So what is creating the difference in performance here? The 0-60 time isn't much slower, by all accounts the Niro's handling isn't bad in the EV version due to the low centre of mass and tuned up suspension. What creates this huge gulf you are talking about?
Anyway, I'll let you know how it performs when I get mine.
They were putting a lot of effort into automotive, but it failed. No iCar or self driving tech, and Android is close to being entrenched in automotive infotainment systems.
Is anti-vaxx stuff protected by freedom of speech?
If you shout "fire" in a theatre and people are injured or killed trying to escape the non-existent conflagration, you may be liable for that. If you convince parents not to get their kids vaccinated and they suffer illness, life long poor heath or death as a result, "free speech" doesn't seem like a very good defence.
"Oh but I just told him where the money was, how to get in after hours and what the combination of the safe was! That's just information, I was helping him making an informed choice to rob that bank or not!
On the one hand we of course want there to be open discourse and concerns about vaccinations discussed. But on the other hand the consequences of spreading misinformation and FUD can be deadly. Even in the US the constitutional right to free speech doesn't protect you from any and all consequences of what you say.
And actually all the EU is asking for is for companies to do what they claim they want to do (to remove harmful material from their networks).
if it's on all 4 major networks (Breitbart(*), Fox, CNN, MSNBC) then it's probably not fake.
Consensus is a shitty way of determining if news is fake or not. For a start it's not like all four of them will send a journalist to report on every story, for the most part they all pick up the AP or Reuters story and add their own spin.
A better option is to weight sources. The BBC is mostly reliable and can be relied on to publish corrections. If it's on Brietbart it's probably false. Then WAIT, don't leap to conclusions and start shit-posting instantly, and if it's important maybe do some research to better understand the story, and see how it develops over time. Stuff that is fake tends to get debunked fairly quickly, so all you really need to do is avoid being part of the mob that gets triggered by it.
Just to be clear, but "lower" I am referring to the Model 3, which as you say is about 2.5 cm closer to the ground, but more importantly the body shape is smaller with a lower roof (1400mm vs 1560mm for the Niro). The seating position is lower to match, otherwise there wouldn't be much head room.
On the other hand NEC had just released the PC Engine with no non-volatile storage at all, and most contemporary game systems didn't have any either. Computers were of course a different matter, but even then many Amiga and Atari ST games didn't have a save mechanism to avoid accidentally damaging the copy-protected disks.
The £35k Model 3 is expected to have around 50kWh. To get the 75kW you need to upgrade to the longer range one for tens of thousands of dollars. Hardly a reasonable or fair comparison.
Model 3 Short Range is officially 220 miles range EPA, Kona is 260. EPA tends to be representative of motorway driving, but even consistently doing 75 isn't going to close that gap. Bjorn Nyland has tested both at that speed to confirm.
Let's see, 5.6 seconds vs. 6.4 seconds for the Kona, Niro still to be determined but likely very similar. So 0.8 seconds faster.
Arguably it's lower and the suspension is tuned for sport rather than comfort too.
I'm sure to you this is a massive, world-changing difference that makes every car which can only do 5.60001 seconds or slower total shit not worthy of scraping off your shoe, but for most people both are pretty quick.
I love the way they make a big deal of the top speed being 130 MPH too. Over 100 and it's instant disqualification, licence revoked. Very important, that stat.
Real world tests show little difference in efficiency between the Kona and M3. And of course the Kona battery a lot bigger.
I had a Model 3 reservation but cancelled it and bought a Niro instead. Too many problems with the M3, too long to wait, and the spec is too low unless you spend a lot upgrading it. The Niro is all round better value and (for me) a better vehicle - the tiny boot of the M3 is a particular problem.
What pissed me off about Tesla is the constant bullshitting. Like now they are selling "Full Self Driving" again, but it's not. It's the same level 2 stuff they already have, plus a few new tricks, but it's not self driving. You still have to have a qualified driver paying attention, hands on the wheel. It was originally sold as "you can summon the car from the other side of the country, and it will make its way home, charging along the way". They sold that to people starting in 2016 and haven't come close to delivering it.
Maybe I do have a bit of animosity, but only because the fans are getting as bad an the Apple ones. The Model 3 is a decent car, depending on your needs, but it's not the be-all and end-all.
