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Are big mirrors often mounted like this?

sigh, we've been through this last page: The video is to demonstrate capabilities of LIDAR. It has tests specifically designed to show the differences. In the real world, has there ever been a Road Runner style painting of a road directly in line of another road like that outside of tests?

The "safety concern" is fear of protests and the like. They say not political but the news video did not give an actual safety concern other than hinting at political climate. The withdrawn from EV subsidies is retaliatory to US tariffs. No where and no one is saying vehicle themselves have any safety concerns.

London got these hidden kerb-side charge points ElectrekLondon is getting 570 'flat and flush' sidewalk EV chargersEV drivers in Camden, London, will soon see a major boost in sidewalk chargers, thanks to Camden Council and Trojan Energy.I see lots of them on the map and looks like even has sensor to tell if nearby space is occupied. Curious, I signed up for free and getting one of those mahoosive adaptor in the post soon. 0 cost to me so far. In the portal, there is also a setting for smart charging to minimise carbon emissions and thus price, sounds like how Intelligent Octopus Go works. Downside is less elegant solution to EV driver with the huge adaptor, compared to simple lamp post sockets (I've also tried). But up side is that 22 kW charging can be made available along any road for every single park-able space. If this can be rolled out everywhere, no more social divide.

That is "supervised full self driving", keyword is supervised and at no time anyone is expecting the car to be able to drive fully autonomously. Driver has full liability and is expected to take over at any time. When it was breaking the speed limit, it was following traffic like every other driver. There is also a speed limit off-set setting in the vehicle. This is Mercedes level 3 autonomy: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/27/23892154/mercedes-benz-drive-pilot-autonomous-level-3-test BMW level 3: https://mashable.com/article/bmw-level-3-self-driving All require the driver to take over, key difference is level 3 requires a transition period whereas level 2 are assistive tech, human driver is still driving and must be ready to take over at any time. Tesla has never claimed any of their tech is level 3 autonomy.

As long as it's been designed to similar safety standard as airplane safety system. I don't see any issue. As we know, people likes to see whatever Tesla do as half-arsed or "out there". Do people feel safer if they know Tesla isn't the only manufacturer doing *-by-wire? Lexus, on the roads in UK today have option to steer-by-wire. Lexus UK MagazineSteer by wire: How does it work?What is One Motion Grip and how does this radical steer by wire system work? We examine its advantages for the driver.Renault 5 brake-by-wire system as default: New Renault 5 Review 2025, Price...New Renault 5 Review 2025, Price & SpecsRead the definitive New Renault 5 2025 review from the expert What Car? team. Check specs, prices, performance and compare with similar cars.

All aircraft safety equipment are tested rigorously with redundancy (built in or multiple of). Car assistive tech are not built to the same standard to be relied upon in similar manner. I personally would not trust Radar/LiDAR system such that I allow it to drive beyond my own capability. I will always drive appropriately to the conditions regardless what type of sensor I have on the car, for as long as I am responsible controlling the car. I wish you best of luck, please do be careful out there.

That is a very valid opinion. You want something extra to support your senses. But why say a vision based system is inadequate when it is clearly not being used to do beyond what humans already do? We humans use the same vision based system to drive the vehicle, no one in their right mind will blindly drive into that kind of fog/rain shown in the video.

Tesla's autopilot is assistive tech, so needing to closely monitor and take over is normal. "Good enough" for driving the vehicle within same limitation as humans driving the same vehicle in same condition. Just as you and Graham, I would not put full trust into any system and blindly drive into fog/rain like shown in the video. Therefore, why do we need LIDAR/RADAR? I don't know how much autopilot you've personally driven. But so far in over 20k miles driven in my car, with it turned on as much as possible, I feel adaptive cruise part is certainly far better than the radar based systems in Kona and Megane, let alone 10 years old Octavia. It tracks cars far better through bends and reacts to other cars changing lane quicker. No, I don't experience much phantom braking. May be a mild one every 1000 miles at most.

I think someone smarter than me on SpeakEV puts it really well: Just as your example with radar, whether the car should be more capable than human is the key question here. That is the point of Mark Rober's video but missed by the politically charged video. But whatever the case, I personally feel none of those systems can operate fully independently. (level 5 autonomy). Thus it is reasonable to say ONLY relying on the LIDAR/RADAR system whilst driving blind in fog/rain like shown in the video is just stupid. Therefore, to me, as long as understanding system limitations, Tesla's camera only approach is good enough.

