The first hard brake was 130 feet even before the bug fix. When they tested it by doing it five times in a row with one minute gaps, they software thought it is not the usual user going about normal driving. May be the car is going downhill on a long road and it is better to stop the brake from over heating.
On the down hill drive from Pike's Peak, park service stops all the cars and checks the brake rotors for over heating. May be Tesla would have driven down from Pike's peak much safer than the ICE cars. Now they are being forced to be just as crappy for the regular legitimate use to meet an artifiicial made up test.
Yes, every time you let go of the go pedal, the car slows down. Often enough to avoid hitting the friction brakes for stopping at traffic lights. I use friction brakes only below 15 mph most of the time to come to the final stop.
You would love this once you get used to it. It is being raved about as "one pedal driving" in Tesla forums. Old stick shift people know this as engine braking, down shifting without clutch to reduce the car speed without touching the brakes.
The other auto makers will detect CR doing the test and do a different thing and then return to crappy brakes status quo ante as soon as it detects it is not being tested.
The test if FIVE hard 60 to 0 braking with 1 mile of cooling lap in between. Then when the results were inconsistent, they repeated it next day giving 24 hours to cool from the test, and did FIVE more hard brakes.
except that CR drives the car at slow speed to allow the brakes to cool down between each test. No excuse.
CR accelerates back to 60 mph and drives 1 mile to cool the brakes. It is about 1 minute long. Five hard 60 to 0 braking with 1 minute gap and the regen was turned off.
The EVs have significant regenerative braking. It is called dynamic braking in locomotives. It is similar to engine braking in manual transmission vehicles.
It is ON by default, it reduces brake wear significantly and reduces brake heating and energy wastage significantly.
But they turned it off while testing Tesla. Why? To be "fair" to the ICE cars? To be "consistent" with earlier testing of gas cars? The test involves 60 to 0 braking hard, five times in a row with one mile of driving in between to cool.
This test is probably designed to promote disk brakes over drum brakes, by disk brake makers, by lobbying SAE to use this as the "standard".
Now EV makers should come up with a test that is impossible for ICE cars to pass because of the lack of regen braking. With ABS all braking distances are limited by the tire not the braking power. So they should do five consecutive 60 to 0, reducing the "cooling run" from 1 mile to 15 seconds. With regen EV can do it without heating the discs. ICE will set their rotors on fire.
Indian sub continent and its diaspora are avid fans of the game. Especially after it shed its "play for five days, with a rest day in between, and end in a draw" format of Test Cricket and came up with a jazzy 20-20 format. Just 120 balls (or pitches in baseball parlance) Ties are very rare, always exciting, even one sided games generate some hope for the losing teams at odd moments, the whole match is over in less than four hours...
They are spread all over the world, a lot in Japan, Europe and USA but there is no regular TV channels broadcasting the matches. So there is no real alternative to streaming the match in. If the audience count spikes up enough, some sports channel of ESPN will broadcast it and then the streaming count will drop significantly.
My brother is a big fan of the winner Chennai Super Kings, and I happened to catch the first innings. Extremely good, very watchable. American sports market is highly competitive, even hugely popular soccer is finding it hard to get a toe hold in this market. So I don't see this format of Cricket taking root in USA. But it would be very exciting if it did. Compared to low scoring Baseball, you get to watch 5 to 10 Sixers (homeruns) and 10 to 20 Boundaries...
Watch the 14 minute highlight reel, you can find it you tube. Very interesting and exciting. IPL should edit a version of the highlights reel for USA with commentary and explanation of strategy and tactics, it would be very nice.
Press the scroll ball in the right spoke of the steering and say what you want, the speech command will it all for you. Reduce temp, increase fan speed, call home. call bozo the clown, drive home, drive to 1234, main street, sometown, New Jersey, drive to Walmart... The music control, volume control, turn indicators, wiper, windshield washer, shifter are all traditional.
I was very excited to hear about BMW i3. I was ready to buy it at 45K for a 100 mile range +a limp home ICE car. BMW talent scouts snagge expats from Mattel and Fisher Price to design their car.
Leaf? Very optimistic and terrible over estimate of range. Billed as 125 miles, it barely delivers 90, on a good day. Contrast this with Tesla that gave me 93 miles on a estimated 91 miles of charge yesterday.
People report a nagging suspicion M3 LR is more than 310 miles, it seems to be software limited to 75 kWh. EPA estimate was 345 miles, and it is being sold as a 310 mile battery.
A truly committed EV maker will force rest of the industry to deliver EV. That is why I am paying more knowingly. I have quite a few friends, call them fellow bleeding hearts if you want to, who have done the same.
