Well I've been driving for more than 30 years in Canada, and I've never had a car not starting when cold, and of the 20-something cars I have owned the vast majority didn't have a block heater. It was optionnal.
In fact I discoverd by accident that my current car has one, when I saw the electric cord tucked away in the engine compartment.
And when I say cold it's -35C (-30F)
Sure it's a good idea to use the block heater so it's less traumatic for the engine, and you have hot air faster in the cabin. But if your car is in tune and it has a good battery it will start down to -40C (-40F) no problem.
The engine will sound like an old tractor for a couple of minutes and you better not floor it until it's relatively warm otherwise it won't last long...
I think the bottleneck will now be the overheating camera.
Sony cameras have a 5 minute limit on 4K video, and it can even be less than that if you're filming in high ambiant temperature (high being more than 21ÂC).
It's like my motorcycle riding course, all we did was practice the test in a closed course over a couple of weeks. Of course I passed the test the first time, but after that I was alone on the road and had to learn a lot before I was an OK rider.
I just read that more families are buying SUVs even if the number of children per family hasn't gone up.
I don't know about the USA but here in Canada there are a lot of separated couples with children. When you are separated and have part-time custody of your childrens, you often end up with a new partner in the same situation.
So now these 2 parents don't have more than 2 childrens each for example, but they alternate between one week with no children, and one week with 4 childrens. Then you need a vehicle which can hold 6 passengers and their luggage. So you end up with a minivan of an SUV with 3 rows.
The total number of childrens has not increased, but since a lot of families have share custody of those childrens the consequence is that you have reconstituted families which are bigger one week and smaller the next week.
Same thing with houses, we need 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms even if half the time we're only 2 in the house.
Most electronic devices could share some generic standard box, and when you want to upgrade it you just replace the board in the same box.
Take a wifi router for example, who cares how it looks? It could be housed in a square wood box and it would still function. And if it stops working or there are new wifi standards, just swap the circuit board and antennas. It could be plug and play so that anyone can do it.
I don't know if you've ever driven in snow, but most of the time Traction Control is useless in deep snow.
Even with winter tires, most of the times I disable the Traction Control because if it's activated it takes forever to accelerate. When you have a front wheel drive car in deep snow, with good tires, it's much more efficient to spin the front tires moderatly to accelerate. With Traction Control as soon as there is spin it strangle the engine and uses the brakes to try to modulate traction, but since there's almost no traction it's totally useless.
ECS is still usefull to prevent fishtailling tough.
Anyone with some coding experience can learn it in a couple of weeks.
What's more difficult is that every single company has it's own editing/compiling tools, source management, home made subroutines, programming standards, etc...
Coding for batch processing is a lot different than for a web pages or user applications.
And forget about the documentation, it has probably been lost in all the movings and restructurations. Some systems are more than 30 years old.
Err... all cars that are currently on sale have hydraulic brakes.
When you push on the brake pedal, you're actually operating a piston that pushes on brake fluid, and that fluid pushes on the pistons in the brake calipers. You have vacuum assist to make it easier, but even with the engine not running you can still brake (granted it takes much more force to do it).
And only one or two car models have steering by wire, almost all cars still have mechanical rack and pinion steering, with either hydraulic or electrical assist. Again if the engine cuts out it will take more effort to steer but it's still working.
Only the gas pedal is now almost always drive by wire, you no longer have that cable running from a pulley over the pedal to the throttle body, it's just a variable resistor measuring the movement of the pedal and relaying this information to the computer, wich then operate an servor motor on the throttle body.
Even the Tesla cars have a fully mechanically connected rack & pinion steering, but there's a small electric servo that can operate it when on autopilot. For the brakes the Tesla have conventionnal hydraulic brakes for the front, and electrically actuated rear brakes.
I don't know where you got your information, but it's moslty wrong.
So they found a way to ignore the laws of physics?
Current consoles already have a lag problem. With wireless controllers, a TV that does all sort of processing to the image before displaying it, all of this is adding a small amount of delay that is already perceptible.
Adding the delay of sending the actions I do on my controller to the server over the internet and receiving the generated frames to display on the TV will add way too much lag.
But the younger generation seems to be unaware of the growing lag problem in the current world. It seems to me that as more and more of our technology is being driven by software instead of hardware, everything responds slowly to inputs. It used to be that changing a TV channel or changing volume was almost instantaneous, now you wait half a second for the damn thing to respond to your button press. I'm so tired of having to deal with laggy unresponsive touch screens, it's spreading like cancer in the technological world.