I never had a NES but I have heard that Shinobi was quite a difficult game, so when you say you could get through it in an hour I guess you mean after putting in many many hours of practice.
Modern games have more content, but are more like interactive movies where even poor players get to see it all just by relentless grinding. Open world games are particularly prone to that - if you suck just grind more equipment and weapons until it becomes unbalanced in your favour.
Remember GoldenEye on the the N64? The first level gives you objectives like "install covert modem" and "extract data", with no tutorial and no hint as to how to achieve them. A few years later and every game had a tutorial, often unskippable. It was also the badass era so you tended to be playing some military ninja commando type who would get covert messages from base like "press B to climb the ladder", like he was a total noob who hadn't even passed basic training. Way worse than the 'tude era.
"A hundred yards short of your objective, accidentally ride off a cliff and die"
Once I stopped giggling I started to think about older games. Many didn't have any save or password options at all. You got an hour in, died and had to go right back to the start. We really are spoiled with modern games that let you save after every mission, or even at waypoints during the mission, and give you infinite lives and continues.
The bigger problem for me is the amount of grinding in modern games. I don't mind a challenge that I have to work at and where I feel like I'm improving and making progress, but with GTA a lot of it is just fairly easy missions where you fail mostly due to bad luck or the janky game engine, and there is just so much of it. Seems like RDR2 is the same.
Even half a year wouldn't be enough to recoup costs, and you have to include the price of maintenance too.
My guess is that they are either hoping to monetize the location and user data they gather, or the whole thing is just a scam to suck up investment money for a few years before it all collapses.
Did a bit of research. It's a number calculated by a right wing thinktank with little credibility, and doesn't include any of the savings vs. doing nothing, or compare costs of alternative plans.
No such laws in most of Europe. The stores are just because people don't want to spend â100,000 on a car they haven't even seen in the flesh, let alone had a chance to test drive.
I guess they feel that now they have reached critical mass and no longer need to offer those opportunities. Will be interesting to see if it works.
Coatings/wraps are pretty popular with Tesla owners. The paint is known to be a bit soft and expensive to replace, and also most of the cars they sell are $50k+ where it makes more sense to invest a few thousand in that kind of protection.
You can mirror your phone screen if you really must have the latest version. But that's missing the point here.
Normally you would get a fixed manufacturer developed system. Maybe some map updates. No choice of what app you want to use for navigation.
Now you have live maps with endless free updates, a choice of apps and all the functionality you had before. Even if it never gets updated you can keep using it as-is.
Updates aren't always that great anyway. Lots of bitching and moaning about Tesla gimping stuff that people liked but which turned out to be dangerous or not work properly.
It was designed and developed by Volvo in Europe. It's like an iPhone - it may be made in China but most people would say it's a western product, with Volvo quality and support networks.
Worth pointing out that Nissan/Renault were building charging networks long before Tesla came along. Much of the infrastructure in western Europe was funded by Nissan/Renault. You can see the branding on the chargers.
And this was long before the Model 3 was even announced, when Nissan and Renault were the only ones selling affordable EVs.
This is a European car. In Europe the commercial charging networks are often better than Tesla's.
Performance wise it may be a little slower, but it is better made and more luxurious. You also get Volvo service and many people are waiting for established brands that they trust.
Also it's available, where as you can't just buy an M3 in Europe at the moment. If you have a reservation you might get one this year, maybe, otherwise no way.
Don't worry, there is plenty of room for competition. Things are hotting up and it's already driving down battery prices faster than ever before, while pushing up the spec of the cars. I doubt Tesla would have cut their prices if it wasn't for the strong competition, so even if you don't buy a Polestar it helps you save money.
Third option: The OS should provide enough protection for applications that they don't need their own kernel drivers.
The OS does provide some protection, e.g. you can mark memory as needing to be secure and it won't appear in crash dumps and will be inaccessible even to debug tools. Gotta protect that DRMed media.
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So what is creating the difference in performance here? The 0-60 time isn't much slower, by all accounts the Niro's handling isn't bad in the EV version due to the low centre of mass and tuned up suspension. What creates this huge gulf you are talking about?
Anyway, I'll let you know how it performs when I get mine.
