With a quick assumption of the average semi drive, from loading dock to loading dock, averages about 45 mph; 500 mile range gives you about 11 hours of driving. Adding in the mandatory 30 minute driving break after 8 hours, and the range comes out to right around the driver hours limit.

But that’s not what the Barr Group and found when they did their deep-dive analysis.

Does Tesla do brake-by-wire? If they do, there may be an unusual circumstance where there’s a software defect, or a software/hardware interface defect, could lead to this circumstance.

Elmo uses loans against his $TSLA stock options for financing; but the loaning banks have the option to call those loans or demand even more leverage if the price drops low enough. They almost have an obligation to do so when the falling stock price (down 50% YTD) undercollateralizes those loans. The memelord just sold…

No dice at $6k.

This glorious bastard right here:

Because they were equipped differently. A CVPI included a transmission oil cooler, a larger alternator, and I think a larger radiator. Other, maybe optional equipment included bulletproof door inserts, a secondary power distribution box, and maybe an additional brace or two. The base vehicle also got heavier over time.

This may be a very big issue. I don’t know of Tesla’s numbers; but the industry-wide estimate has women being the key decision maker in 60-80% of all auto purchases.

Not really. The exact quote is “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” The context was developing the Model T as a platform; focusing on production at scale.

I don’t understand what AAA is doing here. The conclusion they drew from their test aligns with the SAE Level 2 classification; which states that the human in the driver’s seat “...must constantly supervise these support features; you must steer, brake or accelerate as needed to maintain safety”

“Putin is attempting to unify the white, Eastern Orthodox Christian, Russian-speaking world under a single nation, and sees Ukraine, Belarus, and other former Soviet satellite states as components of that nation that must be re-absorbed to undo Russia’s shame after the breakup of the Soviet empire and the chaotic and…

“Now, an artist called Shl0ms has destroyed a perfectly good Lamborghini to sell its part[sic] as NFTs.”

“Michigan’s no-fault insurance means the person hit by Ezero’s Tesla would be responsible for his medical costs. It’s one of the reasons I stopped accepting press cars, as I didn’t want a simple mistake to ruin the lives of any of my fellow Detroiters.”

But we don’t rely on only vision as a sense. There’s also vestibular, proprioceptive sensing (balance and body position) and much better stereo vision processing connected to a very sophisticated inference engine that lets a person figure out the meaning behind the visual and non-visual scene. Essentially, we recreate…

Vision only is a dead end, not a path to Level 4; the phantom braking is an example of why. My first guess, the Teslas on autopilot are stopping for shadows that they can’t disambiguate from objects. I’ll see this from time to time with my lane assist, where I’ll get departure warnings for the shadows of power lines.…

It’s a good idea; but that would probably require legislation or possibly a treaty, and not just a rule-making; unless you just want to adopt the current ECE regulations at this point in time as a snapshot.

1st gear: FMVSS108 limits front lighting to two (2) beam patterns, low and high. There’s a weird carve-out on dynamic lighting where the beam pattern stays the same; but just points in a different direction. Adaptive high-beam, along with ramped transitions between low and high beam, create new beam patterns and,…

I think it’s six. The block quote is from the 2018 article about the indictment, and shows $5m. The $6m figure is from the article about Warner taking the powder, so further investigation probably found that extra $1m.

“There has been some recent debate over whether to call over-the-air updates “recalls,” given that the term “recall” implies that you have to take the car to a dealer for service. Well, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration still calls over-the-air updates for potential safety issues recalls, so take it…

Level 4 autonomy, geofenced self-driving, is achievable. You’ll start to see limited-use fleets in the next few years.