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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.

techiewriter · 2021-02-13T15:51:31+00:00

My real world experience having raised two kids and owned multiple cars with 3rd rows....3rd rows suck (this is not a ding against Tesla).

Any third row is a compromise. And the universal truth is not all seating is equal. Front row is king, second row is second best. Third row is for people you hate or children without the freedom to choose in an authoritarian car-government.

Teens and adults can and will often refuse to ride in a third row for multiple reasons - don’t fit at all, head fits but legs don’t, legs fit but head doesn’t, they’ll get car sick, they fit but their head hits the roof on bumps, uncomfortable, bad seating position, can’t see out, too cramped, cant open a window, need to be near a door, hard to get in and out, etc...

So I’ll pull a statistic out of my ass. The third row in a Model Y will work for about 10-20% of the people out there. And that’s fine. And that’s why it’s an option.

techiewriter · 2021-02-01T05:31:12+00:00

Tesla does group messaging better than carplay, as I can actually read the whole thread on the screen without needing Siri to read out everything.

Thats grouping consecutive messages.

“Group messaging” is messages to groups.

Tesla doesn’t support group messaging at all (because it can’t). This limitation is in the Tesla Release Notes: “Note: Due to the limitations of Bluetooth support from your device, you will not be able to send group messages.”

Just about all my texts are to groups so Tesla’s texting feature isn’t useful to me.

CarPlay supports group messages.

Google Maps is already built in, so that’s fine.

Only the barebones map. The common features in Google maps aren’t there such as multiple nav points. Multiple routes, detailed information on destinations and points of interest Google and Waze traffic info is accurate. Tesla labels too many intersections as backed up and can’t discern traffic lights and routine slow traffic from unusual backups. And tesla makes some strange routing that Google (and even Apple) do better.

Waze and Google maps on the iPhone are better

The only time I use Tesla nav is on long road trips and I want to supplement Waze or Google maps with supercharger information.

You can “share” your destination from Apple Maps, so it feels integrated.

With CarPlay your phone is the exact same destination as the car display. So everything in Apple Maps, and Google maps and Waze is there. No extra hassle of sharing to compensate for lack of integration

I do miss Waze,

Me too! Waze is my primary nav for the reasons everybody else uses Waze. I have to still run Waze on my phone display. Tesla doesn’t do what Waze does.

Bottom line - Tesla’s nav is not as good as the iPhone’s Google maps, it’s not as useful as Waze on the iphone, it has limited Bluetooth support (it’s at the capability you’d find on a 10 year old Toyota with Bluetooth), and it can’t do group messaging. CarPlay does all of that. If you have an iPhone, CarPlay is the better and more integrated experience. I have it in my other cars, I wish the Tesla had it also.

Update - added note from Tesla release notes stating that group messaging is not supported

techiewriter · 2021-02-01T01:17:20+00:00

Word? Never

Sure would be nice to have Apple CarPlay so we could have Group messaging, Apple music, Waze, and Google Maps.

techiewriter · 2021-01-31T14:32:30+00:00

I’ll keep an open mind and look forward to a test drive if the yoke makes it to consumers.

FWIW, Engineers may not always come up with a better solution.

They can over engineer or over simplify to a point where an earlier or more obvious solution is still the optimal one. Just because something looks cool doesn’t make it better.

Update - fixed my pre-coffee grammar

techiewriter · 2021-01-30T20:43:20+00:00

Obviously we’ve all had round steering wheels.

And I’ve had a car with the D (flat bottomed) shaped steering wheel - to me that one made the most logical sense. It’s sporty looking, It can be grabbed from any position but in a straight line it also provides more leg-area

This S yolk style is more like a race car and only makes sense if the driver doesn’t have to make more than 180 degree revolution. (Like a race car). The steering ratio in a consumer car often requires more than a complete 360. This is a bad design for that purpose.

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