You don't think that with a drastic reduction in accidents auto insurance rates will come down? Or that taking away 2.5 million emergency room visits wouldn't lower health care costs? Insurance is a pretty rational game, when the expenses go down it's pretty easy to adjust rates.
One of my kids' friends has eyesight which precludes her from driving without some pretty major corrections. I half jokingly said she should just wait 5 years for self driving cars and she half jokingly replied that she was going to move to California to get one sooner. People with disabilities and the elderly are going to be helped a lot, but all of us will be helped by the lower chance of getting in an accident, lower insurance and health care costs, increased productivity, etc. I'm not sure if traffic will improve or get worse though.
Some people in Phoenix might be doing it in the next few months. Google/Waymo has the cars are seem to be almost ready to let users use them. GM is similarly planning to restrict the geographic areas for their trial, so I can see that it could happen.
The trouble is, the Model 3 is a mass market car that will need to work and need to be spot on in every respect. Those who would be looking to buy a Model 3 in the heavily competitive market it operates in are not Tesla fanboys who will cut them slack. It's a completely different ballgame.
I think that the market the Model 3 is in isn't really that competitive. Very few people are looking at a Model 3 or a Camry. They are either Tesla fanboys, who don't care, or people who want an EV with a 200+ mile range. In that market, their main competition is the Bolt, with most everything else compromised in some way. As long as the demand for EVs keeps growing they should be able to move the Model 3 as fast as they can build them.
I have actually used a Windows Phone, and surprisingly I liked the OS fine. However for me Waze is the best navigation app, and Google stopped updating it for Windows Phone when they took it over so it was pretty buggy and unlikely to get fixed. Here We Go may be ok, but since OP said that navigation was important I'd hesitate to recommend it. To test, though, you can get an unlocked Lumia for $50 or so, so it's a pretty low risk evaluation.
Funny, I have an Xperia X so I'd be interested in Sailfish X. Couple of problems - currently no Bluetooth (among other issues), and "Current availability: EU, Norway, Switzerland". The Xperia X bluetooth hasn't been great anyway, but I don't understand the geo-blocking.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
I was worried about this until I got my EV. Now, I just plug in at home, and I only need public chargers once or twice a month on a longer trip. If you have a place where you can charge overnight, you can always start the day with a "full tank". I need public chargers less than I needed gas stations, even though I have a fairly low range. With all the 200+ mile range cars coming down the pike the need for chargers outside of interstates etc is going to be fairly low, I'd expect.
The real infrastructure need is going to be all the L1 & L2 chargers for apartment dwellers etc, but that should be relatively easy an should happen organically to a large degree. Already new developments seem to be throwing a few L2 chargers into their garages.
Just in the last day or two Toyota has announced a big move towards batteries. Not that they are abandoning hydrogen, but they are going to be making quite a few battery EVs now.
A couple does indeed mean two - two people who are together are a couple. However, if you say "a couple of minutes" it's like "just a second" - not to be taken literally. So you're fine saying "give me a couple of minutes" and then going over.
Some Americans also say things like "a couple-few people came over", just to further muddy the waters. Welcome to English!
Can the Mitsubishi Hyper-Heats or the others be used to replace a regular ducted heat pump or are they only for mini split systems? My current heat pump is getting old, and it's about 15 SEER (or was when it was installed). I know some of the ductless systems are pushing 30 SEER, but I don't know that I could use one with my system.
Part of the issue is that NYC's system relies heavily on a dedicated tax, where DC's is mostly dependent on subsidies from DC, MD, VA and the Federal government. That leads to a fractured, undependable revenue source, and led to underfunding of maintenance for years. Like most transit systems, only about half the revenue is from fares in either one.
A couple of months ago I decided to dip my toe in the water and got a Leaf. Having lived with it for a while, i'm convinced that a 200+ mile range Tesla would be fine for almost anyone's only car, as long as you have the ability to install a charger where you park overnight. I put in a 40 amp L2 charger which is overkill for the Leaf, and it can add ~25 miles per hour of charging; it could charge a Bolt or Tesla faster than that. So if you just plug it in when you get home after your commute, less than 3 hours later you are full again. Even the 2018 Leaf would handle your commute. It takes a while to get used to this concept (me anyway) but now that I'm comfortable with it, it seems so much better than filling up at gas stations. You would just get into the habit of plugging it in when you got home, the charger is just sitting right there.
The reason I specified a Tesla as an only car is that for road trips the Supercharger network really is much better. For example between DC and NY, there are Superchargers at the rest areas right on 95; for a Chademo charger you'd have to get off and find the chargers in some mall.
