While the Calgary police are generally pretty good at not over reacting to these sorts of situations, and are far less trigger happy than their American counterparts, the situation also was not the same. The difference in Calgary was that the victim was warned by someone else who found out about the swatting, and she was able to call the police herself to warn them. The police were therefore on alert that this may be a prank and able to approach it differently, as well as work through it with her on the phone before approaching. The perpetrator of the swatting also didn't include the bit about gasoline and such, so a small bit of the urgency was removed from the situation in comparison to the US incident.
Great theory, but in practice I can guarantee that it does in fact snow at those temperatures, and below. In fact we got some of the largest snowfalls of the year this year while the temperatures were in exactly that range.
Don't worry, there isn't currently any form of "self driving" vehicle that can navigate in anything close to resembling a "blizzard", and there's no real evidence that that's about to change any time soon.
They recycle water, but not infinitely. There's still a large amount of water use, so it still makes sense to ban it as it's not an essential function, and it will save water.
That used to be the case, but it's completely changed now. Now you pay big money, and you are still the product being sold. In fact there's absolutely no way to not be the product being sold with most new products these days. I miss the days when you could say that only the free services were selling you as the product, now you have to assume that every service does that. No matter how expensive.
I'm glad the speakers figured it out, because I had to disable it on most of my phones. I say "ok Google" and my watch, personal phone, and work phone all light up and all try to reply independently. If my wife is nearby her phone also responds about 50% of the time despite voice training. The idea of being able to add a speaker without making the problem even worse has always seemed unlikely.
The article already answers this, you'll be able to pay extra to have the ads removed. As with so many things, as long as the rich don't have to put up with the annoyances, they have no problem forcing it on everyone else.
Sure they talk about it being discounted if you accept ads, but the reality is that the price with ads is highly unlikely to be any cheaper than the price of vehicles just before the ad "subsidised" ones become available, but the ones without ads will likely come at a significant premium (far more than the company is likely to realistically earn from the ads themselves)
Automakers have been lobbying for years for a maximum age of cars on the road, with all the recent driver assistance "safety" features added, it wouldn't surprise me if they finally get their way. How dare you drive a car without all of that stuff? Think of the children!
Don't worry, they'll get motorcycles soon enough. As for older cars. The automakers have been lobbying for years for a maximum age of cars on the road, with all the recent driver assistance "safety" features added, it wouldn't surprise me if they finally get their way. How dare you drive a car without all of that stuff? Think of the children!
Off the top of my head: - Cell phones - Internet assistants - many IOT devices - computers - internet routers - ISPs - TVs - Radio broadcast - many web pages
That's just off the top of my head, and just the ones that do it in large bulk at the moment, however just wait, because almost EVERY industry is salivating at exactly this possibility, and the list of ones actually doing it is growing longer by the minute.
So you're simply not going to drive any more. That's ok with them, you don't have enough market share on your own to influence anything. The issue is that it won't be one company doing it, they'd get creamed in the market, it will be all the big companies doing it, so people will just accept it as if it's normal (see TV, the internet, etc)
I don't trust Tesla's automation for one second. Of course they've also never sold a car with autonomous features, only driver assistance, and I trust their driver assistance every time I get in the car. The difference is that I am always in control of the system. I am driving. Tesla isn't. The absolute worst thing the automation is capable of doing if it screws up is to move the car a foot or so to the side before I catch it and override. And if there wasn't several feet beside the car to start with, I never would have engaged the system in the first place.
The way the system is designed, there is still a physical link between the steering wheel and the steering of the front wheels, and between the brake pedal and the brakes. The software simply cannot override that no matter what it does wrong.
If you treat it as the feature it is (a better cruise control) it's great. If you expect it to drive itself you're both ignorant, and stupid.
That said, apparently too many people were both ignorant and stupid, so in a pure marketing move, and against the law in almost every jurisdiction, Tesla retroactively removed a paid for feature from all the cars it had already sold. Luckily for me, I've rooted my car and was able to re-instate the feature that Tesla stole.
As for resisting code audits, that's partly to cover their blatant copyright infringement using GPL software without adhering to the GPL, and partly because Tesla is of the opinion that they know better than the rest of the world on all things and have a right to do anything they want to other people's property without their permission. I'd say that it will come back to bite them eventually, but as long as they have no competition, and most countries consumer protection laws lack any teeth, what incentive do they have to change?
