1. Look up the laws of Thermodynamics

2. Look up what a battery is

3. Stop using “maybe”

#FUCKcars

Land of the free™.

You’re free to choose anything you want as long as the shareholders benefit.

With old cars if the radio stopped working you’d go to the dealership/auto store and have it replaced. I think a lot of people would be fine having to go to a similar place for software fixes. Remote updates scare me. Rivian had an update earlier this year that blue screened the infotainment console on every car it went out to. It’s not hard to believe a similar mixup could happen with a more important system.

What cloud based information could my physical car need to be operational? I know the shift to software defined cars means there is more relience on tech and the company that makes the car but what could they possibly be keeping server side? If it’s needed to use the car what would happen if you drive the car somewhere there isn’t wifi/cell service? Does the car just stop?

The one outside my local right-aid was hit by a car about 2 years ago. It’s still sitting there all mangled and sad looking.

Some months have a prime number of days.

I don’t think anyone should need to own a gun. But I also don’t think owning a gun and talking about it makes you a “gun nut.”

This and posts where every comment is deleted by the automod.

“We do these things not because they are easy. But because we are hard!” -JFK

In the USA it looks to be governed by the state or whomever owns the road (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States_by_jurisdiction). I’ve only ever seen minimum speed limits on highways.

It’s illegal to cross the street some places

It was somewhat reassuring for the future that the USA can still have a “normal” debate and members of government. There was classic question dodging and some over the top rhetoric but nothing that made me think one of the debaters might actually live in their own fantasy land with no concept of what government is. I tuned in for a few minutes and it was boring in a good way.

In NJ you are allowed to bump the curb when parallel parking but not allowed to go up on the curb. Getting bumped by a car hurts a lot.

Just a warning that link straight downloads the file. It is just a PDF but if you’re a security minded person avoid clicking.

Yes. Instead of publicly funding trains he convinced people that he would “build underground highways that would never have accidents or traffic or collapse during a California earthquake.”

“Theyre just so excited they can’t sit still. These people they have to get up and run around. We have the fastest runners. They get up and run and sometimes they leave but they come back they always come back. I met one guy he left and he came back he said “they’re not doing it like you over there. They are not good.” And I said I know.”

In our experience Google maps updates traffic conditions faster than apple maps. But Google maps tends to pick more routes that I wouldn’t consider the most efficient, ex: getting off the highway sooner and taking back roads vs going up another exit closer to the destination. But like I said we have had a few times where apple maps has gotten confused with places with similar names.

I haven’t had any issues with Google maps recently, occasionally it’ll try to take me on a more “fuel efficient” route. Recently my wife used apple maps and it took us to the wrong location, it kept trying to take us to Washington township when the address we entered was in Washington heights.

I think it is wrong to assume “all doctors are greedy.” ask any child why they want to be a doctor and they’ll tell you “to help people.”

…it’s called triage.