I'm going to keep using my ICE vehicles for some tasks the Leaf can't handle, but I'll never buy another one. My wife loves her BMW convertible, but she likes driving the Leaf even more. And the Leaf is really just a crappy econobox EV, with limitations that are not going to be found on the EVs coming down the pike (range & battery life concerns).
I would say most people prefer to use google because it gives them the best search results. On my Linux laptop I have left duckduckgo as the default and it's ok, but on my primary machine I always set google as the default. It's through choice, not ignorance of the options.
It's a little less competitive, but there are plenty of cheap pay as you go plans in the US too - like $10 with cals & texts at 5c/minute or each, and good for 90 days - really cheap for a light user. But with facetime/skype etc, no one is going to be gouged like the old days again. My unlimited prepaid plan is $30/month with 5GB fast data which is enough for me.
I generally keep 20 or so tabs open, and once a week or so everything will grind to a halt. If this update keeps that from happening I'll be happy. I'm a creature of habit, and I keep certain tabs open in FF and others in Chrome, and I don't really want to change. FF hasn't made it easy over the last few years though, I understand why so many people jumped ship.
We're running into the same problem with EVs - they wear out the roads just like ICE cars, but they don't pay the fuel taxes to maintain the roads. California just enacted a tax on EVs to help pay for this road maintenance.
Of course, most road wear is from trucks; road damage rises with the fourth power of weight. The California EV tax seems excessive, since it's basically making an EV pay the equivalent of an ICE vehicle getting 20mpg and driving 16,000 miles a year, but I guess $100 a year is not too onerous.
You should try Office Lens or CamScanner on your phone. It's pretty amazing what they can do with a flat document; naturally a crinkled page is better on a flatbed. I have one of those all in one printer/scanners too, and I use CamScanner 95% of the time. I bought it years ago, but I think Office Lens is as good and free.
This. Just make him a standard user, and then periodically run updates and scans (Malwarebytes & Defender should be plenty) with your admin account. You can try to tell him that he shouldn't just try to download random crap, or to not visit streaming pirate anime sites, but if he's like my teens that won't get fully absorbed. Just keep his user locked down.
Your home project made me think of this video, it was the first time I'd heard of aircrete: https://youtu.be/b9Gmor0I3mw I'm not sure how that would compare to pumice crete.
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Yeah but in the meantime an increase in trips taken might make things worse. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out.
You don't think that with a drastic reduction in accidents auto insurance rates will come down? Or that taking away 2.5 million emergency room visits wouldn't lower health care costs? Insurance is a pretty rational game, when the expenses go down it's pretty easy to adjust rates.
Yes, but I think you might see a lot more use which could offset the efficiencies, at least in the short term.
One of my kids' friends has eyesight which precludes her from driving without some pretty major corrections. I half jokingly said she should just wait 5 years for self driving cars and she half jokingly replied that she was going to move to California to get one sooner. People with disabilities and the elderly are going to be helped a lot, but all of us will be helped by the lower chance of getting in an accident, lower insurance and health care costs, increased productivity, etc. I'm not sure if traffic will improve or get worse though.
Some people in Phoenix might be doing it in the next few months. Google/Waymo has the cars are seem to be almost ready to let users use them. GM is similarly planning to restrict the geographic areas for their trial, so I can see that it could happen.
The trouble is, the Model 3 is a mass market car that will need to work and need to be spot on in every respect. Those who would be looking to buy a Model 3 in the heavily competitive market it operates in are not Tesla fanboys who will cut them slack. It's a completely different ballgame.
I think that the market the Model 3 is in isn't really that competitive. Very few people are looking at a Model 3 or a Camry. They are either Tesla fanboys, who don't care, or people who want an EV with a 200+ mile range. In that market, their main competition is the Bolt, with most everything else compromised in some way. As long as the demand for EVs keeps growing they should be able to move the Model 3 as fast as they can build them.
Thanks, I'll look into giving it a try!
I have actually used a Windows Phone, and surprisingly I liked the OS fine. However for me Waze is the best navigation app, and Google stopped updating it for Windows Phone when they took it over so it was pretty buggy and unlikely to get fixed. Here We Go may be ok, but since OP said that navigation was important I'd hesitate to recommend it.
To test, though, you can get an unlocked Lumia for $50 or so, so it's a pretty low risk evaluation.
Funny, I have an Xperia X so I'd be interested in Sailfish X. Couple of problems - currently no Bluetooth (among other issues), and "Current availability: EU, Norway, Switzerland".
The Xperia X bluetooth hasn't been great anyway, but I don't understand the geo-blocking.
You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.
I was worried about this until I got my EV. Now, I just plug in at home, and I only need public chargers once or twice a month on a longer trip. If you have a place where you can charge overnight, you can always start the day with a "full tank". I need public chargers less than I needed gas stations, even though I have a fairly low range. With all the 200+ mile range cars coming down the pike the need for chargers outside of interstates etc is going to be fairly low, I'd expect.
