AdironRider
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The new Model 3 performance is quite the performance bargain. 45K (with tax credit) for 510 HP and 0-60 in 2.9 seconds is an all time speed deal.
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EVs - New Hampshire gets it right
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Maybe belongs in the boating thread.
Is this Granite's setup?
SkiingInABlueDream
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Anyone remember this video from a few years ago? ( I hope the link posts)
With EV's combining massive curb weight and massive instantaneous acceleration we can look forward to more shit like this. And worse.
With EV's combining massive curb weight and massive instantaneous acceleration we can look forward to more shit like this. And worse.
Harvey
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What happened there?
SkiingInABlueDream
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Did you not watch the video? The interesting bit happens about 20 seconds in.
Edit. It's basically supreme driver stupidity. And yes the same mistake can be made in almost any kind of vehicle. But the potential consequences seem higher in EVs, to me at least. I'm not hating on EVs btw.
Harvey
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I watched it. The driver... what? Lost control of his foot? Had the car on auto drive?
drjeff
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As a guy who grew up hanging on a tow rope behind many Nautiques on Winnipesaukee, appreciate the old school Nautique... but the reality is if one can afford (and feels like their ego needs) a cyber truck, the Nautique on the trailer behind the cyber truck should be either 25yrs newer or a Paragon wake boat version!
BenedictGomez
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Internet adoption rates slowed in 2001, which is precisely why email never replaced mailing letters.
Oh........ wait.......
SkiingInABlueDream
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I don't remember reading anything further about it after that clip had its moment, so Ill admit I'm speculating it's driver error, basically the same thing as when you hear about people launching cars into stripmall storefronts from the parking lot. (local news gobbles that shit up). Except with EV's the accel is much quicker. If that clip was an auto-pilot failure I reeeealy think we would have heard about it.
I think cars eventually will be required to have acceleration override; basically if the computer determines there's something in front of the vehicle, dont accelerate even if the driver is giving full throttle. As an old school car person myself, I hate the idea of a decision layer above me when Im at the wheel. But I think it will become necessary for safety. The average driver (and, if you go into the right urban places (cough Cambridge MA cough) pedestrians have become too stupid/careless for their own good.) /rant
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