The problem with this is that Tesla fires are rare, so they are news, while gasoline car fires are common, so they aren't news. So if you judge by number of news reports, Teslas have a bigger problem with fires, even though this is completely the opposite of reality.
Let's look at the definition from the 70s or 80s, before SJWs rewrote the dictionaries and redefined the term...
Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary,1970:
1. The doctrines, methods, or movement of the Fascisti.
2. a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of the opposition (unions, other, especially leftist parties, minority groups, etc.) the retention of private ownership of the means of production under centralized government control, belligerent nationalism and racism, glorification of war, etc.: first instituted in Italy in 1922.
That's oddly consistent with the Merriam-Webster Online definition that I linked to, and quite inconsistent with your theory, now isn't it?
Can you provide links to the report? Or pictures? It's not that I don't believe you, I'm just curious on how this was reported and what the melted car looked like.
Just stop.
Just stop... what? I'm not here to talk about what she said, I'm here to talk about what you said. But you keep trying to change the subject.
I would agree it's hard to keep continual focus in a self-driving car for more than a couple of hours, for the reasons you give.
This might seem controversial, but would it be an improvement if the safety driver was allowed, or even encouraged, to watch a TV show projected semi-transparently on part of the windshield? Then at least she would constantly be looking in the direction of the road in front of her, and hopefully a reflex would kick in if an obstacle suddenly appeared.
And good EV batteries also have sophisticated battery management systems, which wouldn't be practical or cost effective in a smartphone.
I can assure you that at 150k miles, there will be a reduction in engine compression (piston ring wear) and reduced airflow from carbon deposits.
I can assure you that this loss of mileage will be so small as to be barely noticeable.
Much of this will no doubt be because the range at the start will be quite high, compared to electric equivalents. Much of this will also be because the refill time is so small. Much of this is also because people don't think so much about how many miles have passed but more on how many hours (on a long trip) or days (for the daily commute) since they last filled up.
The day to day mileage variation is quite possibly higher than the 150k mileage variation. Wind direction and speed can change fuel economy. So can other weather such as snow or extreme temperatures. There can be variation in fuel quality. There can be variation in the tire quality, since someone that drove that many miles is on their second, third, or even fourth set of tires.
I will say that the quality and longevity of cars has improved considerably since I first started driving. It wasn't that long ago that reaching 150k miles was a milestone worthy of celebration, now I'm seeing cars stay in very good repair for 200k miles without much of a remark. I believe your claims of reduced fuel economy from 150k miles is based on cars from decades ago.
The USA doesn't need a GDPR. We hate it when the government tells us what to do and substitutes some techno-supposedly-elite bureaucrat's preferences for our own. Everyone else's values and preferences aren't the same as yours.
The biggest impact of the GDPR on most people's lives has been that they now have to click annoying announcement cover-ups/pop-ups very time they visit a site because they routinely and automatically delete cookies between sessions so the site has no way of knowing they already clicked on that annoying pop-up before.
I'm unsure here who is doing the Embracing, who is doing the Extending, and who hopes to Extinguish whom.
In theory, yes. There are many, many science fiction stories involving just such apparatus, including some where most of the mas is in one section and the other is moving much more rapidly around their common center of gravity, and may be where the astronauts sleep.
Let's look at the definition from the 70s or 80s, before SJWs rewrote the dictionaries...
Of course, you don't provide such a definition or evidence that the "SJWs rewrote the dictionaries." Why is that?
I'd like to see a "safe charge" mode for phones, optimized for longevity. For example, only charge to 70%, slowly. I think some laptops have that but I don't know about phones.
That would sufficient 90% of the time. Only enable full charge when needed.
It's the perfect truck for people who don't actually need a truck.
Yes, because its actually more of a truck than an F150 in basically every way.
Let's look at the definition from the 70s or 80s, before SJWs rewrote the dictionaries and redefined the term so they could call anyone to the right of Mao Zedong a fascist.
The word "fascist" today more often indicates the presence of a radical leftist nutbag (or paid left-wing propagandist) than it does actual fascists.
This is a solved problem in the security space. Being a security guard is typically boring and people quickly become inattentive. Depending on the situation, you need to have either counter-incentives, or random challenges, or both.
For an example of a counter-incentive, you could pay someone to catch safety drivers not paying attention. Give them video feeds into the driver's seats and let them flip between them at minimum wage with a bonus anytime they manage to catch a driver on camera not paying attention. Not the best system for the driver, but an effective one because they know at any time, someone could be checking on them. A driver (like this one) who doesn't pay attention regularly will be caught quickly.
In terms of random challenges, the autopilot could be programmed to randomly shut-off/fail once every half hour in a "safe" situation. Or insert a "fake" pedestrian or badly behaving car into the data feed, requiring a take-over. Something along those lines. The driver would then know they will be required to take over driving at any moment, the opposite of assuming they will rarely need to. In other words, they need to test the safety drivers on a regular basis as part of the safety testing.
