Whoever said iFind was a transmitter? For all we know it "Beeped' when lost. In fact, I assumed that's how it would work. Why the hell would it transmit? Even if it did transmit, the most power it could transmit by law would be 1 watt. Why is that unfeasible?
1. The website trying to sell it. 2. In order for a locating device(your cellphone) to find it. 3. 1 watt is a HUGE amount of power for these sorts of devices. Normally you're looking at milliwatts
And that has what to do with the price of tea in china? So only 1 of there several methods of charging is a scam?
This article is about a company that's releasing a number of different sensors, each presumably mated with a charging system designed for it's deployment zone and power needs. Why different sources of charging(well, powering)? Because they'll be deployed in different environments. iFind had a specific purpose and claim for what it would be powered by, as well as dimensions for the packaging. If EnOcean came out with a package that was, for example 'sonar buoy, solar powered, 1 meter diameter', we could analyze that and realize that ~.7 square meters of solar panel is quite a bit of power. 'passive sonar buoy, anchored, tidal powered' would still make sense, though I'd think they'd have to be very clever to get the power demands that low.
right... because they used to work at Siemans, they are fully backed by that companies brand name? lol
Keep loling at that strawman. That it's a spinoff means that it's a serious product, if probably somewhat risky. It's much less likely to be a hoax than random people off the internet. It has history.
Maybe have a single dealership in each state that you really want to sell cars in, and keep it open for about 40 hours a week so it could be staffed by 1 or 2 people. Put a single car in the shop. Call it a dealership. Done and done. I can understand why Tesla doesn't want to require dealerships in every state, but it would be dead simple to set up a single dealership in each state just to adhere to regulations.
I hate to break it to you, but it's not like Tesla can set up a dealership. That would be illegal. What would have to happen is that Tesla would have to contract with an independently owned dealership, perhaps an existing one, perhaps an entrepreneur looking to get into the business, but Tesla would have limited control over what said dealership does.
If the dealer wants to add $10k to the price of each car sold for their own profit, they can do that.
But to set up a dealership in each state, all they need to do is have a single car in each state, if that. The standard dealerships don't have a demo model for every make and model that they sell, why should Tesla be required to?
I hate to disappoint you, but despite the 'design your vehicle' options on all the manufacturer websites you're generally stuck buying what the dealer has on his lot.
If you want custom ordered, expect to pay several thousand more for the privilege.
I seem to recall that the margin on a Tesla Model S is over 25%. It's just that Tesla uses that money to build up the supercharger network rather than take it as pure profit at the end of the quarter.
Considering that free access to the supercharger network is one of the benefits, I'm willing to call it a feature that people are paying for, as opposed to 'profit' that Tesla could be claiming.
Seriously, where the hell is this 5 cents coming from?
There was a court case where a police officer arrested a man for petty theft for plugging his EV into a school. The estimated amount of electricity used in the ~20 minutes it was plugged in was about five cents. So no, it's not 5 cents per kwh.
The average 'cripple charge' EV port, IE a standard 110V outlet, maxes out at about 12A, or about 1.3 kWh/hour. So 5 cents in 20 minutes works out to about 15 cents/hour, or 12 cents per kWh.
In order for somebody to steal $5 of electricity from you they'd need to be plugged into your port for 33 hours.
At this point I'll note that this is just defining the problem, and yes, I'd support you telling them off if they plug in their car without permission. Indeed, I have. North Dakota, living in an apartment, had somebody plugging their car* into my outlet, on MY meter.
*Not an EV, but when it's really cold out we plug in a core heater to ensure the car starts in the morning.
As with the Carrie Underwood song, it'll also get you in jail for vandalism. Congratulations on essentially buying the dude a new EV, because that's what you'll be lucky to come out with between jail, court, lawyers, fine, and lawsuit.
I'd just say it's language. Sure, 'gas' started out as short for 'gasoline', but at this point it's an synonym for fuel.
I'd never call diesel 'gasoline' though. I probably wouldn't tell somebody 'go buy some gas for the truck' if it's a diesel, at that point I'd specify.
Hell I bet if you asked the average person what diesel is a likely answer might be "gas for trucks".
I'd get technical, but yeah, this is a good 'family feud' type answer.
Or are you forgetting oil changes, coolant changes, transmission fluid, fuel filters, air filters, urea injection fluid, etc.
