will trade off who drives, but mine is always the one on Bluetooth. This would make it super annoying for me to navigate to places as a passenger, and I'd have to use her phone, which then shows the defects in the syst
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by jaxbot 10y ago
Chromebook plus Mosh over to a highly specced desktop. Best bang for your buck if you can guarantee a fast, stable connection.
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by jaxbot 10y ago
Last I heard, nobody has been able to verify if the car was actually in autopilot mode. However, the emergency braking also clearly failed, if the police report that no attempt to stop was made is true.
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by jaxbot 11y ago
Google's policy is that the first link from google's results must be freely viewable, but any other links on the site can be paywalled, login-walled, etc. That's why you can often just google a WSJ article or the title of ano
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by jaxbot 11y ago
I suspect the 60fps is a large contributor to this, at least for me.
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by jaxbot 11y ago
They had one at 53k and another at 55k last week, but those went quick. If you're serious about going electric, keep tabs on that report. You should be able to snag a deal in your price range. The Model S checks off everything on your
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by jaxbot 11y ago
If you look at their strategy, they're aiming to make profit around 2020 when the Gigafactory is at full capacity and the Model 3 is shipping at full capacity. At that point, the government subsidy expires for Tesla (100,000 cars shipp
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by jaxbot 11y ago
Absolutely, but the car industry didn't need to innovate there much because demand already existed. The point I was getting at is that we ripped out municipal transit systems, then built spread out cities where implementing mass transi
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by jaxbot 11y ago
I drive a Leaf. It's actually a really great city car. I use it for all my driving (commute, shopping, exploring the city) except for one trip a month I make in my old gas car. The car basically pays for itself compared to what I paid
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by jaxbot 11y ago
There's quite a few in Germany and the Netherlands, according to the map
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by jaxbot 11y ago
I think the biggest difference, speaking from my experience as a Leaf owner, is that electricity is much cheaper than petrol, more predictable in price/not as volatile as petrol prices, and the car itself is much more efficient than a
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by jaxbot 11y ago
To be fair, though, we theoretically don't need the car industry at all. Tesla is building an electric industry to solve the emissions problem created by a transportation industry that does not need to exist. Take NYC for example. MTA
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by jaxbot 11y ago
I disagree, only on the grounds that Chrome will max out the tiny GPU in that machine when HTML5 videos or CSS3 animations play. Even simple video effects like Expose will stutter. It's a great machine, but the video card is much too w
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by jaxbot 12y ago
Yep, see this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?can=2&start... They've got hardware accelerated CSS3 working right in the latest versions, but VP8/VP9 won't work. The explan
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by jaxbot 12y ago
Not just the view. React Native also gives you access to HTTP and full JavaScript logic, so the model, view and controllers can be written using React Native.
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by jaxbot 12y ago
On the other hand, this could be an incentive to purchase zero-emission vehicles instead of the alternatives, as the buying experience would be theoretically much better than that of going to a traditional dealer.
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by jaxbot 12y ago
I have constant crashes/freezes when waking up on Yosemite, and something about having iCloud disabled makes every iLife application show unrelated dialogs (usually "This will overwrite the existing file on iCloud" warnings,
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by jaxbot 12y ago
Why? Can you elaborate on why this would be a bad thing for your uses?

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