From the article: "Today, most people charge their electric cars when they come home in the evening"
Do people really do that?
I charge in the early hours of the morning since I'm on the PG&E EV tariff. I assumed most other people in California would be on the EV or some other TOU plan as it's a lot cheape per kWh.
I want mine to play The Imperial March.
At this point Tesla has a pretty large advantage with the expansive supercharger network.
Sure there are other charging stations around, but have you looked at them? They usually offer very limited charging ability.
This is one of the biggest factors, and the barrier gets set higher every week. To compete with the Supercharger network you need...
- Lots of good locations, fortunately a competing network can just look at the Tesla locations to figure that out.
- Lots of chargers at those locations. 1-3 chargers isn't going to cut it these days, double figures or don't bother.
- Fast chargers. Get me back on the road in the time it takes to grab lunch.
- Reliable. Fix them fast when they break, and make sure you load test many cars back to back on a hot day.
- Simple. Needs to be built into the car navigation, and updated so if an entire site is down I know about it before I get there.
"The victim was using cruise control. Our Tesla is not a self-driving car. Stop calling it that. Reliable self-driving cars do not exist."
Why would someone think an "autopilot", a word already used to describe a device that makes a plane self-flying, would be self-driving?
I think Tesla should change the name until they are willing to stand behind it as self-driving..
I think this is the biggest problem. The general public think the autopilot on a plane is a magical box that does everything, leaving the pilots to sit back drink coffee and chat. That's not the case. Most autopilots are pretty basic, they can track a course, hold altitude, maybe handle a constant rate or constant speed climb, but not much else.
Plane autopilots can also kill you in many ways. Put in a higher climb rate than the plane can handle and it'll continue pitching the plane up more and more until it stalls it. Put in a course that goes into a mountain, and it'll happily fly you right into that mountain. Pilots are always monitoring the autopilot to make sure it's doing what they expect, which is exactly how drivers should be behaving around the Tesla autopilot.
No Coriolis effect, no spin, no hurricanes.
I'm starting a campaign to stop the earth's rotation. Who's with me?
Never start an argument with a professional comedian.
The show will have a field day with this, no way does Murray come out of it looking good.
Tesla is known to have a massive amount of data to train their system on, and has already shown that they can do fleet learning.
However, other companies use the same MobileEye camera that Tesla did for the V1 hardware, so maybe others have data from that too.
I'd still put my money on Tesla though, the V2 cars are on the roads already, and training is already underway on a large scale.
Age to vote in the UK is 18.
Age of consent in the UK is 16.
So surely this means voting should be considered even more of an adult activity, and therefore all political sites blocked until the user is of suitable age.
You don't have to know how the computer works, just how to work the computer.
