Or, like my wonderful neighbor, want to remove their muffler to show off how awesome they are.
More seriously, a successful electric car needs a chassis that's been engineered to be an electric car. You can convert a normal front engine, rwd chassis, but it's always a compromise.
> and a software patch that lets a driver know if their brake fluid reservoir is running low.
You mean like every single other vehicle ever made? I thought this was a law. Also, if all it takes is a software patch, then that means there already a fluid level switch in the reservoir. Unless they are doing some magic computation that measures the brake fluid pressure and the brake pedal position that's able to detect air bubbles in the line. Modern ABS controllers are already doing a full physics simulation of the hydraulic brake circuits, so it's possible.
Maybe on higher end or newer vehicles sure, but for your standard economy vehicle made in the last 2 decades its commonly just visually reading (as in a human just looking with their eyeballs) the fluid level on the reservoir. No sensors or switches involved.
That hasn’t been true in the U. S. for a good 50 years. Cars going back to the 60s had a small float switch that flipped a dashboard light if the fluid got low. As one who used to work on cars as a profession, I don’t recall that I’ve ever seen a car without this simple warning device.
The reason parent commenter doesn’t know this is because hydraulic leaks on auto brake systems are relatively rare as long as the vehicle darkens the door of a shop occasionally, even if rarely. Ergo, one might not even know there is a dash light.
Tell me with a straight face that you know more than one person beside yourself that actually looks at those lights at startup and checks that they are working. :-) I mean, you're right, but I'd venture to guess that for a lot of people the "lamp test" doesn't mean anything to them.
I tend to think that this is one of those things that amateurs would only notice at first as, "I think that one of those red lights is not turning on at ignition." Not specifically the brake fluid level.
Grew up driving pre-1980's cars and didn't know about this until this year. The light on the dash that lit up was the same indicator as the light that comes on when the hand-brake is engaged. When the light would not go off when the hand-brake was disengaged and I thought the brake needed adjustment. Nope, fluid just low.
Many of them are, over here we call them "Hell's Accountants". The mid life crisis "I wanna be a bad ass" demographic.
But we also have the actual gunfighting bikers that they're cosplaying as, and the cops and media love talking it up every time they get into a brawl with each other, so it's a common enough fear for people that still take main stream media as gospel...
I have a family friend that recently had 2 strokes. The doctors are confused because he has none of the risk factors for a stroke. Really, he pretty closely follows this: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143344). However, he's been practicing breathing exercises for years and his resting heart rate is ridiculously low.
My grandparents bought a game camera at Costco, so they could see what animals were in their yard at night. I had to help them view the pictures on the SD card. It came with some app to view them, or you could just stick the SD card into any laptop. Figuring that was the easier route, I opened up my grandma's laptop and gave them instructions on how to insert the SD card, open Windows Explorer, navigate to the D drive, no wait sorry now it's the E drive, open DCIM, right click here, double click, now single click. 5 minutes later I realized how fucking stupid this all is and installed the app on her tablet.
Being unable to control your peripherials is the most irritating thing ever. Cannot copy music on an ipod - need to use buggy itunes that update every time you want to use it.
Macs have a gutted version of Excel (MS will always gut it to make Windows sales better) - I wonder what kind of work people do if Excel barely works.
The website also does not seem to show who took the market. At first I thought they maybe count Android.
Perhaps. But that's how Starbucks works, by buying shitty beans and dark roasting them. It also makes it easier to have consistent coffee (consistently burnt, that is).
Here in the UK, I'd say Starbucks tastes of nothing. Hot brown drink. Their ground bags you can buy and take home are equally a non-event. Not sure why people rave about it. Coffee is some of the worst I've had, not withstanding UK McDonald's.
Only according to Americans, tbh, and often ones who have never visited.
Ones who have visited the UK, when asked where they ate, often ate at hellish tourist traps or absolute shit tier chain pubs like Wetherspoons or Greene King.
I've always considered Pike Place Roast the worst beans that Starbucks ever foisted upon their trusting customer base; the fact that it's the only one brewed all day is an affront to decency (but that's just me). The best is Christmas Blend.
Also the same Bungie that made the Mac classic: Marathon.
> After showing the game at the Macworld Expo, Bungie was mobbed with interest and orders for the game. The game was not finished until December 14, 1994; Jones and a few other employees spent a day at a warehouse assembling boxes so that some of the orders could be filled before Christmas.[24] The game was a critical and commercial success,[27] and is regarded as a relatively unknown but important part of gaming history.[29] It served as the Mac alternative to DOS PC-only games like Doom and System Shock.[16] The game's volume of orders was unprecedented for the studio, who found that its old method of mail or phone orders could not scale to the demand and hired another company to handle the tens of thousands of orders. Marathon also brought Bungie attention from press outside the small Mac gaming market.[24]
This is great, thanks so much for sharing! The creator does an amazing job conveying a story with little to no effects, which so many other YT creators rely much on.
the whole bill is wishful thinking. personal drones routinely show up at protests nowadays.
it honestly also seems like these writers have never picked up a nice smartphone; most have enough 4k zoom to film a nature documentary. even the zoom on a knockoff go pro is shockingly good.
its a feather in the ragged cap of tough on crime legislation at best.
> A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders.
Granted, he wasn't there to sign the articles of incorporation, but he joined very early.
More seriously, a successful electric car needs a chassis that's been engineered to be an electric car. You can convert a normal front engine, rwd chassis, but it's always a compromise.