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I'm pretty sure he means that he doesn't want anything that has both an infotainment system and a steering wheel...in other words, he doesn't want an entertainment system in a car.
I thought he meant that he doesn't want an infotainment system in his car until we have self-driving cars.
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>Not until the Tesla goes around the Nurburgring in the same fashion the GTR did. Or manages to go around the Nurburgring at full power at all: http://insideevs.com/expected-tesla-model-s-fails-lap-nurbur... “Unfortunately the car went into a reduced power mode about 3 minutes in due to excess battery heat (at least, that’s my guess). However, before it did it was able to keep a GT3 RS going full chat, within shoutin…
This was decision as well. In the price range of the Model S I was considering the M6 and the 911. Ultimately I went with the M6. GT characteristics when I want, goes plenty fast for someone that seldomly goes to the track and yet still is capable of exciting on the road. The P85D, while fast, when I floored it I felt like I was taking off on a plane but there was a sense of comfort and safety that, funnily enough, I…
Though now that I'm in the middle (well, almost done with the first version) of building https://recent.io/ it means more screen time and less driving...
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My friend has a Mazda3 and we hacked on it over the weekend to make the infotainment system a little bit better. Check this out: http://www.mazda3hacks.com/doku.php You can turn off the annoying restrictions, change the ordering of some menus and drastically reduce the time of the starting confirmation dialogue box. All you need is a USB to Ethernet adaptor. Also make sure to disable watchdog or you can get into a re…
What watchdog do you mean? I've ssh'd into my Mazda3 and was planning on doing it again soon, but I don't know what you mean by that.
If you don't disable watchdog then when it starts up and isn't working watchdog will have it automatically reboot. Since this isn't a transient issue, but a misconfigured file it'll just keep rebooting making it very difficult to ssh back in and fix the file.
If watchdog is disabled then while the infotainment system won't work it's easy to ssh back in and fix the file.
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Exactly, yet people who have no clue about cars will say that because it has a faster 0-60 time it's a faster car. Teslas marketing department is damn good.
Cars spend most of their time between 0 and 60. It's a good area to optimize.
Just don't confuse that with being a fast car, at least not around a track.
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Agreed. The 2015 Mazda3 we just bought has a horrible info/nav system that crashes and frequently stops responding. I'm guessing the actual chance of it ever being fixed at 0%. Tesla's get an automatic OTA update that would fix that kind of thing and it wouldn't be something you'd have to 'deal' with for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle.
My friend has a Mazda3 and we hacked on it over the weekend to make the infotainment system a little bit better. Check this out: http://www.mazda3hacks.com/doku.php You can turn off the annoying restrictions, change the ordering of some menus and drastically reduce the time of the starting confirmation dialogue box. All you need is a USB to Ethernet adaptor. Also make sure to disable watchdog or you can get into a re…