An electrician needs to run a 240V line from your mains breaker box to a charging interface for the EV. Your existing mains box's capacity determines how many amps this circuit can supply. Typical EVs use 40A or about that of your clothes dryer or range. This can be doubled to 80A if your box and EV support this faster high amp circuit.
$750-$1500ish
Charging interfaces vary depending on EV but adapters can be used if needed to accommodate a different EV. Charging interface (sometimes called charging station) Typically $500 Electrician fee to install and run the new circuit $250-$2000 The lower end of the scale is a best case scenario where your existing box has enough capacity while the higher end being that your existing box doesn't have enough capacity and needs replaced Other factors can affect the price such as the location of your mains box and how the circuit is to be run. If outdoors this might involve conduit. Drywall or masonry work may also need done if there is no easy path from mains to the garage.
Silicon valley is already seeing "charger rage" incidents where access to shared chargers just isn't working.
Looks like a money making opportunity to me. Silicon Valley seems good at making tech to solve these types of issues. Or are they fighting of a free charger?
Do you own just one car? If so you are likely in the minority. I'd hazard to guess that most of the 90% this would benefit have more than one vehicle. It isn't unreasonable to believe that people will opt to keep both around until energy density improves in EVs.
It's relative. Just like going on a long hike if you are conditioned to it, it really isn't anymore dangerous.
When I do long drives I time my stops where I'll run out of fuel. My current car that is roughly 455 miles or about 6 hours of constant highway driving. I spend no more than 10 minutes refueling and draining my bladder and am back on the road. If my car could drive more than 455 I still feel like I could go further, I wish I could get 7 hrs per stop then it'd be only 2 stops from Phoenix to Spokane.
Maybe I'm conditioned to this because I never need to stop for a bathroom break before the car runs out of fuel. It really bugs me when someone want's to go with me because I know they are going to need to stop much more often. Of course they're guzzling a 44oz soda while I sip water as needed.
In most places 5G (in currently envisioned form) will not happen at all due to economics of it. Outside of Japan and such we simply do not have population density to justify putting a cell unit at every lamp post (because signal is short range and does not go through walls very well).
If my Verizon bill is any indication economics is not the problem.
You get yourself into this trouble by living beyond your means. My parents and grandparents didn't grow up with air conditioned 2000sf+ homes with attached garages, satellite TV, smartphones, or more than 1 car (which also didn't have AC or automatic anything),
Kids today somehow think that they are entitled to everything their parents worked so hard for and more. It's absolutely disgusting. I can't really blame them though, after all they were raised this way.
Go read the Compound Effect or The Slight Edge. Being wealthy has nothing at all to do with luck. If it did, then lottery winners wouldn't be going bankrupt soon after their winnings. It has everything to do with day to day choices you make compounded over time. Nothing more.
Yeah no kidding. Especially with the average modern car containing 100+ ECUs, with each coming from different vendors that won the lowest bid. AFIK there currently isn't any certification requirement that auto manufacturers have to comply with with regard to ECU hardware and software other than emissions requirements.
Autopilot was primarily invented for aircraft and even today, autopilot will still happily fly an aircraft into terrain without human interaction if you let it. There have been numerous CFIT fatal crashes of aircraft with over 9000 deaths. Each of these incidences brought more knowledge of how to improve technology to help prevent future occurrences (I expect the same to happen with autonomous vehicle technology). Autopilot was never intended to replace the human pilot or alleviate the responsibility of the human pilot to maintain constant situational awareness. Likewise, autopilot in the Tesla was never intended to alleviate the driver of the responsibility to maintain continuous situational awareness. The driver actually has to agree to this when using it.
I think Hollywood may have warped people's perception of what autopilot actually is and its limitations.
Verizon has the coverage and they know it. Verizon was very meticulous in which local carriers and towers they bought up over the last 3 decades. They made sure that whenever possible they were going to have service in every nook and cranny in the states. While the other carriers largely focused on population dense cities.
