Comment Re:The vision (Score 1) 194
For example, something like the new Nissan Micra. It's small but taller than a Model 3 and better laid out so you get even more floor to ceiling space than the height difference would suggest.
Comment Re:The vision (Score 1) 194
We have cars that are not CUVs or very low. Things like hatchbacks.
Submission + - Electric trucks hit 50% of China's heavy truck sales, diesel demand falls (electrek.co)
AmiMoJo writes: Electric trucks made up 50.3% of all heavy trucks sold in China in September. That’s 33,100 electric big rigs in a single month, up 37% from a year ago, while the overall heavy-truck market shrank by 21%. And it’s showing up in the oil data. China’s diesel demand is on track to fall by about 230,000 barrels per day this year, and trucks running on batteries and natural gas are doing most of the work.
That’s well ahead of Beijing’s own plan. This year, 11 government bodies set a target of 40% new-energy heavy-truck sales by 2030, along with 1.6 million of them on the road, 30,000 km of zero-carbon freight corridors and about 3,000 charging and swap stations. The market blew past that sales target four years early on a monthly basis, and CATL now says new-energy trucks will be half of China’s annual truck sales by 2028.
That’s well ahead of Beijing’s own plan. This year, 11 government bodies set a target of 40% new-energy heavy-truck sales by 2030, along with 1.6 million of them on the road, 30,000 km of zero-carbon freight corridors and about 3,000 charging and swap stations. The market blew past that sales target four years early on a monthly basis, and CATL now says new-energy trucks will be half of China’s annual truck sales by 2028.
Comment Re:The next article will be asking how people use (Score 1) 72
It's an arms race. If you don't use AI you can fall behind in productivity. I hate it but that's the reality now.
Comment Re:Now witness the power (Score 1) 72
Trump can't stop you getting cheaper electricity.
Comment Re:The vision (Score 1) 194
I'm 180 and the model 3 in particular was just too small. Knees hit the steering wheel every time I got in, even with it in the highest position and the seat in the lowest.
I think the issue was that they made it a very low car, to improve range. Like something from the 1980s. Or maybe that's normal in the US. Anyway, it meant that you both had to swing down to get in, and that the space between the floor and the roof was compressed. On top of that the floor was raised by the battery.
Comment Re:The vision (Score 1) 194
The looks of the Model S were compromised to improve the range. It, and the Model 3, are both very low, cramped cars inside.
Sure the Leaf look funny from the front, but it was spacious and comfortable inside. Here the Model Y is what most people want, because it's a better size than the 3. The main selling point is that it's cheap because Tesla fudges the numbers on lease deals.
I wonder if that is going to come crashing down one day. Lots of cheap leases, lots of uses cards being returned to them that need to be sold.
There's also the lies and the subsequent lawsuits. People were promised that their car would drive them to work, drop them off, and go park itself. That was 10 years ago. It hasn't happened, and they have millions of vehicles with old hardware that will need to be upgraded if they ever manage to get it working. Lawsuits are already in progress.
There was also the claim that a Tesla would be an appreciating asset because you could use it as a robotaxi, but again it hasn't happened and probably never will. Tesla now has a dedicated taxi vehicle and isn't offering it to individuals who bought a Model 3 on that basis. They will probably never offer individuals robotaxi income at all. Another lawsuit waiting to happen.
Comment Re:In a few years you won't see them anymore (Score 1) 194
What will part availability be like? In Europe there is a legal requirement to keep them available for a reasonable length of time, but it was never released here because the front end seems designed to kill pedestrians and would never pass our safety requirements.
Comment Re:Great ! (Score 1) 21
I think Starship will probably get stuck in orbit trying to refuel, before it gets to the moon.
Comment Re:Commu-fascism! (Score 4, Informative) 53
And before someone says it, these laws usually state that where a salary range is given, it must be "reasonable". Exactly what is reasonable ultimately comes down to a court to decide, but that's how it works for a lot of things here. Tricks like making the top range unattainable are also likely to be illegal.
Hopefully it will also be illegal to offer less than the minimum on the ad.
This is good not just for job hunters who can avoid wasting their time, but also for employees who can see what they are paying new hires.
Submission + - A faint, unavoidable sound can reveal where any audio was recorded
advid.net writes: The YouTuber colsto demonstrates how to extract the precise location of any recording with audio using a faint signal that is always present and hard to remove.
This works in the US and many other countries with a public database of flights (ADS-B data).
Even with no plane directly overhead and no audible flight nearby, the sound spectrogram of any recording, outdoors but also indoors, as this signature sound passes through walls, reveals the distinctive curve of the Doppler effect of a plane passing a few miles away (not audible at all in the demo!). After proper amplification, visual inspection allows this curve to be extracted from the background noise, and its shape reveals the speed of the plane and a distance range from the recording.
