Just a smol with big opinions about AFVs and data science. The onlyfans link is a rickroll.
Sure, and that’s a completely reasonable position for you! But the question is more “who cares enough about someone else’s typos to point them out in a pretty rude and completely unsolicited way” than it is “who cares about grammar errors”. You welcoming correction is genuinely great - them acting like a reddit grammar nazi isn’t.
Whocares?
Edit: No, hang on - Sincerely, why do you care? People make typos all the time and this isn’t reddit circa 2012, a person’s worth is no longer evaluated entirely on their passing a proofread.
Yeah, the fascists have really fucked the EV market here. Canada/Mexico are maneuvering to get around our bullshit, but it’s been… disappointingly slow. We all get some really kickass options if you want to spend ~$50,000 USD (or more) on a car, but I don’t think there even ARE any EVs available in the US for less than ~$30,000 sticker price, and then on top you’re paying 10%-25% in taxes + fees. Anecdotally I know tons of people that want an EV in the US, but the capacity to purchase a new car is plummeting (by some reporting it’s even hit an all-time low) right now thanks to Trump’s economy, and there really hasn’t been time for a used-EV market to establish itself.
Hoping the Dongfeng cars aren’t absolutely obliterated with regulatory/procedural bullshit by the Trumpers because man do we need something to fill that market segment already.
The reason for the gas/brake being next to eachother is due to the historical need to work the clutch pedal at the same time as the gas/brake in manual transmissions. However most modern EVs (including tesla model 3s) have single-pedal driving (press to go, release to slow), so the standard is indeed changing!
Actually yes. Event data recorders are highly regulated components, and Teslas especially are quite frequently tested for compliance (because nobody trusts them. They’re fascists). As far as I am aware (and to be clear I’ve looked into this rather extensively) there has never been any indication that Tesla has the ability to manipulate information stored in the EDR system, and if indications of it were found it would likely result in the temporary suspension of road certification for all affected models while the issue was investigated - the NTSB’s nuclear option.
While I respect skepticism as in this case it’s especially warranted, I do want to point out that you’ve gotten the investigatory body wrong - the NHTSA is not the NTSB. The NTSB preliminary report itself is really very straightforward and does not at all exculpate Tesla in this incident - a likely reason for that is highlighted in the Ars article:
For example, a Tesla defect known as “Sudden Unintended Acceleration” can occur when “components of the vehicle require additional power” and the draw on the battery causes “significant spikes in the system,” their lawsuit explained. If that happened to Butler’s car, the inverter may “incorrectly interpret that the accelerator pedal has been pressed” and rapidly advance to dangerous speeds.
It is fairly clear in the above NTSB release that they do not have proof positive that the accelerator was physically depressed, just that the logs indicate that is what happened. That ambiguity/uncertainty is likely the reason they have opened a special investigation into this incident, and given the vast horizons of potential biases in reporting about this tragedy I agree that best practice will be to look primarily at what the source has said, and treat speculation (both for or against Tesla) with a healthy degree of skepticism.
Edit: Further, the NTSB is likely pulling this data directly from the EDR itself - a device that must adhere to some extremely strict federal standards on retrieval and data integrity. Teslas do automatically report this information out to Tesla’s servers in the event of a crash, but there has never been any indication I have been able to find that Tesla has even the capability to edit the information stored on the device itself - and the EDR is a system component frequently audited by numerous independent bodies for compliance, including that most reliable of compliance tester: open source enthusiasts.
Edit 2: clarity
Having recently driven a bunch of EVs while shopping for a replacement to my poor dead subaru, the 5N is… painfully fine. Like if someone offered you one for free say yes, but… It just kinda feels like you’re driving your standard daily driver, and someone snuck in and replaced the engine with some star trek bullshit. It’s as comfy as a nissan minivan, and has better acceleration than anything short of a true ICE supercar, and it’s just… I don’t know, it’s a really weird feeling to drive. Honestly it was just a little too discordant for me and I passed. If you want an EV that really nails the feeling of driving a proper classic muscle car though, the Mustang Mach-E is by far the best. Kinda a stupid car by every other metric (just like the ICE mustangs!) but damn if it isn’t satisfying to some deep, cliche’d part of my soul.