The real infrastructure need is going to be all the L1 & L2 chargers for apartment dwellers etc, but that should be relatively easy an should happen organically to a large degree. Already new developments seem to be throwing a few L2 chargers into their garages.
Just in the last day or two Toyota has announced a big move towards batteries. Not that they are abandoning hydrogen, but they are going to be making quite a few battery EVs now.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
A couple does indeed mean two - two people who are together are a couple. However, if you say "a couple of minutes" it's like "just a second" - not to be taken literally. So you're fine saying "give me a couple of minutes" and then going over.
Some Americans also say things like "a couple-few people came over", just to further muddy the waters. Welcome to English!
Can the Mitsubishi Hyper-Heats or the others be used to replace a regular ducted heat pump or are they only for mini split systems? My current heat pump is getting old, and it's about 15 SEER (or was when it was installed). I know some of the ductless systems are pushing 30 SEER, but I don't know that I could use one with my system.
It's for the developing world, trying to keep the costs down.
That's where the "almost" comes in.
Part of the issue is that NYC's system relies heavily on a dedicated tax, where DC's is mostly dependent on subsidies from DC, MD, VA and the Federal government. That leads to a fractured, undependable revenue source, and led to underfunding of maintenance for years. Like most transit systems, only about half the revenue is from fares in either one.
https://ggwash.org/view/41125/...
A couple of months ago I decided to dip my toe in the water and got a Leaf. Having lived with it for a while, i'm convinced that a 200+ mile range Tesla would be fine for almost anyone's only car, as long as you have the ability to install a charger where you park overnight. I put in a 40 amp L2 charger which is overkill for the Leaf, and it can add ~25 miles per hour of charging; it could charge a Bolt or Tesla faster than that. So if you just plug it in when you get home after your commute, less than 3 hours later you are full again. Even the 2018 Leaf would handle your commute. It takes a while to get used to this concept (me anyway) but now that I'm comfortable with it, it seems so much better than filling up at gas stations. You would just get into the habit of plugging it in when you got home, the charger is just sitting right there.
The reason I specified a Tesla as an only car is that for road trips the Supercharger network really is much better. For example between DC and NY, there are Superchargers at the rest areas right on 95; for a Chademo charger you'd have to get off and find the chargers in some mall.
I'm going to keep using my ICE vehicles for some tasks the Leaf can't handle, but I'll never buy another one. My wife loves her BMW convertible, but she likes driving the Leaf even more. And the Leaf is really just a crappy econobox EV, with limitations that are not going to be found on the EVs coming down the pike (range & battery life concerns).
I would say most people prefer to use google because it gives them the best search results. On my Linux laptop I have left duckduckgo as the default and it's ok, but on my primary machine I always set google as the default. It's through choice, not ignorance of the options.
It's a little less competitive, but there are plenty of cheap pay as you go plans in the US too - like $10 with cals & texts at 5c/minute or each, and good for 90 days - really cheap for a light user. But with facetime/skype etc, no one is going to be gouged like the old days again. My unlimited prepaid plan is $30/month with 5GB fast data which is enough for me.
I generally keep 20 or so tabs open, and once a week or so everything will grind to a halt. If this update keeps that from happening I'll be happy. I'm a creature of habit, and I keep certain tabs open in FF and others in Chrome, and I don't really want to change. FF hasn't made it easy over the last few years though, I understand why so many people jumped ship.
We're running into the same problem with EVs - they wear out the roads just like ICE cars, but they don't pay the fuel taxes to maintain the roads. California just enacted a tax on EVs to help pay for this road maintenance.
Of course, most road wear is from trucks; road damage rises with the fourth power of weight. The California EV tax seems excessive, since it's basically making an EV pay the equivalent of an ICE vehicle getting 20mpg and driving 16,000 miles a year, but I guess $100 a year is not too onerous.
You should try Office Lens or CamScanner on your phone. It's pretty amazing what they can do with a flat document; naturally a crinkled page is better on a flatbed. I have one of those all in one printer/scanners too, and I use CamScanner 95% of the time. I bought it years ago, but I think Office Lens is as good and free.
This. Just make him a standard user, and then periodically run updates and scans (Malwarebytes & Defender should be plenty) with your admin account. You can try to tell him that he shouldn't just try to download random crap, or to not visit streaming pirate anime sites, but if he's like my teens that won't get fully absorbed. Just keep his user locked down.
HP was once a giant (at least the printers were), now they just make bloated software with slightly above average hardware.
The LaserJets were really made by Canon...
Your home project made me think of this video, it was the first time I'd heard of aircrete:
https://youtu.be/b9Gmor0I3mw
I'm not sure how that would compare to pumice crete.