But if you have a mod chip with some fake sound, then you're just like a kid putting a card in his spokes. A fact about gasoline is that auto-makers successfully hid the fact that it makes us dependent on other nations with very different beliefs than us, so ICEs came to represent freedom. It's going to be hard to market an EV as representing freedom when you need to be tied to a charging station for at least a 1/2 hour just to drive out of your state.
Tesla seems to take all the fun out of performance. It used to be able oil and gas and the small of exhaust coming out of two dual 2.5" exhaust pipes with a sound that made an indication of how fast it was. Now it's just a really quick golf cart.
I'm of the strange notion that you are stuck at a Supercharger for at least 1/2 hour for every charge, and that is likely somewhere I wouldn't otherwise choose to be.
Furthermore it isn't news anymore because America has already decided they don't want to do anything about this problem. It's ok with America collectively that school kids die simply for going to school, like in Afghanistan.
How will do airplane autopilots deal with concrete barriers? Oh wait, I guess there are no concrete barriers in the sky, thus leading people into a false comparison.
That's a pretty big assumption. I'd like to see actual US numbers to come to that determination. Also, you would need the accident numbers for other luxury cars, not just any car.
Yup, just read up on it. The $13B was only for two years, not the entire time Apple was getting the break from Irelend. So in other words, this was not a penalty, this was just part of the money they owed. People gamble with taxes all the time, some lose, in this case Apple still made out pretty well. How you can call this a 'penalty' is beyond me.
Did Apple actually pay any penalty for the EU mistake? I thought they had just paid back the taxes they owed in the first place. Or do you mean they paid the taxes + the 13B? Didn't they technically owe more than $13B in taxes? I'm betting they got some sort of break.
What should the penalty be? Enough to affect stock prices, for sure.
The size of the ebook market is only 20 billion dollars. Apple has over ten times that sitting in a bank account. It doesn't matter if Apple was told not to sell ebooks ever, the size of the market bears little importance to them. The fine was $415 million. They had to give up 0.16 percent of their bank account. Big freaking deal. Apple only has around 10% of the ebook market, meaning there was another 2 billion at stake. Even if the judge had said to Apple they could never sell ebooks again, it amounts to 0.9 percent of just the money they have sitting in the bank. Ebooks really meant very little to apple.
If Musk is doing everything he can to get the message across that Autopilot is NOT autonomous driving, should he not be happy that the news covers people getting into serious accidents by trying to use it like an autonomous vehicle? This seems to be consistent with what he wants, if a lot of commenters here are correct. If this isn't what he wants, then he isn't really trying to get the message out that these cars can kill you if you don't pay attention.
Affecting the performance of an older device without telling people about it is the wrong choice. Apple knows what they are doing, and they made the choice that would put them in a better light. Heck, even if they had explained what they were doing it and why they were doing it and not given a choice, that would have been better. Apple is smart enough to know that they should not handicap devices that they don't own. This went through their PR department and they made the wrong choice.
And what did the courts do to make it feel more than a slap on the wrist than apple? This is a company with $246 billion in a bank. Nothing less than a fine of $50 billion would change their behavior.
Just like it would be a PR nightmare to slow down an older phone without asking? Just like it would be a PR nightmare to put a keyboard prone to failure in one of the most expensive laptops available? Yeah, you're right that would be a big mistake. People might create class action lawsuits.
Sorry I read the article several months ago. Looked through my history and did google searches but couldn't find it. I didn't even know about speed queen until I read it. Once change I remember is that they made the agitator and drum one single moving part and the article was saying it didn't clean as well.
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But if you have a mod chip with some fake sound, then you're just like a kid putting a card in his spokes. A fact about gasoline is that auto-makers successfully hid the fact that it makes us dependent on other nations with very different beliefs than us, so ICEs came to represent freedom. It's going to be hard to market an EV as representing freedom when you need to be tied to a charging station for at least a 1/2 hour just to drive out of your state.