Funny thing is, if we bleeding heart liberals spend our money on what we like, it is laugh worthy. If gun nuts stock up on ammo after every school shooting or if corporations spend influencing elections, "Freedom of speech, money is speech". I see you equally laugh worthy.
Looks like fourth quarter shipping will be largely base model 3. Third quarter will be residual first production orders. 2019 first quarter on, it would be premium AWD models coming into the mix. So we should see about 50,000 base model 3s this year.
It's hilarious just how out of touch with reality the super rich really are . . . . . .:|
Most super rich are out of touch with reality. Musk is also out of touch with reality but in a different sense in a different plane. I mean how many super rich would think of landing a rocket back vertically? Then do it?
What is even more hilarious is jobless people with enough idle time to gas about in slashdot think they know more than Musk.
The 35 K car is the promise. We Tesla backers know it is going to be very barely profitable to sell that car. So we understand Tesla has to make profits from the people who are willing to pay more. I cheered on the X and S owners as people who are paving the way for me to get my affordable Tesla. When it came within striking range, I too stepped in and got a model 3 at 55K on the road.
"Premium" interior (in any color I want as long as it is black) that gives me open pore wood trim and two more USB ports? For 5K? If any ICE car dealer pushed that option I would laugh at him so derisively he would cringe. Here I forked over the cash for obviously over priced profit center knowingly and willingly. That is my bit for the 35K for the masses.
AWD at 78K is outrageous in some sense. Electric dual motor AWD is so much simpler than the transfer case, locking differential, dual drive axle ICE AWD trans. ICE AWD is just 3 or 4 K more, and they make a good profit on that. Electric is just one more motor and all the rest is software. It should not cost more than 600$, and it would sell for 1000$ more in normal circumstances, if there are enough electric cars on the market giving competitive pressure. But... as it stands now, Tesla can bundle it with mauve interior and pink wheels and a unicorn hood ornament and price it at 78K. And there are lots of people willing pay. I see it as a good thing. Make as much profit as possible, amortize the factory, pay off the fixed costs, so that some day we can have a really affordable electric car for the people.
The projected avatars can very selectively allow blaster bolts to pass through but be physical enough to hold and fight with a light saber. We have seen this.
By this time, all the data of that site has been copied and saved by other shady operators and blackmailers all over the world. Even if they are gone and arrested and end up in jail, the data they compiled will live for ever in the net.
We should create a public service company funded by donations and link every real identity, name and address with every other piece of random information.
There is no way to erase the signal. Only recourse left is to add noise and reduce the signal to noise ratio. In fact it would be a great business idea. For a fee I will link the subscriber's name and address to all kinds of information, some good, some bad, some ugly, some not. In the end anyone looking up the name will get so many links it would be impossible to sort out and find the dirt.
In biology, viruses are tiny bits of DNA with replication mechanism and some sort of propagation mechanism that is all. It is never as sophisticated as the host it infects.
By that analogy, the Micosoft Windows becomes the most sophisticated piece of software.
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On the down hill drive from Pike's Peak, park service stops all the cars and checks the brake rotors for over heating. May be Tesla would have driven down from Pike's peak much safer than the ICE cars. Now they are being forced to be just as crappy for the regular legitimate use to meet an artifiicial made up test.
hear! hear!!
Now THAT is a good question.
The third party has to find just bug not caught by internal testing. Tesla has to catch every bug.
You would love this once you get used to it. It is being raved about as "one pedal driving" in Tesla forums. Old stick shift people know this as engine braking, down shifting without clutch to reduce the car speed without touching the brakes.
The other auto makers will detect CR doing the test and do a different thing and then return to crappy brakes status quo ante as soon as it detects it is not being tested.
The test if FIVE hard 60 to 0 braking with 1 mile of cooling lap in between. Then when the results were inconsistent, they repeated it next day giving 24 hours to cool from the test, and did FIVE more hard brakes.
except that CR drives the car at slow speed to allow the brakes to cool down between each test. No excuse.
CR accelerates back to 60 mph and drives 1 mile to cool the brakes. It is about 1 minute long. Five hard 60 to 0 braking with 1 minute gap and the regen was turned off.
It is ON by default, it reduces brake wear significantly and reduces brake heating and energy wastage significantly.
But they turned it off while testing Tesla. Why? To be "fair" to the ICE cars? To be "consistent" with earlier testing of gas cars? The test involves 60 to 0 braking hard, five times in a row with one mile of driving in between to cool.
This test is probably designed to promote disk brakes over drum brakes, by disk brake makers, by lobbying SAE to use this as the "standard".
Now EV makers should come up with a test that is impossible for ICE cars to pass because of the lack of regen braking. With ABS all braking distances are limited by the tire not the braking power. So they should do five consecutive 60 to 0, reducing the "cooling run" from 1 mile to 15 seconds. With regen EV can do it without heating the discs. ICE will set their rotors on fire.
