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by nickik 5y ago
Well, its not like you can pin-ball that stuff around. And if the sat is active it can easily counteract anything you can do with a laser. So I don't think there is much military value moving a sat incredibly slowly overtime. Its mostl
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by nickik 5y ago
Another new car company tried the dealership route only to still get the same pushback. Its really not worth doing just to get into another legal battle about if they are doing dealerships correctly. And Tesla is no longer alone in trying t
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by nickik 5y ago
As somebody who has used these facilities I highly disagree. They are really awesome. And if you have some magically technical solution that is much better and much easier, then please share it. And don't just complain that everybody e
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by nickik 5y ago
A lot of people ask what can be done. There is a lot. A huge part of why the ISS has to move because the uncertainty of the objects is to high. If we can get much more accurate measurements many of these issues become far less important. Cu
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by nickik 5y ago
> Ford has quite wisely chosen to let the battery experts make the batteries for them, and is using scale to drive down the costs of their batteries below what Tesla can achieve through vertical integration. So did Tesla for 15 years and
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by nickik 5y ago
I assume that because he makes a single not very good argument and then draws wide ranging conclusions from it that simply do not follow from his argument.
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by nickik 5y ago
> The phantom braking is not a radar issue, it's an issue with the vision system. Where are you getting that information?
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by nickik 5y ago
The redundancy is not free. The false positives cause the car to potentially react in the wrong way and that can also kill people. Tradeoffs have to be made in the real world. Why don't we force ever car to have radar, sonar, cameras,
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by nickik 5y ago
I didn't imply that you said anything about the look, I mentioned it as any example of something that is objectively different. So you mentioned actual argument, repair parts availability. So you mention one thing and the declare the C
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by nickik 5y ago
It might not be consider by some but its 800k sales a year and that includes far more non hardcore Ford fans. Just like tons of people who are not hardcore Tesla fans drive Teslas. I'm not saying F-150 will not sell, I'm saying th
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by nickik 5y ago
Go calculated the battery need for these 400k/year and try to understand that industry. And Tesla is building a factory that is equally designed to build that many trucks and the vertically integrate it with a huge battery factory like
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by nickik 5y ago
It would be 30-40M a year in savings and more as unit volume increases. Radar had been causing issues with false positive. On reddit somebody who works with radar explained the problem.
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by nickik 5y ago
Nonsense. They have been talking about removing radar for a while, that was always part of the plan.
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by nickik 5y ago
They are actually improving features. This actually FIXES a major issue with the current system. Radar false positives have been the single most complained about problem with Autopilot.
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by nickik 5y ago
Even if you assume a conversion ratio of 20% for Cybertruck and F-150 reservation, Ford couldn't build that many EV trucks in 3 years. The idea that the Cybertruck who has 100ks of reservations and beats the F-150 on pretty much every
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by nickik 5y ago
I'm sorry but this just total nonsense. They could make lots of profits if they weren't growing 30-50% a year reinvesting massively, paying massive bonus to Musk that he only gets based on massive growth. They have 18+ billion of
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by nickik 5y ago
Like everything else, start small, and grow. If you have a good product that actually works.
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by nickik 5y ago
Its kind of like if you took those servers and put a cloud like software layer on top and made many of them work together.
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by nickik 5y ago
So, does anybody think it would be overkill to put Kubernetes on this to host my blog?
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by nickik 5y ago
All of this is basically wrong. > Certainly not without a transmission. If you have 6 wheels and you can put an engine on each one there is zero reason what so ever to suggest you can't get enough torque. And if you look at the Tesl
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by nickik 5y ago
its(not, that, hard)
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by nickik 5y ago
om was from the beginning an experiment and this was very clearly stated.
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by nickik 5y ago
As Clojure programmer since Clojure 1.1 I am so impressed with ClojureScript. I never had much use for ClojureScript but I always follow what going on. swannodette is the peak language maintenancer and helped push the initial idea further t
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by nickik 5y ago
Seems like a lot of the work to replace radar are things that are generally useful additions to the neural net. It can also save 40+ million a year so its pretty nice from a business perspective.
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by nickik 5y ago
Tesla has mobile service, that can fix many things while you are working. You need to get hit really fn hard if you rip open a 3mm steel skin. If you manage that your F-150 will have to replace more then just the fender.
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by nickik 5y ago
Tesla already said they want to remove radar and switch to all visual a while ago.
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by nickik 5y ago
> Remember 5 years ago when Telsa fans claimed BEV range and acceleration wasn't possible for legacy automakers? No, I don't. Its the opposite, most people were saying that legacy makers could do it eventually but they need to
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by nickik 5y ago
I don't know about Ford, but Tesla will start with the more expensive version first. Tesla has explained in detail in how they will get the cost down. Far more detail then anybody else by a large margin. Its all well documented and you
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by nickik 5y ago
> Why would Tesla have better access to batteries than other carmakers? Because Tesla has an exclusive partnership with Panasonic and the operate one of the largest battery factories in the world together. Tesla is one of the largest cos
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by nickik 5y ago
It doesn't actually start at 40k unless you buy a special commercial version. I think they will anti-sell this version as hard as they can and remove every feature they can from it. In practice for normal people it will start at higher

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