For city dwellers that don't travel much it makes sense to not use Verizon. But if you want cell service with reasonably reliable data nearly everywhere you go you have no other choice but Verizon.
As a Verizon customer I hate that they charge so much, but for me the extra expense is worth having the extra coverage. And as much as I drive, it could potentially save my life or that of a family member in a breakdown or accident.
The ATMs in the video already protect against these types of skimmers by emitting a jamming signal in the EM range that interferes with magstrip read heads making skimming impossible here. There are also sensors around the card reading housing that alerts the bank to the presence of tampering.
As discussed on reddit when this story broke, this video is likely an advertisement (filmed in vertical much like the guy sleeping in his Tesla on the freeway to make it look amateurish). Seeing now that it's linked directly to the security company's website and his linkedin profile in this slashvertisment^H^H^H^H article, an astroturf viral advertisement would be my assessment.
Despite this, it's nice that people are being made aware of skimming.
The US is currently transitioning to CHIP and PIN. By October of this year the liability will fall on whomever is using the weakest technology in the chain. Bank -> Processor -> Merchant. Nearly every store I visit already has new terminals and some have already transitioned to requiring chip & pin. Most banks have already replaced their customer's cards with chipped cards.
You can bet that once the deadline comes nobody is going to want to be on the receiving end of liability. There will be no bank or processor that will want to touch the mag strip with a 10 foot pole.
Like you said it is part of the experience. It has always been like this since I can remember from the 70's, and I'm sure it's been that way long before then too. What you are expecting is a home theatre experience in a public theatre. With that kind of expectation you are always going to find disappointment especially on opening weekends.
Probably best to stick to home theatre, or wait a bit until the crowds have died down a bit.
But I feel your pain. Some movies I want less distraction like Interstellar, Gravity, etc. I've found IMAX (not lieMAX) to be a better venue as the concessions stands are smaller and not the primary source of income. The ticket prices are higher so parents are less likely to bring a bunch of little kids, rowdy teens probably don't care enough for the higher quality or can't afford it, etc.Not always but generally speaking.
I'd think that doing this would put a bigger target on you.
With facial recognition the way that it is now, the data gathered from these sources will carry a little more weight to compensate. Meta data collected from these sources would be analyzed a more thoroughly. Links to other data monitored more closely, bank accounts, utility usage, stores frequented, etc. This is likely already being done automatically.
You are going to be profiled whether you like it or not. We are long passed the time of being able to opt out and live a civilized life.
Who the fuck is PAYING these folks to sit and watch them...???
There's an interesting documentary on Netflix about this called All Work All Play. I had no idea how big this really was. It is really interesting and exciting to see.
It is never in the manufacturer's best interest to optimize updates especially when the product being updated competes with newer more profitable products.
Planes have been flying and landing themselves for decades now. Pilots are there to transition the flight from one automated task to another depending on conditions and instructions from control centers and towers. They are also a backup in case of system failure. A modern airline pilot probably manually controls the aircraft for less than 1% of any given flight but really doesn't have to. He can instruct the flight computer to do all of these tasks if he wishes. Depending on the airline, pilots are required to make manual landings from time to time to keep their skills sharp. The Korean Air disaster in SFO last year was the result of a new pilot manually landing a craft for the first time at an airport unfamiliar to him (he had done only automatic landings prior to this). Automated landing was not possible due to the ILS system at SFO being down for construction at the time. This is a sad side affect of too much automation and little training.
Military drones are already capable of doing this completely autonomously. Smaller surveillance drones are doing the same and it won't be long before you start seeing these things hovering around your local mall. The software exists, but the cost to implement it and risks associated with it is still too high for commercial flight in a short amount of time. It will happen eventually.
There is a lot of truth to that statement. It was the cheaper consumer models that were affected. Retail profit margins are so thin that manufacturers and retailers make up for it with preloaded crapware.
Lenovo's business products were not affected by this as these aren't usually preloaded with crap. The same goes for other manufactures too. Dell and HP both offer cheap crapware infested models, along with pricier crap free business models.
