See when I read “pump switching” I thought this was the old trick where the pump you take is actually the pump for the other side, so the pump you swiped your card for is actually in the car across from you, pumping gas against your card, while you start pumping gas against whatever paltry $5 the other person pre-paid…

Planes and cars were being designed primarily with computers by the 90's.

And besides- printing of sand molds is more CNC than it is computer design, and CNC machines have been around functionally since the ‘50s.
You don’t need CAD software and a 3D part file to make stuff with a CNC. Even basic CAM software can do…

If what you’re looking for is precision, Additive is actually pretty middle-of-the-road compared to the mass-manufacturing processes already being used for body panels like this. Additive is good for high-complexity/low-volume. Automotive body panels are the opposite.

That’s also why satellites aren’t really an…

By my math, with the size of some of those panels, I think you’d blow your tolerance from thermal expansion alone unless you plan to keep all of your facilities within +/- 2 degrees C year-round, morning-to-night.

I suppose yes it is TECHNICALLY possible, but it’s completely infeasible.

Even if you held your facility to +/- 2 degrees year round, morning to night, you’d still have to account for about 0.1mm of tolerance from thermal expansion ALONE on a 2m body panel like the hood.

You sit on the threshold, my child.
Sleep on it- consider the meaningless blobs of modern sedans and crossovers. Consider the grotesque bloat of the modern truck.
Consider the unique beauty of the El Camino.

Return tomorrow after your prayers and know in your heart how radically the Holden One-Tonner fucks.

As someone who owned a Rivian, I think part of the problem is people putting the truck in “Conserve” to see the big happy range number, and then driving the truck like it’s not in conserve- flooring it out of every light, power through corners, big accel and big brakes from stoplight to stoplight, etc.

From experience,…

One of the reasons I’ve been a roof-tent holdout despite it checking a lot of other major boxes for me is that my wife and I can’t figure out what we would do with our 60lb dog. It’s not always feasible weather-wise to have him in the backseat overnight and he’d be much more emotionally and physically comfortable in…

Agreed- and it doesn’t even have to be true V2I at every intersection.
Even something as simple as deployable I2V nodes that warn autonomous cars of pattern changes, construction, etc would go a huge way.

Hell- it doesn’t even have to be V2I communication in the traditional sense. Nothing stops us from simply updating…

“Nope, most systems have a lane to light mapping that either is done by premapping or by AI on the spot. Tesla has one too, but it got confused in this particular one.”
Of course they do, I never implied they don’t, but those systems rely on lights actually being in predictable locations relative to the lanes they…

That intersection, where the perpendicular traffic’s green lights are in clear view from your approach to a red light, is a TEXTBOOK example of why some basic level of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication is a fundamental requirement for Level 4 and Level 5 autonomy. 

I’m not really surprised by this, but I think it was probably more about the potential warranty claims from misuse. I on of Rivian’s biggest issues right now is hemorrhaging money and reputation on reliability issues right now.

It sounds like you don’t understand what the tank turn was.
For starters, it wasn’t any sort of pivot/parking aid. It was just a super tight donut turn possible on loose material only. It’s not like the four-wheel steering on the Hummer EV.

But second, it was already developed. Maybe not OPTIMIZED, but it’s a software…

I always worried it was a deeper misunderstanding and I was going to be deemed “The Asshole” on a reddit thread, but the guy pulled into his space as I was starting to correct. Letting him know I wasnt leaving should have been the end of it… its not like he was losing his spot to the miscommunication.

I don’t negotiate with terrorists. This will eventually get me killed, and I’m okay with that.

We’ve all had someone snipe the parking spot we’re CLEARLY waiting for, but this is another level- a level not unlike the time I pulled in to park in a tight spot, needed to reconfigure to not block in my neighbors, and as I pulled out the car across from me started to pull forward to take my spot as a pull-through. I…

You’re right, good catch- I was looking at the time for the base Taycan Turbo.
Worth saying, though, that the Taycan Turbo S is almost $200k and the plaid is more like $110k. It’s still an impressive showing for Tesla.

Well it beat the Taycan around the Nürburgring by 11 seconds. It’s about as fast as the new NSX or an R35 GT-R.

It’s big and heavy- it’s no F1 car, but it’s got a low center of gravity and torque vectoring, so it’d be a good time for sure.

Care to actually levy a criticism, or are you too busy weaving through traffic in your lifted duramax?

Yeah rerunning these numbers for US market and Japanese market CTRs would be enlightening.