And here I am, in a country where the highest speed limit anywhere is 90kph(for Americans: 56mph)
Why a separate speed limit for Amurricans? Don' let Trump have cause to invade. Greenland first, don't be next.
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Why a separate speed limit for Amurricans? Don' let Trump have cause to invade. Greenland first, don't be next.
Police aren't common once you get away from Reykjavík. Really rare, actually, in my experience. But you're dead on with fines. Said 80mph /129 kph would be 115k ISK ($920) and two points on your license. Just 2 kph more raises it to 150k ISK ($1210) and three points. 141kph (88 mph) is an automatic loss of license for a month, alongside a $1690 fine. 171 kph (106 mph) leads to criminal charges.
I understand that Norway is even worse.
StealthP3D
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Today's most hilarious fair and balanced headline about the Starship hopper by the mainstream media:
We are only reporting the facts sir, only the facts!
Are you trying to say this isn't normal reporting? I mean, the news following all of the Apollo launches back in the 1960s and '70s right up to the last Space Shuttle launch focused on how uncomfortable the launches made the local residents feel. The success of the missions was always secondary to the main story of nervous residents.
copyhacker
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Musk is great but he's no Zefram Cochrane.
I'd settle for Solomon Epstein. Although the way Epstein went out I wouldn't wish on anyone.
We drove from Reykjavik to Akureyri and back, plus a bit of driving off the ring road and I'd say in all that driving we saw a Police car on the road about 4 times in a week. Trouble is they seem to have their dash-mounted radar gun on all the time and I came across the first one at the end of a straight just as he was coming around the bend in the opposite direction. Unsurprisingly, I hadn't brought my radar detector with me for that trip.
He was actually quite nice to me but seemed a little surprised at the number he saw on his radar, so I don't think he catches many tourists at that speed. It wasn't snowy on the roads at that time, I hasten to add.
He was actually quite nice to me but seemed a little surprised at the number he saw on his radar, so I don't think he catches many tourists at that speed. It wasn't snowy on the roads at that time, I hasten to add.
You had bad luck, unless you were right outside a town of significance
But yeah... speed limits are low here... and going significantly over them is a dumb idea, for many reasons. Basically... just driving normally here equals hypermiling.
As long as I have bad luck in countries which can't ban me or give me points, I'm OK about it.You had bad luck, unless you were right outside a town of significance
There is a country I can't go back to, but that's a story for another day...
When Tesla's SP hits $215.50 and you go "well, that's not bad!"
It's a whole new (ab)normal. May it blow over like a bad dream, soon. (Last purchase: Friday, at $213.)
It's a whole new (ab)normal. May it blow over like a bad dream, soon. (Last purchase: Friday, at $213.)
Reading the signs is trivial, so I've always assume it was down to processor/compute limitations. Once the FSD computer is utilized, I'm sure they'll all of a sudden appear.
BTW, not trying to dismiss every other large autonomous driving company (I own NVidia and Intel stock), but I think Elon Musk's approach has shown that it has a way of doing things that others can't. I'd bet more on a small startup vs. these large companies competing with Tesla.
Since we're talking Iceland, interesting chart in this Electrek story... they are #2 in the world, behind Norway, in EVs as a percentage of total vehicle sales.
Also of note is the tremendous room for EV growth worldwide. After Norway and Iceland, every other country is under 10% EV sales, and the vast majority are under 3%.
California is still nowhere near its 5 million zero-emission vehicle goal - Electrek
Also of note is the tremendous room for EV growth worldwide. After Norway and Iceland, every other country is under 10% EV sales, and the vast majority are under 3%.
California is still nowhere near its 5 million zero-emission vehicle goal - Electrek
TheTalkingMule
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With M3 production scaled and stable in the US, plus production about to begin at GF3, we should be jiggling the underside of an ATH contemplating an even higher breakout. I was fine absorbing the post-take-private blowback, but execution of the plan is far better than acceptable now.
I suspect the rocket will take off once monied parties arrive back from the beach and take their first hard look at reality since Memorial Day.
I suspect the rocket will take off once monied parties arrive back from the beach and take their first hard look at reality since Memorial Day.
Mokuzai
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Shh...we don't speak of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool around here. Lest we forget yesterday!
Stars aligned
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Just to add some other hilarious stuff. Was there also a story about this other guy who bought AMZN in 1999 and margined his full position after it reached $100 around 20th April, because "it can only go up from there"?
Fast forward 2 1/2 years. On 24 September 2001, AMZN was below $6. It took 10 1/2 years, until October 2009, till AMZN surpassed the original SP of April 1999.
The gravestone says "He was a true hardcore buy and holder. If he just would not only have been at the right place, but also at the right time, he would still live happily."
Trying to value both sides of the coin...
EVNow
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I keep telling people, and people keep refusing to believe it because our population is so low... Iceland's Tesla sales are going to be surprisingly high. I think we'll level out at a sustainable demand at about 5% of Norway in the near term... levels perhaps around that of Austria or Italy (unless they get their acts together more
). We'd have a much higher EV adoption rate today if Tesla were here - remember that we're at our current levels without the most popular EV in Europe, and with terrible charging infrastructure (max = 50kW, with the Ring Road only completed a year ago).Our incentives are roughly the same as Norway's. Our power is even cleaner. Three quarters of the population lives in the Reykjavík metro. Tesla is simply going to take over the market here.
Love these silly leading headlines:
Could the 2020 Chevy Bolt Take On Tesla’s Model 3?
Could the 2020 Chevy Bolt Take On Tesla’s Model 3?
Um...No
Could the 2020 Chevy Bolt Take On Tesla’s Model 3?
Could the 2020 Chevy Bolt Take On Tesla’s Model 3?
Um...No
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