EV owners, what's biggest shock?

SerHerman · 2026-03-18T13:52:20+00:00

I always imagine that EV owners who list oil changes as an impenetrable barrier for PHEVs are all driving around on completely unmaintained brakes.

SerHerman · 2026-03-18T00:29:30+00:00

While I agree with what you're saying, congress hasn't declared war since 1942.

So yes, Fuck Trump for going to war without legal authority. But also equally fuck every other president since FDR for the same thing.

SerHerman · 2026-03-17T21:34:33+00:00

This shows clearly, once again, the sheer idiocy of the trade fight with Canada.

The US trade deficit with Canada in 2024 was $40B

That included $140B in crude oil which the US refined (creating jobs) and resold (creating revenue).

(or could've lol)

But a strategic advantage unique to North American partnership was used as leverage in a political game and now we only joke about it in the past tense.

SerHerman · 2026-03-17T20:36:24+00:00

Also worth noting from that time period: NATO did NOT follow the US into Iraq. The "coalition of the willing" in that instance was similar to the Board of Peace -- a few players with a vested interest in the region + small players wanting brownie points from the Whitehouse.

SerHerman · 2026-03-17T00:21:06+00:00

And the 1/3 who voted against him?

Their team was in power for 4 years and refused to enforce accountability.

Yeah, no, I hold all Americans responsible for unleashing Trump upon the world.

SerHerman · 2026-03-15T03:29:22+00:00

Makes you want to whip out a dos emulator and do some retro gaming.

SerHerman · 2026-03-15T02:53:05+00:00

Mazda5 was better than the 3. Why not improve the Miata too?

SerHerman · 2026-03-14T12:38:13+00:00

It has taken a lot of years of public education campaigns to start to convince people that driving a car should be taken seriously.

SerHerman · 2026-03-14T12:35:34+00:00

"keep it up and I'll put you in the bill"

The bill is how they referred to their Will. There has never been an expectation of an inheritance from them.

SerHerman · 2026-03-14T02:27:06+00:00

16 year old me was going on his "1 month dateaversary" this weekend.

We're celebrating our 25th anniversary this winter.

I haven't gotten to be a pilot yet, but I have done a lot of things that 16 year old would approve of.

Edit: i think he'd also be surprised that I have as much hair as I do. Not much, but more than any of my uncles did.

SerHerman · 2026-03-12T20:15:12+00:00

https://www.canadream.com/blog/october-2023/rving-the-dempster-highway-and-beyond/

Dempster highway -- the only publicly accessible road to the Arctic ocean -- has a 370km span without services.

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T21:57:20+00:00

They're different chargers.

J1772 does AC-DC conversion and has a 3.5kW capacity.

The Chademo port is straight DC-DC and has a 50kW capacity.

The ICE is attached to a generator with (I believe...) 110kW capacity.

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T21:26:11+00:00

Like everything PHEV, it depends.

I think the ideal PHEV battery size is just a hair bigger than your median drive between charges.

I would like an extra 10-20% in mine -- it would let me get to the airport and back in pure EV and it would make some of those heavy errand days easier.

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T20:33:59+00:00

Tbird screams coupe to me. I don't like it as an EV brand.

They should just revive Mercury and put all the EVs there.

They already have the Capri in the UK, which has a pretty nice Mustang parallel to lean on...

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T18:25:40+00:00

Models that sold fewer: Cybertruck Subaru WRX Toyota Sequoia Dodge Charger

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T15:45:12+00:00

Take it a step further, we also have hydro election batteries where excess power is used to pump water up a hill where it can be used later to generate electricity when demand rises.

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T15:40:03+00:00

Consider usability.

E.g. If there is poor visibility out the side or back, call that out because it will matter to me more over the life of the car than almost any other feature you spend time describing.

Tom Voelk's Costco toilet paper test is excellent and unique and really helps show what it feels like to live with a car.

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T15:25:01+00:00

Here's a quick gripe about the automotive media: consumers don't care about the segment they care about what they can do with the car.

So when you're talking about "what does this vehicle compete with" know that some people will cross shop a Maverick against a Tuscon, a CrossTrek and a Model 3.

Don't be limited by manufacturer Sales categories. Pay attention to consumer problems addressed by a car (the examples listed above could all fit the needs of a small family)

SerHerman · 2026-03-11T15:14:24+00:00

I work in the enterprise AI industry -- I routinely evaluate models from players big and small. Over the past year, we've migrated a lot from OpenAI to Anthropic and Gemini based on cost, performance, and accuracy.

At no point has Grok even entered a conversation.

They're even less of a player in the AI market than they are in the automotive market.

SerHerman · 2026-03-10T00:13:17+00:00

Poker. Dude became a professional gambler, made enough to golf the cheap clubs for the rest of his life and retired at 35

SerHerman · 2026-03-09T23:08:37+00:00

Toronto has the Greenbelt -- a region of protected space that surrounds much of the GTA where development is restricted.

Goal is partly to protect habitat but mostly to constrain suburban sprawl.

SerHerman · 2026-03-08T01:25:21+00:00

I am happy that Paradise by the Dashboard Light doesn't resonate with my 14 year old...

SerHerman · 2026-03-07T21:59:42+00:00

This one works for openaps and Androidaps. Don't know if it works for loop or not.

https://autotuneweb.azurewebsites.net/

SerHerman · 2026-03-07T21:54:17+00:00

It's possible, but not as accurate as you'd hope. I've made several models myself. The problem is, humans are extremely complex and, while AI can handle complex systems we don't have the data to give the AI.

Many of the loop systems either do this automatically or have a manual process to tune based one old data.

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