I think it says something about EVs when it's the accessories such as wiper blades, cabin air filters, and such that require more frequent maintenance than the drive system.
So in Canada, the "typical" minimum-wage job is full-time?
Wouldn't surprise me. The reason 'most' minimum-wage jobs are part time in the USA is the mandatory benefits that come into play if they aren't, which can DOUBLE the cost of a minimum wage worker.
Meanwhile Canada has universal single payer healthcare, knocking out the biggest single added expense for having a minimum wage worker work full time.
Personally, for the USA, I'd lowering the bar for 'full time' requiring healthcare insurance be provided down to 20 hours, and making them pay 50% below that. Or increase minimum wage by $1/hour that goes into a healthcare savings plan if insurance isn't provided.
I thought powered by RF was impossible and a scam?
First part: Incorrect. Powering something by RF is very much possible. Just look at crystal radios - usable amounts of sound from a device lacking any batteries. Second part: Correct. That particular instance would have much larger power needs with less area for gathering the power.
Why was that a scam and this is not?
1. They specify low power sensors, not transmitters. 2. They specify a number of different methods to gain power, not just RF. 3. Siemans spinoff indicates access to real engineers and technology.
In this case the vagueness of the claims helps as well. When you start getting specific we can break out the slide rules and do 'rule of thumb' analysis to make sure you're not claiming to be able to break the laws of thermodynamics.
Yes... Prevent them in the future.... So insurance doesn't have to pay out in the future.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have an accident, especially a fatal one, in the first place. That the insurance company doesn't have to pay out as a result is a non-issue.;)
Heck, I'd almost be glad to pay the insurance company if they were able to *prevent* an accident in the first place.
Personally, I disagree with the AC's assertion that black boxes are about insurance. And I have a logic problem for the AC: There are approximately 5 ways for an aircraft to go down: 1. Human error, crew: The crew does something to cause the plane to crash. Fault: Airline's. Airline's insurance pays 2. Mechanical error: Something fails on the aircraft, causing crash Fault: Airline's. Airline's insurance pays 3. Human deliberate action: Terrorism, missile, etc... Fault: Somebody else's, but generally speaking the airline's insurance still pays. 4. Outside accident: Two planes crash Fault: Up for grabs, but let's figure it's the other plane's fault. Their insurance pays. 5. Environmental: Tornado, lighting strike, etc.... Fault: Airline's for flying into that mess. Airline's insurance company pays.
Flight data recorders don't record enough information, and the airline's insurance is going to pay in enough cases anyways that it's not worth it to push for black boxes in that case. Instead they're generally required by law so that the accident boards can better figure out the cause of the action and recommend remediation. As a result, airline travel is the safest means of moving long distances.
In all cases I know of, they'd still get the tax revenue - you pay sales tax in the state where you first register the vehicle, not where you actually buy it.
Don't these generally last like a decade if you use quality parts?
Due to regenerative braking, brake pads that have been engineered to last years on a conventional vehicle are pretty much lifetime on a strong electric.
Otherwise I have to ask: There are plenty of independent repair shops out there. Why should I go to a dealer for that stuff when any independent repair place can do the work(or I can even do it myself)? Why combine sales and maintenance?
Going by the last two famous spree killings in Europe, you end up with two options: Bombs and illegal guns. The man up north used both, as well as dressing as a police officer to deter suspicion. Down in France you had the recent attack where they apparently used illegally obtained full auto AK type rifles. If they had been unable to get those, a bomb may or may not have killed as many people.
1. False. Frequently true, but not 'always'. I've seen rooms freed up in exchange for two cube shaped servers under a desk, with the operators praising how fast things now were... 2. See initial disclaimer (only possibilities) and I put the visual wiz-bang specification in there for a reason. 3. You need somebody to program the emulator. They aren't always available. 4. I actually mentioned 'grow your own' - it can get really expensive, because new people don't want to be locked into your legacy system because it wouldn't help them be employable anywhere else. 5. There's a reason I said 'Some'.
Non assassination movies - Millennium - Roughly speaking, the future screwed up. DNA damage is too bad, they can't reproduce, etc... So they're using time travel to rescue people from the past who would have died in plane crashes(and such), replacing them with realistic dummy bodies. The people are then sent on into the future to repopulate. There's a couple where humanity is going to an ancient past/alternate earth, during the time of the dinosaurs. Some books where it's not used for assassination, but for observation of history.
