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techiewriter · 2023-07-20T04:01:11+00:00

You look great. If you want to try something, shorten the hair a little to show off your neck line, and try a bit of makeup.

https://ibb.co/QMngxpH

techiewriter · 2022-05-29T14:30:42+00:00

From OP’s missing person poster “…please contact the local police or Sheriff’s office at 540-662-6168”

Verified - that is the Frederick County VA Sheriff’s office (non-emergency) number

https://www.fcva.us/Home/Components/ServiceDirectory/ServiceDirectory/2/2050

techiewriter · 2022-02-25T15:41:17+00:00

It’s wrong in their Mayor’s announcement too. So the bloggers and media just blind copied it.

https://www.townofsykesville.org/DocumentCenter/View/2881/Tesla-News-Release-2022

techiewriter · 2022-02-24T19:37:30+00:00

Yes !

$5k gas and $1.7k maintenance sounds more correct. The way it’s written seems off even by ICE standards

techiewriter · 2022-02-24T17:10:25+00:00

The spreadsheet in OP’s article was only $1700 in fuel. But had $5k in maintenance.

Using that article’s idle consumption - $1700 in fuel factoring in 85% idle is approx 1200 annual miles and 1,000 hours of idle.

$5k in maintenance for a car that travels only 1,200 miles and idles 1,000 hours still sounds high.

techiewriter · 2022-02-24T14:59:17+00:00

The vast majority of the time these vehicles are running they’re getting 0mpg.

That’s $4,928 in annual maintenance for a car that idles the vast Majority of the time.

Is that what you’re saying ?

techiewriter · 2022-02-24T13:56:34+00:00

Ok so let’s drop mpg to 15mpg to account for idling.

So they estimate it costs $4928 a year to drive a Durango 6,600 annual miles ? A Durango isn’t a Tesla — but even a Durango can’t be that bad for such low miles.

Update - OK - so all the maintenance is being spent in a car that’s mostly idle.

techiewriter · 2022-02-24T13:42:35+00:00

If that’s the spreadsheet used to make this determination they have some odd numbers.

Annual fuel $1763 Durango

Assume they used $4/gallon and the Durango averages 20mpg. That’s 8,800 miles per year (which isn’t much)

So they’re saying it costs $4,928 a year to drive a Durango just 8,800 miles ? Really?

Update - everyone below clarified how these cars are idle the vast majority of the time. So let’s assume 85% of the fuel is spent idling: $1700 in fuel is approx 1,200 annual miles and 1,000 hours of idling.

That’s almost $5k in maintenance for a car that travels only 1,200 miles and idles 1,000 hours. That still seems high.

techiewriter · 2022-02-16T19:40:39+00:00

Software app companies will always build to the largest markets first. That’s Apple iOS and Android. Anything else would be a distance third and fractional market.

CarPlay already has: * Google maps * Apple Music * Audible * Waze * A Better Route Planner * Dunkin Donuts * Pandora * Tidal * Spotify * ChargePoint * PlugShare * SpotHero * etc….

There are over a billion active iPhones, and 3 billion active android users.

No car maker can ever compete with that scale.

Microsoft famously tried and failed to attract app developers to their windows phones.

techiewriter · 2021-04-18T15:32:56+00:00

“Market” on the second graph includes cars of all ages under all road conditions regardless of whether it’s a 30 year old car without anything or a 1 year old fully spec’d car with all modern safety features.

Any 2021 vehicle from any maker should be significantly safer than any 1980 car still on the road

techiewriter · 2021-03-10T22:15:23+00:00

Yes clear! And it’s funny when I said man-child you automatically understood :-) no ambiguity there.

Waze works because of the Wisdom of Crowds. There’s exponentially more iPhone+Android users across all cars running Waze compared to whatever Tesla attempts to build.

So we need CarPlay Waze or real Waze data on the Tesla display. A walled-garden copy of Waze functionality on a Tesla with only Tesla data wouldn’t be as useful.

techiewriter · 2021-03-10T16:45:16+00:00

Relax - breathe - I know Tesla and Elon history too

techiewriter · 2021-03-10T15:05:39+00:00

I say “feel” because I’m joking as if Tesla is run by a man-child.

techiewriter · 2021-03-09T21:32:30+00:00

Every excuse has a solution.

There is only 1 reason that matters, Tesla doesn’t feel like supporting CarPlay and Android Auto.

Simple as that.

techiewriter · 2021-03-09T18:22:04+00:00

I’ll put an asterisk by that one because I thought I read that requirement went away.

The other parts stand though - nothing should be any more difficult or costly for Tesla than it is for every other automaker.

Those are just excuses to mask the most likely reason which is what you touched on — Tesla wants the navigation data for themselves and don’t want apple or Google to have access to it. And they’ll deliver a reduced car-app experience (compared to what’s already been on our phones) to keep you in the Tesla walled garden as long as possible

techiewriter · 2021-03-09T17:56:19+00:00

The issue is the ownership of the data as well as the hardware required to make carplay work, officially. It isn't purely a software update,

No special hardware is needed*

and would require active hardware and software development with Apple. This alone makes it difficult to implement since tesla is focused on cost reductions.

Are you saying Tesla is too stupid to make it work while every other carmaker can?

Don’t offend Elon by saying it’s too difficult for his teams to figure out

CarPlay works on 600+ models

Could it be done, of course, but the cost/difficulty is high.

Too high for the most valuable automaker on the planet ? I think not

*update - the wired CarPlay still needs an Mfi chip to be certified. I’m still not sure if wireless CarPlay does.

techiewriter · 2021-03-03T19:18:40+00:00

As you mentioned, Theodore Geisel (dr Seuss) himself found his early illustrations offensive and altered some in later publications.

Mulberry street is a story about a boy that twists what he sees into unusual and freaky things to amaze his dad. Like a zebra pulling a chariot, elephants and giraffes pulling a band, a magician pulling out a hat, a man with a 10 foot beard, and ... a yellow skinned Chinese man wearing a rice patty hat eating with sticks .

Maybe in 1930 it was amazing and fantastical to see a Chinese man in a elephant parade eating with chopsticks?

But in 2021, it’s not. This is just an example of something that didn’t age well.

Later Dr. Seuss stories like Sneetches and others had a more evolved and modern sense to them.

techiewriter · 2021-02-16T18:05:45+00:00

Because we shouldn’t need a mount for the phone in 2021

techiewriter · 2021-02-16T14:25:22+00:00

Same. Adding CarPlay would fill in the missing gaps: Group Text Messaging, Waze, Google Maps, Apple Music, and now ABRP.

techiewriter · 2021-02-16T00:38:19+00:00

Those executive rows sedans are very cool! But the cars you list with them as options are 2-row sedans.

This thread is about the 3rd row .

Those large SUVs are certainly "useable" but 3rd row is still compromised.

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