Yeah, the game you call Baseball is played by girls and children in Cricket playing countries, called Rounders.
They are spread all over the world, a lot in Japan, Europe and USA but there is no regular TV channels broadcasting the matches. So there is no real alternative to streaming the match in. If the audience count spikes up enough, some sports channel of ESPN will broadcast it and then the streaming count will drop significantly.
My brother is a big fan of the winner Chennai Super Kings, and I happened to catch the first innings. Extremely good, very watchable. American sports market is highly competitive, even hugely popular soccer is finding it hard to get a toe hold in this market. So I don't see this format of Cricket taking root in USA. But it would be very exciting if it did. Compared to low scoring Baseball, you get to watch 5 to 10 Sixers (homeruns) and 10 to 20 Boundaries ...
Watch the 14 minute highlight reel, you can find it you tube. Very interesting and exciting. IPL should edit a version of the highlights reel for USA with commentary and explanation of strategy and tactics, it would be very nice.
No knob to you. go drive a smelly finicky gas car.'
Press the scroll ball in the right spoke of the steering and say what you want, the speech command will it all for you. Reduce temp, increase fan speed, call home. call bozo the clown, drive home, drive to 1234, main street, sometown, New Jersey, drive to Walmart... The music control, volume control, turn indicators, wiper, windshield washer, shifter are all traditional.
The industry standard set when there is no regenerative braking possible in the cars.
Leaf? Very optimistic and terrible over estimate of range. Billed as 125 miles, it barely delivers 90, on a good day. Contrast this with Tesla that gave me 93 miles on a estimated 91 miles of charge yesterday.
People report a nagging suspicion M3 LR is more than 310 miles, it seems to be software limited to 75 kWh. EPA estimate was 345 miles, and it is being sold as a 310 mile battery.
A truly committed EV maker will force rest of the industry to deliver EV. That is why I am paying more knowingly. I have quite a few friends, call them fellow bleeding hearts if you want to, who have done the same.
Funny thing is, if we bleeding heart liberals spend our money on what we like, it is laugh worthy. If gun nuts stock up on ammo after every school shooting or if corporations spend influencing elections, "Freedom of speech, money is speech". I see you equally laugh worthy.
Looks like fourth quarter shipping will be largely base model 3. Third quarter will be residual first production orders. 2019 first quarter on, it would be premium AWD models coming into the mix. So we should see about 50,000 base model 3s this year.
It's hilarious just how out of touch with reality the super rich really are . . . . . . :|
Most super rich are out of touch with reality. Musk is also out of touch with reality but in a different sense in a different plane. I mean how many super rich would think of landing a rocket back vertically? Then do it?
What is even more hilarious is jobless people with enough idle time to gas about in slashdot think they know more than Musk.
"Premium" interior (in any color I want as long as it is black) that gives me open pore wood trim and two more USB ports? For 5K? If any ICE car dealer pushed that option I would laugh at him so derisively he would cringe. Here I forked over the cash for obviously over priced profit center knowingly and willingly. That is my bit for the 35K for the masses.
AWD at 78K is outrageous in some sense. Electric dual motor AWD is so much simpler than the transfer case, locking differential, dual drive axle ICE AWD trans. ICE AWD is just 3 or 4 K more, and they make a good profit on that. Electric is just one more motor and all the rest is software. It should not cost more than 600$, and it would sell for 1000$ more in normal circumstances, if there are enough electric cars on the market giving competitive pressure. But... as it stands now, Tesla can bundle it with mauve interior and pink wheels and a unicorn hood ornament and price it at 78K. And there are lots of people willing pay. I see it as a good thing. Make as much profit as possible, amortize the factory, pay off the fixed costs, so that some day we can have a really affordable electric car for the people.
Hinduism is a very good religion, Buddism is good too. Most tribal religions are usually good.
If fact Hindus do not think you are condemned or you are committing a sin if you dont worship their deities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
if ( your_god() != my_god()){
you_are_human = false;
}
The projected avatars can very selectively allow blaster bolts to pass through but be physical enough to hold and fight with a light saber. We have seen this.
We should create a public service company funded by donations and link every real identity, name and address with every other piece of random information.
There is no way to erase the signal. Only recourse left is to add noise and reduce the signal to noise ratio. In fact it would be a great business idea. For a fee I will link the subscriber's name and address to all kinds of information, some good, some bad, some ugly, some not. In the end anyone looking up the name will get so many links it would be impossible to sort out and find the dirt.
That would make Google page rank to shoot so high, these guys will finally eclipse Rick Santorum.
By that analogy, the Micosoft Windows becomes the most sophisticated piece of software.
Bad cops track too.
People other than cops track them too.