Chris Knight posted:

Given how unsettling the Plaid is to pilot at that speed, however, you wouldn't want to do 200 mph even if it could. Because it gets up to speed so quickly, we could simply lift off and coast rather than slam on the brakes. But that gave us a lot of time to ponder the Model S's high-speed behavior, which, frankly, was terrifying. It wanders in its lane, with lots of slop on center in the steering that doesn't have anything to do with the yoke. Putting it in the sport steering setting helped a little, but it's like Tesla neglected to dial in its high-speed steering and handling behavior. This is not what you want when traveling two-thirds the distance of a football field every second. Tick. Tick. Every other car that's in the same conversation—from the Porsche Taycan to the Bugatti Chiron—is unerring and locked on its lane at 150-plus mph.

Luigi Thirty posted:

the genesis of British early warning radar research was someone asking the Tizard Committee about German death rays in the 30s

they did some math and said “no that’s not possible because of the inverse square law but I bet with a big enough antenna you could detect reflected energy off airplanes”

MomJeans420 posted:

I was behind a new Model 3 yesterday (still had paper plates) and portions of the trunk had absolutely no gap from the rest of the body while other parts had a huge gap, to the extent that I was wondering if it was hard to close the trunk. I can understand your average person not noticing panel gaps but I can't imagine taking delivery of a brand new car that already has issues using the trunk, unless the design is such that those tolerance issues really don't matter. Maybe Tesla has learned how to build around assembly problems so things still function well enough, but that would still require caring about the cars so I don't think that's true.

Good thing they don't have poorly cast suspension parts that break from normal usage.

knox_harrington posted:

or brakes that catch fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLMzBTg0gw

FMguru posted:

halt and catch fire

FMguru posted:

halt and catch fire (the halting part is optional)

mystes posted:

Is that true? Pretty cool if so.

Chris Knight posted:

Elon Musk: halt and catch fire

LanceHunter posted:

"Tesla: Halt and Catch Firetruck" is probably still the best title this thread ever had.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

not really, no - it was one of those things that happens a lot with technology where loads of people independently discovered about 80% of the knowledge and techniques required, but never really appreciated what they had. the germans and the british both noticed that passing metallic objects caused radio interference even before the first world war, and the americans were playing around with detecting ships by the drop in signal strength when they passed between a transmitter and receiver, but it wasn't until the very eve of ww2 that everyone started to put everything together.

there's a kernel of truth to it though - the cavity magnetron, which was essential for making radars small enough and robust enough to be carried on planes (and cheap and reliable enough to be used in microwave ovens), *did* come out of research into focusing radio waves enough to destroy planes in the air, although it wasn't considered powerful enough for this and so was forgotten for a couple of years

Jonny 290 posted:

also dont forget that we owe microwave ovens to a melted chocolate bar in a technician's pocket

Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/rajbrueggemann/status/1464051515723853833

Chris Knight posted:

Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/rajbrueggemann/status/1464051515723853833

Chris Knight posted:

https://twitter.com/rajbrueggemann/status/1464051515723853833

Luigi Thirty posted:

at one point the British got the Germans to give up on radio navigation for bombers because their system was close enough to the frequency of BBC television for them to use the transmitter in London to blast garbage and overload the receivers

the pilots blamed the ground stations and the ground stations blamed the pilots and Hitler said gently caress it and cancelled the whole thing as a waste of resources

big scary monsters posted:

lol at using radar to detect planes, a couple webcams and our advanced neural network can do the job just as well or better

big scary monsters posted:

lol at using radar to detect planes, a couple webcams and our advanced neural network can do the job just as well or better

goddamnedtwisto posted:

goddamnedtwisto posted:

someone slip elon the wiki article on acoustic location and a note telling him microphones are even cheaper than webcams

although i assume tesla build quality and panel gaps would absolutely ruin the effectiveness of the war tuba:

GWBBQ posted:

amazing how much can go wrong when the guy in charge is so methed out and paranoid that he arbitrarily gets rid of people and entire projects on a whim, isn't it?

Agile Vector posted:

big theranos energy there and like theranos, tesla's valuation relies on the unproven claims of a little prick

qirex posted:

lol mercedes got level 3 certification in germany for the autobahn before tesla max allowed speed 60kph

Endless Mike posted:

this is actually a cause for tesla stock to go up

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1469153995428085762?s=20

qirex posted:

I'm struggling to imagine a way he isn't already 100% an influencer, I guess it's possible he still makes product decisions about teslas but his primary job is twitter cheerleader

mystes posted:

He's more like a mascot or one of those dog mayors.

The_Franz posted:

The_Franz posted: