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infernal machines posted:you'll note that at no point was it an option to put the car in neutral and push it out of the intersection, like you would do with literally any other vehicle. to the extent that the cops just started directing traffic around it tow mode is the car in neutral with no one in it as opposed to regular neutral for tesla which immediately turns into park if you get out of the car
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Sagebrush posted:i genuinely don't understand why teslas can't be put into neutral without power. it's a goddamned electric car. with no power it should just coast like a skateboard Presumably if you're on a mountain road and your car bluescreens you would want it to start braking instead of turning into a skateboard. Do teslas have manual emergency brakes?
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mewse posted:Presumably if you're on a mountain road and your car bluescreens you would want it to start braking instead of turning into a skateboard. Do teslas have manual emergency brakes? do firetrucks count
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exploded mummy posted:tow mode is the car in neutral with no one in it transport mode requires 12v power and the entertainment system to operate, supposedly that worked for the guy, but for whatever reason they just left him in the middle of the intersection
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prisoner of waffles posted:sure this is A Concern but "car without power should be movable by normal tow truck/determined pushing" is (or should be!) way more important yeah, the times our coaches in high school had us push a car around the parking lot were some of the most fun exercises we ever did
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the battery in my car once died dead-dead because the brake pedal switch stuck and the lights stayed on for like 2 days. no starter click, radio wouldn't even power up, so bc it's fuel injected i couldn't push-start it. no one around to jump start. didn't want to call AAA. so i got a 12v lithium battery from a radio controlled car, popped the hood open, and wired the rc car battery to the car's battery with alligator clips. that supplies maybe 20A max, not enough to start the engine (hundreds of amps) but enough to boot up the ecu and run the fuel pump. left the hood open, put the car in neutral, and pushed it around the corner to a downhill, looking around the hood while pushing on the doorframe and steering with the other hand. started rolling downhill, hopped in, threw it into second and popped the clutch, varooooom ran the engine for a few minutes before disconnecting the lithium battery to make sure it wouldn't die before the lead-acid got some charge. worked great and the car is still fine years later. only casualty was the lithium puffed up with hydrogen something awful but it was like 15 bucks on hobbyking so w/e try THAT in your tesla, elonailures!
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that's a really good way to blow up a lithium battery, that's for sure
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yeah lol the alternator in my car is rated at 95 amps output and the lithium battery could safely take maybe 4-5A charge absolute max. i had a fire extinguisher though so whatever, it's only over the limit by a factor of twenty
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Sagebrush posted:something awful 
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Sep 16, 2018 21:18
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Hey, that's the name of the show!
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Sagebrush posted:yeah lol the alternator in my car is rated at 95 amps output and the lithium battery could safely take maybe 4-5A charge absolute max. now that's the tesla way! safety third!
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Sagebrush posted:the battery in my car once died dead-dead because the brake pedal switch stuck and the lights stayed on for like 2 days. no starter click, radio wouldn't even power up, so bc it's fuel injected i couldn't push-start it. no one around to jump start. didn't want to call AAA. why not, AAA's usually pretty responsive when i've called
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Sagebrush posted:only casualty was the lithium puffed up with hydrogen something awful but it was like 15 bucks on hobbyking so w/e jesus christ. you've just disqualified yourself from ever discussing electric vehicle safety
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the upshot is, the car started and i was able to drive to the hospital to have my 3rd degree burns treated
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after the fire dept extinguished the fire, insurance paid for a new car so all's well that ends well
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guys he had a fire extinguisher handy sheesh
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Sagebrush posted:also lol @ no service centers in michigan franchise laws unsurprisingly michigan didn’t jump to change the law to allow auto manufacturers to make direct sales like so many other states dud
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:why not, AAA's usually pretty responsive when i've called toxic masculinity redleader posted:jesus christ. you've just disqualified yourself from ever discussing electric vehicle safety buddy, i've forgotten more about electrical safety than you'll ever know
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Sagebrush posted:buddy, i've forgotten more about electrical safety than you'll ever know oh, i believe it
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Sagebrush posted:toxic masculinity and besides, you'd probably need at least a D-cell for a car
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lol at seizing on that one goofy point to try to take sagebrush down just lol
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what? we're just loling that dude nearly blew himself up trying to jump his car with a drone battery
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that's pretty funny tbh
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a little pop at worst. a good part of engineering is learning what things are truly dangerous (building entire floors out of forklifted and subsequently epoxy-filled battery cells) and what things arent (sacrificing a cheapo little thing to get yourself to work in the morning)
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Did you lose a finger? No? Perfectly safe.
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Jonny 290 posted:a little pop at worst. a good part of engineering is learning what things are truly dangerous (building entire floors out of forklifted and subsequently epoxy-filled battery cells) and what things arent (sacrificing a cheapo little thing to get yourself to work in the morning) my dude, even very small lithium cells pop rather violently when inappropriately charged/discharged. he wasn't gonna literally blow himself up, but a 12v drone battery "popping" from unmanaged thermals and hydrogen expansion is gonna be messy.
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it's funny that he would do that, because he knows it's not a good idea. you don't need to stan sagebrush just because people are loling @ his hubris
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infernal machines posted:oh, i believe it
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Jonny 290 posted:sacrificing a cheapo little thing to get yourself to work in the morning extremely not worth it
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it’s dignity, luann!
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i mean tbf a lithium pack with a protection circuit to keep it from going bang when the alternator kicked back in would have been fine i think. rip his battery though, they don't tend to like deep discharge followed by high current charging. similar with alternator/voltage regulator, both of those got a workout. could be worse.
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Sagebrush posted:also lol @ no service centers in michigan iirc since they refuse to set up dealerships they’re unable to service vehicles here
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i looked it up and Michigan has a law against OEMs setting up sales/service places and require everything to be done through a third party dealership which is hilarious
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given how big the manufacturers were (and still are, i suppose) i wonder how that law came to be. like, it smacks of lobbying by the automotive dealers’ guild of michigan or whatever the gently caress they are, but on the other hand you’d think that any legislation that would’ve severely hamstrung the big three would’ve been DOA.
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on the one hand i admire sagebrush's thinking and ingenuity in this case but on the other darkest_dungeon_overconfidence.wav that's my horribly fencepost take thank u for reading
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President Beep posted:
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we did it friends https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1041469078194446336?s=19
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ol qwerty bastard posted:we did it friends wait what someone explain, im confus
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it spells “sex”!!! 
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President Beep posted:it spells “sex”!!! and it smells like desperation
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