You have my congratulations. You have proven yourself to be among the 20% of the population that has good insulin sensitivity and thus psychologically capable of taking hold of your diet and health. Again, congratulations. Hope you give yourself a nice pat on the back.
But this is only possible for 20% of the population as the other 80% are affected severely by poor insulin sensitivity and the adverse psychological effects this has on a person. For the first time in human history food is more abundant than ever before, not just any food but high caloric foods that were extremely rare just 100 years ago. In the 100s of thousands of years prior it was an evolutionary advantage to have this problem. In times of feast and famine putting on extra weight meant you were going to survive times of famine. You simply cannot tell one of these 80% to consume less calories and expect results. They will fail, mainly because their evolutionary makeup and psychology will rebel and sabotage their efforts. They cannot help it when 100s of thousands of years of evolution are fighting against them. No amount of will power is going to prevail against this. It may for a short while, but eventually it will catch up to them. Is it any wonder that so many diets fail? Now I suppose if you lock one of these 80% in a room and restrict their diet by force they will lose weight, but will completely fail when placed back into an environment with abundant food.
Science in this is relatively new, just withing the last decade. The obesity problem cannot be solved unless there is also focus on the psychology of it. Diets that cater to this such has high protein, low carb diets combined with moderate exercise do show promise. Making subtle changes are also less likely to trigger this evolutionary psychological panic in these folks.
We live in a world where everyone has smartphones. If I suspect my driver of deviating too far off course I check my Waze app. On two occasions I've showed the driver the route on my phone and confirmed that this would be the route he took. Neither objected.
I've used taxis and Uber. Although I've not had any problems with taxi drivers yet, I do have problems getting them to pick my up in a timely manner if at all sometimes. Uber and their app is truly amazing in this regard.
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An electrician needs to run a 240V line from your mains breaker box to a charging interface for the EV. Your existing mains box's capacity determines how many amps this circuit can supply. Typical EVs use 40A or about that of your clothes dryer or range. This can be doubled to 80A if your box and EV support this faster high amp circuit.
$750-$1500ish
Charging interfaces vary depending on EV but adapters can be used if needed to accommodate a different EV.
Charging interface (sometimes called charging station) Typically $500
Electrician fee to install and run the new circuit $250-$2000 The lower end of the scale is a best case scenario where your existing box has enough capacity while the higher end being that your existing box doesn't have enough capacity and needs replaced Other factors can affect the price such as the location of your mains box and how the circuit is to be run. If outdoors this might involve conduit. Drywall or masonry work may also need done if there is no easy path from mains to the garage.
Silicon valley is already seeing "charger rage" incidents where access to shared chargers just isn't working.
Looks like a money making opportunity to me. Silicon Valley seems good at making tech to solve these types of issues.
Or are they fighting of a free charger?
Do you own just one car? If so you are likely in the minority. I'd hazard to guess that most of the 90% this would benefit have more than one vehicle. It isn't unreasonable to believe that people will opt to keep both around until energy density improves in EVs.
It's relative. Just like going on a long hike if you are conditioned to it, it really isn't anymore dangerous.
When I do long drives I time my stops where I'll run out of fuel. My current car that is roughly 455 miles or about 6 hours of constant highway driving. I spend no more than 10 minutes refueling and draining my bladder and am back on the road. If my car could drive more than 455 I still feel like I could go further, I wish I could get 7 hrs per stop then it'd be only 2 stops from Phoenix to Spokane.
Maybe I'm conditioned to this because I never need to stop for a bathroom break before the car runs out of fuel. It really bugs me when someone want's to go with me because I know they are going to need to stop much more often. Of course they're guzzling a 44oz soda while I sip water as needed.
Haven't you done any line dancing?
In most places 5G (in currently envisioned form) will not happen at all due to economics of it. Outside of Japan and such we simply do not have population density to justify putting a cell unit at every lamp post (because signal is short range and does not go through walls very well).
If my Verizon bill is any indication economics is not the problem.
Windows [whatever dumb name marketing comes up with for the next version] will probably only boot with secure boot.
