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Captainant

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  1. 35 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    How is that?  Oh no, I simply cannot bear to hear an opposing opinion.  Please mod, come take care of this, even though an ignore function exists. I just cannot take it!!1!

    You aren't bringing a different opinion. You're bringing alternative facts and material misrepresentions of reality and insisting we accept them as true before you will engage. 

    That is trolling my guy. 

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  2. 2 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    And you’ll be pleased to know, that I’ve notified all of your local draft boards and let them know that you are now, all, all eligible for military service.  Except Kyle who is both physically and mentally unfit for Basic.  

    I think he could've qualified for McNamara's unit

  3. 14 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    As far as your question, Ford has been in business for 121 years, has sold more than 400 million vehicles, and they're still making "bush league"  mistakes. It would appear that it's hard to make cars.

    Making 800 errors in a run of 400,000 vehicles is one thing.

    Making 800 errors in a run of 4,000 vehicles is another thing entirely. Especially while charging an absolute premium complete with waitlists for their shit box. 

     

    Not sure why there's such a weird reflex to jump to elmos defense on Surly

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    I'm no defender of Elon or Tesla, though I was impressed with a Tesla Model S that I drove, but recalls are part-and-parcel of operating a car company these days.  My Altima has had several.  Ford just recalled 450,000+ Broncos because they might lose drive power while driving, increasing the chances of an accident.  So I guess I don't understand the fixation that some have with regards to Tesla having recalls.

    https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-auto/ford-recalls-450000-vehicles-due-loss-drive-power

    Tesla has ten times the market cap of Ford. Why are they making bush league mistakes on extremely limited runs of cars if they're supposed to be worth more than the next five largest automakers combined?

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  5. 26 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    My buddy in Houston got one of these plans after he got his Tesla and started charging it and deep cooling at night.

    I didn’t quite give him the savings he was after.

    So he got two of the Tesla batteries installed (solar panels were back ordered)

    He’d charge his car, batteries, and get his house down to like 65 at night. Use the battery during the day. His bill dropped by at least half.

    They finally got his solar panels in and installed them.

    It’s a rare month where he pays anything for electricity…. Which is nuts to say in Houston, Tx.

    I don’t know what his ROI is for what he dropped…. But his feeling that he’s hacked the system gives him something that’s hard to quantitate. 

    This is the dream, he'll have decent power resiliency when ERCOT inevitably shits the bed again and leaves the state dark

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  6. 1 minute ago, fattyflattie said:

    LOL  EvErYoNe I dIsAgReE wItH iS a FaScHiSt!!!!1!1

    Cant wait to stop paying for the college of fucking lol deadbeats.  Bonus to replace a long tooth justice or two with some younger blood.

    You literally just said you want things to"swing hard" the other way from Biden. You let me know the predominant theme among the hard right. I hear they're very fine people. 

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I don't have FSD, but instead the level below I guess.  Driving on long road trips on interstates and such is quite lovely.  One hand on the wheel and being able to eat or not pay 100% attention for a while is nice.  I don't know if I'll ever get to the point of trusting it to exit or even switch lanes on its own, but taking curves and adaptive cruise is worth it to me.  I'm sure other cars are doing this now too, or catching up quickly.

    Hell the adaptive cruise control in my 2019 Jeep will maintain a follow distance and keep you between the lines with it's relatively unsophisticated ACC. It does use cameras and some radar sensors though so it's got more data to work with than a Tesla in some ways

  8. 56 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Not going to lie.  When I saw the green avatar, a silly news take, and TikTok, I wondered to myself if you were branching out from financials.  Slight surprise to see it was a completely different poster.  

    Notably not denying the fascist preference. And again repeating your lie of my ever posting a TikTok as a source. From a dude with a green avatar lol. 

    Keep on telling yourself lies and enjoy your fabricated worldview. It certainly makes voting for trump again easier

  9. 1 hour ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    You'd bet 50/50 that your average human driver would mow down 4 out of 4 kids inching on the edge of a crosswalk who happened to dash across?? No fucking way. Most drivers would have stopped. The kid didn't dash out from behind a car, it was standing at the edge of the crosswalk. I'd bet that 75% of drivers playing on their phones would have taken caution 

    In Houston, yeah I'd prolly put it below 50/50 lol

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  10. 1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    I don't know anything about O'Dowd. But if FSD can't avoid hitting a kid in those circumstances, it absolutely should not be released to the general public. 

    IMO I'm less upset about hitting a pedestrian in a tricky scenario - I'd bet 50/50 that your average human driver would do just as poorly - but the fact that the car wasn't even aware that hit it something is a HUGE problem. Any closed loop decision making should be doing OODA - orient, observe, decide, act. If it's just deciding and acting to keep rolling without observing that it just pancaked a (simulated) child... That is nowhere close to SAE level 3 automation or even road safe for the public.

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