Any software that has backend needs is unfortunately going to have to find a way to pay for it.

You don’t have to be super shitty about what you do to get there though.

Essentially, everything is Chrome, Firefox or Safari.

Brave, Edge etc are chrome.

Most people are using chrome.

Google controlling chrome controls what the vast majority of people use to see the internet, and then they change chrome to make it harder for you to block ads that they want to show.

There’s no reason for chrome to break ad blockers unless it’s owned by an ad company.

Edit: Google done some other shady things by owning it in the past as well.

FTC drops investigation into Microsoft in (checks calendar) 67d 13h 31m

Makes sense about NCAP ya. It’ll get tested eventually we’ll just have to wait.

You seem nice

It comes and goes.

Have you seen this crash yet where all 4 participants survived?

https://www.motor1.com/news/731526/tesla-cybertruck-crash-auction/

It’s trashed, but you can see it got wrecked up to the passenger compartment on the front, and the rear is missing all the way into the back wheels.

Neither of those distances is insignificant for a crumple area. That thing had to be flipping and they absorbed that energy.

It’s not that Tesla didn’t choose to have it tested, the agencies haven’t wanted to test it yet.

They don’t test every vehicle and they don’t always test what they think will be low volume vehicles.

Teala could sponsor it, but it’s not like every manufacturer sponsors a vehicle that the testing agencies decide not to test.

For example, I don’t believe the model 3 highland has been tested again after all the changes, and if it has, not all the testing agencies yet.

But… it does have crumple zones.

The entire front and rear castings are designed to shatter in a high energy collision and crumple.

The size of a crumple zone isn’t as important as how it absorbs the energy and dispenses it.

You could have a 20foot crumple zone that’s empty and it’s be useless.

You can see it crumpled here. They’ve also posted a different video on the official X account of a crash test but I won’t post that to avoid linking them. here.

Since you got something so utterly basic wrong and posted it as true, I can only assume the entire post is fabricated.

Edit: took a screen shot instead of video. It crumples all the way past the front wheels

That’s what you need distress codes for.

Destruction of evidence is a much different crime.

I would suspect it’d no longer be legal to hold them indefinitely and instead at best get the max prison sentence for that crime instead.

A us law website says that’s no more than 20y as the absolute max, and getting max would probably be hard if they don’t have anything else on you.

You’d have to weigh that against what’s on the device.

Also, even better if the distress code nukes the bad content, and then has a real 2nd profile that looks real, which makes it even harder to prove you used a distress code.

I’m not sure how much it would actually help for a regular thief.

This is about protecting it against more sophisticated attacks. But the rest probably have those means if wanted.

I’ve never said otherwise.

It’s their job to find a way to hack into the phone.

This feature makes that even harder.

Right, but this is about them bypassing you entirely.

They don’t need your fingerprint or pass code if they can bypass it themselves. This feature protects you when they’ve seized it lawfully which can be for many reasons.

That’s all lawful.

They can search you and the area when arrested. They can search the car if they have probable cause that evidence will be in the vehicle

I said have a warrant or seized lawfully, not nust have a warrant.

Edit: I didn’t even write what I said I said correctly. Corrected it lol.

They usually do have a warrant or it was seized lawfully.

This is about keeping them out even when it’s lawful.

It’s not the same.

On an iPhone it’ll reboot after X hours of no use. That means it could go months without rebooting and the day after it’s in police hands it reboots.

The feature you’re talking about would need to be set to reboot every day at a specific time. Now you personally have to deal with that. Also until you unlock the phone as well there could be reduced functionality making it annoying.

Very different.

I’ll be honest with you: all but one of the half-dozen (which is too many, BTW) cars I own have manual transmissions, and half of them don’t even have ABS, let alone any other fancy electronic nannies. I mention that to help explain the extent to which I am fundamentally Not On Board with anything that interferes with my manual control of the car.

Well that’s fair. You know what you want, nothing wrong with that.

I would absolutely insist on the maximum torque the self-driving system could apply being much less than the strength of the human driver. I don’t know if that’s the case in late-model vehicles or not, but if it isn’t, I would consider those vehicles to have an unsafe design.

I really don’t know on this either. Even if you can overpower it though in a worst case fighting you scenario, I imagine that would be a pretty fucked up driving moment.

Exactly: the same signal. If the electronics controlling it receive one input from the steering wheel and a different input from the self-driving computer, are you sure it will prioritize the steering wheel input in every single possible circumstance? 'Cause I’m not!

That’s an interesting point there, but have you considered that even with a mechanical link and current safety features, it can still override you? I unfortunately almost drove into someone at very low speeds in a dark rainy parking lot, but the cars safety systems overrode me thankfully. I don’t think they would have been injured it was so slow, but just to show that nowadays with cars you don’t always have full control. In that case it was the brakes not steering, but modern cars can and will prevent you from changing lanes into someone in your blind spot for example.

All of it, mechanical link or not, ultimately comes down to software now, and I’m not sure there would be any real difference between your steering wheel input overriding a self driving system with or without a mechanical link. Putting torque on the wheel while in these semi self driving modes disables the self driving features, but that’s software that disables it when you take over. What if that software failed and you were now fighting the self driving car also trying to steer and as you tried to steer it put equal power against you thinking the steering was rough?

Also with steer by wire if there is a catastrophic failure, turning the wheel will simply do nothing. E.g if both motors simultaneously die, or somehow all 3 signal wires at the steering wheel are cut. Edit: I believe it’s dual battery redundant as well, so the HV and 48v would both need to die to kill steering.

So I looked it up, and you’re right, steering isn’t part of the power train. Looks like its it’s own thing.

I don’t think it’s right to lump it in with the L2 system though as it’s taking your input and translating it into the appropriate movement. The L2 driving system decides to go left or right and will send the same signal you would by steering left or right. I guess it’s just it’s own thing just like power steering is it’s own thing.

Obviously this is first gen tech in cars, but it’s been around for quite awhile in aviation with no backup mechanical link, we haven’t all died yet.

Tesla’s system is triple redundant, but that doesn’t guarantee something won’t go wrong, only time will tell on that one. Maybe we learn triple isn’t enough and the NHSTA mandates quad?

I do have a feeling though, that within 20 years or so, it’s almost all going to be steer by wire. It’s safer in the event of a crash as you don’t have the steering shaft in front of you. It also saves space from not needing all the mechanical linkage. I imagine insurance would have higher rates on cars that don’t have steer by wire as well due to increased risk in accidents.

Edit: I would add though that motors are part of their specialty, and the steer by wire system is using 2 of them, so they do get some of their existing expertise on that.

Edit: I guess the triple redundancy is on the steering input. Obviously with only the 2 motors, thats only double redundant.

There’s a lot of Tesla hate on build quaility on Lemmy/Reddit, but they actually have some of the most reliable power trains and exceptional software. There was some problems back in the very early days of the Model S with the 85kw/h packs, but they’ve moved beyond that now.

Given this is part of the power train, and software, it’s right in line with their expertise.

It’s really mind boggling how big that airbag recall is.

Now that it’s available for sale, and ignoring the looks/stainless steel aspects, I think the biggest thing to be excited about is the steer by wire.

Reviews seem to be saying it drives exceptionally well because of it, and that’d really differentiate it from the other options.

Edit: the steer by wire with the 4 wheel steering.