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BobLaw
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Comment #35579537
I can't speak directly for these aftermarket infotainment replacements but implementations of aftermarket ECUs for example record CAN bus traffic to build a database of the various…
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Comment #32250169
You would be livid you got exactly what you paid for?
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Comment #32250156
What nonsense are you talking about? This sort of stuff happens in construction all the time. If the wrong materials get delivered to you site they absolutely can and will come tak…
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Comment #32246468
Nothing happened remotely, the discrepancy was noticed when the car was brought in for a service.
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Comment #32244911
Uhh no that's not at all correct. The taxes are paid to whatever jurisdiction you register your car. If you live in Texas and you buy a car in Wyoming the Taxes get paid to you loc…
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Comment #32244564
What kind of insane argument is that? If you order a Toyota Camry and the transporter drops off a Ferrari at your door screaming WELL IT SAYS FERRARI ON RIGHT THERE ON THE CAR isn'…
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Comment #32243892
If you read the story or the comments the car had a 60kwh battery replaced under warranty but only a 90kwh was available. Procedure was to set the battery firmware to 60 kwh but fo…
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Comment #32243750
In many states car dealers are either the single largest or one of the largest groups that donates to state and local politicians. They use those markups to make massive donations …
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Comment #32243659
I think they should be able to mark stuff up all they want. They just shouldn't be able to have laws enabling their status as forced middle men. If a consumer wants to pay extra th…
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Comment #32243584
Something being "supported by market conditions" is not a valid test for reasonableness. During disasters for example, all manner of unethical practices can be "supported by market…
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Comment #31978681
Costco - or whatever wholesale club is near you.
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Comment #31735031
That would be a silly way to approach it. You would be paying $40k+ per month in just demand charges some places. A much better idea is to have battery packs you can charge at cons…
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Comment #31734922
Not so much high-density as much as highER density. https://www.autoevolution.com/news/lfp-cells-are-getting-mor...
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Comment #31734884
Not really for cars at least. That's right up there with NCA and NMC chemistries and those seem to do just fine for 200k miles. LFP can do 3000+ cycles with the trade offs being lo…
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Comment #31706272
Scrum master here (amongst other things). Just want to point out that nothing mentioned in your comment is "Scrum". Though they can certainly be characteristics of terrible attempt…
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Comment #31700870
Quoted from the 2021 edition: "Project 4 is written in the computer’s assembly language, and projects 9 and 12 (a simple computer game and a basic operating system) are written in …
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Comment #27797971
Humm, not exactly "Some of the most useful products for people with disabilities weren’t developed with them in mind"
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Comment #21625216
Are you able to pm any more insights? As someone that's currently having trouble even getting a response this seems insane to me.
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Comment #10122104
Definitely a neat fix for something that worked for 150+ years and only needed to be checked a couple times a week. Now that it has to be manually checked at least once a day thoug…
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Comment #10081874
You know very well that's not the same thing...
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Comment #9742467
Interesting. Link to that second site?