As for Tesla's "full self driving" that's just another of a long line of marketing lies, they'll never get there with the current hardware, nor will any regulatory body ever approve it with this hardware (we don't even need to talk about software for this, the hardware is so obviously incapable of it that the software is irrelevant)
They promised all sorts of things, most of them were lies, the free upgrades are too.
What will most likely happen is that they will eventually re-define "full self driving" to be no more than they originally promised the basic auto-pilot tech could do back in 2014. "hands free on-ramp to off-ramp driving with an attentive driver behind the wheel"... see, that's "full self driving"... right?
The worst part though is that they'll likely get a pass on it just like they have on every other lie so far.
There were no adhesives, it was simply nut and bolt. the real problem was that the battery shield had to come off (it was added to the car after the fast charge system was developed) which turned it in to a more manual process which took about 2-3 times as long as originally promised (of course it was still about the same speed as a gas fill-up) A few customer cars were battery swapped, but very few. The reason? not because it was slow or hard to do, but because the swap station was across the street from a fast-charger, and the fast charger was a better way to travel. Still is.
Fast-charging beats battery swaps every single time. There's never a good reason to do battery swaps, and nobody who's ever driven an EV with a true fast charging option has ever actually wished for it. It was included simply because government bureaucrats who didn't even understand EVs let alone drive them on a regular basis thought it would be a neat idea and increased the CARB credits if a car could do it.
Use the Tesla Supercharger network and I can guarantee you that you'll have no interest in battery swaps ever again. The logistics and expense just don't make any sense when your car can charge faster than you can eat your lunch, and get you far enough to make it to your next meal.
delivered, yes. But there are a lot of reservations for the 3 that for some reason aren't changing in to sales for the Bolt. That proves that the 3 is not competing with the Bolt, if it was, most of those reservations would have bought a Bolt by now, but instead Bolts sit on dealer lots while the wait for a 3 just keeps growing.
As soon as some company decides to compete with Tesla, we may see some interesting things happen, but for now there isn't a single competitor on the market.
Any car, EV or ICE, sitting in my driveway is filling more of my vehicle needs than a $1,000 promise note from Tesla.
So if there was a waiting list for your preferred car, a bicycle would suddenly become even better than the vehicle you're waiting on? That's delusional. Sure you can't get a Tesla because of the wait, but the fact that so many people are waiting instead of buying the already available Bolt just goes to prove that the Bolt isn't competing with the Tesla. If it were there would be ZERO reservations for the Tesla, and about half a million Bolts on the road right now. But that's not the case, Bolts seem to be sitting on dealer lots while people wait for their 3 to arrive. That's because the Bolt isn't competing with the 3, it's not even close.
I drive a Model S. I could not drive a car without a fast charging network. Sure most of my charging is done over night at home, but I also do a lot of road trips, none of those are even possible in a Leaf or a Bolt.
As for you being "a huge percentage of the population". Sorry, you're not. And the number of reservation holders for the Tesla vs the sales for the Bolt prove that point.
Ok, list me a single competitor that's "coming" that has the following minimum feature set: - Fast-Charging network already existing that spans the entire continent and can recharge the car fully in the time that you'd stop for lunch at a fast food joint. - Driver assistance features that are at least somewhat close to what Tesla has
Just with those 2 features (which are probably the 2 most important ones) I'm not aware of any, and we're ignoring all the other things that Tesla tends to have on their competitors (the phone app, the large touch screen, styling that doesn't look like a punishment)
Look, I want competition in this space more than most people, I'm dying to sell my Tesla and jump ship to a more ethical company (and trust me, EVERY company is more ethical than Tesla, and considering how unethical most big corps are that says a lot) But I'm just not seeing anything that can compete with my 2014 Model S coming any time soon. And until at least one of the other car makers understands what makes Tesla successful, this won't change.
So far it doesn't matter how much they lie, how much they steal, or how much they screw up, they've gotten a complete pass. They have zero competition, and can't build cars as fast as they can sell them. What incentive do they have to change their ways when everything they do turns out just fine for them?
