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cman8
Member
If we bought our car outright will you pay the Model 3 payment? 
I take Paypal, but please add the 3% fee.. J/k. But that is a heck of a bet.
Here's to hoping we get it tonight! I have a 5 day weekend that started today, so I am ready to get 8.0 and play around with it!
Thanks Erik
I take Paypal, but please add the 3% fee.. J/k. But that is a heck of a bet.Here's to hoping we get it tonight! I have a 5 day weekend that started today, so I am ready to get 8.0 and play around with it!
Thanks Erik
Newscutter
Member
Thank you to our generous benefactor. I can send you my PayPal details when my turn comes up in the queue.
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Well to be honest Bertel Schmitt doesn't have to eat anything, as Tesla's AP cannot (and will not even as per 8.0) autonomously change lanes (because you'd better yourself look in your left mirror first whether there's another vehicle approaching very fast, as we all know).Although there's still a possibility 8.0 won't actually ship by midnight PDT today, I wouldn't suggest getting one's hopes up on collecting even if it does ship, as this may well end up being a Bertel Schmitt wager.
BUT the subject of this great thread is happily a lot easier to judge
. Thanks to @calisnow for having started it. As another forum member posted: it's great to see a 9 page thread where nobody is complaining! And of course this has become the place to be for 8.0 news. BTW @calisnow: feel free to PM me as you will definitely need a lawyer in continental Europe, where the concept of 'consideration' does not exist: a promise is a promise. Still, I think you have ways out of this which we should discuss (concepts of "shipping", "midnight", etc.
). Very obviously, there's also the concept of irony
K-MTG
Sunshade Captain of TMC
Well to be honest Bertel Schmitt doesn't have to eat anything, as Tesla's AP cannot (and will not even as per 8.0) autonomously change lanes (because you'd better yourself look in your left mirror first whether there's another vehicle approaching very fast, as we all know).
BUT the subject of this great thread is happily a lot easier to judge
BTW @calisnow: feel free to PM me as you will definitely need a lawyer in continental Europe, where the concept of 'consideration' does not exist: a promise is a promise. Still, I think you have ways out of this which we should discuss (concepts of "shipping", "midnight", etc.
Nope. Here's the original wager from the horse's mouth:
If that Autopilot changes lanes automatically at the touch of a blinker stalk by, say, one year from now, in a series Model D, I will publicly eat a Tesla baseball hat on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. How about it, Elon?
Tesla’s game-changing, lane-changing Autopilot? “Currently, there is no radar on the market that can achieve that,” Toyota engineer says - DailyKanban
That is precisely what it does.
anxman
Member
While I'm not paying for any payments, I agree with the Op's sentiment. When I read a tweet from Elon with a date in it, I add at least 5 days to it.
Bladerunner
Member
The problem with the LCD flicker is there are two potential sources.
One source is the refresh rate and that's determined by the vertical sync. This is typically 60Hz, but it could be 30Hz.
The other source depends on how the backlight is driven. There are some PWM methods that flicker when viewed on a camera.
So that's why turning up the backlight to 100% fixed it in your case. The duty cycle is 100% when it's on full.
GlmnAlyAirCar
Active Member
“If you just go straight on, and you are not changing lanes, then the one sensor going forward, camera and radar, is good enough,” says Ken Koibuchi, General Manager of Intelligent Vehicle Development at Toyota. “When it comes to lane changes, we have to look in all directions. Otherwise, the system can’t make reliable decisions. You absolutely need radar in all directions for changing lanes. You can have a number of cameras installed in the car, but they won’t help you for distance with their wide angle lens, their resolution is very poor. You need to cover long distances, and a wide field of view at the same time.”
That Toyota guy is perfectly right: you need backward-looking radar (at the very least) for autonomous lane change.
So, "-serious mode-": please do not give anyone the impression that one could change lanes with Tesla AP without yourself first looking in rear view mirrors (no kidding, this is about avoiding reckless driving and accidents).
But let's leave AP for another thread and continue to be on topic here: namely, waiting for midnight and/or the first 8.0
BluestarE3
Active Member
