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They have a brake pedal too, like every car. The brake pedal should override the acceleration like in any ICE car.

So, technically I don't see any problem.

For old farts like me who used to use News groups where binary data was first encoded in uuencode and later with the innovative base64, it is totally expected behavior.

Also look into the text files für the public/private keys. It is always this, because the screen has only 80 characters in width.

The ePrivacy directive, mostly referred to as "Cookie law" is from 2002.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A...

The law does not require a specific implementation. Law is never written to require a specific implementation and should not be written in this way.

Instead law is written in a technology neutral way. It is so neutral that it isn't even called "cookie law". It is called ePrivacy directive. It has only 5 times the mention of "cookie" as an example.

Reference: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A...

If you don't have other sensor data, like cell tower and Wifi, then GPS still has a pretty poor performance. Another problem of GPS is altitude. GPS is not really designed to give a good altitude reading, especially when you are in the mountains where only get satellites readings from over your head and don't have readings from the satellites on the horizon.

But in the mountains, altitude is also a very important information. I was up at basecamp in Nepal (south side) and Tibet (east and north side). The basecamp in Nepal is in a very tight spot. Bouncing signals is there a problem. Even radio is a problem.

BTW: I commute daily with train, here in Germany. I play Pokemon and I have problems getting a GPS fix with the latest iPhone when I'm not directly at the window.

Alan Arnette is a well recognized mountaineer for years. He summited Everest, K2, and all the 7 summits. He is well recognized and connected within the community for years. He knows how it works.

Did you also read the last sentences of his blog post?

How do you come to the conclusion that traditional OEMs are terrible at the sensors, software, and UX?

For example, Daimler/Mercedes is developing for years toward self driving cars. They had working prototypes in the 1970s with "electronics" based on analog designs that was working as good as a modern Tesla FSD, with the exception that it required lots of space. Mercedes/Daimler is the reason why we have cheap ultrasonic sensors in modern cars. They developed that in the 1990s together with then Temic. They had a working self-driving prototype during that time. All that lead to cheap sensors we use today daily for adaptive cruise control in every modern car by any OEM. Mitsubishi had for sometime the best in class safety system with sensors able to detect pedestrians, like kids, and bicyclists.

MobilEye is now developing self-driving capabilities for years, and IRC first used by BMW for safety features in their models. Only later Tesla used the system in ways which were never consumer ready. That'S why they finally split.

The things is OEMs are conservative introducing features to consumer. Because nobody wants to risk its brand to devalue. Its not only that, if there are too many accidents that would mean that the insurance will have an extra premium, which would lead that consumers don't buy such cars.

So I was driven in car in the early 2000s with features that are rolled out just recently, like the level 3 by Mercedes on highways.

The things is, most just don't see how much things are going on under the hood. They just see the MMI/entertainment system. Yes, that was for long not as high value proposition.

Do you know how much software is in a modern car by any OEM?

You ever heard about Autosar as a software middleware that is in use for years by most of the OEM to decouple software and hardware development?

Actually, the Gigafactories are operated by Panasonic on behalf of Tesla. Technically the cell production in the Gigafactory is done by Panasonic and the packs then assembled by Tesla.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Panasonic-to-bo...

Define price reduction for Meta, Alphabet.

What many people underestimate is all the comfort stuff we have and use in modern vehicles. Most of the utilizes some sort of electric drive. Any electric drive requires power: * Power sliding windows * Power seats * Electric trunk * Power sliding roof * Electric mirrors

Also other stuff: * heated back window * heated front window * heated seats * heated steering wheel

Also the lights, even when they are LED they still draw a lot of power: * front lights, * back lights. * surrounding lights * comfort lights

That is just of few devices. Just look into all the comfort in a modern (luxury) vehicle.

Funfact: NACS ist just CCS with a different physical connector. You just need to read and understand the specs.

I own my S60 since it was brand new in 2001. Manual shifter. Currently I'm at roughly 9l/100km. 210km/h is doable.

What about accessibility for people with visual impairments?

The author has warnings for the last three version, because of usability. I see lots of red flags also for the other versions in terms of accessibility.

I'm in the Nuremberg area. We have no fibre in downtown Nuremberg for the company in an old building.

I live in a very small town in the outskirts, we will have no fibre for next years. Only the main town will get fibre the next few years.

There are lots of electric trains without battery and some with battery. All of Europe is running lots of electric trains without battery.

Here in Germany on some tracks some trains also run on battery. As a test case we had such a train for some month to replace a diesel train. They just had to return the test train.

You never visited Germany, aren't you?

And you still having your users complaining to you not to Microsoft.

Oh, yeah, KC85. We had them in school, when I was in my early teens.

It seems I'm getting old. What's the trick here? Is this a trick? Yeah, that is who have done things in the past. That's when I learned programming and then "hacked in" the hex codes on a hex keypad on a Z80. That's when I learned programming on my first 8086. You tried to figured out what caused the least overhead. That meant saving space on instructions and in processing power/speed. But then I learned that this is called Spaghetti code.

The error message is along the lines: "You can't sign in here with a personal account. Use your work or school instead".

Which means, that you need to associate your existing account with an @outlook.com address. It seems, that Microsoft changed that requirement somewhere in 2020/2021.

Yes, previously Microsoft account with whatever email address was enough. But they changed that.

I stumbled upon that while upgrading to new hardware, which requires new activation of the Office products.

We are a small company. I don't use pirated software. I like on-premise software over cloud solutions. Adobe and Zoom ae the only cloud solutions we use. Zoom is obviously. But I look on how to get rid of Adobe, while Adobe Stock has no real competition as the bought Fotolia, which we used before.

Nope, a Microsoft account is not enough. It must be an @outlook.com address, or any registered company/school/university address.

It took me almost 3 days to find the problem. Microsoft changed that and between all "answers" there is only one single thread in the Microsoft forums that had the solution.

There are lots of devices these days that rely on cloud infrastructure, like Apple devices, Teslas. Its becoming more devices.

The same for software. Even Microsoft is going fully Cloud. Just had problems to activate my MS Office for Mac Business 2019, which I bought in physical. They now require on @outlook.com email address to be able to activate. Otherwise I can't use my "box" software.

The podcast is called "Geladen" and is in German language: https://geladen.podigee.io/

Just last week I was listening to a German podcast on battery technology. There is a German company also working on this. It pretty much sounds like a Zinc-Air battery[1].

It is a metal. It produces hydrogen and electrical energy while discharging. It holds up energy for some time after charging. It can be fully discharged without negative effects like all the existing technologies.

So it seems, that there are a number of companies working on this promising technology.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93air_battery

Coincidence? ;)

Funfact: San Franscisco has a public transport system in the area where the driverless cars are operating.

Funny, just yesterday I listened to a podcast were a small part they were talking about retro-computing. They ware talking about AS400 and that they are still in use, if you think about Amadeus, one of the worldwide flight-booking systems for example. That some banks in their backend still use AS400 and EBCDIC. The thing why these systems are not being updated is more like: never change a winning team. Because you can spend millions to update those systems just to discover that there is an error in your update. So you spent millions for nothing or even worse. The is not real technical benefit for them to update as long as the systems run.

How do you come, that they had no distinction between blue and green?

The Greek had no word for blue, which is the reason Homer described the sky with different words. But I never heard that the sky was green-isch.

While on the other side the Greek had more similarities between green and yellow.