That’s true. The issue is that the older tech is based on a generally understood standard that can be more easily interpreted and worked with for at least the basic functionality.

GAF is probably further along than Tesla is in this field. While it isn’t parity, the cost is roughly 75% more than architectural shingles.

Bodywork. I’ve tried blending paint, replacing sheet metal, and sanding filler, but it never seems to come out right. It does what it’s supposed to do but you can always tell I monkeyed with it.

Tesla likely doesn’t use Cox Automotive’s vAuto Inventory Planning software, which appears to be where this dataset came from, since they’re direct to consumer and all.

That’s great, considering teeth are treated as luxury bones in the US.

I think Axios and the author are fixated on the upper end of the market, hence my comment.

Read my comment again, then look at the examples of cars that are sitting in the Axios article.

Weird. Normal people don’t want to buy a $50k car with 7% interest rates, tech that’s outdated faster than a modern smartphone, a business model that’s constantly pushing microservices, and tracks all your movements with no way to opt out or find out where that information is going?

There’s a reason I left the commercial aircraft space to work on UAVs when I was younger. You find all kinds of gross shit in commercial jets during C and D checks and all manner of things that you really wish you didn’t.

I want Ford to offer a Universal Air kit like GM offers Specialty Vehicle Engineering’s performance packages.

I’m becoming more and more convinced that “The Great Filter” is just Kessler Syndrome.

Yea... this is why the “nothing to hide” argument is bullshit, and the only thing you should do when someone utters the phrase is punch them in the mouth.

I wouldn’t really object to the government or a treaty with our neighboring countries determining how the standard is set.

The ironic part is that the interstate system has provided orders of magnitude more economic value to the economy (the estimates I’ve seen are close to three-quarters of a trillion dollars a year in 2023 dollars) than the project ever cost.

This is literally the reason my company stopped using Display Ads in Adwords. The first thing I did when I was on-boarded was ask the marketing agency for the data on where the ads were being run. I then canceled the program because they weren’t being run anywhere relevant, and controlling where the ads appear (or…

It’s top secret in that they don’t usually willingly disseminate information garnered from it. It’s been a plausible deniability thing for quite some time and is the same with most other TS programs. 

It’s about as expensive as a 2 stage Honda snowblower, but it can be used year-round to clean up brush and dissuade the neighbor’s dog from crapping in your yard.

Nothing. But if they close their eyes and pull their ears hard enough the bad guys go away or something.

Security through obscurity is not security. If that’s NHTSAs stance they need to crack the fuck down on manufacturers operating systems immediately, and put in place a secure standard or a physical switch to enable the telemetics. They're basically admitting the scheme is insecure otherwise.

What’s the old car restoration joke? The last 10% is 90% of the work?