Sure, every single promise that came out of Elon's mouth in regard to driver assistance is missing: - Can automatically pull out of your garage and meet you at the curb on private property. Not even close, they haven't released any feature remotely resembling this - Can be summoned to your location wherever you are on private property. Nope, doesn't do this either - Ultrasonics work at any speed. Nope, they top out well below the top speed of the car - Monitors stop signs and traffic lights. Nope, ignores them completely - Brings the vehicle to a full stop to avoid a collision. Nope, it actually releases the brake when it's shed a certain amount of speed, or gets below a certain speed threshold. (it actually has among the worst automatic emergency braking system in the industry in that regard)
List me a single thing that Elon claimed the car could do in regards to driver assistance that it can actually do. There isn't anything at that event that he got right. Not a single thing.
If you include his comments after the event, or to the media, or watch the test drives it gets even worse because even more things are claimed, none of which have come to fruition. Things like hands free on-ramp to off-ramp driving were claimed, now they pretend they never claimed that.
Tesla has been selling a full self driving option for over a year. Here's Musk's estimate of when the feature will be delivered to people who already paid and who are on 2-5 year leases:
2015: in 2 years 2016: in 2 years 2017: in 3 years
Why start in 2015? the 2014 and 2015 models were promised to have all sorts of driver assist features that not only do they not have, they will obviously never have, and Tesla refuses to even admit they promised despite images of their website and video recordings of the media event where they announced them. Full self driving on the 3 isn't "2-3 years away" even accounting for "Tesla time", it's NEVER on these cars. There is absolutely ZERO chance that these cars will ever have full self driving capability with the current hardware. It's simply not possible, they have no corner or rear radar or lidar, and rely 100% on cameras, only one of which has a method of clearing debris (an ineffective method at that) Full self driving needs the ability to see around a dirt spec on your windshield, the cameras on Tesla vehicles can't do that.
The absolute best case scenario for Tesla is that the "full self driving" feature manages to do what they promised at the "D" event for cars sold in 2014 with the original Autopilot, promises they have since tried to pretend they never even made.
They make great cars, but really over-promise.
That's the understatement of the century. I say "they make the best car available, but lie through their teeth about it and are the slimiest company I have ever done business with"
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While the Calgary police are generally pretty good at not over reacting to these sorts of situations, and are far less trigger happy than their American counterparts, the situation also was not the same.
The difference in Calgary was that the victim was warned by someone else who found out about the swatting, and she was able to call the police herself to warn them. The police were therefore on alert that this may be a prank and able to approach it differently, as well as work through it with her on the phone before approaching. The perpetrator of the swatting also didn't include the bit about gasoline and such, so a small bit of the urgency was removed from the situation in comparison to the US incident.
Do you require a password to log in locally? If so, why? after all, if someone has physical access they can do anything anyway, so why bother?
it's not called "Wintel" for nothing....
Great theory, but in practice I can guarantee that it does in fact snow at those temperatures, and below. In fact we got some of the largest snowfalls of the year this year while the temperatures were in exactly that range.
Don't worry, there isn't currently any form of "self driving" vehicle that can navigate in anything close to resembling a "blizzard", and there's no real evidence that that's about to change any time soon.
They recycle water, but not infinitely. There's still a large amount of water use, so it still makes sense to ban it as it's not an essential function, and it will save water.
Forget required, in many places I'd settle for allowed. In my jurisdiction for instance it's illegal!
That used to be the case, but it's completely changed now. Now you pay big money, and you are still the product being sold. In fact there's absolutely no way to not be the product being sold with most new products these days. I miss the days when you could say that only the free services were selling you as the product, now you have to assume that every service does that. No matter how expensive.
I'm glad the speakers figured it out, because I had to disable it on most of my phones. I say "ok Google" and my watch, personal phone, and work phone all light up and all try to reply independently. If my wife is nearby her phone also responds about 50% of the time despite voice training.
The idea of being able to add a speaker without making the problem even worse has always seemed unlikely.
The article already answers this, you'll be able to pay extra to have the ads removed. As with so many things, as long as the rich don't have to put up with the annoyances, they have no problem forcing it on everyone else.
Sure they talk about it being discounted if you accept ads, but the reality is that the price with ads is highly unlikely to be any cheaper than the price of vehicles just before the ad "subsidised" ones become available, but the ones without ads will likely come at a significant premium (far more than the company is likely to realistically earn from the ads themselves)
Automakers have been lobbying for years for a maximum age of cars on the road, with all the recent driver assistance "safety" features added, it wouldn't surprise me if they finally get their way. How dare you drive a car without all of that stuff? Think of the children!
Don't worry, they'll get motorcycles soon enough.
