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I think they really don't want you doing that so it's probably best not try. The 16v battery has less than 7Ah of juice in it. You can't run accessories on 16v for very long before you kill it. While doing duty for the car it is maintained at 85 to 95%. Also the car won't sleep while there is...

While we're bodging stuff up... As alternative to taking off the 16V system. Is there a way to get USB-C "in the dark" so to speak. By that I mean nobody can unplug it from inside the cabin. Weird one I know, but a taxi passenger / driver recorder must be independently powered up by the car...

Someone with a bad case of range anxiety. By assuring they find someplace else to charge at pain of being ripped off, mostly, this will go some way to calming down the Tesla owners that get upset at a non Tesla EV charging on "their" charger.

Not a silly question! Tech levels uneven stalks...job done?

I am pretty damn sure my guy would never give me it back skew wiff but I will mention it to him and see what he reckons is the problem. They always road test before handing back. Maybe your guys don't and just trust that the computer says it's aligned?

Seriously. Cameras don't see rain. You cannot 'see' something you can't see with processing tricks if it can't see it in the first place. Rain in a constant moving video stream of car cam is just a slightly bigger blur. You are trying to unblur the rain separated from everything else and...

?? Did you mean 15C s in -7 vs 8 inside perhaps? Or maybe -7 and car set to 18deg Canadian comfy = 25deg headstart for the car A/C.

Wow. They taught themselves how to get up faster run faster kick harder, than their makers could program them.

Nice to read from others more knowledgeable than myself with no axe to grind.

I don't know the numbers any better than than the next man in the street either. You forgot that overrides also occur with the waivee being the over rider. Very easy to spot those ones, and every so often you jackpot with the other vehicle being over ridden to proceed. I only see...

You are right about machines requiring feedback to learn. But then you crunched some numbers to fit a conclusion. You only have to be out a factor of ten twice with two guesses strung together and you are back in the ballpark. Don't mistake my musings for making a case for FSD being solved...

It seems like you are saying a -7 car will take 15 minutes of driving to warm up? Without any preheating the car will start out at +8°C or thereabouts by my internal chill meter. It is well above freezing in the garage. Good enough if I delay charging so as to be finishing at departure?

How does a standard MYP sit lower than the MY regular without a shorter spring set?

I thought they centre the wheel and then do the alignment? So whoever did the alignment likes their wheel off to the right just a bit to look correct to them. Dang.

Indeed. Thanks! So nothing to worry about unless I do get a pitstop at the top. Best schedule a departure if there is another job on later. That would bring it back up to temp for some range penalty, but "free money" for getting a 2fer up and down. Otherwise turn and burn in the old...

Maybe they fell short on the processor power needed to upload from the whole US getting a free go at once.

When I have a problem like that it's because I am an idiot trying to put it in upside down. Maybe you have a dodgy 3rd party unit? How come you need an adapter anyway? I thought Tesla capitulated on over to the CCS style to make it easy for everyone to use everything aside from a few...

It's a taxi. No ski for me. Very occasionally there could be a late one up and a booking for an early one down that makes it worthwhile to wait for an hour. Nearly always it's turn and burn. f you re read it now it should make a lot more sense what I am up to.

Using Fuzzy Logic of course ;)

Simples. Alerts only take grunt labour to deal with in the moment. That's overhead on roborides. Figuring out how to improve the system, and upgrades to hardware, are major non revenue activities that are subsidized by roboride fares and ongoing capital infusions. I just thought it should be...

Supervision at the end of an alert is still supervision.

"For offroad use only". Means if anything goes wrong you are in the cart.

Wow. Anything more than a minor fender bender is going to be catastrophic. Once you bend a pillar or frame element she's toast unless it can be unbonded and replaced back to undisturbed or taken out and straightened and annealed and put back.

Details please!

No doubt Waymo has to spend so much on the ongoing R&D that no profits are possible. What I would like to know is how profitable the big city operations are as they go about their work. It must be a complicated sum as some of the supervision time is coupled to learning as they go and some of it...

Sounds to me like a bad tow sensor send. It alternates from knowing there's something hitched to not knowing which sets off the alert.

Someone should tell Elon that every time he sees rain in the movies it's because they douse the set with fire hoses and sprinkler pans to get it to show up on camera. You can't film natural rain worth a damn.

If that is self driving I am glad I don't have it.

Width only has affect on offset when it interferes with the goal of filling up the wheel well while not banging into anything. Otherwise they are completley independent qualities! Now in the case of a winterized vehicle "filling up the wheel well" is positively counterproductive if you are...

Electric Kiwi have failed to come back to me today from enquiry left at the weekend.

How the heck do you get it that cheap?

This is a concern for me. I climb ski mountains in the freezing cold. The motors will be working reasonably hard and the climate control working to keep me and passengers warm as well. Will that amount of draining of the battery serve to keep the battery warm enough for regen on the way back...

Think I better organise some ceramic coating sooner rather than later as my signage will have to be stickers.

Wheel alignment could be off.

Atomic availability seems up and down. Looks like they need to get past making wheels and selling them so they can make some more wheels. Then the price will go up so they can afford to hold more stock.

Really bad idea disengaging drive like that. Nice idea from milage point of view but freewheeling down the road not.

I don't know, perhaps to take up the right of way afforded by a waved hand. Perhaps because without disengaging at four ways they could have sat there for four days. A bit like spell checker thinks ways should be spelled every time.

Every disengagement helps If you look at where the driver is looking at the instant before they reached for the disenage and catch wavy action enough times you can model it and look for it at 4 ways. 1st in best dressed so long as you can stop before 2nd in hits you is going to get interesting.

Maybe I am being misinformed? I was scanning through the comparator app thing someone posted and got a surprise. It says we have aluminium doors! News to me.

VTNZ are going to have a field day with that here..

Folks used to get around with a 4" rubber suction cup mounted on the inside of their windscreens. Supposedly it made the windscreen impervious to rock strike. Other folks would put their palm up to press on the window when passing a vehicle coming the other way on gravel. Old wives tale gone...

Because some sporty tires are indeed directional. It's usually fairly obvious from the tread pattern as well. Some asymmetric tyres hide their asymmetry quite well. They have OUTSIDE on them just to be sure. Doesn't stop some nitwits from flipping them on the rims and running inside out.

Fit them on another car. If they still drone it's the wheels or the tires. You already changed tyres so that should be enough to call it defective.

Nuts. Private use exclusively on the EVgo everywhere deal. Still they may get my business charging at home if they can deal.

You get a night rate to charge on a public charger during the day? I am struggling to get a night rate to charge at home during the night! Shortly I will be a year up on contract with Contact Energy. I think there's going to be a reckoning. Thing is, Contact are bloody hard to contact at the...

I'd be surprised if that wasn't some anomaly of your tyres. Otherwise 20" Inductions singing on the right side would be a talking point. Soon find out.

That's Rav4 Hybrid economy. Not a bad comparison for load carrying ability. Still some savings for you on servicing even if you chew more tyres up enjoying the torque. The cost of public charging never really figured in my breakdown. I knew it cost a fair bit more hence why I went for the LR.

Avery stuff should be able to be sourced from a signage shop. Nice little sideline for them without any shagging around fitting the stuff.

Hope not, otherwise my maths is all wrong. Most of my charging will be at home so expecting good return on the investment. Enough to warrant the extra initial cost over petrol hybrid.

This is the important bit! It would have to be some humdinger solar system to put out more than a standard 16A or whatever you run over there as standard circuits. You would have to find a solar expert to fill you in. A lot would depend on what else you can do with the power. It might be...