My next car will be full electric. I've seen how much stupid policy, horrible activity and destruction has been generated by fossil fuel burning in the last couple decades and I refuse to be a party to it any longer.
Plenty of Anonymous Cowards will bash Tesla and say the cars are awful, but yet the named actual owners of the cars love them. Even the one's who've encountered problems with their vehicles. The vast majority of issues have been dealt with satisfactorily. The reliability and build quality issues are being eliminated. All this from a car company that's only 8 years old. I look eagerly forward to joining the Tesla family of owners in the next year or so. It's been a long time since someone produced a car that inspires me the way that Tesla has.
There has been one reported death while AP was engaged. There have been other Tesla accidents in which the owners have allegedly reported AP is in use, but as of yet these owners have refused to allow Tesla to examine the logs to confirm or deny this allegation. As of yet only one of the accidents reported in the recent media has occurred where it is confirmed that AP was engaged at the time of the crash. Rumours make could clickbait, but once upon a time slashdot was concerned with facts.
1000 Miles / day. Easily. You mean hitting 70mph for 14.3 hours non-stop? Not that easy.
Some of the better EV's can now do three hours (180--200) miles and recharge in under 30 minutes and do it again. 30 minutes. Bathroom break, little bite of food and a stretch. And this is with today's battery technology.
About that towing. What's important for towing? Torque. What type of vehicle makes a lot of Torque? EV. Build a comparable class EV and it should be able to out perform ICE in towing.
Driver initiated the command (intentionally or accidentally), Driver ignored warning chime and on screen dialog. Driver then exits vehicle and it starts doing it's thing 3 seconds after he left vehicle. Was he watching, or walking away? Driver did nothing to stop it. Could have used key fob, or touched a door handle.
Driver either intentionally or accidentally activated the feature, ignored or didn't hear audible chime, ignore Cancellation dialog on the monitor, took foot off brake, opened door exiting vehicle and closed door and then either watched it start to happen 3 seconds later or wasn't looking back at all. See all the details from the log in the article published online in The Verge today.
Definitely not a problem for the Netherlands. The whole country is roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Driving end to end in a Tesla might require about 45 minutes worth of recharging at the superchargers (which already have national coverage there and there are still more coming online this year).
This. Exactly This. If you want a label, go with the GMO-free label. That way the side of the argument that wants the labels is the same side of the argument that has to pay for the costs involved.
And none of us have zero stake financially because we all eat and if the anti-gmo crowd have their way, it will end up costing us all more.
Pitch is part of the plan. Escape systems need to move the capsule out of the path of the rocket below it.
"T+.5s: After half a second of vertical flight, Crew Dragon pitches toward the ocean and continues its controlled burn. The SuperDraco engines throttle to control the trajectory based on real-time measurements from the vehicle’s sensors."
We just had a 3TB drive fail and it took 172hours to resilver the drive. [ZFS Raid 6]. That was long enough that we're switching to Raid 10. I wonder if a 10TB drive could rebuild before too many drives fail and take out the array.
"Mr. Cantor can't run as a third-party candidate. Virginia law forbids candidates who lose primary elections from appearing on the general election ballot. It is not immediately clear if he will mount a write-in campaign , as did Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) after losing a 2010 GOP Senate primary." — The Wall Street Journal
It's not clear to me that swerving is going to improve the situation. It seems possible to me that swerving may expose the vehicle to increased danger. If swerving leads to a rollover or an angle with less crumple zone material it may increase the danger to occupants of the vehicle. "Don't Steer, hit the deer."
Swerving could also result in the vehicle traveling into areas where it should not ever be. A sidewalk, a median, a house, etc. Persons in those areas are not acceptable alternative impact targets as they should have a reasonable expectation of not being exposed to traffic danger.
Bingo! Lose the humans in the craft and you can reclaim all that mass required for life support and either run lighter or with more fuel / payload and less restrictions on G-forces. The metal can take more punishment than the meat.
Seriously. [though I'll take mod +funny too] Buick drivers (typically elderly) would benefit greatly from this technology as it would grant them improved safety and autonomy. And society as a whole would benefit as the elderly with autodrive would present fewer road hazards, and would be able to stay out of assisted living for a longer time thus helping to keep the cost of assisted living down.
And within 30 years, I'll need cars to do the driving for ME!
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Big Oil has bilked the US taxpayers for Trillions.
GM and Chrysler took many more billions than Tesla ever will.
What I want to know is will $TSLA short-sellers ever been weaned off from spreading FUD?
This BeauHD user must be losing their ass on their short selling position. Their posts here today reek of desperation.
Posting short-seller FUD articles. You guys are really really desperate, and pathetic.
" how would they be packed to minimize the chance of a catastrophe en route?"
With an insurance policy.
It's about 3 weeks by boat. That gives about 25 days for production, 25 to ship, and 40 for installation with 10 leftover for the party afterwards.
