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Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars
jamie found the news that Tesla Motors is delivering roadsters in California. (We've been following developments on the Tesla front for a couple of years now.) According to a letter from the CEO, "9 production Roadsters have arrived in California, another 3 arrive this weekend, and they will keep arriving at the rate of 4 per week... In fact, currently there are 27 Roadsters in various stages of assembly." The early owners must be proud, but there could be complications.
..until it's ion-propelled, RADAR navigated, coming complete with a charged particle beam and a death ray as standard safety features against enemy vehicles (eg: anyone who dares to race you at the traffic lights).
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
What do you mean? I've seen that guy posting all the way back in 1997.
It's a CAPTPHA - "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Pedants and Humans Apart".
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Erm, the title has an error.
Quite uncommon on Salshdot...
I'll believe it when they ship... wait this isn't how vaporware is supposed to work.
Next thing you know they'll be telling me that these solar panel thingys are real too.
No no, Telsa Motors is a rival company that makes cars powered by magnetic slinkeys.
I remember reading somewhere that the Tesla's reverse gear simply spins the engine in the opposite direction, meaning it's possible to reach top speed and acceleration while going backwards.
That alone is worth the price of admission to me.
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Who's "them"? AFAIK, Slashdot replaced its "editors" with a very small shell script back in 2002.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Because sometimes when they try something new and exciting they get the Edsel
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
I'm usually not one to follow up a reasonable and well-thought argument with a spelling correction, so here goes:
You just can't win with these brainless hippies
fix'd
One simple solution: Built-in tesla attack coil.
The SUV wouldn't stand a chance.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Are you from the french military ?
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When will this ignorant meme die?
Ignorant memes never die, they just .. well, I for one welcome our ignorant meme overlords.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
When will this ignorant meme die?
It doesn't die, it just keeps surrendering.
This can easily be proven, since one of the companies has even gone so far as to name themselves Shell.
This guy's the limit!
You must be new here? On /. there are three rules about postings.
1. You do NOT have to RTFA to know what it says.
2. It's all GWBs fault.
3. There is always a conspiracy to screw us out of something if the topic involves BigOi, the U.S. Government or the Military.
I own an LS based engine. Let me tell you, I stuff my foot in it daily. The cars got 120,000 mi of this kind of driving. The engine performs almost as perfect as day 1. The only maintenance it gets is synthetic oil changes. 5-30 all the time. (in fact, I slid through a roundabout destroying a Mustang GT convertable of the same year this AM)
Lets not forget too though, that we blow a metric shitload of energy out the tailpipe in the form of heat. Making that heat useful by turning some sort of thermal powered device. A steam alternator + electric waterpump & AC could give us back over 20 hp + better fuel economy, less drag on the engine, and lower idling speed.
Lets also not forget about the story of the six stroke engine. The one that uses water in the 5th stroke to cool the cylinder about doubled the power & economy of a standard 4 stroke engine. And it was carbeurated.
We are on the cusp of a revolution w/ engine tech. We are unfortunately also on the cusp of peak oil. How will we know when we hit peak oil? The day we drill ANWR & American coasts we'll have hit peak. We're about 8 years out though I think.
8 years is not that long, but of course, I am pulling a number from where usually only 2's come from.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.
How can the plane fly if it can't flap it's wings?
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.