I don't think they're fighting, they're just not willing to take risks. But by not taking risks, they risk missing the boat and giving away the market to a competitor.
I know that eventually the electric car offer will be better, and with volume manufacturing will cost less.
A 500km range is great, they need to shorten the recharge time in half tought. 15 min for 80% charge would be acceptable for me.
But I still see at least one internal combustion engine vehicle in my future before I can afford an electric one which responds to my needs. So we're talking about 7 to 8 years from now. Or maybe we'll buy a used one as a secondary car, and use the SUV only when absolutely necessary.
You realize that your reply doesn't adress any of my concerns about electric cars.
Like the fact that the cheapest one that I could buy right now is 35,000 CDN$, and that's for a subcompact that can do only 180KM in the best of conditions.
How in hell can I fit my kids in this car? That costs 50% more than my current car?
All the problems with electric vehicles have been solved
Really? Find me a 6 passenger electric vehicle with 500km range (while towing a camping trailer) for less than 30,000 CND$. Which can recharge this 500km range in 5 minutes.
Because that's what electric vehicles have to compete with to win me over.
And yes I do use that 500km ranger multiple times a year. And we have 4 children, and a camping trailer that sees a lot of use. And we know a lot of families that have the exact same requirements.
So no, all the problems have not been solved.
We're getting there, and I'm excited to have an electric vehicle someday, but I bet it won't be in the next 5 years at the earliest. Again, for my needs.
If you don't want to see the power cable but still have the TV flush on the wall, install one of those old "clock" outlet behind it: https://www.leviton.com/en/pro...
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Well I've been driving for more than 30 years in Canada, and I've never had a car not starting when cold, and of the 20-something cars I have owned the vast majority didn't have a block heater. It was optionnal.
In fact I discoverd by accident that my current car has one, when I saw the electric cord tucked away in the engine compartment.
And when I say cold it's -35C (-30F)
Sure it's a good idea to use the block heater so it's less traumatic for the engine, and you have hot air faster in the cabin. But if your car is in tune and it has a good battery it will start down to -40C (-40F) no problem.
The engine will sound like an old tractor for a couple of minutes and you better not floor it until it's relatively warm otherwise it won't last long...
Don't you mean airbitrage?
I'll see myself out ...
Don't forget your parachute!
What? COBOL is not very fast? You've never worked with it I see.
The recent COBOL compilers applies every optimising tricks known to date and today's executables are way faster than 20 years ago.
CPU time on mainframes is very expensive, believe me when I say that every companies tries to have the shortest execution time possible.
Don't compare it to some shitty interpreted or JIT compiled trash like Java.
I think the bottleneck will now be the overheating camera.
Sony cameras have a 5 minute limit on 4K video, and it can even be less than that if you're filming in high ambiant temperature (high being more than 21ÂC).
Exactly.
It's like my motorcycle riding course, all we did was practice the test in a closed course over a couple of weeks. Of course I passed the test the first time, but after that I was alone on the road and had to learn a lot before I was an OK rider.
The only problem is that the french word for Wallet:"Portefeuille" is masculine.
So it should be "Le Wallet"
"La" is feminine.
I just read that more families are buying SUVs even if the number of children per family hasn't gone up.
I don't know about the USA but here in Canada there are a lot of separated couples with children. When you are separated and have part-time custody of your childrens, you often end up with a new partner in the same situation.
So now these 2 parents don't have more than 2 childrens each for example, but they alternate between one week with no children, and one week with 4 childrens. Then you need a vehicle which can hold 6 passengers and their luggage. So you end up with a minivan of an SUV with 3 rows.
The total number of childrens has not increased, but since a lot of families have share custody of those childrens the consequence is that you have reconstituted families which are bigger one week and smaller the next week.
Same thing with houses, we need 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms even if half the time we're only 2 in the house.
Most electronic devices could share some generic standard box, and when you want to upgrade it you just replace the board in the same box.
Take a wifi router for example, who cares how it looks? It could be housed in a square wood box and it would still function. And if it stops working or there are new wifi standards, just swap the circuit board and antennas. It could be plug and play so that anyone can do it.
Not everyone has a big enough home to have a comfortable working space.
The problem is that law enforcement and politicians would demand a backdoor.
Easy, just get everyone a hatchback
They already have lots of cart stolen, imagine the attraction of a cart containing all this technology!
I don't know if you've ever driven in snow, but most of the time Traction Control is useless in deep snow.
Even with winter tires, most of the times I disable the Traction Control because if it's activated it takes forever to accelerate. When you have a front wheel drive car in deep snow, with good tires, it's much more efficient to spin the front tires moderatly to accelerate. With Traction Control as soon as there is spin it strangle the engine and uses the brakes to try to modulate traction, but since there's almost no traction it's totally useless.
