I’ve come to like the subtle, slightly blobby styling on the Air...
But this just looks like a Lincoln Corsair and a Chrysler Pacifica had a baby they’d rather forget about.
I’ve come to like the subtle, slightly blobby styling on the Air...
But this just looks like a Lincoln Corsair and a Chrysler Pacifica had a baby they’d rather forget about.
I’ll take some heat for this, probably, but brand new examples of base-trim budget sedans/hatches. Nissans jump to mind, but probably because they’re particularly common in my neck of the woods.
It screams “I wanted a new car but I can’t afford one and my pride wouldn’t let me just buy a decent, reliable, lightly-used…
If I were Rivian or Tesla or whatever, I would include the AM radio hardware with only basic shielding. I’d bury it away in the UI somewhere under a toggle for “Emergency Radio” and have the vehicle automatically enter a limp-state that keeps power below the interference threshold when the user requests the emergency…
Don’t worry, it wont.
Okay but, again- the ENTIRE Russian car market is about as big as California, not the realistically available market share to the EU and the US. And that’s just based on sales volume, not value of each sale. The average new car price is 10-20% higher in the US and EU than in Russia, and even higher than that in…
“Even if the market is the size of California, any car manufacturer will die for such.” - The ENTIRE Russian market is the size of California. It’s a fucking fever dream to think that US car brands could ever even achieve EQUAL market share to Russian, Chinese, and European brands in Russia, so the feasible market cap…
In 2021 there were about 1.5M reported new car sales in Russia, but in 2022 that number dropped by nearly 60% to about 0.6M new car sales.
This makes the entire Russian market fall somewhere between Pennsylvania and California in terms of yearly new car sales.
Of the ~$13B in non-Russian cars they imported in 2021 (in…
I mean, they’re losing $10k-$40k per car depending on who you believe and which method of calculation you agree with. If they were selling through a dealer network you’d NEVER be able to get one for less than $100k, so right now there’s not a lot of negotiation because the prices are, by all rights, already better…
I bought an R1T. Pretty much your only negotiation, if you’re financing, is Rivian’s finance partner vs shopping around for your own loan.
And by “negotiation” I mean that you can say “well I have a bank that will give me X.XX% with only $YYk down” and they’ll go “sick! Sounds like you should go with them!”
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.