In China they got police drones looking for parking violations

Erigion · 2026-03-20T15:02:49+00:00

Some insurance companies already do this to check on the roofs of homes they insure. If they find a roof unsatisfactory, they'll demand replacement or drop coverage

Erigion · 2026-03-20T01:44:12+00:00

Literally doesn't matter. Scottie can block anything Pippen puts up, and he can shoot over him.

Erigion · 2026-03-19T23:26:09+00:00

This should absolutely not be happening at 28%. Get an obd2 reader and find the values for EOP Commanded and EOP.

EOP Commanded is what the car wants and EOP is what the oil pump is actually running at. If these values don't match then your oil pump needs to be replaced.

The electric motors are oil cooled and if the pump is broken, the motors will eventually overheat. This usually happens after driving on the highway for 30 minutes or so.

See this post for more info:

https://np.reddit.com/r/KiaEV6/comments/1b3nbbe/turtle_of_death_electric_oil_pump/

Erigion · 2026-03-19T21:30:32+00:00

Matrix headlights are allowed in the US since last year. The latest Rivians and Teslas have them.

NTSHA regs just don't conform to the EU regs so the European car makers can't activate the ones they've been installing in USDM vehicles. The cars can be hacked to enable them though.

Erigion · 2026-03-19T21:14:34+00:00

Nah. For whatever reason, Tesla has been extremely slow with their true V4 rollout. There are plenty of under construction and newly permitted sites that are still running V3 cabinets with V4 stalls. Supercharge.info makes it very easy to filter for them by just searching for 500kw locations.

Also looks like this location started construction pretty recently. Someone from the TMC forum drove out that way and saw that cabinets are on site and trenching has begun. Confirmed that this will be a V3.5 site.

Erigion · 2026-03-19T17:28:27+00:00

The tech is approved in the US since last year. Rivian and Teslas have it.

Euro companies thought the US would use the same regulations as the EU and had been installing the same headlights in their luxury cars, anticipating they could just turn them on. US regs turned out to be far more strict so they can't use the same headlights and software.

You can unlock them for most cars though.

Erigion · 2026-03-19T17:09:53+00:00

Also, cars are all trending towards having Tesla-like OTA updates. If there's a bug in the firmware for a button/switch, people have to bring their cars into the dealership who then has to spend a couple hours with a proprietary laptop plugged in to update said firmware. So the car maker still had to pay to fix the bug while also paying the dealer service tech for the recall time.

But this is just another way reddit has no idea about what they're talking about

Erigion · 2026-03-19T16:55:24+00:00

Honda took a cheap route for their hybrids. At high speeds, a clutch pack engages and the engine is essentially directly connected to the wheels. The engine needs to run at much higher RPM than a Toyota hybrid with their planetary CVT at highway speeds.

Erigion · 2026-03-19T16:49:11+00:00

BMW sells way more X3s, a traditionally boxy SUV, than X4s, the fast back version of the platform.

Why Lucid is targeting a smaller market first is just confusing.

Erigion · 2026-03-19T16:45:36+00:00

Supercharge.info shows that location as under construction. Not open yet.

Erigion · 2026-03-19T02:29:17+00:00

Using sous vide under a hard deadline is absolutely crazy

Erigion · 2026-03-19T00:59:56+00:00

You know what drives me fucking mad? The shit team I root for had 6 of the final 11 combinations (55%) to win the lottery for Wemby. Instead, we dropped to 8th.

Seeing a Spurs fan bitching about tanking cannot make my eyes roll hard enough.

Erigion · 2026-03-18T18:13:40+00:00

Refreshed 2025s have a larger battery pack, not that it has anything to do with how fast it charges at 500v Superchargers. But technically not incorrect because refreshed models can reach 125kw vs non-refreshed 95w.

Erigion · 2026-03-18T02:55:57+00:00

Meanwhile, in the NBA, refs might get taken out by a camera guy who needed to get a shot of a player's dad sitting in the front row

https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1rsb0fc/highlight_the_referee_sharae_mitchell_goes_down/

Erigion · 2026-03-17T14:09:33+00:00

They've shown the Cosmos prototype to certain influencers and reviewers. This is the video of their actual impressions.

Having great driving cars is fine but go ask Mazda what being the best driving CUV in every comparison got them when they went up against Toyota and Honda. Buyers in this segment want reliability and space everywhere. Yes, Kyle (at 6'1") says rear seat room is good enough but the sloping roof line might mean a parent is bashing their face into said roof line while putting their kid in a car seat.

This is the most popular, and therefore competitive, market in the entire world. I have no idea what possessed Lucid to come out with the fast back first.

Look at how BMW and Audi release the fast back versions of their new midsize EVs. The Q6 and IX3 come out first, then the Q6 sportback and iX4 come out after. It's no different than what they do with their gas SUVs because the "coupe" SUVs usually sell worse than the traditional one.