Start -> Run -> control userpasswords2
This has worked on every version of windows since NT
You get yourself into this trouble by living beyond your means. My parents and grandparents didn't grow up with air conditioned 2000sf+ homes with attached garages, satellite TV, smartphones, or more than 1 car (which also didn't have AC or automatic anything),
Kids today somehow think that they are entitled to everything their parents worked so hard for and more. It's absolutely disgusting.
I can't really blame them though, after all they were raised this way.
Go read the Compound Effect or The Slight Edge. Being wealthy has nothing at all to do with luck. If it did, then lottery winners wouldn't be going bankrupt soon after their winnings. It has everything to do with day to day choices you make compounded over time. Nothing more.
Yeah no kidding. Especially with the average modern car containing 100+ ECUs, with each coming from different vendors that won the lowest bid.
AFIK there currently isn't any certification requirement that auto manufacturers have to comply with with regard to ECU hardware and software other than emissions requirements.
Autopilot is actually an accurate name for it.
Autopilot was primarily invented for aircraft and even today, autopilot will still happily fly an aircraft into terrain without human interaction if you let it. There have been numerous CFIT fatal crashes of aircraft with over 9000 deaths. Each of these incidences brought more knowledge of how to improve technology to help prevent future occurrences (I expect the same to happen with autonomous vehicle technology). Autopilot was never intended to replace the human pilot or alleviate the responsibility of the human pilot to maintain constant situational awareness. Likewise, autopilot in the Tesla was never intended to alleviate the driver of the responsibility to maintain continuous situational awareness. The driver actually has to agree to this when using it.
I think Hollywood may have warped people's perception of what autopilot actually is and its limitations.
Verizon has the coverage and they know it. Verizon was very meticulous in which local carriers and towers they bought up over the last 3 decades. They made sure that whenever possible they were going to have service in every nook and cranny in the states. While the other carriers largely focused on population dense cities.
For city dwellers that don't travel much it makes sense to not use Verizon. But if you want cell service with reasonably reliable data nearly everywhere you go you have no other choice but Verizon.
As a Verizon customer I hate that they charge so much, but for me the extra expense is worth having the extra coverage. And as much as I drive, it could potentially save my life or that of a family member in a breakdown or accident.
The ATMs in the video already protect against these types of skimmers by emitting a jamming signal in the EM range that interferes with magstrip read heads making skimming impossible here. There are also sensors around the card reading housing that alerts the bank to the presence of tampering.
As discussed on reddit when this story broke, this video is likely an advertisement (filmed in vertical much like the guy sleeping in his Tesla on the freeway to make it look amateurish). Seeing now that it's linked directly to the security company's website and his linkedin profile in this slashvertisment^H^H^H^H article, an astroturf viral advertisement would be my assessment.
Despite this, it's nice that people are being made aware of skimming.
The US is currently transitioning to CHIP and PIN. By October of this year the liability will fall on whomever is using the weakest technology in the chain. Bank -> Processor -> Merchant. Nearly every store I visit already has new terminals and some have already transitioned to requiring chip & pin. Most banks have already replaced their customer's cards with chipped cards.
You can bet that once the deadline comes nobody is going to want to be on the receiving end of liability. There will be no bank or processor that will want to touch the mag strip with a 10 foot pole.
Like you said it is part of the experience. It has always been like this since I can remember from the 70's, and I'm sure it's been that way long before then too.
What you are expecting is a home theatre experience in a public theatre. With that kind of expectation you are always going to find disappointment especially on opening weekends.
Probably best to stick to home theatre, or wait a bit until the crowds have died down a bit.
But I feel your pain. Some movies I want less distraction like Interstellar, Gravity, etc. I've found IMAX (not lieMAX) to be a better venue as the concessions stands are smaller and not the primary source of income. The ticket prices are higher so parents are less likely to bring a bunch of little kids, rowdy teens probably don't care enough for the higher quality or can't afford it, etc.Not always but generally speaking.
the most secure option is to opt out.