ECS is still usefull to prevent fishtailling tough.
Anyone with some coding experience can learn it in a couple of weeks.
What's more difficult is that every single company has it's own editing/compiling tools, source management, home made subroutines, programming standards, etc...
Coding for batch processing is a lot different than for a web pages or user applications.
And forget about the documentation, it has probably been lost in all the movings and restructurations. Some systems are more than 30 years old.
Err... all cars that are currently on sale have hydraulic brakes.
When you push on the brake pedal, you're actually operating a piston that pushes on brake fluid, and that fluid pushes on the pistons in the brake calipers. You have vacuum assist to make it easier, but even with the engine not running you can still brake (granted it takes much more force to do it).
And only one or two car models have steering by wire, almost all cars still have mechanical rack and pinion steering, with either hydraulic or electrical assist. Again if the engine cuts out it will take more effort to steer but it's still working.
Only the gas pedal is now almost always drive by wire, you no longer have that cable running from a pulley over the pedal to the throttle body, it's just a variable resistor measuring the movement of the pedal and relaying this information to the computer, wich then operate an servor motor on the throttle body.
Even the Tesla cars have a fully mechanically connected rack & pinion steering, but there's a small electric servo that can operate it when on autopilot. For the brakes the Tesla have conventionnal hydraulic brakes for the front, and electrically actuated rear brakes.
I don't know where you got your information, but it's moslty wrong.
Try Apple cider Vinegar
I personnaly prefer Android cider Vinegar.
ITYM inedible to us without some form of processing, like grinding, soaking, boiling....
Or letting another animal eat it, and then eating that animal...
It's only a form of processing plant matter.
So they found a way to ignore the laws of physics?
Current consoles already have a lag problem. With wireless controllers, a TV that does all sort of processing to the image before displaying it, all of this is adding a small amount of delay that is already perceptible.
Adding the delay of sending the actions I do on my controller to the server over the internet and receiving the generated frames to display on the TV will add way too much lag.
But the younger generation seems to be unaware of the growing lag problem in the current world. It seems to me that as more and more of our technology is being driven by software instead of hardware, everything responds slowly to inputs. It used to be that changing a TV channel or changing volume was almost instantaneous, now you wait half a second for the damn thing to respond to your button press. I'm so tired of having to deal with laggy unresponsive touch screens, it's spreading like cancer in the technological world.
Now get off my lawn!
Imagine taking a cross country road trip where each morning you wake up at a different national park.
That would be a pretty boring trip.
Part of the fun of doing a car trip is having to navigate, finding unexpected things en route and stopping to see them, etc.
Driving a car is so much fun, why would you want to miss that and sleep instead?
I don't think they're fighting, they're just not willing to take risks. But by not taking risks, they risk missing the boat and giving away the market to a competitor.
I know that eventually the electric car offer will be better, and with volume manufacturing will cost less.
A 500km range is great, they need to shorten the recharge time in half tought. 15 min for 80% charge would be acceptable for me.
But I still see at least one internal combustion engine vehicle in my future before I can afford an electric one which responds to my needs. So we're talking about 7 to 8 years from now. Or maybe we'll buy a used one as a secondary car, and use the SUV only when absolutely necessary.
You realize that your reply doesn't adress any of my concerns about electric cars.
Like the fact that the cheapest one that I could buy right now is 35,000 CDN$, and that's for a subcompact that can do only 180KM in the best of conditions.
How in hell can I fit my kids in this car? That costs 50% more than my current car?
All the problems with electric vehicles have been solved
Really? Find me a 6 passenger electric vehicle with 500km range (while towing a camping trailer) for less than 30,000 CND$. Which can recharge this 500km range in 5 minutes.
Because that's what electric vehicles have to compete with to win me over.
And yes I do use that 500km ranger multiple times a year. And we have 4 children, and a camping trailer that sees a lot of use. And we know a lot of families that have the exact same requirements.
So no, all the problems have not been solved.
We're getting there, and I'm excited to have an electric vehicle someday, but I bet it won't be in the next 5 years at the earliest. Again, for my needs.
That's what the Heisenberg compensator are for: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...
Your laptop or full size desktop is already a micro computer.
And a mini computer is much larger than that.
I don't know how you can call those very small computers... nano computer?
If you don't want to see the power cable but still have the TV flush on the wall, install one of those old "clock" outlet behind it: https://www.leviton.com/en/pro...
Looks like Xi Jinping is a fan of Black mirror...