My next car will be full electric. I've seen how much stupid policy, horrible activity and destruction has been generated by fossil fuel burning in the last couple decades and I refuse to be a party to it any longer.
Plenty of Anonymous Cowards will bash Tesla and say the cars are awful, but yet the named actual owners of the cars love them. Even the one's who've encountered problems with their vehicles. The vast majority of issues have been dealt with satisfactorily. The reliability and build quality issues are being eliminated. All this from a car company that's only 8 years old.
I look eagerly forward to joining the Tesla family of owners in the next year or so. It's been a long time since someone produced a car that inspires me the way that Tesla has.
There has been one reported death while AP was engaged. There have been other Tesla accidents in which the owners have allegedly reported AP is in use, but as of yet these owners have refused to allow Tesla to examine the logs to confirm or deny this allegation. As of yet only one of the accidents reported in the recent media has occurred where it is confirmed that AP was engaged at the time of the crash. Rumours make could clickbait, but once upon a time slashdot was concerned with facts.
This isn't launching, but launching will be a cakewalk for a Model X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
1000 Miles / day. Easily. You mean hitting 70mph for 14.3 hours non-stop? Not that easy.
Some of the better EV's can now do three hours (180--200) miles and recharge in under 30 minutes and do it again. 30 minutes. Bathroom break, little bite of food and a stretch. And this is with today's battery technology.
About that towing. What's important for towing? Torque. What type of vehicle makes a lot of Torque? EV. Build a comparable class EV and it should be able to out perform ICE in towing.
Driver initiated the command (intentionally or accidentally), Driver ignored warning chime and on screen dialog. Driver then exits vehicle and it starts doing it's thing 3 seconds after he left vehicle. Was he watching, or walking away? Driver did nothing to stop it. Could have used key fob, or touched a door handle.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5...
Driver either intentionally or accidentally activated the feature, ignored or didn't hear audible chime, ignore Cancellation dialog on the monitor, took foot off brake, opened door exiting vehicle and closed door and then either watched it start to happen 3 seconds later or wasn't looking back at all. See all the details from the log in the article published online in The Verge today.
Definitely not a problem for the Netherlands. The whole country is roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Driving end to end in a Tesla might require about 45 minutes worth of recharging at the superchargers (which already have national coverage there and there are still more coming online this year).
Agreed. At this point the bomb story sounds more like a politically convenient tale than an evidence based explanation.
This. Exactly This. If you want a label, go with the GMO-free label. That way the side of the argument that wants the labels is the same side of the argument that has to pay for the costs involved.
And none of us have zero stake financially because we all eat and if the anti-gmo crowd have their way, it will end up costing us all more.
Automated cars need a toilet. And a mini-fridge. Michigan to Florida non-stop.
Pitch is part of the plan. Escape systems need to move the capsule out of the path of the rocket below it.
"T+.5s: After half a second of vertical flight, Crew Dragon pitches toward the ocean and continues its controlled burn. The SuperDraco engines throttle to control the trajectory based on real-time measurements from the vehicle’s sensors."
We just had a 3TB drive fail and it took 172hours to resilver the drive. [ZFS Raid 6]. That was long enough that we're switching to Raid 10. I wonder if a 10TB drive could rebuild before too many drives fail and take out the array.
Oops, should have hit paste before posting:
"Mr. Cantor can't run as a third-party candidate. Virginia law forbids candidates who lose primary elections from appearing on the general election ballot. It is not immediately clear if he will mount a write-in campaign , as did Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) after losing a 2010 GOP Senate primary." — The Wall Street Journal
No, he can't appear on the ballot after losing the primary. He'd have to be a write-in.
It's not clear to me that swerving is going to improve the situation. It seems possible to me that swerving may expose the vehicle to increased danger. If swerving leads to a rollover or an angle with less crumple zone material it may increase the danger to occupants of the vehicle. "Don't Steer, hit the deer."
Swerving could also result in the vehicle traveling into areas where it should not ever be. A sidewalk, a median, a house, etc. Persons in those areas are not acceptable alternative impact targets as they should have a reasonable expectation of not being exposed to traffic danger.
Get the My-Q system and an opener that has autoclose after X minutes feature. It's worth the peace of mind.
It's a marketing gimmick for Planetary Annihilation (http://www.uberent.com/pa/).
Release day is going to be a smash!
Bingo! Lose the humans in the craft and you can reclaim all that mass required for life support and either run lighter or with more fuel / payload and less restrictions on G-forces. The metal can take more punishment than the meat.
It's sounds more like they're being operated by a Coal / Oil company that wants to see nuclear energy banned everywhere.
Seriously. [though I'll take mod +funny too] Buick drivers (typically elderly) would benefit greatly from this technology as it would grant them improved safety and autonomy. And society as a whole would benefit as the elderly with autodrive would present fewer road hazards, and would be able to stay out of assisted living for a longer time thus helping to keep the cost of assisted living down.
And within 30 years, I'll need cars to do the driving for ME!
I can't wait.