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How can the bike not have a motor? Or like no motor in the engine sense.
Just like electric cars don’t have a motor, another word for motor is transmission in the common parlance.
If your parlance uses it for the transmission, your parlance is wrong. It is like calling square a circle.
I didn't think it bothered me until I read this and then thought of the biggest gripe with my Skoda Octavia and that is when the auto-start doesn't start in traffic and I end up on the receiving end of the beeping of obstructed drivers! The specialist garage doesn't know what's wrong and I don't hold out much more hope for the main dealer who should know best but I've met people who work at main dealers. What is anno…
On another note, are you seeing significant gains in fuel economy while running on Eco-mode?
I would recommend checking out Dacia and Lada (coincidentally now both are now under Renault group) https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/our-company/our-brands/dacia... https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/our-company/our-brands/lada/
Hear hear. I sold my old 2004 Skoda Fabia (which for Americans has the technology of a 2000 VW golf), since repairs were costing more and the car sharing here in Amsterdam is really becoming reliable for the few times I need a car. Recently I rented a car for a ski trip, a recent Jeep Renegade, oh my lord. It was constantly trying to take the controls from me (god forbid you change lanes without signaling on a totall…
I can see why you might feel silly indicating on an empty road, but personally I find indicating to be such an integral and effortless part of turning or changing lane that I always indicate even if I can't see anyone about. By comparison, when drivers are making judgement calls about whether it's necessary to indicate, I'm often suprised by their unexpected movements. This is particularly true as a pedestrian as som…
On a winding two lane (same direction) mountain road with light snow and no traffic, it's silly to tell the car 'I am going to cross this stripe now' to avoid the car trying to steer me into the barrier. I am constantly driving on top of the lane lines to avoid snow, ice, minimize breaking, and generally drive smoothly so as not to put unneeded forces on a car in icy conditions. Edge case? Yes, but there are tons of them.
Examples (imagine snowy conditions at night):
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Touch-based buttons feels like a huge step backwards. Have we learned nothing from having to use touch phones for the last 12 years, either that or everyone is much better than me at not missing touch inputs
And everyone wants to be part of that cool touch movement too, by using capacitive touch buttons. So modern! And cheaper too, but that doesn't stop you from marketing it as premium. Try buying a stove with induction and normal knobs. Nope, it's touch. Cheap touch buttons, that don't work if your hands are wet, or greasy. Which totally never happens when you're cooking. So you're handling three pots, one starts boilin…
I rented a car a few years ago that had Bluetooth for the audio and it was wonderful. Stop the car and my music paused, start it and it got going again.
I test drove a few new cars recently and of course they all had Bluetooth, but the Dacia Sandero Stepway had wireless Android Auto. You set it up over Bluetooth but after that you no longer needed to plug the wire in to have Android Auto on the screen. Really impressed me, and being a Dacia was the cheapest car I looked at. The Toyota dealership claimed it didn't exist when I asked about getting that on the Yaris.
I'd be generally fine with "smart" cars, provided they can be kept disconnected 24/7, that is, no phoning home to report where I am going or at what speed, and no ads. Otherwise, then thanks but no thanks.
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Ok, what about airplane or bus and train seats? They are fixed in place to a vehicle with a battery, still you don't have them powered. Not that car ones (powered, heating, massaging, etc.) are not nice and comfortable, only that they remain a form of luxury.
I don't drive planes nor busses. I'm a passenger: The back seat(s) of passenger cars are often fixed too. I wouldn't be surprised to find that the bus driver's seat is powered. I do drive cars, though, and sometimes other people's cars. I'd much rather be able to adjust while driving so that I can have better control over the car than have to fumble with levers, which might propel me back far enough that I cannot bra…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29603532
Direct link:
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/71bus/page1.jpg
The link says techcrunch.com but uMatrix is stopping me from getting to it because it's trying to go through guce.advertising.com first. Weird.
