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Not really. Streaming services like NetFlix are much easier. With Apple TV there is a universial search between all of the various services. Running a large media server can actual…

They should have to provide a justification for why they are removing them. Many of those episodes are with some of my favorite comics such as Bill Burr. Why did they remove them?

I’m surprised you are not using a typewriter.

A heat pump can be air source or geothermal and you can use them to create hot water for a hydronic system or forced air (ducted or non-ducted). So not all of those will create the…

Get yourself a FLIR (the phone attached ones are not that expensive) and check for yourself. It is a great tool.

I wish more municipalities would mandate tighter homes with good ventilation. Recently when searching for a new home it was so dishearting to see brand new developments where the h…

Adding on to this the energy usage of my multi-head heat pump system has been quite surprising when it drops below freezing. I have a Mitsubishi unit which is rated down to somethi…

Netflix with all their cash still has basically nothing for live news/talk shows and sports. It’s bizarre.

Not really. I buy youtube tv because I still want certain channels but I like the strraming aspects like not using a standard aweful cable box, watching from anywhere and from any …

This is pretty much my experience. A lot of people testing it are in city centers with lots of complex things going on. For the most part in suburbs or smaller cities the driving i…

To clarify, any adaptive cruise system in deployment at that time.

Correct me if I am wrong but the approach used by most in the DARPA challenge was lidar using pre-mapped routes and heavy use of localization. If the route changed significantly I …

Many studies have shown (and basic physics suggests) that the survivabity of accidents goes way up with vehicle weight all other things being mostly equal. https://www.iihs.org/top…

There are several tangible benefits if you drive near a lot of Teslas on autopilot in a highway setting. Besides the advantages of adaptive cruise control (constant speed and set f…

Its not clear to me that a general purpose autonomous car can be developed in a vaccum as you mention. Tesla has all the resources in the world to test with their own drivers on cl…

I don’t know the specifics of that incident but it should be exceedingly rare. I would like to know more about it and will try to find out more.

It does work quite well already and each release is getting better. I’ve done several city drives with zero interventions. As long as you are attentive it is very safe.

On the contrary phantom braking for me was almost always caused by the radars and especially with overpasses in front of you.

You will have basic autopilot which can also phantom brake. It is not as bad as it seems and was possibly worse when they used radar. As long as you are attentive to the system it …

It is not possible in the current state so the point is moot. Seeing how it works first hand I am a firm believer in the vision only approach. I do think one day this will be possi…

Because I don’t view it that way as an actual user of the system. I know I am still in full control of the vehicle as is any driver using it. Merely tapping the brakes is hardwired…

It is possible and it has already happened with the Uber incident (even with that car having a saftey driver).

They have already done a hardware upgrade to my car from HW2.5->3, the nivida based solution to their own custom silicon. The $10,000 (now, $5000 when I bought it) includes all har…

They do and it is easily googled. https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport

The FUD is unreal.