I don't even know what games are doing between the point where they stop playing videos and actually get to the menu.
It's not worth it for a game you play half a dozen times, but in many cases if you figure out what the video is named in the program directory and either rename or delete it, the video will no longer play.
I have found this speeds up getting to the menu dramatically.
In a few cases where it'll error out if the file isn't found you replace the ~15-30 second video with one(of the same general format) that is a second or less.
The US's ICBMs are from the 1960s and the US still uses tankers and strategic bombers from the 1950s.
1. They still have a lot of upgrades since then 2. We're running up to some timelines where we're going to have to spend a lot of money to replace them, especially the ICBMs, because they just can't be extended anymore and the equipment to manufacture replacements no longer exists. More importantly, the skills to make replacements using the old techniques no longer exists in many cases.
Keep in mind that all of these are only possibilities: 1. Reduced operating expenses. Modern computers are much more power efficient than old ones 2. Faster response time. If you keep the visual wizz-bangs to a minimum a modern system should be able to serve up a search faster 3. Cheaper hardware replacement, edging towards 'actually able to replace it'. Remember NASA hitting garage sales up for old parts? The old hardware tended to be very robust, but it still fails on occasion, and it's not made anymore. What replacements you can find tend to get more and more expensive. Perhaps worse, you don't know how long the replacement itself will last, because it's often just as old as the part it replaces. 4. Easier to find skilled personnel - you're not having to lure some old fogey out of retirement to maintain it or just to train new people who don't even have the old concepts anymore, you can hire people with experience. 5. Expandability. Some of these old systems are getting up towards their maximum capacity with things like population increases and more years of records.
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Everyone seems to want to pay teachers less because they get summers off.
Something of a tangent, but I support year-round schools.
Whoever said iFind was a transmitter? For all we know it "Beeped' when lost. In fact, I assumed that's how it would work. Why the hell would it transmit? Even if it did transmit, the most power it could transmit by law would be 1 watt. Why is that unfeasible?
1. The website trying to sell it.
2. In order for a locating device(your cellphone) to find it.
3. 1 watt is a HUGE amount of power for these sorts of devices. Normally you're looking at milliwatts
And that has what to do with the price of tea in china? So only 1 of there several methods of charging is a scam?
This article is about a company that's releasing a number of different sensors, each presumably mated with a charging system designed for it's deployment zone and power needs. Why different sources of charging(well, powering)? Because they'll be deployed in different environments. iFind had a specific purpose and claim for what it would be powered by, as well as dimensions for the packaging. If EnOcean came out with a package that was, for example 'sonar buoy, solar powered, 1 meter diameter', we could analyze that and realize that ~.7 square meters of solar panel is quite a bit of power. 'passive sonar buoy, anchored, tidal powered' would still make sense, though I'd think they'd have to be very clever to get the power demands that low.
right... because they used to work at Siemans, they are fully backed by that companies brand name? lol
Keep loling at that strawman. That it's a spinoff means that it's a serious product, if probably somewhat risky. It's much less likely to be a hoax than random people off the internet. It has history.
Maybe have a single dealership in each state that you really want to sell cars in, and keep it open for about 40 hours a week so it could be staffed by 1 or 2 people. Put a single car in the shop. Call it a dealership. Done and done. I can understand why Tesla doesn't want to require dealerships in every state, but it would be dead simple to set up a single dealership in each state just to adhere to regulations.
I hate to break it to you, but it's not like Tesla can set up a dealership. That would be illegal. What would have to happen is that Tesla would have to contract with an independently owned dealership, perhaps an existing one, perhaps an entrepreneur looking to get into the business, but Tesla would have limited control over what said dealership does.
If the dealer wants to add $10k to the price of each car sold for their own profit, they can do that.
But to set up a dealership in each state, all they need to do is have a single car in each state, if that. The standard dealerships don't have a demo model for every make and model that they sell, why should Tesla be required to?
I hate to disappoint you, but despite the 'design your vehicle' options on all the manufacturer websites you're generally stuck buying what the dealer has on his lot.
If you want custom ordered, expect to pay several thousand more for the privilege.
I seem to recall that the margin on a Tesla Model S is over 25%. It's just that Tesla uses that money to build up the supercharger network rather than take it as pure profit at the end of the quarter.
