Recent content by bradtem

In addition to the comment below, I see nothing in the crash report to suggest that the driver considered whether he should deliberately hit the woman and child or the other car. I suspect that driver in fact probably didn't want to hit the stroller and did so through error. In the trolley...

Really, every day? Then you should be able to find thousands of examples. So find me a couple. I think I've ever heard of one or two, out of the 6 million crashes each year in the USA and the many tens of millions around the world. It's not a thing. But people just love to imagine that it...

The trolley problem is an academic exercise, not a real problem in self-driving cars. Nobody pays it any attention in the industry, but the public absolutely loves it, fascinated by the idea of robots deciding who lives and who dies. In the very unlikely event such a situation came up, a...

Yes, the tires don't wear that differently. But Tesla tires wear out _fast_, too fast, and so you may find yourself wanting to make a warranty claim (until the taker makers learn not to warrant the tires on Teslas.) But if you want that warranty claim you have to show you did the rotation...

A year ago people who studied it suggested FSD would fetch $4,000 more, when it cost around $15,000 on a new car. Today the premium is in the range of $1,000 to $1,500. That's in private sales. In sales through Tesla, they are not known to offer much for it -- it's of no value to them, it's...

While the OP has confused level 2 charging cables with DC Fast, it's not out of the question to make a cable which did liquid cooling and plugged in. It would not be easy, you would need to get a good and verified coupling on the cooling fluid link and it might not be worth it. And overall...

Well, now that there's almost nobody working on the Supercharger team, an interesting question to monitor will be how long it takes them to replace these cables.

I'm pretty sure Tesla builds a mathematical model of expected traffic. They have precise data on how many Teslas drive every road and what SoC they are at when they drive it. They have forecasts for their future sales. They also have less precise data on total traffic of non-Tesla...

Perhaps talk to a company that does thin film panels, which are lighter, and might be within the tolerances on your roof. Or talk to a neighbor who has a strong roof, and see if they want solar. Fill his roof -- you pay for more than half -- and share the power between the homes with a...

That Tesla feels they must try to work on the 2016 hardware is their curse, not their blessing. All the other teams followed a fairly sane development process. Let the team use not just the best sensors of the day, but to plan to use newer and better ones which are not yet available, or...

Yes, we know that given the power of the human brain, it is possible to drive at human level with just vision (and sound and acceleration.) "Human level" isn't that great but it's acceptable at present. Given the power of the human brain. Not simply its perceptive power but its reasoning...

Well, while it's not a settled question, the prevailing opinion is that Tesla FSD as it stands won't ever be able to self-drive. I would not say it is impossible, but with that hardware setup it seems low probability. There's a silly canard about how because humans can drive with just their...

They aren't a taxonomy of autonomous driving. They are a taxonomy of roles of humans in partially autonomous systems. If that's useful, it's only for a short time. They mostly confuse people, and make them think that a self-driving car and a driver assist car are two "levels" of the same...

People don't get that the levels aren't a real thing. I mean they're a real document that was created by NHTSA around 2012 before anybody had deployed anything, then taken over by SAE, which is engineers from the legacy auto industry. They weren't created by the leading teams working on...

To Whitehorse are planned, you can see them on plugshare, but not yet under construction. CCS/CdM though. And two to complete the road to Yellowknife are also planned.