To add on to the last message: part of my point was that the stuff Google is patenting is already commonplace on cars. The very fact that cars already have this is what makes each car and the patent itself not really special anymore. That stuff has already been out in the wild for years.

I think I got my first cell phone while I was in driver’s ed, but I didn’t have a phone that could do maps until many years later. I did have one of those Garmin standalone GPS units for quite a while! Even before I had one of those Garmin standalone map units, I had a Garmin e-Trex handheld unit, which didn’t have…

To clear up any confusion, I’ve voted blue for the last several elections and I’m not at all a fan of current-era Elon. Unlike you it seems, I’m able to separate personal experience, facts, and automobile companies apart from media blitz. If you think you know it all, despite probably never having hands-on experience, …

Do you have Hardware 3 and FSD? I daily drive a 2018 Model 3 updated to HW3, with FSD package. I think the software is actually a bit more reliable on mine than when my wife’s 2023 Model Y’s has FSD trials activated for some reason.

Somebody making use of their truck, it’s miraculous! My next door neighbor has a crew cab truck and I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen anything in the back of it

Interesting point. It’s not explicitly listed in the chart whether your eyes have to be on the road but maybe it’s hidden in the ambiguity of “You are driving” verses “You are not driving”, where the definition of “are driving” is whether you have to be paying attention or not.

I love the large screens, because when filled up with a map, you can have it zoomed out for more context but large enough that you’re not squinting to see where your car is. Comparing my 15" laptop sized screen against the 6" (and low-res) cell phone sized in our former Mazda, it’s an enormous improvement.

I’m not really sure what the deal is. I personally know someone who is still waiting on their order of 5 or so for their business in the New England area.

The article here was just saying that having a 6' bed was inherently a design flaw, not that it was a design flaw specific to being aftermarket modified to be a dually.

Simply going by the SAE levels of automated driving, it seems like present-day Tesla “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)“ would be Level 3. The “When the feature requests, you must drive.” (the blue/green split block) being what’s definitively preventing it from being considered level 4. For Tesla that’s the critical…

Having a bug free implementation of something isn’t a requirement to obtain a patent or to dispute someone else from trying to patent something that already exists. In practice it all works good enough.

Today I learned: downiness is a word. Thanks spell check. I had to read your quote text multiple times to see that I even missed the R

Listing features that a vehicle has that are relevant and even conflicting with a newly issued patent the article is discussing is not shilling. If you expect everyone you to have identical thoughts as yourself, I suggest you unplug your internet modem.

Not Cybertruck specific either. Most people (Americans) who own pickup trucks don’t need pickup trucks. I’m sure you know many people, coworkers perhaps, who drive full sized pickup trucks despite having desk jobs and living in an apartment or condo. I live adjacent to a rural area and I would say 95%+ of the trucks I…

Basically, the new system would keep an eye on all of the driver-assistance and safety systems to figure out how well someone is driving. If the system decides they’re a bad driver, it would then be able to take a series of escalating actions. So, for example, if you wanted to make an unsafe lane change, it might yell…

Tesla’s bed is appallingly small with an advertised length of just over 6 feet that quickly diminishes as the bed is filled vertically.

Ah, yeah, I missed that. Looking into that, it seems like it was just something the media fabricated and not something The Boring Company ever claimed they were going to do.

A high speed train couldn’t even get up to 200 mph just crossing the Los Vegas Convention Center, and if it could, people would get super sick pulling those G’s.

For sitting inside, I meant for an EV. Tesla Supercharger takes all of literally 3 seconds of user input from grabbing the handle to charge starting.

Yes! And it’s kind of funny now that I think about it, rally racing has become the real stock car racing. Really the only form of mainstream racing where it’s a requirement for the cars to be, well, basically stock. In ARA you have to have basically stock bodywork, has to be street legal, insured, and even state…