As for older cars. The automakers have been lobbying for years for a maximum age of cars on the road, with all the recent driver assistance "safety" features added, it wouldn't surprise me if they finally get their way. How dare you drive a car without all of that stuff? Think of the children!
What other industry?
Off the top of my head:
- Cell phones
- Internet assistants
- many IOT devices
- computers
- internet routers
- ISPs
- TVs
- Radio broadcast
- many web pages
That's just off the top of my head, and just the ones that do it in large bulk at the moment, however just wait, because almost EVERY industry is salivating at exactly this possibility, and the list of ones actually doing it is growing longer by the minute.
So you're simply not going to drive any more. That's ok with them, you don't have enough market share on your own to influence anything.
The issue is that it won't be one company doing it, they'd get creamed in the market, it will be all the big companies doing it, so people will just accept it as if it's normal (see TV, the internet, etc)
I don't trust Tesla's automation for one second. Of course they've also never sold a car with autonomous features, only driver assistance, and I trust their driver assistance every time I get in the car. The difference is that I am always in control of the system. I am driving. Tesla isn't. The absolute worst thing the automation is capable of doing if it screws up is to move the car a foot or so to the side before I catch it and override. And if there wasn't several feet beside the car to start with, I never would have engaged the system in the first place.
The way the system is designed, there is still a physical link between the steering wheel and the steering of the front wheels, and between the brake pedal and the brakes. The software simply cannot override that no matter what it does wrong.
If you treat it as the feature it is (a better cruise control) it's great. If you expect it to drive itself you're both ignorant, and stupid.
That said, apparently too many people were both ignorant and stupid, so in a pure marketing move, and against the law in almost every jurisdiction, Tesla retroactively removed a paid for feature from all the cars it had already sold. Luckily for me, I've rooted my car and was able to re-instate the feature that Tesla stole.
As for resisting code audits, that's partly to cover their blatant copyright infringement using GPL software without adhering to the GPL, and partly because Tesla is of the opinion that they know better than the rest of the world on all things and have a right to do anything they want to other people's property without their permission. I'd say that it will come back to bite them eventually, but as long as they have no competition, and most countries consumer protection laws lack any teeth, what incentive do they have to change?
As for Tesla's "full self driving" that's just another of a long line of marketing lies, they'll never get there with the current hardware, nor will any regulatory body ever approve it with this hardware (we don't even need to talk about software for this, the hardware is so obviously incapable of it that the software is irrelevant)
source?
Show me a reputable source that indicates that there are fewer remaining reservations for the Model 3 than there are sales of the Bolt.
But I could never understand why *I* should pay *them* for it. It always seemed that it should be the other way around....
They promised all sorts of things, most of them were lies, the free upgrades are too.
What will most likely happen is that they will eventually re-define "full self driving" to be no more than they originally promised the basic auto-pilot tech could do back in 2014. "hands free on-ramp to off-ramp driving with an attentive driver behind the wheel"... see, that's "full self driving"... right?
The worst part though is that they'll likely get a pass on it just like they have on every other lie so far.
There were no adhesives, it was simply nut and bolt. the real problem was that the battery shield had to come off (it was added to the car after the fast charge system was developed) which turned it in to a more manual process which took about 2-3 times as long as originally promised (of course it was still about the same speed as a gas fill-up)
A few customer cars were battery swapped, but very few. The reason? not because it was slow or hard to do, but because the swap station was across the street from a fast-charger, and the fast charger was a better way to travel. Still is.
Fast-charging beats battery swaps every single time. There's never a good reason to do battery swaps, and nobody who's ever driven an EV with a true fast charging option has ever actually wished for it. It was included simply because government bureaucrats who didn't even understand EVs let alone drive them on a regular basis thought it would be a neat idea and increased the CARB credits if a car could do it.
Use the Tesla Supercharger network and I can guarantee you that you'll have no interest in battery swaps ever again. The logistics and expense just don't make any sense when your car can charge faster than you can eat your lunch, and get you far enough to make it to your next meal.
delivered, yes. But there are a lot of reservations for the 3 that for some reason aren't changing in to sales for the Bolt. That proves that the 3 is not competing with the Bolt, if it was, most of those reservations would have bought a Bolt by now, but instead Bolts sit on dealer lots while the wait for a 3 just keeps growing.
As soon as some company decides to compete with Tesla, we may see some interesting things happen, but for now there isn't a single competitor on the market.