Another is the one you mention, which is that every X amount of time, the safety drivers need to be doing something besides being a safety driver, to relieve the monotony. Build into the route for the car to auto-park and the driver to go for a walk, or swap drivers every X amount of time, etc...
You sure like to type a lot of rubbish.
Anti-science, you say? Did we forget Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's complaint, when she was called out for a particularly blatant misstating of statistics, about "people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right"? Link [warning, link goes to CBS, a network that covers for pedophiles
I think you have been watching too much left wing media. They seem to group people they don't like with racists and sexists to demonize political opponents. It is very intellectually vile and I hope you can be free minded enough to see the truth.
Glorifying objectivity in social justice debates can be really harmful for a number of different reasons.
In her book Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins gives a brilliant explanation of how positivism Â- a school of thought that values objectivity and provable arguments Â- benefits white men the most. She also points out that black feminists and womanists have developed an alternative form of epistemology, or way of understanding knowledge, that she refers to as "black feminist thought."
At risk of oversimplification, black feminist thought centers the lived experiences of marginalized people. It argues that subjectivity is valuable because people's lived experiences are valuable Â- because people's spoken truths are, in and of themselves, truths.
And it argues against the idea that objectivity - which involves an emotional detachment from knowledge - is important in all academic fields.
And this is an important perspective, particularly when exploring social justice.
So, with the work of Patricia Hill Collins and others in mind, let's take a look at some of the reasons why glorifying objectivity in social justice debates can not only be counter-productive, but really oppressive.
They've said as much publicly, but talk is cheap. This is demonstrating that they're actually serious about it.
They shouldn't have taken a name (Slack) so close to one of another competitor Microsoft once wiped out (Stac).
Nuclear costs more than wind or solar + battery. It has the highest lifetime cost in dollars. Your insults are misplaced, as usual.
After decades of government funded research into solar PV cells, windmills, and batteries, we still don't see wind and solar producing much more than a rounding error on energy production, or batteries doing more than a minute amount of grid level storage. There are hundreds of civilian nuclear power plants producing an incredible amount of low CO2 energy today, and hundreds more military nuclear power plants propelling ships all over the world. They have been doing this with incredible levels of reliability and safety.
If you want to bring up grid scale batteries then I'll remind you of an incident in Australia when a large battery pack designed to backup windmills kept the lights on when there was an unscheduled shutdown of a coal plant. Batteries can do more than backup wind and solar power.
The greatest expense in wind and solar power today is in the natural gas burned for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. Wind and solar power is only popular now because of the votes it buys from government subsidies. If we do in fact find a way to make batteries cheaper than natural gas then consider what that will do for all the coal and nuclear power plants that already exist today. It means that they can now load follow as well as any natural gas turbine without needing any fuel, or as well as any hydroelectric dam without needing to use up any precious water needed for irrigation and drinking.
Nuclear power does not cost more than wind and solar. It only looks that way because of the politics today. We can change the politics, we can't change the laws of physics.
I agree, it IS amusing. The group of people most likely to criticize others for being weak and overly sensitive also happen to be the ones that have a complete fucking meltdown when they hear it.
"Why are you being so mean to meeeee?? I can't even use an emoji to indicate how sad I am because I don't know how they work or even acknowledge their existence! Wah!"
The blood thinners require very careful dosage and monitoring. Astronauts are under profound physical stress because they are working _very hard_ every day. It's partly why they eat so much: Small women in orbit consume roughly 1900 calories per day. Larger men consume 3200 calories per day. That is a _lot_ of calories, it is _hideously_ expensive to send food to orbit, and NASA would not spend that money if they did not have to. Given that level of physical activity, they get bumps and bruises and scrapes _al the time_. It's very normal for a very physically active life. But unless handled very carefully, blood thinners can make even small injuries such as pruises and small cuts quite dangerous.
We now have machines to make our fries. The zoomers just respond to the beep. Anyway, if you have a clue these days you order at the kiosk and bypass the blue haired and tattoed order taker who is still spazzed out from the club scene the night before.
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Can you name the best ones? This is the first time I'm hearing about 'web forums' and 'newsgroups' on top of IRC.
I've always thought that was the next logical step, I just never saw it done that I knew of.
As the cam in the distributor wore it caused the timing to advance.
No, it didn't. As the cam wears, the timing will retard, not advance.
... it can go very very bad. Local police report this afternoon of a Tesla not apparently involved in any collision that caught fire on a country road not far away. "1000' plume of smoke" reported. The occupants got out. The car melted down (fire dept couldn't do anything but watch and keep nearby brush wetted down) and took the pavement with it (was the smoke plume from the car or the asphalt burning?). Cleanup request was for a wrecker that could transport a "melted Tesla" and keep it at least 50' away from anything else in the tow lot, and the county to do an emergency dig out and repave of the road.
Some people only open up to tell you that they're closed.
