Right from the linked article (I know, you would have had to RTFA):
Tesla service will also retrofit the shields, free of charge, to existing cars upon request or as part of a normally scheduled service.
Sam
This tech sounds similar to what they do in the Vorkosigan series. Sick or severely injured people have all their blood dumped/flushed with a cryo fluid and then are held until they are operated on or cured in the future of whatever disease ailed them.
Or they were supposed to be. Cryoburn goes into the implications in some detail. The protagonist gets carted out in a cryo coffin several times (and lost once).
The author really nailed it with this article though.
Sam
Pretty much any wifi-having unlocked smartphone from several years ago should have it.
I've got an old Samsung Nexus S with a big fat battery back on it (1400mah battery->3800mah). I can pop my SIM in it and use it as a USB or wifi modem that can also make phone calls forever.
The downside is... no LTE. But it's cheap.
https://www.google.com/search?...
Scroll through those image results and see how many brands of "yellow multimeter with grey face plate you can find!"
Sam
Someone should have given him some tea made from the bark of the Pacific yew tree daily for a while.
Sam
Don't worry, they'll change that rule next when it becomes clear the magic of the internet makes those useless parasitic dealers even more useless and NJ starts seeing dollar signs flying out the window.
Sam
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
I think it's because when you use it like "...a scissors to cut..." it is implied that you are saying "... a [pair of] scissors to cut..."
It'd be funny if people did this with pants though.
Hold on, let me go put on a pants!
Sam
Ok ok, you can stop proving JavaBear's point already!
Now do that for a car that actually competes with the Model S.
The Audi A7 (base $64,500), the BMW 6 series (base $75,400), and the Mercedes-Benz CLS (base $72,100). Note base prices are pulled from Google's first result.
I would compare a Nissan Leaf to say... a Honda Fit or a Fiesta hatch likewise (or a Nissan Versa!).
Don't know why the GP decided comparing to a 30k car made any sense at all... he started a discussion that makes 0 sense.
You know there are physical controls for the radio right on the steering wheel, right?
And the climate control is full auto, you shouldn't even need to mess with anything on it, just the temperature setpoint (my car has a similar auto climate control, I leave the thermostat on 72 and haven't messed with anything else in a long time).
Interesting, but does it actually support the D2 comment system (heresy, I know)? I've tried setting it a couple times and it always returns to the classic system whenever I save. I do like to be able to uncollapse comments inline to see what context I missed from a high-rated reply.
You can already get a SLAM enabled vacuum robot.
I've had a Neato for 3 years and it makes Roomba look like a toy.
Good news!
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