Maybe they are, and I'm sure when China arrests more US citizens it will be on legitimate charges too.
They were putting a lot of effort into automotive, but it failed. No iCar or self driving tech, and Android is close to being entrenched in automotive infotainment systems.
Is anti-vaxx stuff protected by freedom of speech?
If you shout "fire" in a theatre and people are injured or killed trying to escape the non-existent conflagration, you may be liable for that. If you convince parents not to get their kids vaccinated and they suffer illness, life long poor heath or death as a result, "free speech" doesn't seem like a very good defence.
"Oh but I just told him where the money was, how to get in after hours and what the combination of the safe was! That's just information, I was helping him making an informed choice to rob that bank or not!
On the one hand we of course want there to be open discourse and concerns about vaccinations discussed. But on the other hand the consequences of spreading misinformation and FUD can be deadly. Even in the US the constitutional right to free speech doesn't protect you from any and all consequences of what you say.
And actually all the EU is asking for is for companies to do what they claim they want to do (to remove harmful material from their networks).
if it's on all 4 major networks (Breitbart(*), Fox, CNN, MSNBC) then it's probably not fake.
Consensus is a shitty way of determining if news is fake or not. For a start it's not like all four of them will send a journalist to report on every story, for the most part they all pick up the AP or Reuters story and add their own spin.
A better option is to weight sources. The BBC is mostly reliable and can be relied on to publish corrections. If it's on Brietbart it's probably false. Then WAIT, don't leap to conclusions and start shit-posting instantly, and if it's important maybe do some research to better understand the story, and see how it develops over time. Stuff that is fake tends to get debunked fairly quickly, so all you really need to do is avoid being part of the mob that gets triggered by it.
Just to be clear, but "lower" I am referring to the Model 3, which as you say is about 2.5 cm closer to the ground, but more importantly the body shape is smaller with a lower roof (1400mm vs 1560mm for the Niro). The seating position is lower to match, otherwise there wouldn't be much head room.
They know it's the US just using her as leverage in the trade negotiations. It won't work of course.
On the other hand NEC had just released the PC Engine with no non-volatile storage at all, and most contemporary game systems didn't have any either. Computers were of course a different matter, but even then many Amiga and Atari ST games didn't have a save mechanism to avoid accidentally damaging the copy-protected disks.
The £35k Model 3 is expected to have around 50kWh. To get the 75kW you need to upgrade to the longer range one for tens of thousands of dollars. Hardly a reasonable or fair comparison.
Model 3 Short Range is officially 220 miles range EPA, Kona is 260. EPA tends to be representative of motorway driving, but even consistently doing 75 isn't going to close that gap. Bjorn Nyland has tested both at that speed to confirm.
Let's see, 5.6 seconds vs. 6.4 seconds for the Kona, Niro still to be determined but likely very similar. So 0.8 seconds faster.
Arguably it's lower and the suspension is tuned for sport rather than comfort too.
I'm sure to you this is a massive, world-changing difference that makes every car which can only do 5.60001 seconds or slower total shit not worthy of scraping off your shoe, but for most people both are pretty quick.
I love the way they make a big deal of the top speed being 130 MPH too. Over 100 and it's instant disqualification, licence revoked. Very important, that stat.
Real world tests show little difference in efficiency between the Kona and M3. And of course the Kona battery a lot bigger.
I had a Model 3 reservation but cancelled it and bought a Niro instead. Too many problems with the M3, too long to wait, and the spec is too low unless you spend a lot upgrading it. The Niro is all round better value and (for me) a better vehicle - the tiny boot of the M3 is a particular problem.
What pissed me off about Tesla is the constant bullshitting. Like now they are selling "Full Self Driving" again, but it's not. It's the same level 2 stuff they already have, plus a few new tricks, but it's not self driving. You still have to have a qualified driver paying attention, hands on the wheel. It was originally sold as "you can summon the car from the other side of the country, and it will make its way home, charging along the way". They sold that to people starting in 2016 and haven't come close to delivering it.
Maybe I do have a bit of animosity, but only because the fans are getting as bad an the Apple ones. The Model 3 is a decent car, depending on your needs, but it's not the be-all and end-all.
