The article reads "They [batteries] can also catch fire or explode if they become damaged, so technology companies make them difficult, if not impossible, for consumers to replace themselves." It should say, " The profit margin on new devices is very high, so technology companies make them difficult, if not impossible, for consumers to replace themselves."
I think the hardware will be a big reason why Tesla cars get scrapped.
What happens 15 years down the road when the motherboard that controls the charging system blows a capacitor and Tesla says they aren't made anymore?
Will there be an aftermarket supply of major electronic components for old Teslas?
I agree completely with you that the internet is a terrible way to buy/sell most things. It's good for repeat purchases of known items like furnace filters or 16GB SD cards. It is not good for buying a car or clothing.
I agree with all the posts that this is a mistake. There are so many questions you have with such a major purchase and they can only be answered with a test drive. Do the seats hurt my hips? Can I see out of the rear corner? How easy is it to load and unload the trunk?
Also, Tesla tightly controls the repair market and things still go wrong on electric cars and they still need service centers. I feel they actually need to add more locations with all they cars they have out on the road. Yes the cars don't need oil changes, but you can still hit a pothole and bend a wheel and damage a control arm. Your A/C fan motor can start to make noises. The window channel can become damaged and your window won't go down and up. There are 300,000 people in the metropolitan area I live in and the nearest Tesla location for service is 1 hour away. They need to add locations, not subtract and they need to hire and train more people for service work.
I used to spend a lot of time in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin islands in the 1970s. I remember anole lizards being all over the place. I recently visited Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands and I thought there were significantly fewer lizards running around. The lizards eat insects so I would be curious if there is any evidence of decreased lizard food causing trouble with the population. I must admit that I think that insects are remarkable adaptable and resilient and I find it hard to believe that insect populations are declining that fast, but the lack of lizards in the Caribbean seems real to me.
All these posts about auto insurance are quite valid. If you fell asleep and hit a van full of children and your insurance refused to pay you would be screwed. Tesla would also be within their rights to not pay warranty claims either. If your car's 100kWh battery failed and you were running modified software that affected the charging system you might have to buy a new battery pack with $30,000 cash.
I really think that rooting a $40,000 to $140,000 car with an 8 year battery warranty is financially very risky!
On well designed, safe highways It can be very boring to drive at low speed limits like 55MPH or 100KPH. I feel more alert when I drive with the flow of traffic which is often 20% higher than posted limits in the eastern USA. When the job is too boring it's hard for humans to maintain alertness and vigilance.
This is not a case of tourism being bad. To me the big problem is the artificial feeding of wild whale sharks which keeps the number of visitors so high year round. If there was just a month where a few sharks visited and a few swimmers were in the water, it wouldn't be a big problem.
Most Scuba tanks are aluminum and are pressurized up to 3,000 psi.
Some Scuba tanks are steel and pressurized up to 3,500 psi.
Scuba tanks are used in corrosive salt water and filled with compressed air from many different small shops.
There are rare instances of tanks failing, but purpose built storage tanks would not be banged around on dive boats, immersed in corrosive salt water or filled with improperly dehydrated compressed air, and so would be quite unlikely to fail.
Apple Inc in 1997 had money losing ugly computers. It was close to bankruptcy and Steve Jobs' personality made Donald Trump look like a saint. The con artist Jobs convinced stupid Bill Gates to give him money. If you shorted $50,000 of Apple in 1997 you would now need about $22,500,000 to buy it back. I've loved driving my Tesla for the past 3 years. It has not had any significant issues and has been a total joy.
It helps a little. Automotive CO2 is a small part of total greenhouse gas emission and overall electric vehicles result in less energy consumption than gas powered cars. Electric vehicles are great for the planet in Canada where so much of the electricity comes from hydroelectric sources.
It's too bad that nuclear power isn't used that much in the USA.
In the linked story there is a tweet from the Boring company proclaiming the Dugout Loop to be Zero Emissions.
I hate this often repeated fraud that anything electrical is zero emissions.
To me, the best term I've heard is Remote Emissions. To educate the masses I propose to build a small electric generating plant next to the Dugout Loop and run it off whale blubber and coal.
If this works based on a hash, how hard would it be to make some minor edits to a picture before uploading it?
