No, no, NO.. there is NO commercial vehicle on the market that would EVER sell any significant number of units if the ONLY thing they can get is a measly 200 to 300 miles a charge.
Your average OTR trucker will drive at LEAST about 500 to 600 miles a day, I know. I was one. And there will NEVER be enough time for a trucker to just stop for a day to recharge this hunk of over engineered trash. It is just flat out incompatible with the entirety of the US's commercial logistics infrastructure. In fact most of the large carriers specially try to get team drivers on the go, just so they don't have to waste any time. Most of these trucks, at best, will have all of 4 hours a day where they are NOT running.
Nope, this is just one more example of Mr. Musk trying to spin up for support to a technology just flat out won't work. Ironically, you might be able to make something like this work... but it would probably require an entire infrastructure of hot swappable batteries 'refueling stations' where you can stop and swap out batteries for fresh ones.
Actually you might want to reread your news son. Because it turns out none of these self driving cars are working worth a damn. In fact Apple shelved their own version of it just the other day.
Funny thing all of you 'news for nerds' types didn't think to go actually talk to a trucker before flogging this idiotic idea. News flash: it takes more than a single well made vehicle to make an entire logistics infrastructure. And that's before you get to the hard reality that NO COMMERCIAL TRUCK will EVER sell with it has to shut down for half a day to recharge after 300 miles of driving.
Once again, Elon Musk is trying to write checks his happy ass can't cash.
As someone that drove a semi for 15 years I have a pretty intimate knowledge of how logistics here the US works. One of the things that Trucks hate the most is ANY down time. That includes waiting on a load to be packed or just having to stop for a single tire change. The idea that you're going to have fleet of trucks that will ONLY get 200 or 300 miles on a charge is LAUGHABLE worthless in any but the most specialized situations.
I can honestly not one damn feature of this new version of Android interested me AT ALL. And it will defiantly be one more program I will hard disable in my phone.
Such things might not be ideal for everyone, but I prefer the peace of mind having control over my own data. And there's enough good options out there that you can set up system pretty easily.
Well thanks for the outstanding retort Anonymous Coward. You get a good start a merit barge for basic web stalking.
But hey, to honesty answer you question is because even though I'm abrasive prick with a negative attitude towards these products is because not only do I love these technology in general but I want these products to suck less.. Pretty much everyone one of these technologies I enjoy, but also have serious problems how most of the underlying tech ins implemented in products. Well maybe not Facebook. It was always kind of trash and filled with too many damn narcissists and bot accounts. Minds looks like a good alternate to that site.
Try not to mistake for a call for a better product for basic shit posting. If I had intended that I would have been an Anonymous Coward like yourself.
Does anyone actually use a lot of Apps on the Windows store? No one in my circle use it AT ALL. Not. One. Single. App. In fact most of the people in my personal circle either stuck with 7 or use complete third party shell replacements for 8.1. Several of them completely gutted all app functionality to get ride of unwanted features.
Admit it Microsoft. To a lot of us you really screwed up. And just alienating your user base with forced changes to the US is starting to piss us off. You are not hegemonic as you think, and you WILL be replaced if you keeping ignoring us.
Personally I have never been into ANYTHING that can connect to a cell phone in this manor for a lot of reasons.. But the very fact that the maker of your product can now KILL IT via remote software? How is this NOT a major strike against this company? I mean, of all the ways you could have done this you just flat out remote kill it?
Well I tell you what DJI. You just earned yourself a permanent 'no sale' from me on any product you make. But hey, to be honest you got a hard no sale on the drone from the get go. Now you've killed all potential trust I can have in your company.
Yeah that's one thing I didn't think to mention, but that is a valid point and a real problem for the mobile industry. Constantly having to relearn the ins and outs of an OS is frustrating as HELL and puts off a lot of the consumer market.
To go along with that line of thought; as I said I don't do phone repair as a primary job. Just as a second job since i have a lot of skill in electronics repair. No, my primary job up until very recently was a local route Truck driver. And there is nothing more INFURIATING than relying on a phone for you job only to have it brick itself from a screwed up forced update. Which is why I 100% abandoned the use my ANY smart phone for any job specific task. It is NOT worth the hassle.
