Fucking Slashdot Luddites think self-driving cars are 10 years away, they're not.
It's not a simple problem & a self-driving car will have to be at least as good as the best human driver under all driving conditions. That's not going to be solved in 2 years time, perhaps not even in a decade. And then there's getting legal approval everywhere.
Yeah, except for the fact that they have a 25% profit margin on their lines.
You're confusing the profit per vehicle with the amount being invested into scaleup. Believe it or not - and this may come as the shock of all shockers to you - building the world's largest battery plant and a 500k-per-year vehicle production line actually costs a good bit of money.
Since Tesla doesn't include R&D expenses in their cost of sales unlike Ford, GM, BMW & Mazda, an apples-to-apples comparison is difficult. They appear to have a very high amount of R&D expenses as a proportion of revenue & their longterm debt is growing quickly. They need to start dealing with this soon & using capital raises to fund expansion is going to be impractical as competition ramps up and especially if there's a downturn.
Did u ever know a guy named "Elon" that was't gay?
That name has "hair stylist" written all over it.
He fucks a lot of women for someone you're intimating is gay. But even so, a lot of guys have to suck his cock - those who want to be him, those who work for him, those who said he'd never succeed & those who want him to create jobs in their states.
in the late 90s-mid-2000s VW group cars (VW and Audi in particular) had awful window motors that failed all the time due to shared parts
In the mid-90s, I was told by a colleague who'd done systems support for Audi dealerships that a regional manager had ordered that all window motors were to be replaced until further notice. The rumor he'd heard was that it was to clear up a serious overstock of the parts which always seemed dubious to me.
Vinod Khosla, who's famously referred to EVs & fuel cells as "just toys", has been touting biobutanol for some time
"Advantages/Disadvantages
Due to its low vapor pressure it can be easily blended with gasoline It contains nearly as much energy as gasoline (ethanol only contains 66% as much. Because it separates less easily in the presence of water it is better adapted to be used in the present distribution system than ethanol Because it is less corrosive, it is also expected to be more suitable for use in existing oil pipelines.1 It can be used in existing vehicles in higher blends than ethanol."
Make a lot of Chevy Volt-type cars, minimum all-electric range of 50 miles EPA & a turbocharged 2-liter engine engine. BMW gets 230 HP out of a B38 3-cyl 1.5 L. Use the electric motor to power the rear wheels; should make for a car that's fun to drive at legal speeds.
And the US falls further behind because of the red states and Supreme Leader Cheeto...
When the only candidates that the opposition party can come up with are a vile cunt and a communist Jew, this is what you get.
Either of those would have been a more sensible choice than Trump. Serves me right for thinking no Republican dumber than Dubya would ever get into high office. Then Texas elected Rick Perry & the GOP base coalesced around Trump over 20 other candidates and they & every senior Republican proceeded to go full hypocrite on their supposed principles.
Don't build so darn near the shoreline. And don't build on former riverbeds or other lowland that's a candidate for flooding. Also keep some areas of forest and ponds to slow and absorb runoff water.
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization"
All I can say is the combination of that comment & that sig really made my day
I remember how calmly the conservatives / right wing/ Tea Party/ GOP acted towards Obama. Gosh, only in an alternative universe would they imply he was illegitimate, a homosexual serial killer, a foreign-born Muslim, the son of a black militant terrorist, that his grades were faked, that his election to the Harvard Law Review was solely because of Affirmative Action, or that his wife is a fatass ape in heels.
If so, they should check the certification of parts very carefully.
"In 2012, a probe was opened regarding some fraudulently-certified parts installed in five OPR-1000 reactors over a ten-year period. Hanbit-5 and -6, which had a greater number of fraudulent parts, were shut down until the parts could be replaced, and Hanbit-3 and -4 and Hanul-3 were allowed remain on-line pending parts replacement. Hanbit-5 and -6 were cleared for restart in early 2013, but in April 2013, following a tip, four additional units were shut down and not allowed to restart until fraudulently-certified safety-related control cabling was replaced: Shin Kori-1 and -2 and Shin Wolsong-1 and -2; although construction on Shin Wolsong-2 was complete, it had not yet achieved operational status, and it was not allowed to start up until cabling was replaced. The same cabling was used at the APR-1400 units then under construction at Shin Kori (Units 3 & 4), forcing a year-long delay in their startup"
"Better Place tried and failed with battery swapping" I wouldn't call that a definitive example. The Israeli car market is small & most are provided by employers. The only car that Better Place had for sale was the Renault Fluence EV. They were pioneers, unsurprisingly got arrows. They were pretty wasteful with their seed money but they did succeed in demonstrating that swapping could be done quickly & reliably.
Car manufacturers have rather more experience with creating software than any software company has with manufacturing cars. Most cars have dozens of computers in them already, and have for years.
