DaveInDenver
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We've had self driving transportation forever.
The future of Tesla?
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The future of Marconi?
I'll be pondering this thread discussion the next time I drive my 40 to the bank with my paper paycheck and then head over to Twist and Shout for some Motorhead and Merle Haggard on vinyl. Of course I am typing this on a "computer" machine. At night with electric lighting. Hmm...
I'll be pondering this thread discussion the next time I drive my 40 to the bank with my paper paycheck and then head over to Twist and Shout for some Motorhead and Merle Haggard on vinyl. Of course I am typing this on a "computer" machine. At night with electric lighting. Hmm...
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We had to turn in our cheap ioniq 5 lease and have been looking at our next electric daily now that we are accustomed to cheap transportation and 'fuel'.
We went with a used 2023 Tesla model y awd 3 row car. Where self driving is now is mind blowing. Type in the destination and it does everything including parking.
I just saw the release of the upcoming roadster and I can't imagine where you would use any of these features but it is cool that they are engineering to this level. I guess they must be taking the thrusters from the space x rockets that make it land upright and applying it here.
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/-YWQXMohiM8?si=3eNTScw1jQBO5vaj
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/-jaSlyuQS4o?si=IQiaXjYqhtGhkrEZ
We went with a used 2023 Tesla model y awd 3 row car. Where self driving is now is mind blowing. Type in the destination and it does everything including parking.
I just saw the release of the upcoming roadster and I can't imagine where you would use any of these features but it is cool that they are engineering to this level. I guess they must be taking the thrusters from the space x rockets that make it land upright and applying it here.
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/-YWQXMohiM8?si=3eNTScw1jQBO5vaj
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/-jaSlyuQS4o?si=IQiaXjYqhtGhkrEZ
airport drop off would be great but i'm looking forward to sending my kids off to school/activities in them. what could go wrong?
My attitude regarding self drive tech summed up by The Dude.
It has a lane departure feature that I turned off minutes after purchase. It would correct the steering if you crossed a painted line. I’ve never had it self brake into a corner. It has self braked when it thought I was going to hit something like when parking. I wish I was enjoying 20+ MPG.
The lane departure was easy to turn off but nothing I tried would disable auto braking in curves. If you feather the gas it alternates braking accelerating which is nuts. No way I would want that on during snow. Switching off the adaptive cruise helped some but I think I was missing a menu selection somewhere. At least the “braking” was largely regenerative and not disks.
Wonder if you could flash the computer to a 4 runner program and see mpg benefits. Other than the part time 4wd function, I think the hardware is identical.
Wonder if you could flash the computer to a 4 runner program and see mpg benefits. Other than the part time 4wd function, I think the hardware is identical.
Learned, almost the hard way, about the auto braking exiting the Johnson Tunnel into a hard snow. The sweeping left hander found us in the ‘24 RAV4 slowly passing a semi as I tried to maintain a steady speed to get around him, sloshy spray making visibility sketchy as we went. Got into the alternating brake/feather/braking you describe. I could tell I wasn’t in charge but couldn’t look at the truck - Suz said we were about a foot away from the truck’s fuel pump tanks at one point as we negotiated the turn. Definitely missing a menu option at that point. I don’t think I will ever ride in a Waymo.