President Beep posted:

i was hoping someone would flame me for implying that the uk is a european country.

oh well.

Sagebrush posted:

Lots of European countries have an extra yellow phase after red, before green, to let people get ready. It's incredibly stupid. America does traffic lights the right way.

Random fun fact: I learned this about Euro traffic signals after I had some British students in my Arduino class, which has as one of its first projects "use six LEDs and a button to simulate an intersection with a pedestrian-controlled signal." I thought the kids were just loving it up until I noticed a pattern among all the exchange students and went and looked it up

Sagebrush posted:

Lots of European countries have an extra yellow phase after red, before green, to let people get ready. It's incredibly stupid. America does traffic lights the right way.

Random fun fact: I learned this about Euro traffic signals after I had some British students in my Arduino class, which has as one of its first projects "use six LEDs and a button to simulate an intersection with a pedestrian-controlled signal." I thought the kids were just loving it up until I noticed a pattern among all the exchange students and went and looked it up

vodkat posted:

I am failing to understand why this is stupid. Please explain your reasoning.

vodkat posted:

I am failing to understand why this is stupid. Please explain your reasoning.

Krankenstyle posted:

i dont even understand how your traffic lights are so hosed up that you give them thought

its simple:
- look at the perpendicular light & you know when its your light in 5 4 3 2

Krankenstyle posted:

wait! obviously it goes yellow before it goes green

what the gently caress yall

tbf i havent drove a car since 2002 and i always jaywalk

Sagebrush posted:

Lots of European countries have an extra yellow phase after red, before green, to let people get ready. It's incredibly stupid. America does traffic lights the right way.

President Beep posted:

people treat the intermediate green as a special early bird invitation to proceed through the intersection. the best drivers only need to apply.

President Beep posted:

i was hoping someone would flame me for implying that the uk is a european country.

oh well.

lancemantis posted:

*drives into left turning car*

eschaton posted:

UK isn’t really a legitimate country

there’s England, independent Scotland, occupied Northern Ireland, occupied Wales, occupied Jersey and Man and so on, and of course occupied Cornwall

and las Malvinas son Argentinas

Krankenstyle posted:

intermediate yellow?

but no, not here beause we have an effective traffic police

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

You live in the Scandanavia, right?

In Iceland buses get to go about 5 seconds before other traffic- they have their own light and everything. Do you have anything like that in your corner of the world?

Krankenstyle posted:

wait! obviously it goes yellow before it goes green

what the gently caress yall

tbf i havent drove a car since 2002 and i always jaywalk

9-Volt Assault posted:

This is wrong. Where i live it goes yellow before it goes red to warn you its about to turn red, so you can either speed up a bit to not have to suddenly break or to know its time to slow down.

9-Volt Assault posted:

This is wrong. Where i live it goes yellow before it goes red to warn you its about to turn red, so you can either speed up a bit to not have to suddenly break or to know its time to slow down.

Krankenstyle posted:

intermediate yellow?

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

eschaton posted:

UK isn’t really a legitimate country

there’s England, independent Scotland, occupied Northern Ireland, occupied Wales, occupied Jersey and Man and so on, and of course occupied Cornwall

and las Malvinas son Argentinas

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Endless Mike posted:

Tesla model 3 has the build quality of a 90s Kia

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-teardown-by-engineering-firm-reveals-qual-1822678045

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In addition to the fit and finish issues, Munro also talks about how hard it’s going to be to tear into the Model 3, calling it a “miserable job,” and labeling Tesla engineers as “definitely electronics snobs.” He backs this up by showing how difficult it is to get to the “Front Trunk First Responder Loop,” which shuts off the high voltage system and disables the airbags.

To open the frunk, where the loop is located, when the vehicle has no power requires sending 12-volts to two cables found behind a plastic trim piece in the bumper (see the diagram below). Munro also expresses frustration with the “Rear Pillar First Responder Cut Loop” at the rear pillar, which has to be severed with a circular saw.

Munro also chides the Model 3's lack of a mechanical door handle in the rear. Up front, there’s a little lever in addition to the electric door-opening switch, but in the rear there’s not. In the case of an emergency that cuts the car’s power, Munro says, you’d have to fold the seats back and exit through the trunk. (Obviously, you could go through the front seats as well).

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"It's incredible," he told Ars. "It felt like The Matrix, when they flip the switch—it's seeing everything, it's seeing way more than you or I can—and it's making decisions."

cool startup feel posted:

oh man this is so good.


cant wait to die in a fire trapped in my lovely electric car

infernal machines posted:

good thing they don't turn into mobile incinerators the minute one of the battery casings cracks

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One of Nathan For You’s defining — and most enjoyable — attributes is the way Nathan is constantly piling one lie on top of another to make things work, and the fact that he usually pulls it off has given us some of the show’s most satisfying episodes. That was certainly true with “Shipping Logistics Company,” where Nathan starts with one typically absurd idea — the notion that a smoke detector could be used as a musical instrument — and got progressively more ridiculous from there.

Nathan is attempting to help a small logistics company save money by getting around tariff laws. He notices that smoke detectors carry much higher tariffs than musical instruments, and he’s got his plan. ...

Her pessimism aside, Nathan is especially clever in this one. First, he packages the smoke detectors as “blues” smoke detectors, and hires local musician Harmonica Greg to give “instructions” on how to play them, which amount to nothing more than “just press the test button.” When a California judge tells Nathan this won’t be enough, he goes a step further, and gives us the real meat of this episode: trying to have a hit song with a smoke detector in it.

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Last weekend, the Boring Company offered 20,000 novelty flamethrowers for sale. By Thursday, all 20,000 had sold out. But now Elon Musk says the company has hit an obstacle.

"Some customs agencies are saying they won’t allow shipment of anything called a 'Flamethrower,'" Musk tweeted on Friday night. "To solve this, we are renaming it 'Not a Flamethrower.'"

To be fair, that might be a more accurate label. As Ars Technica's Ron Amadeo wrote earlier this week, the Boring Company's "flamethrower" looks like it's "nothing more than a propane torch with fancy styling."

Sagebrush posted:

it's dumb that people act like electric cars are somehow a bigger fire hazard than regular cars, which carry around a tank of gasoline under the rear seats and run it with little metal pipes all over the vehicle

anything that has a self-contained source of energy can probably be induced to release that energy in a rapid, uncontrolled manner and if it's the sort of levels required to drive a car around it's gonna be a mess

Jonny 290 posted:

this is a solved problem

Sagebrush posted:

it's dumb that people act like electric cars are somehow a bigger fire hazard than regular cars, which carry around a tank of gasoline under the rear seats and run it with little metal pipes all over the vehicle