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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, how about we repair the crumbling infrastructure as opposed to giving Musk billions in government grants for a hot swappable battery project that Musk/Tesla scrapped after building one prototype. In case you missed my earlier post about this, Musk kept the billions... Quote:
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I have a pretty swank Flight Simulator that our Pilots stay current on instead of taking our plane up to practice evasive manoeuvres in emergency situations and it's actually very interesting but to be perfectly honest with you they could teach a monkey how to fly a jet these days in probably less than a day and a bunch of bananas. It becomes a lot easier when there's not construction cones and traffic in their way LOL That said some of the old school Pilots still in the air these days their expertise is invaluable when trouble arises but on the average eventless flight it's a piece of cake because of computers. There are redundancies in place that will actually take the yolk out of the hands of a pilot when it senses emergency situations By the way our cockpit door is not locked during flights so I get to experience along with the pilots what they're doing on a regular basis |
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![]() Auto pilots can add safety but only if they are working right and the pilot knows how to use them, A auto pilot that takes over control of the plane if it thinks the pilot is doing something wrong may save the plane but not when it's the auto pilot that is wrong and it wont let the pilot control the plane.
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A faulty sensor, a greedy company that charges extra for a light bulb and a airline company to cheap to pay for it equals hundreds dead. ![]() I'm sure everyone remembers this, The pilots fought the automated system but it crashed the planes anyway. Elon Musk is not the only one that builds a auto pilot that does not work right. Code:
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If you aren't familiar with cars changing a starter can hit you for about five hundred bucks a pop and changing a flywheel can hit you for about 3 grand a pop and changing a transmission could hit you for five to seven thousand and Murphy's Law dictates that none of this s*** will break down until the warranty expires LOL I'm still not sold that there really are any emission savings. My Navigator has a defeat switch but some vehicles don't. If your vehicle isn't impeccably maintained the starter can engage for a matter of time before it actually fires while you're stuck at an intersection with every asshole behind you honking. |
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![]() I see this as a very good feature: no pointless burning gas while sitting idle in traffic/congestion.
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![]() If your going to be idling for a while stopping & restarting the engine does save gas, which is i guess what they made those systems for, but unless your going to be stopped for a good amount of time it puts out more pollution.
Newer cars designed with those system can handle the extra wear on the starter, battery & engine because they have better, stronger designed parts just for that, but older cars not so much, damage will be greatly increased to older car drastically shorting their lives. |
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![]() I don't know what start-stop technology has to do with Musk being a lying shitbag, but here's what I've heard. For auto manufacturers, stop-start tech is basically marketing nonsense to fool the consumer and to make themselves look like heroes, etc.
If the human race really wanted to make a difference, we'd buy vehicles that actually fit our needs. Example: Unless you haul tools and other materials to a jobsite or farm, you don't need a truck. If you're a single person or even a family of five, you don't need a giant SUV. In the US, Ford has pretty much stopped making cars to focus on trucks and SUV's. No one wants to drive cars anymore. Ford is only catering to our unrealistic, impractical desires, not our needs and they aren't alone. More on that later. We could also buy slightly older used (preowned) vehicles that are still efficient. The resources saved by doing this far outweighs anything done by Tesla or any vehicle claiming to be super efficient. I could go into more detail on this point, but I fear I'll tread into forbidden waters. By buying cars that fit our needs and buying older efficient cars, we would send a message to the auto manufacturers - stop making shit we don't need or want; In fact we could do that with most products, not just vehicles. However, humans love buying and hording shiny trinkets we don't need and probably won't use; At least not to the product's full potential. Example: An extremely high percentage of SUV and trucks never get used off-road. ![]() Quote:
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1: It really messed up going onto one local roundabout, because by the time the starter had re-engaged, I'd lose my opening. 2: The stop-start stopped working if the battery got below 50% charge, which if you do a lot of driving that activates the stop-start (and I do) happens every few days. It did improve my average fuel consumption somewhat, but I can't say whether it was actually worth the extra complexity, I'd had previous vehicles which were within 5mpg of it's figures without stop-start. My current van doesn't have stop-start, but it's omission was not my choice, it just wasn't offered with it. 'Stop-Start' isn't even 'new' technology, I remember it being available on a number of 'Energy Saving' models available after the 70s oil-price shock. |
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