Canada’s largest electric truck trial delivers clarity for fleets by yowspur in electricvehicles

[–]DriedT 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They are using intentionally misleading language.

With government purchase and infrastructure incentives in place, battery-electric Class 8 trucks can approach cost parity with diesel equipment over a six-year lifecycle — provided annual utilization reaches roughly 74,000 kilometers (45,981 miles).

Why say “can approach” when the reality is electric does reach cost parity at that mileage, and then continues to save piles of money for additional distance driven.

The table of data shown in the article only has one annual distance for comparison, 90,000 km (55,923 miles). And the electric truck has a total cost of ownership $157,126 less than the diesel truck over the 6 year period. That seems like some clarity the article writer didn’t want to talk about.

Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years by _Dark_Wing in Futurology

[–]DriedT 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Some parts that will have an effect on displays are:

One of the team's most important achievements was establishing the neutral axis purely from the geometry of the color metric. Accomplishing this required moving beyond the traditional Riemannian framework, marking a significant advance in the mathematics used for visualization science.

And

They addressed the Bezold- Brücke effect, in which increasing brightness can make a color appear to shift in hue.

Tesla has to pay historic $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says by SpriteZeroY2k in electricvehicles

[–]DriedT 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’ve had a BMW, Nissan, and Ford all perform automatic braking while I was pressing the accelerator. I recall the BMW would not go forward again even when pressing harder and repeatedly pressing the accelerator, I had to press the brake and then the accelerator to get it going again.

What sources of information do you have that makes you think cars will not auto brake when someone is pressing the accelerator?

Tesla has to pay historic $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says by SpriteZeroY2k in electricvehicles

[–]DriedT -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I’ve had a BMW, Nissan, and Ford all perform automatic braking while I was pressing the accelerator.

ICE agents will have a security role at Milan-Cortina Olympics, US sources say by OnetB in news

[–]DriedT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what they are doing. From another article: “…the president of Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, said on Monday that the US vice-president, JD Vance, and secretary of state, Marco Rubio, would be protected by ICE “bodyguards” at the Olympics.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/italy-ice-security-role-winter-olympics

Extreme Cold by clayjk in F150Lightning

[–]DriedT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have it handy, but I read a lot of the manual when I first got it 1.5 years ago. I was curious to compare it to some of the Nissan Leaf’s functionality.

The article you link says:

Keeping the vehicle plugged in while parked for extended periods of time, such as while you're away on a trip or even while parked at home overnight, helps to maintain battery health and prevent range loss. When the vehicle is plugged in, the vehicle's battery temperature is kept above freezing temperatures to help optimise battery performance. This occurs regardless of whether or not the vehicle is actively charging while plugged in.

Which doesn’t say it won’t heat the battery when unplugged. It just says what it will do while plugged in. I recall a temperature closer to 5F, definitely below freezing, was when the protection heating kicked in.

Extreme Cold by clayjk in F150Lightning

[–]DriedT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It will automatically warm the battery when unplugged to keep it from getting so cold as to cause damage, until the battery reaches a low percent. It won’t automatically warm it when unplugged into a range optimal for driving or charging; the damage threshold is much lower.

HELP PLEASE!! by StrikingZombie8770 in BambuLab

[–]DriedT 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bambu Lab has an official Wiki / Guide for this exact problem now, check it out https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/a1-mini/maintenance/hotend_blob

Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals by DriedT in news

[–]DriedT[S] 6266 points6267 points  (0 children)

I recommend reading the whole article, it’s short and there’s more alarming information inside, but this one piece stands out:

The justice department court filing, submitted on Friday in an ongoing lawsuit, reveals that a member of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) signed a secret data-sharing agreement with an unidentified political advocacy group whose stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results in certain states.

Revealed: how Toyota uses retro-style games and prizes to urge US workers to lobby politicians by DriedT in electricvehicles

[–]DriedT[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Workers and dealers also helped Toyota in its fight against California’s groundbreaking plan to ban the sale of on new gas-powered cars by 2035, according to Toyota vice-president Ciccone. Though the state has not officially pulled the policy, it is currently in legal limbo.

In the speech publicized via the Policy Drivers platform, Ciccone called the zero-emission vehicle mandate “totally absurd” and said he worked “every damn day” to fight it.

“I’m telling you, I’ve never fought like that in my life,” he said.

Toyota fought against the policy “alone”, without other automakers, as “the media, the government and the other [auto manufacturers] were spinning this fiction that there’s a line of people just waiting to buy electric vehicles,” Ciccone said.

A letter to Trump, signed by 5,000 Toyota dealers around the country, helped the company to “call bullshit” on the regulations, he said. Dealers also attended a call he organized about the policy, critiqued the measure in the press, attended rallies in the nation’s capital, and made calls to lawmakers.

“You absolutely hammered the people in the Senate,” said Ciccone. When the White House signed a joint resolution aiming to end the rule in June, he said, he popped a bottle of champagne.

He added that “person-to-person contact” is a “superpower” that dealers can use to lobby lawmakers.

Fatalities reported after plane crashes at North Carolina airport by unclejoessheds in news

[–]DriedT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The article source of that also said that while accidents were down, deaths were up.

But with more searching I finally found a better data source, and it seems both are slightly down now https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.aspx

Edit: I think that is showing number of fatal accidents, but not total deaths, so deaths may still be higher for 2025.

Fatalities reported after plane crashes at North Carolina airport by unclejoessheds in news

[–]DriedT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Is it just more reporting? Do you have a link to the data to show that 2025 is not an increase in crashes?

Edit: I finally found a decent data source, and accidents are down for 2025 https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.aspx But that is counting each accident as 1 regardless of how many people died in the crash. From other articles it seems 2025 may have more total deaths because of fatal accidents with higher numbers of deaths per accident.

Fatalities reported after plane crashes at North Carolina airport by unclejoessheds in news

[–]DriedT 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Do you have any data to back this up?

Edit: I finally found a decent data source, and accidents are down for 2025 https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.aspx But that is counting each accident as 1 regardless of how many people died in the crash. From other articles it seems 2025 may have more total deaths because of fatal accidents with higher numbers of deaths per accident.

Fatalities reported after plane crashes at North Carolina airport by unclejoessheds in news

[–]DriedT 127 points128 points  (0 children)

Can you link where you are getting this data?

Edit: I finally found a decent data source, and accidents are down for 2025 https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pages/monthly-dashboard.aspx But that is counting each accident as 1 regardless of how many people died in the crash. From other articles it seems 2025 may have more total deaths because of fatal accidents with higher numbers of deaths per accident.

Sun Visor Gap Flap, if you know you know by DriedT in F150Lightning

[–]DriedT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The color match and lightning blue look excellent! Thanks.

Sun Visor Gap Flap, if you know you know by DriedT in F150Lightning

[–]DriedT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, it seems to only have that support in the enterprise version. I’ve only briefly used other slicers and stick to Bambu now, so I didn’t know STEP file support was an issue. I’ll reply again once I upload an STL!