I have a classic Chevy with a 454. I didn't have to drive it fast, it was just fun standing behind it while it was idling.
Part of the fun *is* waking grumpy ol' neighbors.
Might as well just put a card in the spokes. Then it's all pretend.
Tesla seems to take all the fun out of performance. It used to be able oil and gas and the small of exhaust coming out of two dual 2.5" exhaust pipes with a sound that made an indication of how fast it was. Now it's just a really quick golf cart.
Zing!
I'm of the strange notion that you are stuck at a Supercharger for at least 1/2 hour for every charge, and that is likely somewhere I wouldn't otherwise choose to be.
Furthermore it isn't news anymore because America has already decided they don't want to do anything about this problem. It's ok with America collectively that school kids die simply for going to school, like in Afghanistan.
You can't call a system that is obviously worse then humans in some ways 'better than humans'.
..while you eat at the only restaurant available around the charging station. FIFY.
How will do airplane autopilots deal with concrete barriers? Oh wait, I guess there are no concrete barriers in the sky, thus leading people into a false comparison.
That's a pretty big assumption. I'd like to see actual US numbers to come to that determination. Also, you would need the accident numbers for other luxury cars, not just any car.
Yup, just read up on it. The $13B was only for two years, not the entire time Apple was getting the break from Irelend. So in other words, this was not a penalty, this was just part of the money they owed. People gamble with taxes all the time, some lose, in this case Apple still made out pretty well. How you can call this a 'penalty' is beyond me.
Did Apple actually pay any penalty for the EU mistake? I thought they had just paid back the taxes they owed in the first place. Or do you mean they paid the taxes + the 13B? Didn't they technically owe more than $13B in taxes? I'm betting they got some sort of break.
What should the penalty be? Enough to affect stock prices, for sure.
The size of the ebook market is only 20 billion dollars. Apple has over ten times that sitting in a bank account. It doesn't matter if Apple was told not to sell ebooks ever, the size of the market bears little importance to them. The fine was $415 million. They had to give up 0.16 percent of their bank account. Big freaking deal. Apple only has around 10% of the ebook market, meaning there was another 2 billion at stake. Even if the judge had said to Apple they could never sell ebooks again, it amounts to 0.9 percent of just the money they have sitting in the bank. Ebooks really meant very little to apple.
I was thinking the same. Apple hasn't designed the device to be used long term from the start.
Where is this article saying Teslas drive 2.67 billion miles per year in the US? Article is talking about global numbers.
If Musk is doing everything he can to get the message across that Autopilot is NOT autonomous driving, should he not be happy that the news covers people getting into serious accidents by trying to use it like an autonomous vehicle? This seems to be consistent with what he wants, if a lot of commenters here are correct. If this isn't what he wants, then he isn't really trying to get the message out that these cars can kill you if you don't pay attention.
When Tesla enforces a training course as thorough as pilot training for anyone to sit in the seat of a Tesla S. you have a point.
Affecting the performance of an older device without telling people about it is the wrong choice. Apple knows what they are doing, and they made the choice that would put them in a better light. Heck, even if they had explained what they were doing it and why they were doing it and not given a choice, that would have been better. Apple is smart enough to know that they should not handicap devices that they don't own. This went through their PR department and they made the wrong choice.
And what did the courts do to make it feel more than a slap on the wrist than apple? This is a company with $246 billion in a bank. Nothing less than a fine of $50 billion would change their behavior.
Withholding information isn't illegal either if you are a company who has plenty of cash in their pockets for lawsuits.
Just like it would be a PR nightmare to slow down an older phone without asking? Just like it would be a PR nightmare to put a keyboard prone to failure in one of the most expensive laptops available? Yeah, you're right that would be a big mistake. People might create class action lawsuits.
Found it: https://thewirecutter.com/blog...
Sorry I read the article several months ago. Looked through my history and did google searches but couldn't find it. I didn't even know about speed queen until I read it. Once change I remember is that they made the agitator and drum one single moving part and the article was saying it didn't clean as well.