One thing that a tech people don't realize is that not everyone wants the latest phone every year to begin with. A large portion of the market will never used ANY of the advanced features that Google tries to add with every generation of phone. I do repair and salvage of these various devices, and one of the greats complains I hear is that NO ONE want's these new features that Google keeps pushing with each version of their hardware. None of them give a damn to integrate ANYTHING with their google accounts and mostly just want something that'll play video. And none of them I speak to EVER buy anything on the Play store.
Hell, right now I'm sitting on a 50 pound box of older phones from the past 5 years. I don't do repair of these things a primary job, but even then I've got such a back log of spares that I'm mostly just chucking a good half of what I get because I've got too many. Even the place in town that does this for a business has the same problem.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA BECAUSE ALL RIGHT WINGERS ARE NAZIS HAHAHAHAHAHA.
You know with rapier whit like that you should write for the Daily Show. The quality of shrill leftist cries from that show really have been sub par about 2010.
And this is why you don't go on Facebook ever. Well that, and I literally couldn't give less of a damn about the kind of leftist drivel that populates most of any social media.
There is literally nothing positive about being fat. You feel worse, your cloths don't fit well, you smell bad, oh and it will FREAKING KILL YOU.
I'm sorry, if that's so much of a hard reality then you really need to readdress your priority that you're personality is so fragile that you have to try to make everyone else feel as bad as you just to get by. But you're kill yourself, and encourage people to NOT try and address extreme weight issues is doing way more damage to other people that your own hurt feelings. Hey, I used to weight 370 pounds. Worked my literally ass off to get down to about 290. It's hard, it sucks, but it's what you have to do if you intend to make it past about 40.
Yes, because news from multiple known news sources is the same as a bad internet meme.
News flats leftie: the fact that you mock everyone you disagree with is why you HAVE the problems with the right now. You're not convincing anyone of your position. You're just alienated people that might have otherwise supported you. Did you NOT noticed that the 'alt-right' didn't exist about a year ago? Where do you think that's going to go from there?
Sarcasm retard. That's why I used to term 'comrade'. Anyone that's NOT a left wing moron will realize that political violence is 'bad'. Not just when it first the left's narrative.
Based off of WHAT?? A few ASSHOLES that shit-post? Where are the well organized right wing militias? WHERE? NAME ONE SITUATION, where an ORGANIZED group of ANY right wing assholes did anything of note that wasn't WORSE than leftist did.
Son we have at LEAST 412 MILLION individually owned guns in the US. But yet we DON'T have organized right wing violence. Because there would not BE any left wing a-holes in the nation left, outside of the major cities. If this was a problem, YOU WOULD FUCKING WELL KNOW ABOUT IT ALREADY.
Yeah not even remotely similar to what he said. Not. Even. Close.
Honestly, President Trump really is becoming the Rorschach test for politics anymore. Show a photo of the man and see what the left will make out of it.
Well that's a sentiment. Too bad you can't write policy with that level of 6th grade logic.
I tell you what son. You can autistally shrek about this crap all day. But at the end of the day we have to have some level of policy. If all you can do is scream about who is and is not authoritarian enough than you deserve to find out what real authoritarianism looks like.
Yeah, no kidding. The left in the Bay Area have been starting riots for about a year and a half now. Nothing good came out of it. They didn't get positiveness media coverage for it. And in fact some of the leaders ended up being arrested anyway, including the ring leader of BAMN, one of the bigger know groups of rioters. Nothing changed, other than the insurance rates for the people that had to deal with aftermath.
Sorry lefties, you don't get a pass because you THINK the other person is worse. Just like the SOB that ran down the protestors with his car.
That's the most childish statement I've read in days on this website. So we're not going to just start RIOTS every-time the DUELS ELECTED PRESIDENT does something you don't like.
Yeah welcome to why the right have been stockpiling firearms to the point we have 660 million of them. Nut job left wing agitators that will never be satisfied and are eager to start riots.
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No, no, NO.. there is NO commercial vehicle on the market that would EVER sell any significant number of units if the ONLY thing they can get is a measly 200 to 300 miles a charge.