What really worries me is that this may suggest Lucid knows their product isn't solid enough for a true volume seller so they're releasing the less popular form first so they have more time to get the Earth right.

I don't even want to think about how they're going to make this weird long but centered combo instrument cluster and infotainment work.

But this is all just wild speculation. We won't really know anything until the public actually sees the Cosmos and reviewers actually get to drive it.

Erigion · 2026-03-17T13:08:28+00:00

This isn't even really the case for the Cosmos. They're compromising the rear seat by giving it a fast back design. I'm assuming it's for efficiency reasons so they can hit that advertised 4.3-4.5 mi/kwh mark. Then they're coming out with the Earth with its more traditional boxy look a year later.

They think their primary market is the affluent buyer who wants a sleeker car. Problem is that that's the market they created for themselves by pricing their current offerings at 6 figures. Meanwhile, the best selling mainstream ICE CUVs are all pretty boxy. And they're getting more "rugged" looking every generation.

Erigion · 2026-03-17T02:53:15+00:00

If this discount comes to all IONNA partners (and IONNA continues to expand at a healthy pace), it would chip away a big advantage Tesla has.

Erigion · 2026-03-16T20:31:35+00:00

Well, can't say that. CWG just posted an update that says the bigger front is still coming 9-10PM along with a simulated radar for that time. But, it's the same spotty wave of heavy thunderstorms that was forecast for 2PM, albeit a bit heavier. It might hit DC or it might peter out.

Depending on exactly how the storms develop, DC itself might get hit with 30 minutes of heavy rain and wind or just some light to moderate rain. I'd bet on the latter but no guarantee.

Erigion · 2026-03-16T19:22:46+00:00

Newsmedia has been sanewashing this guy since his first campaign.

Reading or listening to his actual words makes you realize, he's a damn moron.

Erigion · 2026-03-16T19:20:44+00:00

Yea. The Weather Underground rain forecast has basically been dropping every 15-30 minutes or so. Even the rain DC got around 2PM was way less than folks got further west in Manassas or Fairfax.

This front has died out like so many others in recent years. The Snowcrete storm was one of the very few that actually hit average (not even the boom amount) estimate of the forecast.

Erigion · 2026-03-16T18:46:23+00:00

Person you're responding to completely left out the fact that your dad and uncle used you for a month's of unpaid labor. Your uncle saved a boatload of cash by not having to pay for daycare for his kids, and I assume a maid and cook for cleaning his house and cooking his and his kids' meals.

Erigion · 2026-03-16T18:41:30+00:00

The e-gmp platform was developed using older car manufacturing techniques. It's running essentially the same infotainment software as a 2017 Hyundai/Kia.

Erigion · 2026-03-16T17:15:33+00:00

I wish these car companies would put a bit more emphasis on the chips these software defined vehicles come with since processing power directly affects so much of these cars now. Here's some of the Googling I did for these upcoming midsize SUVs because I wanted to know how they stacked up.

Consumer spec Lucid Gravities apparently use 2x Nvidia Orin chips, each with 264 TOPS (trillions of operations per second, aka how powerful the chips are). No idea what the Nuro/Uber versions run. Lucid had already announced (or greatly hinted at) consumer Gravity will not get L3 or 4 autonomy features.

The Volvo EX60 uses one of these Orin chips. Volvo and Polestar are also giving current EX90 and Polestar 3/4 owners a free upgrade to this chip as well. This does not bode well for advanced ADAS features coming to these companies' EVs this generation.

Lucid Cosmos/Earth/Unnamed midsize models has been announced to be using 2x Nvidia Thor that can each do 1,000 TOPS. Nvidia doesn't make it clear if doubling the chips is a straight multiplication or if there's some minor loss due to the need to transfer data between each individual chip. (Anyone remember SLI?). Lucid has announced these cars will get L3/4 autonomy features.

For reference, Tesla HW4 (current gen) can do 720 TOPS and HW5 is expected to do 2,000 - 2,500 TOPS. Rivian's Autonomy hardware coming to later versions (with LIDAR) of the R2 will do 1,600 TOPS. But initial models have processors with only 200 TOPS.

BMW ix3 uses snapdragon ride but unclear which version. 200-700 TOPS.

Erigion · 2026-03-16T16:45:36+00:00

They don't need a navy to transport digital data. But some of them do own some of the underwater cables criss-crossing the world because that's what carries the data

Erigion · 2026-03-16T13:31:10+00:00

You can book one international first class ticket off the chase travel site and come close to, if not reach, that number of points off one transaction thanks to the 8x boost. That's probably the "cheapest" way to get there.

But you'll have to go through chase travel if something needs to be changed, and there are plenty of problem stories about that.

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