Considering that free access to the supercharger network is one of the benefits, I'm willing to call it a feature that people are paying for, as opposed to 'profit' that Tesla could be claiming.
Inside having a nice lunch taking a break from driving like I'm supposed to in order to prevent accidents?
I'd be doing it anyways. Used to drive between North Dakota and Nebraska to see my parents when I was in the USAF...
Seriously, where the hell is this 5 cents coming from?
There was a court case where a police officer arrested a man for petty theft for plugging his EV into a school.
The estimated amount of electricity used in the ~20 minutes it was plugged in was about five cents. So no, it's not 5 cents per kwh.
The average 'cripple charge' EV port, IE a standard 110V outlet, maxes out at about 12A, or about 1.3 kWh/hour. So 5 cents in 20 minutes works out to about 15 cents/hour, or 12 cents per kWh.
In order for somebody to steal $5 of electricity from you they'd need to be plugged into your port for 33 hours.
At this point I'll note that this is just defining the problem, and yes, I'd support you telling them off if they plug in their car without permission. Indeed, I have. North Dakota, living in an apartment, had somebody plugging their car* into my outlet, on MY meter.
*Not an EV, but when it's really cold out we plug in a core heater to ensure the car starts in the morning.
Also what you claim will get you sued.
As with the Carrie Underwood song, it'll also get you in jail for vandalism. Congratulations on essentially buying the dude a new EV, because that's what you'll be lucky to come out with between jail, court, lawyers, fine, and lawsuit.
I'd just say it's language. Sure, 'gas' started out as short for 'gasoline', but at this point it's an synonym for fuel.
I'd never call diesel 'gasoline' though. I probably wouldn't tell somebody 'go buy some gas for the truck' if it's a diesel, at that point I'd specify.
Hell I bet if you asked the average person what diesel is a likely answer might be "gas for trucks".
I'd get technical, but yeah, this is a good 'family feud' type answer.
Or are you forgetting oil changes, coolant changes, transmission fluid, fuel filters, air filters, urea injection fluid, etc.
I think it says something about EVs when it's the accessories such as wiper blades, cabin air filters, and such that require more frequent maintenance than the drive system.
So in Canada, the "typical" minimum-wage job is full-time?
Wouldn't surprise me. The reason 'most' minimum-wage jobs are part time in the USA is the mandatory benefits that come into play if they aren't, which can DOUBLE the cost of a minimum wage worker.
Meanwhile Canada has universal single payer healthcare, knocking out the biggest single added expense for having a minimum wage worker work full time.
Personally, for the USA, I'd lowering the bar for 'full time' requiring healthcare insurance be provided down to 20 hours, and making them pay 50% below that. Or increase minimum wage by $1/hour that goes into a healthcare savings plan if insurance isn't provided.
Sounds like you need a mat that utilizes the flex of your chair as you lift pizza rolls to your mouth to generate electricity. ;)
I thought powered by RF was impossible and a scam?
First part: Incorrect. Powering something by RF is very much possible. Just look at crystal radios - usable amounts of sound from a device lacking any batteries.
Second part: Correct. That particular instance would have much larger power needs with less area for gathering the power.
Why was that a scam and this is not?
1. They specify low power sensors, not transmitters.
2. They specify a number of different methods to gain power, not just RF.
3. Siemans spinoff indicates access to real engineers and technology.
In this case the vagueness of the claims helps as well. When you start getting specific we can break out the slide rules and do 'rule of thumb' analysis to make sure you're not claiming to be able to break the laws of thermodynamics.
I don't reply to ACs, but I found the ac funny:
Yes... Prevent them in the future.... So insurance doesn't have to pay out in the future.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have an accident, especially a fatal one, in the first place. That the insurance company doesn't have to pay out as a result is a non-issue. ;)
Heck, I'd almost be glad to pay the insurance company if they were able to *prevent* an accident in the first place.
Personally, I disagree with the AC's assertion that black boxes are about insurance. And I have a logic problem for the AC:
There are approximately 5 ways for an aircraft to go down:
1. Human error, crew: The crew does something to cause the plane to crash.
Fault: Airline's. Airline's insurance pays
2. Mechanical error: Something fails on the aircraft, causing crash
Fault: Airline's. Airline's insurance pays
3. Human deliberate action: Terrorism, missile, etc...
Fault: Somebody else's, but generally speaking the airline's insurance still pays.