Your average OTR trucker will drive at LEAST about 500 to 600 miles a day, I know. I was one. And there will NEVER be enough time for a trucker to just stop for a day to recharge this hunk of over engineered trash. It is just flat out incompatible with the entirety of the US's commercial logistics infrastructure. In fact most of the large carriers specially try to get team drivers on the go, just so they don't have to waste any time. Most of these trucks, at best, will have all of 4 hours a day where they are NOT running.
Nope, this is just one more example of Mr. Musk trying to spin up for support to a technology just flat out won't work. Ironically, you might be able to make something like this work... but it would probably require an entire infrastructure of hot swappable batteries 'refueling stations' where you can stop and swap out batteries for fresh ones.
Actually you might want to reread your news son. Because it turns out none of these self driving cars are working worth a damn. In fact Apple shelved their own version of it just the other day.
Funny thing all of you 'news for nerds' types didn't think to go actually talk to a trucker before flogging this idiotic idea. News flash: it takes more than a single well made vehicle to make an entire logistics infrastructure. And that's before you get to the hard reality that NO COMMERCIAL TRUCK will EVER sell with it has to shut down for half a day to recharge after 300 miles of driving.
Once again, Elon Musk is trying to write checks his happy ass can't cash.
As someone that drove a semi for 15 years I have a pretty intimate knowledge of how logistics here the US works. One of the things that Trucks hate the most is ANY down time. That includes waiting on a load to be packed or just having to stop for a single tire change. The idea that you're going to have fleet of trucks that will ONLY get 200 or 300 miles on a charge is LAUGHABLE worthless in any but the most specialized situations.
I can honestly not one damn feature of this new version of Android interested me AT ALL. And it will defiantly be one more program I will hard disable in my phone.
The same damn thing that will happen if a data center has that happen to them.
Such things might not be ideal for everyone, but I prefer the peace of mind having control over my own data. And there's enough good options out there that you can set up system pretty easily.
Well thanks for the outstanding retort Anonymous Coward. You get a good start a merit barge for basic web stalking.
But hey, to honesty answer you question is because even though I'm abrasive prick with a negative attitude towards these products is because not only do I love these technology in general but I want these products to suck less.. Pretty much everyone one of these technologies I enjoy, but also have serious problems how most of the underlying tech ins implemented in products. Well maybe not Facebook. It was always kind of trash and filled with too many damn narcissists and bot accounts. Minds looks like a good alternate to that site.
Try not to mistake for a call for a better product for basic shit posting. If I had intended that I would have been an Anonymous Coward like yourself.
Does anyone actually use a lot of Apps on the Windows store? No one in my circle use it AT ALL. Not. One. Single. App. In fact most of the people in my personal circle either stuck with 7 or use complete third party shell replacements for 8.1. Several of them completely gutted all app functionality to get ride of unwanted features.
Admit it Microsoft. To a lot of us you really screwed up. And just alienating your user base with forced changes to the US is starting to piss us off. You are not hegemonic as you think, and you WILL be replaced if you keeping ignoring us.
Personally I have never been into ANYTHING that can connect to a cell phone in this manor for a lot of reasons.. But the very fact that the maker of your product can now KILL IT via remote software? How is this NOT a major strike against this company? I mean, of all the ways you could have done this you just flat out remote kill it?
Well I tell you what DJI. You just earned yourself a permanent 'no sale' from me on any product you make. But hey, to be honest you got a hard no sale on the drone from the get go. Now you've killed all potential trust I can have in your company.
Yeah that's one thing I didn't think to mention, but that is a valid point and a real problem for the mobile industry. Constantly having to relearn the ins and outs of an OS is frustrating as HELL and puts off a lot of the consumer market.
To go along with that line of thought; as I said I don't do phone repair as a primary job. Just as a second job since i have a lot of skill in electronics repair. No, my primary job up until very recently was a local route Truck driver. And there is nothing more INFURIATING than relying on a phone for you job only to have it brick itself from a screwed up forced update. Which is why I 100% abandoned the use my ANY smart phone for any job specific task. It is NOT worth the hassle.