I never had a NES but I have heard that Shinobi was quite a difficult game, so when you say you could get through it in an hour I guess you mean after putting in many many hours of practice.
Modern games have more content, but are more like interactive movies where even poor players get to see it all just by relentless grinding. Open world games are particularly prone to that - if you suck just grind more equipment and weapons until it becomes unbalanced in your favour.
Remember GoldenEye on the the N64? The first level gives you objectives like "install covert modem" and "extract data", with no tutorial and no hint as to how to achieve them. A few years later and every game had a tutorial, often unskippable. It was also the badass era so you tended to be playing some military ninja commando type who would get covert messages from base like "press B to climb the ladder", like he was a total noob who hadn't even passed basic training. Way worse than the 'tude era.
"A hundred yards short of your objective, accidentally ride off a cliff and die"
Once I stopped giggling I started to think about older games. Many didn't have any save or password options at all. You got an hour in, died and had to go right back to the start. We really are spoiled with modern games that let you save after every mission, or even at waypoints during the mission, and give you infinite lives and continues.
The bigger problem for me is the amount of grinding in modern games. I don't mind a challenge that I have to work at and where I feel like I'm improving and making progress, but with GTA a lot of it is just fairly easy missions where you fail mostly due to bad luck or the janky game engine, and there is just so much of it. Seems like RDR2 is the same.
Even half a year wouldn't be enough to recoup costs, and you have to include the price of maintenance too.
My guess is that they are either hoping to monetize the location and user data they gather, or the whole thing is just a scam to suck up investment money for a few years before it all collapses.
Did a bit of research. It's a number calculated by a right wing thinktank with little credibility, and doesn't include any of the savings vs. doing nothing, or compare costs of alternative plans.
No such laws in most of Europe. The stores are just because people don't want to spend â100,000 on a car they haven't even seen in the flesh, let alone had a chance to test drive.
I guess they feel that now they have reached critical mass and no longer need to offer those opportunities. Will be interesting to see if it works.
Coatings/wraps are pretty popular with Tesla owners. The paint is known to be a bit soft and expensive to replace, and also most of the cars they sell are $50k+ where it makes more sense to invest a few thousand in that kind of protection.
Their public statements to shareholders indicate that they do not expect to make a profit in the next six months, maybe the whole year.
You can mirror your phone screen if you really must have the latest version. But that's missing the point here.
Normally you would get a fixed manufacturer developed system. Maybe some map updates. No choice of what app you want to use for navigation.
Now you have live maps with endless free updates, a choice of apps and all the functionality you had before. Even if it never gets updated you can keep using it as-is.
Updates aren't always that great anyway. Lots of bitching and moaning about Tesla gimping stuff that people liked but which turned out to be dangerous or not work properly.
It was designed and developed by Volvo in Europe. It's like an iPhone - it may be made in China but most people would say it's a western product, with Volvo quality and support networks.
Worth pointing out that Nissan/Renault were building charging networks long before Tesla came along. Much of the infrastructure in western Europe was funded by Nissan/Renault. You can see the branding on the chargers.
And this was long before the Model 3 was even announced, when Nissan and Renault were the only ones selling affordable EVs.
This is a European car. In Europe the commercial charging networks are often better than Tesla's.
Performance wise it may be a little slower, but it is better made and more luxurious. You also get Volvo service and many people are waiting for established brands that they trust.
Also it's available, where as you can't just buy an M3 in Europe at the moment. If you have a reservation you might get one this year, maybe, otherwise no way.
Don't worry, there is plenty of room for competition. Things are hotting up and it's already driving down battery prices faster than ever before, while pushing up the spec of the cars. I doubt Tesla would have cut their prices if it wasn't for the strong competition, so even if you don't buy a Polestar it helps you save money.
Third option: The OS should provide enough protection for applications that they don't need their own kernel drivers.
The OS does provide some protection, e.g. you can mark memory as needing to be secure and it won't appear in crash dumps and will be inaccessible even to debug tools. Gotta protect that DRMed media.
Many gaming monitors include an on-screen aiming sight, which is entirely handled by the monitor and completely undetectable to the PC.
Only way around that is to add a gunsight to the game so at least everyone is on the same level.
It's more demand for electric cars in general. All the new ones coming out that are even half decent sell out almost immediately.