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CommieGIR posted:Great. Now I want a Jaguar for the sole purpose of painting Brack on there. Perfect Lemons idea.
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 it's a cadillac thing, you wouldn't understand
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May 6, 2016 23:52
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I don't want to understand.
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May 6, 2016 23:53
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razorscooter posted:
I have never seen a more appropriate handicapped placard
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May 6, 2016 23:54
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Some things are not meant to be understood, but merely stared at in awe.
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razorscooter posted:
I've been looking at that for 10 minutes now and i've been finding something new and horrible the whole time
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May 7, 2016 01:38
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How about the fact that, without the doors, you're missing something like 30-40% of the structural integrity. I know that DavesFarm (davidsfarm?) was a pedophile or whatever, but he had a bunch of videos where he had buicks, cadillacs, and oldsmobiles of that same platform and experimented with jumping them or cracking them in half. He showed another video where he had a Delta 88 ('90 or so) with minor rust, jacked up the front a foot with a forklift, opened the doors, and you suddenly couldn't close the doors anymore because the car had buckled. He then cut the roof off to make a convertible and the car plain cracked in half. It was the car he eventually made the "front axle only" thing, where he finished cutting off everything behind the driver's seats, put a fuel tank in the front passenger seat, and drove around with the front tires only, dragging the half-car. E: also LOL at the lysol lemon spray on the dash, because the interior probably perpetually smells like wet dog and mildew.
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May 7, 2016 02:21
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razorscooter posted:
This comes extremely close to looping around and being in the wrong thread. Not quite, but close.
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FatCow posted:Serious autism trap sprung. I don't get watt you're after. E: oh no you don't  E2: T = 10kG might be even more confuddling. E3: autocorrect knew 'confuddling' glyph fucked around with this message at 02:36 on May 7, 2016 |
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May 7, 2016 02:33
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Apparently it's acceptable to write it P=VI even though V is a unit and the others aren't.
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May 7, 2016 02:37
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Slavvy posted:Holy poo poo. Normally I hate sidecars because I can't help but fixate on how much better the bike would be without this great stupid third wheel thing attached. But in this case it's like...an organic, fundamental side car vehicle that you could never reduce to a motorcycle, and it uses an engine/drivetrain that was always more suited to a car than a bike in the first place. Magnificent in every way. If you told me that thing was from that Battlestar Galactica 1980 movie they did, I would have believed it. I wanna ride that while wearing a Viper pilot helmet.
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May 7, 2016 04:14
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8ender posted:I have the beisbolcats tshirt and its my favourite I just ordered one. And now I want to paint Brak on it..
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May 7, 2016 05:21
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glyph posted:I don't get watt you're after. I was just explaining to a friend who came to visit here in SF (and noticed that the place is lousy with Teslas) how there seems to be a rule about getting a smarmy electricity-pun license plate when you buy one.
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May 7, 2016 05:26
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Those plates used to show up on Priuses and Smarts, I guess the smug crowd has moved on to the next green thing.
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May 7, 2016 05:48
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Hah that'll show those filthy poors forced to live next to the coal-fired power plant!
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May 7, 2016 06:57
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fyodor posted:Hah that'll show those filthy poors forced to live next to the coal-fired power plant! Only 6% of California's energy comes from coal. 
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May 7, 2016 08:01
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Raluek posted:Only 6% of California's energy comes from coal. 
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May 7, 2016 08:13
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Geirskogul posted:Because Idaho sells a majority of their hydroelectric power to California But only a third of our energy is imported, so most of it is still generated here. Looks like it's mostly natural gas.
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May 7, 2016 08:16
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Sagebrush posted:I was just explaining to a friend who came to visit here in SF (and noticed that the place is lousy with Teslas) how there seems to be a rule about getting a smarmy electricity-pun license plate when you buy one. To be fair, the owners are probably a bunch of terrible electrical engineers who think it's funny/cute/witty.
