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I’m horrified by subscription features on hardware, but if Tesla wants to pour gasoline on its dumpster fire, great.

Out of curiosity, $8,000/$99 = 6yr 9mo.

As commenters on Ars have pointed out, lane keeping is a pretty standard feature at this point.

Since 1990, I’ve programmed in BASIC, C, Visual Basic, PHP, ASP, Perl, Python, Ruby, MUSHcode, and some others. I am not an expert in any of these languages—I learned just enough to get the job done. I have developed my own hobby games over the years using BASIC, Torque Game Engine, and Godot,

I think this is where AI unquestionably shines: switching languages/projects frequently, on personal projects.

so I have some idea of what makes a good architecture for a modular program that can be expanded over time.

But I actually draw the opposite conclusion. The architecture and maintainability needs are where AI is pretty poor, and they’re vastly different and more important in a 100-1000 person 10 year production system.

Missing link? Or I’m just clicking badly (Boost/Android).

If people could focus as much on climate as on AI.

A bit more technical detail from greencarreports. I was wondering if 800v charging necessarily implies anything about motor voltage, and apparently it’s “sometimes”.

GM’s GMC Hummer EV, for instance, runs at 400 volts, and each layer of its dual-layer battery pack operates in some ways as an individual pack. In 400-volt charging, the packs are connected in parallel, but for 800-volt charging a switch allows them to be connected in series—like the cells in a long, multi-cell flashlight—to take advantage of the higher voltage.

That 800-volt “trick” permits the Hummer EV pickup, with its 205-kwh battery pack, to charge at 350 kw and gain nearly 100 miles of range in 10 minutes—despite its 400-volt system and its inefficiency compared to other EVs.

The impact of handle shape is negligible next to tire size (the 19" and 20" tires many EVs have reduce range) or lack of rear wheel cowlings. I read an article about it recently related to people dying in Teslas + EU legislation, but can’t remember the source.

Also, from the article:

The company hides the door handles to improve aerodynamics, a common feature on high-end electric cars, but one that’s about to be banned in China due to safety fears.

The installation is housed in what looks like a four-story prefabricated office building. Inside sits a massive stack of refractory bricks, which are heated to temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) by an adjoining 20-megawatt solar array. That heat is tapped to generate steam that is injected into oil wells to increase production — a job previously done by a fossil-gas-fired boiler.

The project is something of a Faustian bargain. It will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 13,000 metric tons per year, said John O’Donnell, Rondo’s cofounder and chief innovation officer. But, of course, those reductions are in service of bringing more planet-warming fossil fuels to market.

The Q6 e-tron, which goes for about $70k according to caranddriver.