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Nfcknblvbl: Jul 15, 2002

tesla should have still put resistive heaters in these heat pump-equipped cars just in case the pump fails

edit: when the heat pump cars were new, they were running too efficiently in winter by sapping all the heat from the battery so when it's time to charge at a supercharger it's too cold to accept a fast charge

Nfcknblvbl fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jan 13, 2022

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Just a Moron: Nov 11, 2021

They should put in a little kerosene heater.

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Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

I thought Teslas kept themselves heated by catching fire.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 20:50

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

The Wisest Moron posted:

They should put in a little kerosene heater.

meet the vw Thing heater

yes it has a gasoline line from the tank

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Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

they made those for planes, too, in case two kinds of hypoxia weren't enough and you wanted to go for the hat trick

# ? Jan 13, 2022 21:05

Just a Moron: Nov 11, 2021

Jonny 290 posted:

meet the vw Thing heater

yes it has a gasoline line from the tank

Mmmm, now that's the stuff. With any luck Tesla will skimp on putting in a CO monitor. Sorry Nfcknblvbl.

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Eeyo: Aug 29, 2004

look they can just use ai and the driver viewing camera to determine when someone gets co poisoning.

# ? Jan 13, 2022 21:57

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

every 5 minutes the car is programmed to ask you "do you feel dizzy?"

# ? Jan 13, 2022 22:12

Lead out in cuffs: Sep 18, 2012; "That's right. We've evolved."

"I can see that. Cool mutations."

From that article:

quote:

The EV maker did not alert the Canadian transportation department about the �known firmware concern� it revealed to a customer on December 29, as we have already told our readers. That is the reason for the investigation.

So their heat pump is (possibly) sufficient, but the cars keep failing to actually run the heat pump because the firmware is badly-tested, constantly-changing garbage?

# ? Jan 13, 2022 23:09

YOLOsubmarine: Oct 19, 2004; When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

"Motherfucking, what's that big dragon shit? That orange motherfucker. Charizard."

Lead out in cuffs posted:

From that article:

So their heat pump is (possibly) sufficient, but the cars keep failing to actually run the heat pump because the firmware is badly-tested, constantly-changing garbage?

This is two years running they�ve had issues with heatpumps failing and they�ve issued multiple firmware versions that are supposed to fix the issue but haven�t, so there�s probably a mechanical issue with the design and they�re trying to paper over it with firmware to avoid eating the cost of r placing parts in all of the affected vehicles.

# ? Jan 14, 2022 01:31

Zamujasa: Oct 27, 2010; Bread Liar

code:

heat_pump_fix_ver = 13   -- @TODO automate ver bump

for i = 1, heat_pump_fix_ver do
    local status, error_msg = car.heater:enable()
    if not error_msg then break; end
    car.heater:disable()
    coroutine.yield()
end

# ? Jan 14, 2022 02:40

Xakura: Jan 10, 2019; A safety-conscious little mouse!

YOLOsubmarine posted:

This is two years running they�ve had issues with heatpumps failing and they�ve issued multiple firmware versions that are supposed to fix the issue but haven�t, so there�s probably a mechanical issue with the design and they�re trying to paper over it with firmware to avoid eating the cost of r placing parts in all of the affected vehicles.

bold of you to assume they're good at writing code

# ? Jan 14, 2022 02:51

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

Jonny 290 posted:

meet the vw Thing heater

yes it has a gasoline line from the tank

typical vw stuff, just like how the windshield washer on a beetle uses the air from the spare tire. when you actually need the spare tire oop

# ? Jan 14, 2022 03:05

YOLOsubmarine: Oct 19, 2004; When asked which Pokemon he evolved into, Kamara pauses.

"Motherfucking, what's that big dragon shit? That orange motherfucker. Charizard."

Xakura posted:

bold of you to assume they're good at writing code

I�m not assuming that all, I�m just assuming they�re also bad at engineering.