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May 7, 2016 08:18
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fyodor posted:Hah that'll show those filthy poors forced to be poor. fixed BUT ANYWAY terrible tesla stuff I got to fool around with a tesla the other day and saw this (or some variation thereof):  firsthand, got to drive it around the block slowly. And it seemed like the worst thing ever. Hmmm yes let me sportily navigate this corner with my expensive sunglasses pinning back my perfect hair. As the car pushes deep into the bend, I glance down and casually sweep the radio from one station to another...perfectly. Up-tempo music is played as I accelerate into the camera. IRL it is covered in grease and you can't do poo poo because you have to drive the car while holding your finger steady on a touchscreen designed for visual feedback and it's awkward IMO.
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May 7, 2016 08:24
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Slavvy posted:fixed BUT ANYWAY terrible tesla stuff I got to fool around with a tesla the other day and saw this (or some variation thereof): Yup, my experience with a Tesla touchscreen is basically you can only operate it when the car isn't moving as you've absolutely zero frame of reference for where your finger is to change any settings or whatever. Also I enjoy that interface designers completely avoid using the only physical point of reference on the entire thing (the frame) by moving any useful buttons in towards the centre of the screen where you have to actually concentrate to know what you're jabbing at. Touchscreens are poo poo in cars but if they're going to be 'the thing' to do then you need to incorporate a certain degree of physical touch to let people know where their fingers are and you're also going to have to make the layouts less busy and probably add a degree of finger wag tech for things like changing the radio station/volume.
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May 7, 2016 08:52
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Part of me appreciates what they're trying to do but god drat that seems like the worst possible idea for vehicle controls I love the look and idea of the Teslas but I doubt I will ever seriously consider one that's all touch screen like that
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May 7, 2016 09:11
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I'd buy a tesla despite the dumb touchscreen. But I'm an abhorrent poor, so meh.
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May 7, 2016 09:18
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Tesla stores will let anyone test drive a car. You can just call and make an appointment, and they let you drive it any way you want. They know most of the people test driving can't afford one but they let them anyway because they want the driving experience to be out there and talked about. I totally agree that the touchscreen is terrible but I'm willing to live with it in exchange for the way the car goes. 0-60 was fast. 40-90 was insane. Near instantaneous. It's an incredible car with a lovely touchscreen.
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May 7, 2016 13:01
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Doesn't the Tesla have a bunch of physical controls on the steering wheel that let you adjust the most common functions (radio and climate control, at least) without taking your hands off the wheel?
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May 7, 2016 13:15
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Uthor posted:Doesn't the Tesla have a bunch of physical controls on the steering wheel that let you adjust the most common functions (radio and climate control, at least) without taking your hands off the wheel? Just the normal stuff that pretty much every car has now. Radio and Bluetooth controls. No climate control. Edit: looks like the model X has a small touchscreen on the steering wheel spokes for climate control, Bluetooth, etc. I was talking about the model S
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May 7, 2016 13:19
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Code Jockey posted:Part of me appreciates what they're trying to do but god drat that seems like the worst possible idea for vehicle controls My prediction: within the next 24 months, someone will cause a fatal accident whilst driving a Tesla. The lawsuit will lay blame on Tesla due to the touchscreen causing a distraction (and not that the drivers was on the phone, snorting coke and drunk) and they will get sued for eleventy-billion dollars. Welcome to the real world of car manufacturing.
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May 7, 2016 13:57
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GutBomb posted:Just the normal stuff that pretty much every car has now. Radio and Bluetooth controls. No climate control. Looking at this video, around the 2:40 mark, it shows that you can customize the right wheel to do a few different things, including adjusting the fan speed and temperature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfwjWp0Jtc
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May 7, 2016 14:48
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My Prius has temperature change buttons on the wheel.. about 5 inches away from it is a giant dial on the dash that does the same thing and provides superior tactile feedback. Car companies have no loving clue what they're doing. I'm sure it starts out with a sensible design then someone says to add a huge list of trendy features and gently caress it all up.
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May 7, 2016 15:37
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I don't mean to defend the gigantic touch screen but how often are you guys loving with your climate control? I set mine to Auto and the temp I want and then drive. Really music controls are the most important thing. That said I have no idea how the Tesla fits with Ontario's anti-texting laws. As far as I can tell you can be pulled over and fined for using your iPhone while driving, but using the gigantic tablet attached to the dash of your tesla is okay.
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May 7, 2016 15:41
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Climate control is just an example. It's a car, everything should be designed so you can manipulate it without taking your eyes off the road.
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May 7, 2016 15:44
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I'm pretty happy with the layout of the touchscreen of the stereo out of the MK6 GTI (that I stuffed into my MKV). There's buttons to change tracks and a dial for the volume (plus controls on my steering wheel). The big touch screen is there to present the information clearly and let you navigate all the music files or radio stations and let you dig in through the menus, stuff you don't do while driving.
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May 7, 2016 15:45
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Uthor posted:let you navigate all the music files or radio stations ... stuff you don't do while driving. You pull over to change radio stations or select new music while driving?
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GM's CUE system solves the feedback issue by making the screen vibrate and give haptic feedback. This is apparently cheaper/easier than just putting in knobs or buttons. Also the actual software behind CUE is so poorly written and buggy that it doesn't work half the time anyway.8ender posted:I don't mean to defend the gigantic touch screen but how often are you guys loving with your climate control? I set mine to Auto and the temp I want and then drive. Really music controls are the most important thing. I've posted about this before but the HVAC controls in my Chrysler are the worst thing I've ever seen. I guess the overall system was designed with the idea that the car would have auto climate control standard, except mine doesn't. So to make the car blow hot or cold, you can either : A) Quit out of the music interface on the touchscreen if you were listening to music, go to the climate control screen, and then adjust the "hot" or "cold" settings on a virtual slider on the touchscreen, i.e. there is a virtual representation of a temperature slider from some 1980s Corolla on the touchscreen that you have to drag up or down. It's only "hot" or "cold" and not "temperature" because since the car doesn't have auto climate control the touchscreen doesn't know how hot or cold it is in the car, so all you can do is make it blow hotter or colder along an axis without a scale or graduation. B) use the two buttons on the central console, one hot and one cold. Seems reasonable right? Except each click of either button adjusts the hot/cold slider in increments of approx 0.25%. To switch the car from blowing max hot to max cold requires clicking the button about 4000 times or holding it down for about 6-8 seconds. So it takes almost as long as method A anyway. On the plus side you have the ability to adjust your fan temperature with more granularity than probably the ECU does over timing or injector pulse width. That would be neat if the fan position display had markings or a scale or something more than just an arbitrary line with hot on one end and cold on the other. 
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May 7, 2016 17:38
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GutBomb posted:You pull over to change radio stations or select new music while driving? I either select an album before I leave or when stopped at a light.
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May 7, 2016 17:52
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Uthor posted:I either select an album before I leave or when stopped at a light. So you just listen to one album on repeat for a whole 6 hour highway trip?
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May 7, 2016 18:14
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I have an eight minutes commute. One album is more than enough. If the album ends, the next plays automatically. And I don't see how navigating to an album using physical buttons and going a folder at a time on a small screen that shows 2-3 items at a time (like my original stereo worked) is easier than just tapping a big rear end screen on the exact thing you want. Like I said, the things you wanna do while driving (volume, mute, skip track) are all buttons and dials you can hit without looking. It's not like I'm staring at a screen running a DJ set.
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May 7, 2016 18:21
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The real solution is voice controls which aren't complete poo poo: "Set the temperature to seventy degrees" "Play the album Powerslave by Iron Maiden" "Navigate to the closest supercharging station" Done
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gently caress it, get rid off all electronics and make your stereo wholly physical. Just install one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Hi-Fi 
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