Because I want to own my own car. I want control over the vehicle internal hardware and software, I don't want someone else's dirty vehicle, I want to add the accessories I choose and have easy access to them, I want to take it off road or on long trips where it will wait for me, I want it at my beck and call 24/7, I don't want monthly payments just off the top of my head. In an emergency or other high demand time I want a 100% shot at immediate vehicle access. You feel free living without a vehicle and only a glorified uber, paying far more cost per mile than vehicle ownership for the same number of miles, you and others may prefer this. Corporations like ford definitely want this yesterday. I, and likely many others, never will.
Fully autonomous won't happen tomorrow. Maybe it won't happen for 50 years but eventually it will & guys like you will be as rare & peculiar as cowboys in condos.
".they had also bought an entire warehouse of gear to support it. Which sat there for years, in boxes, until they finally killed the program. And then PAID someone to take the unused gear off their hands"
Not just government who messes up like that. Way back BP decided to implement WiFi at all their sites in North America & decided to buy ALL the access points before the project was ready to roll. Except this was when 802.11b was the standard and just before 802.11a/g was ready, which happened after the purchase but long before they were about to start installing the APs. In the end, they bought all new equipment and never opened the 802.11b gear. My boss at the time - we were doing outsourced IT support for them - visited their Houston Westlake campus in 2007 and saw a storage room with 15000 boxed APs.
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They're turning it on in less than 2 years.
Fucking Slashdot Luddites think self-driving cars are 10 years away, they're not.
It's not a simple problem & a self-driving car will have to be at least as good as the best human driver under all driving conditions.
That's not going to be solved in 2 years time, perhaps not even in a decade.
And then there's getting legal approval everywhere.
Yeah, except for the fact that they have a 25% profit margin on their lines.
You're confusing the profit per vehicle with the amount being invested into scaleup. Believe it or not - and this may come as the shock of all shockers to you - building the world's largest battery plant and a 500k-per-year vehicle production line actually costs a good bit of money.
Since Tesla doesn't include R&D expenses in their cost of sales unlike Ford, GM, BMW & Mazda, an apples-to-apples comparison is difficult.
They appear to have a very high amount of R&D expenses as a proportion of revenue & their longterm debt is growing quickly.
They need to start dealing with this soon & using capital raises to fund expansion is going to be impractical as competition ramps up and especially if there's a downturn.
Did u ever know a guy named "Elon" that was't gay?
That name has "hair stylist" written all over it.
He fucks a lot of women for someone you're intimating is gay.
But even so, a lot of guys have to suck his cock - those who want to be him, those who work for him, those who said he'd never succeed & those who want him to create jobs in their states.
Well, in my case, I've been living inside a computer since 1982. Don't know about the rest of you...
Computer cases in 1982 were ugly & cramped. How did you fit all your stuff inside it?
in the late 90s-mid-2000s VW group cars (VW and Audi in particular) had awful window motors that failed all the time due to shared parts
In the mid-90s, I was told by a colleague who'd done systems support for Audi dealerships that a regional manager had ordered that all window motors were to be replaced until further notice. The rumor he'd heard was that it was to clear up a serious overstock of the parts which always seemed dubious to me.
Vinod Khosla, who's famously referred to EVs & fuel cells as "just toys", has been touting biobutanol for some time
"Advantages/Disadvantages
Due to its low vapor pressure it can be easily blended with gasoline
It contains nearly as much energy as gasoline (ethanol only contains 66% as much.
Because it separates less easily in the presence of water it is better adapted to be used in the present distribution system than ethanol
Because it is less corrosive, it is also expected to be more suitable for use in existing oil pipelines.1
It can be used in existing vehicles in higher blends than ethanol."
Make a lot of Chevy Volt-type cars, minimum all-electric range of 50 miles EPA & a turbocharged 2-liter engine engine.
BMW gets 230 HP out of a B38 3-cyl 1.5 L.
Use the electric motor to power the rear wheels; should make for a car that's fun to drive at legal speeds.
And the US falls further behind because of the red states and Supreme Leader Cheeto...
When the only candidates that the opposition party can come up with are a vile cunt and a communist Jew, this is what you get.
Either of those would have been a more sensible choice than Trump. Serves me right for thinking no Republican dumber than Dubya would ever get into high office. Then Texas elected Rick Perry & the GOP base coalesced around Trump over 20 other candidates and they & every senior Republican proceeded to go full hypocrite on their supposed principles.
therefore, no
I am surprised that they didn't call it AI and have an whole article about how it would replace the job of cops.
Speed bumps have been called "sleeping policemen" or "lying-down policemen" in various parts of the world for decades.
Vasectomies not vehicles. Stop these people from reproducing at the rate of rats.
Duggar does sound a lot like an Indian name
Don't build so darn near the shoreline. And don't build on former riverbeds or other lowland that's a candidate for flooding. Also keep some areas of forest and ponds to slow and absorb runoff water.
