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The laws aren't there to allow unattended robotaxis and few legislatures are really that concerned about it right now. They are busy with the...
The limit on every car manufacturer to date has been batteries. Tesla has been the only company to date that could get enough batteries to mass...
There are only 5 chargers at the Dalles. It's one of the smallest supercharger installations I've ever seen.
Coming in very late here and someone may have mentioned it, but there is a boom going on in Washington State in towns that used to have aluminum...
The environmental factors were a nice plus, but they were not a driving factor in buying my Model S. The Model S was not only the only car I...
There are many prognosticators out there predicting that when self driving cars become common that private ownership of cars will virtually become...
Should still be 100 KWh on the S/X.
Do you leave your car plugged in at home? I normally do and ran into a quirk/bug about 18 months ago that the car won't go fully to sleep after a...
I'm not surprised, the Willamette Valley got hit hard with the ice storm. We just got a lot of snow. More than 2008 when it snowed non-stop for...
In Oregon governor Kate Brown was trying to get teachers vaccinated before the elderly. I don't know if she succeeded or not. I don't pay much...
I don't believe PDX charges anything extra for the service
I wanted an automatic scanner that I could load a roll of film and go do something else. The descent scanners that can do this are limited. Only...
My father was a professional photographer. We have negatives going back to the 30s. I started digitizing his slides 2 weeks ago. I'm managing...
At the Portland airport they have many AC plug ins for EVs in the parking garage. Last time I picked someone up at the airport (over a year ago)...
My MCU is dying. It's rebooting itself more often and taking longer to reboot. I contacted them about upgrading and the tech said they dropped...
CNN reported on this interview on their website today. I like Sandy Munro, he caught flak from both sides with his breakdown of the M3, but as an...
It's too early to tell, but the Brazilian variant might be a game changer. Some early reports say it's evolved to fool antibodies. It's like it...
It may have been spread initially by someone like a delivery driver. A friend of mine drives delivery trucks to Walmart stores. He's hyper...
The dash is cut down from the previous model and the back seat has changed. The doors also look like they have less in them. That could account...
Places that are in the "corners" of the world have been able to virtually eradicate the virus, but they have a limited number of people crossing...
The fee may have changed, but it was $5 when I did it.
A) I was not addressing outcomes from COVID specifically. B) I was pointing out one of the downsides of modern medicine. Simply pointing out that...
I've pondered this for years. With modern medicine we save a lot of people who would have died young and not reproduced in previous generations....
If Tesla includes camera based side mirrors in a refresh along with the legally mandated mirrors, if the laws do change people can remove the...
There are several car makers with enough resources to make a lot of mistakes before they get it right, VW among them. It allows them to sit at...
Sandy Munro is a good resource for not just what different companies are doing in the EV world, but also how their corporate cultures are dealing...
The Chinese often compete on price and they are patient about moving into new markets. I don't expect the Chinese brands to put much pressure on...
Nice, chrome blackout job. But you do realize there are a lot of Model 3s around Portland these days? When I got my S most drivers would...
The Taycan also has the Porsche name. There was a lot of pent up demand for another automaker with a reputation for quality to come out with a...
Any size difference from that one video can be explained by flaring the fenders a little to accommodate wider tires. From an engineering...
I would think that by definition all motors are "dynamic".
I don't either.
I wonder if evidence will surface that somebody was selling vaccine out the "back door" to people willing to pay a bribe for it. Whether in this...
On the coast is wasn't too bad, but not as good as I've seen in Washington and Oregon. In part is was abnormally warm. Morro Bay is usually in...
When I went down to Central California in October I found mask wearing very lax in the Valley and only a bit better on the coast. It was lax as...
I hope they offer a cheap upgrade path to MCU2 for those customers as part of the recall. MCU1 struggles to keep up with the current code. If...
Elon probably borrowed against his stock to buy his Bel Aire homes, which he has sold or are selling now. He made money on all those houses,...
And what will the reaction be if there are no changes and all they were doing was maintenance?
A fairly significant number of people who have mild cases of COVID have long term complications. Somewhere between 10% and 20% of adults who get...
When coordination from the top is not there, things become a free for all. Though in any large effort, especially done quickly, there will be...
He is the richest person with known wealth. There are rumors that Vladimir Putin might be the richest person on Earth, but it can't be verified....
I did hear a story purportedly from a lab tech at the Wuhan virology lab that sometime in late 2018 or early 2019 there was an incident late one...
For charging off the supercharger network, PlugShare - Find Electric Vehicle Charging Locations Near You is your friend. You won't get...
The production of 4680s is not enough for any production vehicle right now and I strongly doubt the standard S and X will get them until they show...
Living on the Oregon/Washington border, the two states are mostly in lock step in the COVID rules. It could be the rules have tightened recently....
There is a destination charger in Morro Bay that doesn't show up on the Tesla map. I told them they needed to get on the map and they said that...
Back in October I stopped at the Springfield supercharger twice on my way down and back to California. Both times the Holiday Inn let me use the...
Tesla did test the Model S in the test center in Sweden where every car company goes to test winter performance. One area where American cars...
The solution car companies came up with for this problem before the X was sliding doors, but those have largely gone out of fashion. The changes...
This has been on my mind for months. There are several scenarios I can think of that could partially or completely collapse the US health care...