(That said if you like rally, the ioniq 5 XRT is the best rally car I have ever driven. Mach-E Rally feels deeply undercooked in comparison, XRT with a bit of suspension tuning feels like the car is having just as much fun as you are)
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Also, and this is incredibly petty of me, embrace the NACS port. It’s not particularly better than CCS (but everyone has finally agreed on a standard, so that’s good at least) and the adapters are clunky and a pain, but Tesla drivers get so damn butthurt about non-teslas taking up slots at the superchargers, and it’s Fucking Wonderful. I see your “I got it before I knew he was crazy sticker” and nah, fam, you’re driving a model Y; we all knew what he was by that point. Nice try, now get in line – the non-fascists need to charge.
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… They ask, five days later.
Guessing: They’re the only ones who tried, every other major auto manufacturer was at best barely working to move off ICE tech, and china actually encouraged domestic production of EVs and invested heavily to develop EVs in foreign markets.
Edit: yep
Can do (thanks/sorry!)
Edit: Neeeevermind. Ty mods, sorry about all this.
Edit: oh, well nevermind I guess. Thank you mods, I see my response isn’t needed :)
You’re trying to signal your superiority by performatively explaining/demonstrating how little regard you have for what I’ve said, and how I’m even so foolish that I’ve made a blunder which illustrates your point - so to be clear I understand what you’re doing, and now we’re on the same page so you don’t have to keep with the tedium of doing that.
Unfortunately you’re going on to continue escalating your insults, and throw out yet more inaccurate assumptions of the motivations behind my behavior. Is it so truly difficult for you to believe someone else could just… be a nice person?
Again, you’re focusing on a very minor semantic point instead of the demonstrated behavior where you’ve spent hours viciously insulting me. If you’d like to address that, I’m happy to discuss it. If you want to talk through the stress, I’m happy to discuss that as well.
I suspect your presentation of what you described as not stressful is because you’re again projecting your own behavior onto what I’ve said, and are reacting with hostility because you see it as an attempt to be ‘manipulatively polite’ since yourself would not say something like that sincerely. But critically I’m not you, and it’s unfair to judge me by the standards with which you judge yourself. I have done nothing worse than call your behavior (again, behavior wherein you repeatedly have insulted me over and over and over, often without a point) toxic - so if you wouldn’t mind* explaining what makes me “a piece of shit” to you and the apparent multitudes, I’d be very curious to hear your explanation.
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I’m not even sure how you could choose to have poor reading comprehension. I remember once being a very young child looking at words and not automatically reading them, but no matter what I do I can’t willfully have that happen as an adult. I suspect the same is true of comprehension - unless you just spectacularly poorly phrased this and you just meant that I was intentionally misinterpreting you, it seems like a real stretch to imply it wasn’t a comment on my capacity for reading.
Somehow the fact that you have spent hours viciously insulting me for calling your joke lame feels far more pertinent than quibbling over the semantic point that over those hours you did not literally dedicate all of your time to doing that, something nobody here actually thought.
But does go some way towards explaining this whole mess. You’re existing in that awful space wherein crushing boredom is combined with extreme stress and disruption to your sleep schedule. I’ve been there, and I know exactly how difficult it can be to be in that position and keep a firm handle on your reactions. I’m truly sympathetic, and I hope that once things settle down you’re able to conduct yourself in a way that more closely represents who you are as a person, and I hope that whoever it is makes a speedy recovery (or if this is hospice, I hope they pass painlessly).
Oh, more of this.
And again, you should try to avoid cheapening serious words by using them where they don’t apply.
You have spent hours both insulting and projecting motivations onto me - my earlier characterization of calling you toxic was possibly premature, but it has been utterly vindicated by your subsequent behavior. And no, attempting to explain the behavior of someone you’ve spent hours spewing various forms of invective against as being due to a fundamental flaw in their ability to reason (poor reading comprehension) is indeed ableism. That you’re now trying to couch it as somehow originally having been intended to convey that ‘I have chosen to have poor reading comprehension’ is both absurd and transparent, and I think we both know how flat it just fell.
I look forward to your next entry into whatever this is.
You did, though. And ah, I was wondering when you’d start being ableist.
Again, I called your joke “lame”.
In response, you’ve spent hours viciously insulting me while trying to turn it around so that you were the aggrieved party. Even if I were just whining, which I wasn’t even doing, your response has been wildly disproportionate to the slight you’re attempting to manufacture.
Again, the question is more about them than it is about you.
But to answer your question: by asking for them, or marking it in your profile or similar. For example, I now have you tagged as “grammar check me, daddy” so if I see it in the future I’ll know you’re down. But the fact that one person may appreciate them doing it does not mean they have an excuse to be rude (and obnoxiously anglocentric on an international forum) to everyone, just on the offchance they’ll like it.