My understanding is they are saying the issue is the boombox noise is louder than the original PWS sound (both are coming out from the same speaker). But given the original law was that the PWS is intended to allow pedestrians to hear the car and also the law itself does not specify a specific sound, I’m not seeing…

No, talking about the door and window seals. Those are the parts that usually get frozen and then your door becomes stuck. There are various products out there that are safe for the material and prevents it from fully freezing.

He’s right in that in colloquial speech “self-driving” can include L2 cars which have the “hands free” option. The terminology overall is still in flux (you can see all sorts of definitions being used by journalists), although the most common reference in industry is SAE’s.

There is no dedicated defroster, but there is a vent (at least the newer versions, may not apply to the first 2018 models) that goes through the handle (as well as charge port) and it pumps heated air through if you use the defrost cycle.

I think lubing the seal (although not necessarily Vaseline) also makes sense. Even if you get the handle open, doesn’t mean the rest of the door opens that easily.

It’s redundant in the sense there is dual redundancy, meaning removing either one (or either one failing) would have no affect on the other and the system will continue running fine. A lot of people seemed to have missed this point.

That’s not quite the right take either. The reason they have been able to stay so long is that they have plenty of supporters that are local Ottawa residents that are providing them a steady stream of supplies. I see in the news some even brought over their children to play.

In terms of the economy and affect on local businesses, I don’t think police actions is the main cause. Even when the police presence was limited, the non-stop protests meant the desire for people to visit businesses went down. Protesters also pushed to specifically impact any people or businesses that were seen to be…

Hong Kong does not have their own military, but there definitely is a Chinese military presence (of several thousand) in Hong Kong. As a last measure this can be used to shut down the protests, as there is a provision in the Hong Kong’s mini-constitution that allows that:

That’s exactly the same logic despotic governments have used to crack down on their citizens. Recently, Kazakhstan used the same “terrorist” claim to crack down on opposition protesters. The UN pointed it out.

But the outrage was from what is considered norms in most of the world and puts pressure on various governments not to attempt to violate those. You don’t call in the military unless it was absolutely necessary. Just because the protester’s cause does not match yours, doesn’t mean it is suddenly justified to use more…

The optics of that would look horrible. Remember all the outrage over the Hong Kong government’s reaction to the Hong Kong protests (with Canada playing a big part in the reaction, given the heavy ties between Hong Kong and Canada)? Even Hong Kong did not use the military. Now you give them a perfect example of the…

I also don’t think L2 for cities would be that useful, but Jalopnik is arguing it’ll lead to more fatigue even for long roadtrips on highways/freeways (where presumably 90% of trip is the car staying in a lane going straight at a steady speed).

Yep, that’s the main point. It drastically lowers the probability of a crash for someone that was going to be distracted anyways. So even if it does induce a certain proportion of people to become more distracted, overall it's safer.

It only has 27 hp and has a top speed of 62 mph (which I imagine it will take a while to get to). The earlier ones didn’t even have airbags, but later ones added it. No way it meets federal standards here.

The point wasn’t about the invite though, just the points Biden made about GM and Ford being leaders in US-made EV when they were not. Perhaps Biden didn’t write those comments himself, but it just shows ignorance of the EV market.

I agree also, I think the whole petition and Twitter thing is silly and meaningless, but it just struck me how poorly researched and written this article was. I mean you didn’t even need to do any research, the links were all in the petition itself and yet somehow this article got it all wrong (especially with the…

The meeting was about trying to get companies to get on board with the plan. Wouldn’t you want to try convince the companies that had doubts rather than ones that were already on board?

They aren’t actually responding only to a 6 month old event, they are primarily talking specifically about the Build Back Better meeting that just happened last Wednesday 1/26. This was specifically mentioned in the petition actually and is hard to miss. Not sure why your report does not mention that at all?

Yeah, I’ve seen people call for a HUD for Teslas, but a lot of these dashboard systems call themselves a “HUD” but they really are just another gauge cluster that still require you to glance away from the road.