Accidents happen, man. Ol’ Gam Gam got lucky no one around her made a mistake and hit her hard. Only takes one person to cause a collision and it could just as easily be the other guy.

For what though? 50k? You lose a lot of money on that. You also have to cage your crap can and outfit it with safety gear. Better off just building and running a regular car if you’re looking for the bragging rights of winning a lemons race. Even though you don’t win as much, you spent a hell of a lot less too.

Thank you for explaining this. I remember having a discussion about this, but no one that actually drove for uber/lyft chimed in. I’m surprised you make any money. Glad you can make it work.

Even though I would only be saving about $9/mo at my current usage, I sort of want to change generators as a ‘fuck you’ to UI. They’re a bunch of assholes for charging me over twice the national average rate.

Never done this before, but after a cursory search, looks like I can save maybe $0.025 on generation by switching generators, but it doesn’t say anything about distribution, which I’m assuming stays the same since I think UI owns all of the distribution lines. Over half my bill is distribution. Still at $0.235/kWh and…

United Illuminating in CT.

They don’t offer EV or off-peak rates everywhere. I live in a major metropolitan area and we have a straight rate 24/7. There is a guy who posted his bill from the Boston area and it’s the same thing.

That’s an out the door rate? Mine is broken down into generation and distribution. If I only consider one of those, it’s pretty inexpensive to charge a car, but what I’d actually pay is much more. That’s great if you only pay $0.04/kWh!

I know right? My rate is $0.26/kWh. Where can I get the $0.09/kWh? That’s what I pay in distribution fees before we get into the $0.11/kWh for generation and then a few other fees.

Yeah my utility doesn’t offer discounted rates for usage at night and my effective rate is $0.26/kWh. It would be about $24 to charge a model 3 here. Still not as bad as a gas car, but not the money saver everyone makes it out to be.

It’s not just cost either, it’s just plain impractical to rely solely on ride hailing in the suburbs. It usually takes much longer for a ride to get to you, if one is even available, and like I said, you can’t take multi stop trips and store stuff in your car while you do it.

1. Uber family doesn’t solve the problem of carting the things that families cart around. More often than not, families bring things with them that aren’t used immediately, but stored in the car while the family does family things. I highly doubt family uber will park in the lot while the kids’ soccer game is on.

Right, shared AVs only solve the parking problem. People still need to get places. Over time I’m sure cities will use up that saved parking space as travel space and they’ll have the same problem all over again.

Embedding sensors seems like the safest and most effective way to do this, but I can see why no one wants to rely on them. Like you said, cost. I think if we are going to get serious about AVs, we’re going to have to do some sort of non-optical sensing though.

Plus being in a box full of strangers while trying to corral two or three small children and keep your groceries from falling all over the place? No thanks. All of this stuff works for single adults that only buy what they can carry (which is a huge pain in the ass because you have to go shopping every 2 or 3 days),…

Yes, but where is the line between modification and construction? Given the number and importance of the components replaced, I don’t think they modified a ford truck here, but took the body off a ford and put it on a Rivian drive train and frame. Because of that, I don’t think this is a modified ford truck at all,…

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Around here, people will own their cars for a very long time. Ride sharing, for now, really only works if you live in a city. There is a lot of space and are a lot of people outside of the cities, folks. Autonomous cars are very far off, especially autonomous cars that can serve the areas outside of cities that will,…

Yep! And here in south western CT all of the white and rich assholes are fighting against having the school systems rationalized. On one hand, I think they are just assholes, on the other, they sort of have a point when CT already redistributes the state income tax heavily from the suburban areas to the cities.

Yes, like I said above, there is an experimentation exception, but I don’t think this counts. Ford likely has a design patent on the aesthetic features features of the F-150. Here, they are using the body on an experimental vehicle, but they aren’t experimenting with the body features. They are experimenting with the…