4. Outside accident: Two planes crash
Fault: Up for grabs, but let's figure it's the other plane's fault. Their insurance pays.
5. Environmental: Tornado, lighting strike, etc....
Fault: Airline's for flying into that mess. Airline's insurance company pays.
Flight data recorders don't record enough information, and the airline's insurance is going to pay in enough cases anyways that it's not worth it to push for black boxes in that case. Instead they're generally required by law so that the accident boards can better figure out the cause of the action and recommend remediation. As a result, airline travel is the safest means of moving long distances.
In all cases I know of, they'd still get the tax revenue - you pay sales tax in the state where you first register the vehicle, not where you actually buy it.
shocks, springs
Don't these generally last like a decade if you use quality parts?
Due to regenerative braking, brake pads that have been engineered to last years on a conventional vehicle are pretty much lifetime on a strong electric.
Otherwise I have to ask: There are plenty of independent repair shops out there. Why should I go to a dealer for that stuff when any independent repair place can do the work(or I can even do it myself)? Why combine sales and maintenance?
Though it all requires physical access to the usb ports inside the machine first.
The ones protected by armor plate? That's a bit like complaining that safes aren't safe because they can be drilled.
Not only do you need to know how to do the hack, you have to know where to drill and how far.
If they're showing up with that much invested in it they're getting the money out of the ATM/Safe no matter what.
Going by the last two famous spree killings in Europe, you end up with two options: Bombs and illegal guns. The man up north used both, as well as dressing as a police officer to deter suspicion. Down in France you had the recent attack where they apparently used illegally obtained full auto AK type rifles. If they had been unable to get those, a bomb may or may not have killed as many people.
1. False. Frequently true, but not 'always'. I've seen rooms freed up in exchange for two cube shaped servers under a desk, with the operators praising how fast things now were...
2. See initial disclaimer (only possibilities) and I put the visual wiz-bang specification in there for a reason.
3. You need somebody to program the emulator. They aren't always available.
4. I actually mentioned 'grow your own' - it can get really expensive, because new people don't want to be locked into your legacy system because it wouldn't help them be employable anywhere else.
5. There's a reason I said 'Some'.
Which is why I said 'especially the ICBMs'. We're actually trying to buy new tankers right now.
Non assassination movies -
Millennium - Roughly speaking, the future screwed up. DNA damage is too bad, they can't reproduce, etc... So they're using time travel to rescue people from the past who would have died in plane crashes(and such), replacing them with realistic dummy bodies. The people are then sent on into the future to repopulate.
There's a couple where humanity is going to an ancient past/alternate earth, during the time of the dinosaurs.
Some books where it's not used for assassination, but for observation of history.
I don't even know what games are doing between the point where they stop playing videos and actually get to the menu.
It's not worth it for a game you play half a dozen times, but in many cases if you figure out what the video is named in the program directory and either rename or delete it, the video will no longer play.
I have found this speeds up getting to the menu dramatically.
In a few cases where it'll error out if the file isn't found you replace the ~15-30 second video with one(of the same general format) that is a second or less.
The US's ICBMs are from the 1960s and the US still uses tankers and strategic bombers from the 1950s.
1. They still have a lot of upgrades since then
2. We're running up to some timelines where we're going to have to spend a lot of money to replace them, especially the ICBMs, because they just can't be extended anymore and the equipment to manufacture replacements no longer exists. More importantly, the skills to make replacements using the old techniques no longer exists in many cases.
What are the tangible benefite of a new system?
Keep in mind that all of these are only possibilities:
1. Reduced operating expenses. Modern computers are much more power efficient than old ones
2. Faster response time. If you keep the visual wizz-bangs to a minimum a modern system should be able to serve up a search faster
3. Cheaper hardware replacement, edging towards 'actually able to replace it'. Remember NASA hitting garage sales up for old parts? The old hardware tended to be very robust, but it still fails on occasion, and it's not made anymore. What replacements you can find tend to get more and more expensive. Perhaps worse, you don't know how long the replacement itself will last, because it's often just as old as the part it replaces.
4. Easier to find skilled personnel - you're not having to lure some old fogey out of retirement to maintain it or just to train new people who don't even have the old concepts anymore, you can hire people with experience.
5. Expandability. Some of these old systems are getting up towards their maximum capacity with things like population increases and more years of records.