Any car, EV or ICE, sitting in my driveway is filling more of my vehicle needs than a $1,000 promise note from Tesla.
So if there was a waiting list for your preferred car, a bicycle would suddenly become even better than the vehicle you're waiting on? That's delusional.
Sure you can't get a Tesla because of the wait, but the fact that so many people are waiting instead of buying the already available Bolt just goes to prove that the Bolt isn't competing with the Tesla. If it were there would be ZERO reservations for the Tesla, and about half a million Bolts on the road right now. But that's not the case, Bolts seem to be sitting on dealer lots while people wait for their 3 to arrive. That's because the Bolt isn't competing with the 3, it's not even close.
I drive a Model S.
I could not drive a car without a fast charging network. Sure most of my charging is done over night at home, but I also do a lot of road trips, none of those are even possible in a Leaf or a Bolt.
As for you being "a huge percentage of the population". Sorry, you're not. And the number of reservation holders for the Tesla vs the sales for the Bolt prove that point.
Ok, list me a single competitor that's "coming" that has the following minimum feature set:
- Fast-Charging network already existing that spans the entire continent and can recharge the car fully in the time that you'd stop for lunch at a fast food joint.
- Driver assistance features that are at least somewhat close to what Tesla has
Just with those 2 features (which are probably the 2 most important ones) I'm not aware of any, and we're ignoring all the other things that Tesla tends to have on their competitors (the phone app, the large touch screen, styling that doesn't look like a punishment)
Look, I want competition in this space more than most people, I'm dying to sell my Tesla and jump ship to a more ethical company (and trust me, EVERY company is more ethical than Tesla, and considering how unethical most big corps are that says a lot) But I'm just not seeing anything that can compete with my 2014 Model S coming any time soon. And until at least one of the other car makers understands what makes Tesla successful, this won't change.
So far it doesn't matter how much they lie, how much they steal, or how much they screw up, they've gotten a complete pass. They have zero competition, and can't build cars as fast as they can sell them. What incentive do they have to change their ways when everything they do turns out just fine for them?
Sure, every single promise that came out of Elon's mouth in regard to driver assistance is missing:
- Can automatically pull out of your garage and meet you at the curb on private property. Not even close, they haven't released any feature remotely resembling this
- Can be summoned to your location wherever you are on private property. Nope, doesn't do this either
- Ultrasonics work at any speed. Nope, they top out well below the top speed of the car
- Monitors stop signs and traffic lights. Nope, ignores them completely
- Brings the vehicle to a full stop to avoid a collision. Nope, it actually releases the brake when it's shed a certain amount of speed, or gets below a certain speed threshold. (it actually has among the worst automatic emergency braking system in the industry in that regard)
List me a single thing that Elon claimed the car could do in regards to driver assistance that it can actually do. There isn't anything at that event that he got right. Not a single thing.
If you include his comments after the event, or to the media, or watch the test drives it gets even worse because even more things are claimed, none of which have come to fruition. Things like hands free on-ramp to off-ramp driving were claimed, now they pretend they never claimed that.
You are WAY too charitable towards Tesla here..
Tesla has been selling a full self driving option for over a year. Here's Musk's estimate of when the feature will be delivered to people who already paid and who are on 2-5 year leases:
2015: in 2 years
2016: in 2 years
2017: in 3 years
Why start in 2015? the 2014 and 2015 models were promised to have all sorts of driver assist features that not only do they not have, they will obviously never have, and Tesla refuses to even admit they promised despite images of their website and video recordings of the media event where they announced them. Full self driving on the 3 isn't "2-3 years away" even accounting for "Tesla time", it's NEVER on these cars. There is absolutely ZERO chance that these cars will ever have full self driving capability with the current hardware. It's simply not possible, they have no corner or rear radar or lidar, and rely 100% on cameras, only one of which has a method of clearing debris (an ineffective method at that) Full self driving needs the ability to see around a dirt spec on your windshield, the cameras on Tesla vehicles can't do that.
The absolute best case scenario for Tesla is that the "full self driving" feature manages to do what they promised at the "D" event for cars sold in 2014 with the original Autopilot, promises they have since tried to pretend they never even made.
They make great cars, but really over-promise.
That's the understatement of the century. I say "they make the best car available, but lie through their teeth about it and are the slimiest company I have ever done business with"