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Did you suffer any increase in premiums? I’ve never been involved in any sort of accident (other than being a passenger), so what happens after an accident re. premiums, etc. is a Scary Thing that I’d love to demystify for myself before I learn by experience.

It doesn’t measure those factors in advance.

I’ve thought that ever since they got caught rolling an EV down a hill for a promo video, after taking tons of money from a major automaker.

Wait? That wasn’t Tesla? Okay, I guess there’s a level below “fraudulent to the very core”

> My 2016 ICE car's "miles left" meter is accurate to +/- 2 miles from the moment I top up the tank (80% highway driving, 20% hilly city and rolling country roads).

No way. That’d be accurate to under 1% - well within the variation you’ll get just from different air densities (temperature, pressure, humidity). Forget about A/C on or off, tire pressure, etc.

It’s gotta be tricking you somehow.

Regulation is just social pressure enforced by guns.

USian here, I see the same thing.

> could only see a about 5-feet forward

Does this mean optical nearsightedness, or a neural thing limiting vision by distance?

Charge timer is the only thing other than the backup camera that is materially improved by the larger touch screen. The charge timer is moved to the little dashboard LCD in the S model, and it’s a bit janky.

I have a 2014 Nissan Leaf S (the lowest trim). It’s refreshingly simple, it has a screen but it’s only for the radio and it’s not a touch screen. Tactile controls for everything.

It has an 80 mile range, which is fine for everything around the region, and my family has a gas car anyway. The 80 mile range keeps the prices pretty low, too. Highly recommended for a nearly free-to-use EV without the techno stuff.

(We also have a 2015 Leaf SL, the top trim, and it has the touchscreen stuff. SL has 360 camera, leather seats, fancy sound system and that’s about it. Get the S. It’s all you need.)

Okay, so 20mi of where you were born and the four other places easily accessible by rail. It just wouldn’t work in rural, spread out America.

(Anyway, if we cave to this demand, getting rid of trains will be next on the docket. Remember when the green folks were all about EVs, until they started happening? And now it’s “no personal transportation”?)

> to turn all of our freeways into green spaces.

And live and die within 20mi of where you’re born?

Hedge trimmers haven’t been.

Defcon tickets are that cheap? Man, I just assumed it was a 1200+ thing.

Keyboard brightness - you can put the control into control center and then it’s two clicks to get to a slider for it.

Not awesome, but for the relatively rare times I want to change it manually, it’s been acceptable.

This is a very strong statement about an unreleased product in a nascent field. What are you basing it on?

They also don’t IPO more than once, usually.

Not Apple PR magic, but true firsthand experience. Objectively, this is the computer that makes me happiest and most productive. It could run on a 6MHz slime mold processor for all I care.

See, this is the thing about M1: I don’t care about your numbers (which I have no doubt are true), I care about my personal experience with the magic cold $999 aluminum slab that runs circles around everything I owned before.

Reading these always feels like winning an F1 race, then being gaslit about how that’s not possible because of inferior cylinder design.

I have one, and it did/does. Those statements were not untrue.

Idk if it swaps fast or what, and I don't care.

Git commit timestamps are 100% fudgeable. You could implement this based on GitHub repository age, but the assumptions would break for imported repos.

(Understanding we’re waaaay off in edge case territory here and this is all basically academic.)

Collect calls.

Good point. I’m mostly talking about following the phone tree (the vehicle extended warranty people needed you to hit 1 to get to a human). Definitely a good call not to just mash numbers.

A couple years ago I committed to answering all phone calls and keeping spammers on the line as long as possible. Within a couple weeks it had real effect, and now I’m legitimately excited when the rare spammer calls me.

Probably 2h net investment for the near-guarantee that calls to my phone are legit. Totally worth it.

Steps:

(1) If it’s a robot, punch numbers until you get to a human. (2) Act like you’re 120yrs old, incompetent, and forgetful. Tell them some stories about your great-grandson on the baseball team. (3) When they call you on it, switch to your real persona and just tell them you’re setting the phone down on the table and they’ll have to hang up. They hate hanging up, it messes up their stats or something.

This is how you get put on the _real_ do-not-call lists - the ones in India labeled “unprofitable_numbers.txt”.

This is somewhat pedantic. With this logic, you could say that the purpose of a car is to get somewhere, and therefore the optimal speed is c.

But that would be a completely useless thing to say, because we can’t get your Camry to c. There is a whole system of tradeoffs that we all know exists.

Google could easily lower ”bad things” to 0 by shutting down tomorrow. The government could easily eliminate racism by nuking everyone. None of those are interesting or intellectually stimulating discussions.

“Optimal” is different than “perfect”. Everyone else here is talking about it from a system view.

Relevant: Bits About Money, The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...

Agree. Apple’s default password generator has always seemed to strike a sane balance - plenty of entropy, technically contains special characters (-) but nothing that needs escaped, and very typeable or readable.

My requirement is to tow the Space Shuttle up Mt Everest. I found a used Prius and am unsatisfied with its performance.

Cmon, that’s not a defect. That’s being irritated because you didn’t spec out what you need.

Heavy. Huge. Expensive. Complex. Prone to failure.

Basically like any design-by-committee output.

Yeah, and there will always be a country willing to let you do anything short of actual piracy under their flag, maybe for a fee. There’s no world government, thank goodness.

1. The Tesla charger is _better_ in essentially every measurable and subjective way.

2. They want to sell cars, and cars with the Tesla connector have access to Tesla superchargers without a dongle.