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Samuel Glompers: Nov 26, 2020

Wild EEPROM posted:

typical vw stuff, just like how the windshield washer on a beetle uses the air from the spare tire. when you actually need the spare tire oop

That is delightful nonsense, oh my god that is such a jerry rigged hacked together solution and they did it at a mass produced scale I am in love

I had to look it up myself to believe it. That's loving stupid :allears:

# ? Jan 14, 2022 03:20

Nfcknblvbl: Jul 15, 2002

Samuel Glompers posted:

That is delightful nonsense, oh my god that is such a jerry rigged hacked together solution and they did it at a mass produced scale I am in love

I had to look it up myself to believe it. That's loving stupid

just keep a bicycle pump in case you need the spare nbd.

real talk, i used a bicycle pump to air up the tires on a motorcycle one time thinking that skinny wheels don't have all that much air in them. turns out i was wrong, it took forever and my arms were sore afterwards

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Nomnom Cookie: Aug 30, 2009

pumping a truck tire from 15 to 35 psi is a p fuckin good triceps workout

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Nomnom Cookie: Aug 30, 2009

is what I tell myself as I put off getting this flat fixed for the 26th straight week

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Nomnom Cookie: Aug 30, 2009

did you know that Walmart will fix a flat for like $10 when you get your oil changed

# ? Jan 14, 2022 03:30

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

there�s a guy in trois rivi�res who�ll install a gasoline heater in your bolt for like 1.5k

# ? Jan 14, 2022 03:36

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

i will set fire to your car for like, 1/3rd that price

# ? Jan 14, 2022 03:37

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

Nomnom Cookie posted:

did you know that Walmart will fix a flat for like $10 when you get your oil changed

all tire places will patch for under $20, oil change or not

Nomnom Cookie posted:

is what I tell myself as I put off getting this flat fixed for the 26th straight week

chances are that rim needs to be ground down so thats like 30 bucks

Nomnom Cookie posted:

pumping a truck tire from 15 to 35 psi is a p fuckin good triceps workout

a cigarette lighter slime is $15, you should have one in your trunk already

graph fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jan 14, 2022

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hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

assuming its patchable

probably just my luck but somehow every bit of tire damage i've had, including nails through the tire, somehow manages to cause sidewall damage too.

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Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Zamujasa posted:

code:

heat_pump_fix_ver = 13   -- @TODO automate ver bump

for i = 1, heat_pump_fix_ver do
    local status, error_msg = car.heater:enable()
    if not error_msg then break; end
    car.heater:disable()
    coroutine.yield()
end

the gently caress is this syntax? pascal?

# ? Jan 14, 2022 06:01

BattleMaster: Aug 14, 2000

Sagebrush posted:

the gently caress is this syntax? pascal?

looks like lua, which would actually be a sensible embedded scripting language

you just know the real thing uses webservers and node.js

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Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Sagebrush posted:

the gently caress is this syntax? pascal?

Lua, based on the comments starting with --

e: and the absolute degeneracy of indexing starting by 1

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Zamujasa: Oct 27, 2010; Bread Liar

a lua joke only seemed appropriate, since it's the only thing involving musk/tesla that'll ever go to the moon

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Nitr0: Aug 17, 2005; IT'S FREE REAL ESTATE

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Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

i hate him so goddamn much

# ? Jan 14, 2022 08:15

Zamujasa: Oct 27, 2010; Bread Liar

i mean, he's not wrong. every piece of input he gives is error

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The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

Zamujasa posted:

i mean, he's not wrong. every piece of input he gives is error

as is the output from his mouth

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gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Sagebrush posted:

i hate him so goddamn much

loving

, he's on track to replace Kissinger as #1. Ideally because Kissinger dies.

# ? Jan 14, 2022 10:31

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Sagebrush posted:

i hate him so goddamn much

# ? Jan 14, 2022 11:29

filthy regex: Oct 1, 2010; s/ (. Y .) / 8==D~~ /g

i had to loving google that tweet to see if it was real. i thought that something that idiotic must have been a fake image. oh it's real folks. it's real.

# ? Jan 14, 2022 11:34

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Sagebrush posted:

i hate him so goddamn much

with today's pharmacology we can even medicate that out of him but he's a billionaire so he'll be a fuckin nutjob for the rest of his extremely long life

# ? Jan 14, 2022 11:40

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

hobbesmaster posted:

assuming its patchable

probably just my luck but somehow every bit of tire damage i've had, including nails through the tire, somehow manages to cause sidewall damage too.

yeah, good ol' wood screw right on the corner bullshit for me, too

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