I'd think that doing this would put a bigger target on you.
With facial recognition the way that it is now, the data gathered from these sources will carry a little more weight to compensate. Meta data collected from these sources would be analyzed a more thoroughly. Links to other data monitored more closely, bank accounts, utility usage, stores frequented, etc. This is likely already being done automatically.
You are going to be profiled whether you like it or not. We are long passed the time of being able to opt out and live a civilized life.
Really, the battle is long lost folks.
The plus side is you now have a free license for Windows 10 in the future should you decide to install it later.
I guess there's that.
Who the fuck is PAYING these folks to sit and watch them...???
There's an interesting documentary on Netflix about this called All Work All Play. I had no idea how big this really was. It is really interesting and exciting to see.
It is never in the manufacturer's best interest to optimize updates especially when the product being updated competes with newer more profitable products.
Planes have been flying and landing themselves for decades now. Pilots are there to transition the flight from one automated task to another depending on conditions and instructions from control centers and towers. They are also a backup in case of system failure. A modern airline pilot probably manually controls the aircraft for less than 1% of any given flight but really doesn't have to. He can instruct the flight computer to do all of these tasks if he wishes. Depending on the airline, pilots are required to make manual landings from time to time to keep their skills sharp. The Korean Air disaster in SFO last year was the result of a new pilot manually landing a craft for the first time at an airport unfamiliar to him (he had done only automatic landings prior to this). Automated landing was not possible due to the ILS system at SFO being down for construction at the time. This is a sad side affect of too much automation and little training.
Military drones are already capable of doing this completely autonomously. Smaller surveillance drones are doing the same and it won't be long before you start seeing these things hovering around your local mall. The software exists, but the cost to implement it and risks associated with it is still too high for commercial flight in a short amount of time. It will happen eventually.
What about Ron Paul? Did you let the media decide for you that there was a choice only between Romney or Obama?
This time a much cooler version
There is a lot of truth to that statement.
It was the cheaper consumer models that were affected. Retail profit margins are so thin that manufacturers and retailers make up for it with preloaded crapware.
Lenovo's business products were not affected by this as these aren't usually preloaded with crap.
The same goes for other manufactures too. Dell and HP both offer cheap crapware infested models, along with pricier crap free business models.
You do get what you pay for.
You have my congratulations. You have proven yourself to be among the 20% of the population that has good insulin sensitivity and thus psychologically capable of taking hold of your diet and health. Again, congratulations. Hope you give yourself a nice pat on the back.
But this is only possible for 20% of the population as the other 80% are affected severely by poor insulin sensitivity and the adverse psychological effects this has on a person. For the first time in human history food is more abundant than ever before, not just any food but high caloric foods that were extremely rare just 100 years ago. In the 100s of thousands of years prior it was an evolutionary advantage to have this problem. In times of feast and famine putting on extra weight meant you were going to survive times of famine. You simply cannot tell one of these 80% to consume less calories and expect results. They will fail, mainly because their evolutionary makeup and psychology will rebel and sabotage their efforts. They cannot help it when 100s of thousands of years of evolution are fighting against them. No amount of will power is going to prevail against this. It may for a short while, but eventually it will catch up to them. Is it any wonder that so many diets fail? Now I suppose if you lock one of these 80% in a room and restrict their diet by force they will lose weight, but will completely fail when placed back into an environment with abundant food.
Science in this is relatively new, just withing the last decade. The obesity problem cannot be solved unless there is also focus on the psychology of it. Diets that cater to this such has high protein, low carb diets combined with moderate exercise do show promise. Making subtle changes are also less likely to trigger this evolutionary psychological panic in these folks.
We live in a world where everyone has smartphones. If I suspect my driver of deviating too far off course I check my Waze app. On two occasions I've showed the driver the route on my phone and confirmed that this would be the route he took. Neither objected.
I've used taxis and Uber. Although I've not had any problems with taxi drivers yet, I do have problems getting them to pick my up in a timely manner if at all sometimes. Uber and their app is truly amazing in this regard.