I just immediately recognized it because I can hear it being said in Sandy Munro’s voice 😅

standard battery cell, the 18650

Agreed that it will push back mass adoption. Sure, Tesla has the ability to use their high margins as an advantage to survive better than the low-margin legacy and newcomer brands, but really what it will do is raise the price of all EVs so they lose one of their competetive advantages over gas cars. It will have a…

That’s a great point that nobody here including myself seems to have come up with! Even in most cars with mechanical door releases, the rear doors can still be disabled via child lock, and they would be in the exact same situation. Especially if the driver door got smashed to oblivion and the button to turn off the…

The Model S in that relative bodystyle is 5 years old, though including the facelift they came out in the same year (though the 2016 to 2021 facelift was pretty minimal on the exterior). But it could also come down to familiarity: you’ve probably seen hundreds of Model S’s and have become used to them. Where Lucid…

One of the purposes of the Polaris Dawn mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon in September was to test Starlink from higher than their orbit, I think to prove that they could be used for at least low earth orbit communications. Unsure if Starlink has ‘antennas’ that point outward or if they’re just catching the…

Due to the massive twisting of the frame the fender very well could have overlapped the door hinges, and maybe even pushing the driver door underneath the leading edge of the passenger door locking both doors in place. This is an absolutely massive crash. Personally I’ve never seen one before where the two front tires…

“That front release is well designed and intelligently placed.”

Going by how the front-left wheel is basically toughing the front-right wheel, it’s possible that the driver door especially was just mangled beyond the ability to open regardless of the type of door handle.

All very well said! The paperclip analogy is perfect.

I was relating the phone-key’s existence to what a different car’s proximity key is like, in that they both work by staying in your pocket. Phone stays locked in your pocket, you just walk up to the car and grab the door handle, and it does some behind the scenes bluetooth magic to unlock the door in a split second.…

Very cool site, I’ve bookmarked it. Currently I’m seeing Juno to Madrid, Voyager 1 to Goldstone, and SOHO to Canberra.

You don’t need to get out your phone to unlock the car. It’s what you already do with your proximity key, where you just go up to the car and grab the handle and go inside. Minus the having to carry around a whole separate electronic device in your pocket part, which you seem to enjoy for some reason.

Agree probably not enough to matter on that particular distinction, but useful in another way. I think the point of that remark was that they’re targeting a roughly planet-sized target versus with a traditional comms satellite you’re targeting a tiny car-sized target.

They do sell a keyfob, and you could get a keyring for the keycard. But you just don’t really need to use it. As long as you have a modern phone in working order, especially with working Bluetooth, then it should work every time. For the few times it doesn’t work I just open the app and then it re-syncs or something…

Teslas come with what looks like a credit card shaped hotel key that you tap against the A-pillar to unlock and against the center console for ignition. I’ve found the phone key to be reliable enough that I don’t even carry the keycard with me and only use it when I’m dropping the car off for annual State Inspection.…

I have not seen a forecast by anyone … government or private, anywhere that has told us that that number is achievable. At this point, it looks impossible

Good call! certainly a possibility

I think you, author, are confusing throughput with ping. The ping is what’s fixed (due to lightspeed), not the amount of bits per second. Think of it like a highway adding more lanes but keeping the same speed limit. If you send a car of 4 people at 60 mph down a 60 mile road, after an hour you have 4 people who have…