By processing tens of thousands of ADS-B data points (position, speed, and altitude of planes) on a 200 x 200 m grid over the US, the researcher computes a rough estimate of the Doppler signal that would be received at each point of the grid.
Using two curves from the same recording, the delay between them allows a search across all the points, narrowing down the possible locations to around 80,000 points. With further assumptions (such as no airport nearby, given the gap between the two signals), the number of candidate points drops below 15,000.
Then, with better matching of the Doppler curves and a more thorough computation of the expected response from the exact paths of the planes, the search narrows the location down to a handful of zones containing candidate points. Refining the computation with a 100 m grid gives a clear positive match and reveals the exact location of the recording.
Success is confirmed with the blurry and limited visual content of the video (the upper shape of a few trees), as it matches the background of the street view.
Lastly, he shows how finer processing of a single Doppler curve also provides a distinct match, confirming the location among all the closest candidates. So, with more computing power, a single signature signal could also reveal the location of any recording with audio.
This works in the US and many other countries with a public database of flights (ADS-B data).
Even with no plane directly overhead and no audible flight nearby, the sound spectrogram of any recording, outdoors but also indoors, as this signature sound passes through walls, reveals the distinctive curve of the Doppler effect of a plane passing a few miles away (not audible at all in the demo!). After proper amplification, visual inspection allows this curve to be extracted from the background noise, and its shape reveals the speed of the plane and a distance range from the recording.
By processing tens of thousands of ADS-B data points (position, speed, and altitude of planes) on a 200 x 200 m grid over the US, the researcher computes a rough estimate of the Doppler signal that would be received at each point of the grid.
Using two curves from the same recording, the delay between them allows a search across all the points, narrowing down the possible locations to around 80,000 points. With further assumptions (such as no airport nearby, given the gap between the two signals), the number of candidate points drops below 15,000.
Then, with better matching of the Doppler curves and a more thorough computation of the expected response from the exact paths of the planes, the search narrows the location down to a handful of zones containing candidate points. Refining the computation with a 100 m grid gives a clear positive match and reveals the exact location of the recording.
Success is confirmed with the blurry and limited visual content of the video (the upper shape of a few trees), as it matches the background of the street view.
Lastly, he shows how finer processing of a single Doppler curve also provides a distinct match, confirming the location among all the closest candidates. So, with more computing power, a single signature signal could also reveal the location of any recording with audio.
Comment Re:The problem probably isn't the disks (Score 3, Interesting) 88
To be fair I've had good luck with old drives too.
I had one that was really bad. I think the owner was a smoker. I found a Japanese guy on YouTube who washes computers, including the floppy drives. Takes them apart, puts the PCBs and drives in a sink, sprays them with kitchen degreaser, and then rinses them off. I guess the water is clean and low limescale where he lives. Incredibly they usually work afterwards too.
I tried it, relubricated, and it worked. I'm not quite as mad as he is, I will try other cleaning methods first, but I've been able to get a few cheap drives that other people probably thought were beyond saving that way. I even got the exact same kitchen degreaser as he uses.
Comment Re:Great ! (Score 4, Insightful) 21
It's a proper race now too. NASA will use whoever is ready first for the next moon landing, be it Blue Origin or SpaceX or someone else. Both of them have a fair way to go, and will need to test their landers on an uncrewed mission first.
Blue Origin seems to be getting there with the BE-7 engine they need, but still has to demonstrate a really big rocket to Earth orbit, and then an uncrewed flight to the moon, landing, and return to lunar orbit. SpaceX has got Starship to orbit, but needs probably 20 launches just to get enough fuel up there for the lunar landing mission, and has yet to do much with the planning in-orbit fuel transfer system which is no small thing by itself. For that reason BO seems closer now.
Meanwhile the CNSA has announced "before 2030" for a crewed landing, and a credible roadmap to get there. They are going to forego a crewed circumlunar mission and just land the first one, after a robotic demonstrator mission. Their mission is fairly conservative in terms of developing new technologies and not aiming for high mass to the lunar surface on the first landing, and all the parts seem to be in late stages of development and looking good.
At this point it's anybody's game.
Comment Re:Chat is less "catching up" (Score 1) 75
Yes, but the AI has done all the work of finding recent posts that relate to the current version, filtering the rubbish, and cross checking it.
Of course I check it myself too, but I find it's usually faster than manually searching.
Comment Re:The problem probably isn't the disks (Score 1) 88
I'm not so sure 50 years is viable. Many drives are rusting at this point. They would need a humidity controlled environment to stand much chance of lasting that long.
