Squeak! Stay safe out there motorbikists.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 11:48,
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Yeah - don't call it autopilot.
My car (not a Tesla) sometimes emergency brakes when it sees a car ahead turning off the street. Me, I can see it's going to be fine, but the car sees a "stationary" vehicle and tries to launch me through the windscreen. It's only a little bit inconvenient.
On the other hand, I did recently see a porno where two performers fucked in a Tesla on autopilot (supposedly). They seemed to be quite happy with the risk.
Still, there's no way I'll be trusting self-driving cars just yet.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 12:35,
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How much do most of those uber eats drivers make? A fucking pittance I bet
Instead of blowing 50,000 quid on some tesla just so its autopilot can murder a cyclist and waiting hours by a powerpoint, why not spend 5k on some second hand rover montego, and hire some newly arrived punjabi as a driver while you sit in the back and watch porn? Get him an admirals uniform with epaulets. It'd be totally boss and you'd still be ahead after two years. Could probably write his wages off your taxes too if you have a good accountant
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 13:23,
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But the internal combustion is evil
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 13:49,
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More than a third of the UK's electricity is still generated by burning a finite resource from out of the ground
www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/how-much-uks-energy-renewable
I guess the missing 22% is nuclear
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:04,
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If you want real time figures
This site's hard to beat
www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:46,
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40% from burning gas, even worse
and hardly the green alternative. With all the losses/inefficiencies you'll get during power distribution, how is it better for the environment to ditch your gas boiler?
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 21:41,
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it's an odd argument against EV vehicles
that because UK government policy forces consumers to choose polluting power sources because of their status quo energy policy in the face of global warming and the worst European drought in at least 500 years, they should buy a car that can only run on polluting power sources.
It's a bit like saying, "well I'm going to drop my strides and shit on this beach because the government is pumping sewage there anyway". It's not a particular morally defensible position.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 6 Sep 2022, 0:26,
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If all the fuel used for ICE vehicles was used to generate electricity for EVs
- there'd be something like a 60 % reduction in the fuel being burned.
EVs are massively more efficient than internal combustion is at turning potential energy sources into moving mass.
www.globalfueleconomy.org/media/460864/electric-vehicles-summary.pdf
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Mon 5 Sep 2022, 7:03,
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none of that matters once you have a driver wearing an admirals uniform
the police could be executing protesters with their blood running out in the street and you'd just say, "Ranjit, that reminds me. Swing by the Threshers, I'm going to pick up a bottle of Burgundy"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 14:08,
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Not sure why that particular state of the Indian subcontinent has been picked on
But I think I'd be looking elsewhere for a skilled driver, as the Punjab has over 10 x road fatalities compared to Great Britain.
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Varmint, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 15:22,
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I dare say the figure has dropped sharply recently.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 18:24,
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it wasn't so much for their driving prowess, though my experience of dangerous poorly regulated countries is that it tends to produce better drivers as you have to be on your toes
living in brazil there was always someone doing some crazy shit on the roads almost every day. I remember they had this major arterial road in Sao paulo, the Marginal, that was 8 lanes wide. One time I drove along at night in heavy rain, and they'd painted over all the white lines in black, but being brazil hadn't got around to painting the new lines yet. In the near constant heavy traffic of Sao Paulo. It was like some crazy Le Mans start, speeding across this huge black empty expanse of tarmac with a bunch of other cars in the rain, all jockeying for position and trying not to hit each other.
Anyway, it's just that Punjabis, for whatever reason, seem disproportionately over-represented as uber eats deliverers, and so are prime candidates to jump at being my driver for similar wages and far less work than delivering pizza to penge, not to mention the chance to wear an admirals uniform
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 5 Sep 2022, 9:45,
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Mine has a collision warning system that appears to have been programmed by an over-caffeinated nervous wreck
It triggers for parked cars on the outside of bends, luckily it doesn’t slam the anchors on when it does.
The lane assist function is equally cretinous, and has a habit of violently wrenching the steering around if you’re anywhere other than in the exact centre of the lane. You have zero chance of communicating intent with vehicle position when that’s active, and god forbid you should try driving on a country road. Fortunately it can be easily deactivated, but if that is the future of self-driving cars then count me out.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 4 Sep 2022, 22:07,
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Car ownership needs to stop being fetishised and then ultimately phased out.
I can't wait for robobuses and robotaxis.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 5 Sep 2022, 19:24,
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Won’t happen
Public/shared transport might work fine within a city but is next to useless for those who have to commute between towns. Or live in villages with a weekly bus service.
Also, it’s like you haven’t been paying attention to either the video or comments regarding the state of the technology.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 6 Sep 2022, 7:46,
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I live in a village with a crap bus service. I Can't wait for robobuses and robotaxis.
I don't watch car videos, soz.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 6 Sep 2022, 14:00,
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I'm sorry. I couldn't stomach more than two minutes of that god-awful presentation.
Jeremy Clarkson has clearly been such a massive inspiration to this bloke that he's decided to mimic absolutely every facet of his style of narration besides the accent. The tone, the cadence; all uncanny. Then topped off with one of those horrible nasal west coast American accents.
I don't actually mind Jeremy's presentation style. But it sounds fucking stupid coming out of anybody else.
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I think he expands a little in the comments
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 5 Sep 2022, 13:13,
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Scally council estate young men in sports kit
but that's not important now.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 6 Sep 2022, 8:35,
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Always with the rough trade.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 6 Sep 2022, 23:46,
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