One thing that a tech people don't realize is that not everyone wants the latest phone every year to begin with. A large portion of the market will never used ANY of the advanced features that Google tries to add with every generation of phone. I do repair and salvage of these various devices, and one of the greats complains I hear is that NO ONE want's these new features that Google keeps pushing with each version of their hardware. None of them give a damn to integrate ANYTHING with their google accounts and mostly just want something that'll play video. And none of them I speak to EVER buy anything on the Play store.
Hell, right now I'm sitting on a 50 pound box of older phones from the past 5 years. I don't do repair of these things a primary job, but even then I've got such a back log of spares that I'm mostly just chucking a good half of what I get because I've got too many. Even the place in town that does this for a business has the same problem.
Awesome idea! Avoid paying your taxes by disposing of hundreds upon hundreds of tons of toxic E-waste by giving it to children in Nevada to play with.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA BECAUSE ALL RIGHT WINGERS ARE NAZIS HAHAHAHAHAHA.
You know with rapier whit like that you should write for the Daily Show. The quality of shrill leftist cries from that show really have been sub par about 2010.
And this is why you don't go on Facebook ever. Well that, and I literally couldn't give less of a damn about the kind of leftist drivel that populates most of any social media.
There is literally nothing positive about being fat. You feel worse, your cloths don't fit well, you smell bad, oh and it will FREAKING KILL YOU.
I'm sorry, if that's so much of a hard reality then you really need to readdress your priority that you're personality is so fragile that you have to try to make everyone else feel as bad as you just to get by. But you're kill yourself, and encourage people to NOT try and address extreme weight issues is doing way more damage to other people that your own hurt feelings. Hey, I used to weight 370 pounds. Worked my literally ass off to get down to about 290. It's hard, it sucks, but it's what you have to do if you intend to make it past about 40.
Yes, because news from multiple known news sources is the same as a bad internet meme.
News flats leftie: the fact that you mock everyone you disagree with is why you HAVE the problems with the right now. You're not convincing anyone of your position. You're just alienated people that might have otherwise supported you. Did you NOT noticed that the 'alt-right' didn't exist about a year ago? Where do you think that's going to go from there?
Yeah I'm not taking any shit from another anno-commie. Find a better argument.
Oh look, another anno-commie comes to play.
Sarcasm retard. That's why I used to term 'comrade'. Anyone that's NOT a left wing moron will realize that political violence is 'bad'. Not just when it first the left's narrative.
'Organized far-right extremism'.
Based off of WHAT?? A few ASSHOLES that shit-post? Where are the well organized right wing militias? WHERE? NAME ONE SITUATION, where an ORGANIZED group of ANY right wing assholes did anything of note that wasn't WORSE than leftist did.
Son we have at LEAST 412 MILLION individually owned guns in the US. But yet we DON'T have organized right wing violence. Because there would not BE any left wing a-holes in the nation left, outside of the major cities. If this was a problem, YOU WOULD FUCKING WELL KNOW ABOUT IT ALREADY.
Yeah not even remotely similar to what he said. Not. Even. Close.
Honestly, President Trump really is becoming the Rorschach test for politics anymore. Show a photo of the man and see what the left will make out of it.
Ohh hoo, I miss spelled a world. Everything I have said is invalid forever.
Well that's a sentiment. Too bad you can't write policy with that level of 6th grade logic.
I tell you what son. You can autistally shrek about this crap all day. But at the end of the day we have to have some level of policy. If all you can do is scream about who is and is not authoritarian enough than you deserve to find out what real authoritarianism looks like.
Yeah, no kidding. The left in the Bay Area have been starting riots for about a year and a half now. Nothing good came out of it. They didn't get positiveness media coverage for it. And in fact some of the leaders ended up being arrested anyway, including the ring leader of BAMN, one of the bigger know groups of rioters. Nothing changed, other than the insurance rates for the people that had to deal with aftermath.
Sorry lefties, you don't get a pass because you THINK the other person is worse. Just like the SOB that ran down the protestors with his car.
That's the most childish statement I've read in days on this website. So we're not going to just start RIOTS every-time the DUELS ELECTED PRESIDENT does something you don't like.
Yeah welcome to why the right have been stockpiling firearms to the point we have 660 million of them. Nut job left wing agitators that will never be satisfied and are eager to start riots.
Well thank you for that precise and well thought out explanation.