It seems to me a simple crop, text overlay, contrast fix, image tilt or any other change would allow a picture to pass scrutiny.
Will FB send me a fail notice: "Your picture has been recognized as being prohibited by the owner, please edit it and resubmit"
I agree. If you are afraid of uploading your pictures to FB, why not run the program by releasing the hash calculating software and have the user upload a list of hashes generated from the pictures they don't want released? FB never gets to see the pictures that way.
It would require a lot of battery storage to realistically power a home. If you wanted to run your A/C and dry some clothes while baking some food then you better have a system such as a Tesla home battery. If I could capture and store 10kW per hour, I could easily exist on 240 kWh per day. I could even charge electric cars at home. Certainly if I can afford my own nuclear reactor I could afford a 50kW stack of Li ion batteries!
They are actually planning to produce battery electric vehicles in large numbers by 2020.
https://media.ford.com/content...
This states that they making a full commitment to new propulsion choices. It seems they are investing in developing electric vehicles instead of new gas vehicles, while they make profits off trucks and SUVs.
I couldn't get the text of the law to load. Does the CEO go to prison? Does the head of IT go? I think this part of the law would be hard to write and implement.
I agree with another poster that fines need to be high enough to be noticed by larger corporations.
If you have hypertension and are 20 pounds overweight, lose those pounds! This may be more important than eating a lot of vegetables or eating less salt. Another thing you can do is cut down your alcohol consumption. Drink one light beer instead of 3 pints of 10% alcohol craft beer a day and you blood pressure will be lower.
Well said. I enjoy driving my "Autopilot" Tesla on interstate highways with me paying attention. I just don't see Tesla or GM getting to Level 5 and not having a human available for backup. I think autonomous flying would be an easier thing to develop but I don't see myself getting in to a 300 passenger plane and flying across the Pacific without a trained human pilot able to take over.
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The article reads "They [batteries] can also catch fire or explode if they become damaged, so technology companies make them difficult, if not impossible, for consumers to replace themselves." It should say, " The profit margin on new devices is very high, so technology companies make them difficult, if not impossible, for consumers to replace themselves."
Wrong! Furlongs per Fortnight is the worst unit ever. Teslas will be able to charge at 2,688,000 FpF with the new Superchargers and software
I think the hardware will be a big reason why Tesla cars get scrapped. What happens 15 years down the road when the motherboard that controls the charging system blows a capacitor and Tesla says they aren't made anymore? Will there be an aftermarket supply of major electronic components for old Teslas?
I agree completely with you that the internet is a terrible way to buy/sell most things. It's good for repeat purchases of known items like furnace filters or 16GB SD cards. It is not good for buying a car or clothing.
I agree with all the posts that this is a mistake. There are so many questions you have with such a major purchase and they can only be answered with a test drive. Do the seats hurt my hips? Can I see out of the rear corner? How easy is it to load and unload the trunk? Also, Tesla tightly controls the repair market and things still go wrong on electric cars and they still need service centers. I feel they actually need to add more locations with all they cars they have out on the road. Yes the cars don't need oil changes, but you can still hit a pothole and bend a wheel and damage a control arm. Your A/C fan motor can start to make noises. The window channel can become damaged and your window won't go down and up. There are 300,000 people in the metropolitan area I live in and the nearest Tesla location for service is 1 hour away. They need to add locations, not subtract and they need to hire and train more people for service work.
Once 5G comes out I wonder how much an "unlimited data" plan becomes. 5GB? 10GB? 1TB?
I used to spend a lot of time in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin islands in the 1970s. I remember anole lizards being all over the place. I recently visited Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands and I thought there were significantly fewer lizards running around. The lizards eat insects so I would be curious if there is any evidence of decreased lizard food causing trouble with the population. I must admit that I think that insects are remarkable adaptable and resilient and I find it hard to believe that insect populations are declining that fast, but the lack of lizards in the Caribbean seems real to me.
All these posts about auto insurance are quite valid. If you fell asleep and hit a van full of children and your insurance refused to pay you would be screwed. Tesla would also be within their rights to not pay warranty claims either. If your car's 100kWh battery failed and you were running modified software that affected the charging system you might have to buy a new battery pack with $30,000 cash. I really think that rooting a $40,000 to $140,000 car with an 8 year battery warranty is financially very risky!