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization"
All I can say is the combination of that comment & that sig really made my day
"Trump Acceptance Resistance Disorder...."
I remember how calmly the conservatives / right wing/ Tea Party/ GOP acted towards Obama.
Gosh, only in an alternative universe would they imply he was illegitimate, a homosexual serial killer, a foreign-born Muslim, the son of a black militant terrorist, that his grades were faked, that his election to the Harvard Law Review was solely because of Affirmative Action, or that his wife is a fatass ape in heels.
By the time any coal forming today is usable as coal, human civilization (and maybe humans themselves) won't be recognizable.
Because we'll all be wearing disguises?
Yes. The same way the dinosaurs who were around when the coal we dig up now was still plant matter are now disguised as birds
Maybe next time they'll buy a Korean reactor which only takes 4 years to start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If so, they should check the certification of parts very carefully.
"In 2012, a probe was opened regarding some fraudulently-certified parts installed in five OPR-1000 reactors over a ten-year period.
Hanbit-5 and -6, which had a greater number of fraudulent parts, were shut down until the parts could be replaced, and Hanbit-3 and -4 and Hanul-3 were allowed remain on-line pending parts replacement.
Hanbit-5 and -6 were cleared for restart in early 2013, but in April 2013, following a tip, four additional units were shut down and not allowed to restart until fraudulently-certified safety-related control cabling was replaced: Shin Kori-1 and -2 and Shin Wolsong-1 and -2; although construction on Shin Wolsong-2 was complete, it had not yet achieved operational status, and it was not allowed to start up until cabling was replaced.
The same cabling was used at the APR-1400 units then under construction at Shin Kori (Units 3 & 4), forcing a year-long delay in their startup"
"Better Place tried and failed with battery swapping"
I wouldn't call that a definitive example. The Israeli car market is small & most are provided by employers.
The only car that Better Place had for sale was the Renault Fluence EV. They were pioneers, unsurprisingly got arrows.
They were pretty wasteful with their seed money but they did succeed in demonstrating that swapping could be done quickly & reliably.
If the West had never interfered with the Muslim world, we would not have these problems. Like Europeans in America, we were the invaders.
Redneck killed one person. Muslims do this shit all the time, yet the media says we should fear the rednecks. Laughable.
You need to learn more about the history of "rednecks" - and the ones who wear blue uniforms
I'm fine with removing those who wear the blue uniforms from all places that don't want them.
COMPLETELY removing them.
Why don't you try selling that to your neighbors?
Several places I've lived have tried but been voted down. Police *forces* aren't the only way to keep the *peace*
Redneck killed one person. Muslims do this shit all the time, yet the media says we should fear the rednecks. Laughable.
The people who lost family to Dylann Roof still aren't laughing. Was he a Muslim?
Redneck killed one person. Muslims do this shit all the time, yet the media says we should fear the rednecks. Laughable.
"Redneck" drove a car through a crowd, killing 1 but injuring 19.
Could have been much worse.
Redneck killed one person. Muslims do this shit all the time, yet the media says we should fear the rednecks. Laughable.
You need to learn more about the history of "rednecks" - and the ones who wear blue uniforms
Car manufacturers have rather more experience with creating software than any software company has with manufacturing cars. Most cars have dozens of computers in them already, and have for years.
True. But both suck at the other's job.
Because I want to own my own car. I want control over the vehicle internal hardware and software, I don't want someone else's dirty vehicle, I want to add the accessories I choose and have easy access to them, I want to take it off road or on long trips where it will wait for me, I want it at my beck and call 24/7, I don't want monthly payments just off the top of my head. In an emergency or other high demand time I want a 100% shot at immediate vehicle access. You feel free living without a vehicle and only a glorified uber, paying far more cost per mile than vehicle ownership for the same number of miles, you and others may prefer this. Corporations like ford definitely want this yesterday. I, and likely many others, never will.
Fully autonomous won't happen tomorrow. Maybe it won't happen for 50 years but eventually it will & guys like you will be as rare & peculiar as cowboys in condos.
".they had also bought an entire warehouse of gear to support it. Which sat there for years, in boxes, until they finally killed the program. And then PAID someone to take the unused gear off their hands"
Not just government who messes up like that. Way back BP decided to implement WiFi at all their sites in North America & decided to buy ALL the access points before the project was ready to roll. Except this was when 802.11b was the standard and just before 802.11a/g was ready, which happened after the purchase but long before they were about to start installing the APs.
In the end, they bought all new equipment and never opened the 802.11b gear. My boss at the time - we were doing outsourced IT support for them - visited their Houston Westlake campus in 2007 and saw a storage room with 15000 boxed APs.
'... spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters it was not "any external action or interference."'
So just incompetence, then.
Looks like Trump's plan to stop the leaks is working