On well designed, safe highways It can be very boring to drive at low speed limits like 55MPH or 100KPH. I feel more alert when I drive with the flow of traffic which is often 20% higher than posted limits in the eastern USA. When the job is too boring it's hard for humans to maintain alertness and vigilance.
This is not a case of tourism being bad. To me the big problem is the artificial feeding of wild whale sharks which keeps the number of visitors so high year round. If there was just a month where a few sharks visited and a few swimmers were in the water, it wouldn't be a big problem.
Most Scuba tanks are aluminum and are pressurized up to 3,000 psi. Some Scuba tanks are steel and pressurized up to 3,500 psi. Scuba tanks are used in corrosive salt water and filled with compressed air from many different small shops. There are rare instances of tanks failing, but purpose built storage tanks would not be banged around on dive boats, immersed in corrosive salt water or filled with improperly dehydrated compressed air, and so would be quite unlikely to fail.
Apple Inc in 1997 had money losing ugly computers. It was close to bankruptcy and Steve Jobs' personality made Donald Trump look like a saint. The con artist Jobs convinced stupid Bill Gates to give him money. If you shorted $50,000 of Apple in 1997 you would now need about $22,500,000 to buy it back. I've loved driving my Tesla for the past 3 years. It has not had any significant issues and has been a total joy.
3 years from now his first tweet after reelection as Chairman should be that he is moving Tesla to Ireland: FU SEC!
It helps a little. Automotive CO2 is a small part of total greenhouse gas emission and overall electric vehicles result in less energy consumption than gas powered cars. Electric vehicles are great for the planet in Canada where so much of the electricity comes from hydroelectric sources. It's too bad that nuclear power isn't used that much in the USA.
In the linked story there is a tweet from the Boring company proclaiming the Dugout Loop to be Zero Emissions. I hate this often repeated fraud that anything electrical is zero emissions. To me, the best term I've heard is Remote Emissions. To educate the masses I propose to build a small electric generating plant next to the Dugout Loop and run it off whale blubber and coal.
No worries. It's the thought that counts, right?
If Hawaii pays me $50 per day I promise not to fly to Hawaii. This will save a lot of carbon for them.
If this works based on a hash, how hard would it be to make some minor edits to a picture before uploading it? It seems to me a simple crop, text overlay, contrast fix, image tilt or any other change would allow a picture to pass scrutiny. Will FB send me a fail notice: "Your picture has been recognized as being prohibited by the owner, please edit it and resubmit"
I agree. If you are afraid of uploading your pictures to FB, why not run the program by releasing the hash calculating software and have the user upload a list of hashes generated from the pictures they don't want released? FB never gets to see the pictures that way.
It would require a lot of battery storage to realistically power a home. If you wanted to run your A/C and dry some clothes while baking some food then you better have a system such as a Tesla home battery. If I could capture and store 10kW per hour, I could easily exist on 240 kWh per day. I could even charge electric cars at home. Certainly if I can afford my own nuclear reactor I could afford a 50kW stack of Li ion batteries!
They are actually planning to produce battery electric vehicles in large numbers by 2020. https://media.ford.com/content... This states that they making a full commitment to new propulsion choices. It seems they are investing in developing electric vehicles instead of new gas vehicles, while they make profits off trucks and SUVs.
I couldn't get the text of the law to load. Does the CEO go to prison? Does the head of IT go? I think this part of the law would be hard to write and implement. I agree with another poster that fines need to be high enough to be noticed by larger corporations.
If you have hypertension and are 20 pounds overweight, lose those pounds! This may be more important than eating a lot of vegetables or eating less salt. Another thing you can do is cut down your alcohol consumption. Drink one light beer instead of 3 pints of 10% alcohol craft beer a day and you blood pressure will be lower.
Well said. I enjoy driving my "Autopilot" Tesla on interstate highways with me paying attention. I just don't see Tesla or GM getting to Level 5 and not having a human available for backup. I think autonomous flying would be an easier thing to develop but I don't see myself getting in to a 300 passenger plane and flying across the Pacific without a trained human pilot able to take over.
They will require you to let them sell your information to "trusted" partners and receive "targeted offers". I guarantee it!