Come on now, let's be real and look at Tesla's failed tests. No (sane) human driver will look at those conditions thinking it'll be alright to plow through. The key here is every single Tesla on UK and European road with autopilot are not claiming to be self driving. Driver are always 100% responsible just as plane pilots are always 100% responsible what its autopilot are doing. The low sun and night time tests show Tesla's vision based vehicle safety system performing AEB exactly as designed. The only possible failing is that many drivers don't RTFM and learn about system limitations. Whether that is an issue that can ever be fixed by one company is debatable. The original video by the excellent Mark Rober's educational video articulated the difference to LIDAR very well. It would be good to post the educational source video, rather than rambling of a pointless politically charged channel with agenda behind it. Looking at its views, obviously it is gunning for Muskmelon controversal audience, not much different to many other videos posted here.

Considering the difficulties Tesla faced to get the Berlin factory going, I suspect the % was probably already quite high before the troubled Muskmelon go full Nazi. Tesla is always a divisive brand from inception due to their disruptive nature. Germans love their cars just as Japanese are loyal to theirs. Considering he no longer spends much time for Tesla, I can only hope he is ousted from the company soon. The image just gets worse and worse by the day, we are not even 2 months into the sponsored presidency.

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£173 for springs, I hope it has been done both sides. It costed me £900 for a pair of new front shocks + top mount and labour + VAT. How come doing similar struct rebuild is so cheap for them? But overall yes, powertrain-wise it's a super cheap car to own. Suspension problems exist with all cars.

Can't you see the woods from the trees!? It's all pre-reg and hidden away in underground car parks. No one wants those. /s

You decide on validity of this channel: Stance of a single governing party rarely has any weight on global movements. (for some reason only the image was posted initially)

Found a few interesting new graph for my data from about 2.5 years driving the MY LR AWD: But keep in mind there is lower number of samples for -5, 0 and 30c. 35c is 0% so I've cropped out that column. Also an interesting short vs long trip consumption (efficiency) comparison, I've not looked through source code to see what count as short and what is long: Basically, looks like it is telling me ideal conditions are at around 30-50 mph in 10-30c. At 0c and driving at 70mph (when range actually matters), there is a 25% reduction in range compared to at 30c. At normal winter temperature of 5c around here, 70mph, there is 18% reduction in range compared to at 30c. This is fuelly plot of all my fuel ups with 2.0 TDI Skoda Octavia. Data are not as detailed as from Tesla, but we can see there is around 20% reduction in efficiency between winter (5-10c around here) and summer. I think people unfairly talk about EV poor winter efficiency, often forgetting diesel suffer more efficiency losses.

It was in the show room when we picked up the Megane last Friday. Looks awesome, a bit small in the back seats. Not sure about the amount of 5 decals, a bit too much, but the car overall and inside feels very well put together.

This is not considered honestly quoting?? screenshot of my post: Right here:

Electric Vehicles UK (the company behind Fully Charged show) published a "Cost of Driving Electric" report: https://transportandenergy.com/2025/02/27/evuk-launches-cost-of-driving-electric-report/ Report part funded by JOLT, a street-side charging network in London providing daily free 7 kWh by renting out the charger as advertising boards. I've used them on a few occasions:

Well done. You've outdone yourself in creating a coherent argument (!) Zero effort in creating a counter argument must mean admitting validity of my point: Point taken for bad analogy. But I think you misunderstood my point. Tackle the problem from both sides: We have already built for maximum peak demand but we are only using maximum demand for a small amount of time. I'm saying we could utilise those lower demand periods. Push those right up. There's so much capacity right there for non-time critical use-cases such as EV or home battery charging. It is also very possible to completely flatten the demand. Everyone wants to cook around same time but what if everyone have home battery or flats have shared battery? It doesn't have to be big, ~3 kWh per household will be more than enough to completely erase the need for expensive peaking power plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant

There's an opportunity for our yearly MOT: we could have pack integrity check and/or check pack re-certification after repairto ensure no damaged EV are on the road. The highest risk are when packs are when packs are damaged.

The per unit electricity price in London is actually the most expensive. Albeit the variations are tiny. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/what-are-the-price-cap-unit-rates-/#unitrates In addition to your list of things, also need to start doing proper (bigger difference) regional pricing.

The national grid is expensive and require more investment is because there's not enough demand side management. That supply and demand graph I posted earlier clearly shows the peaks and troughs. Whole of that could be flat up to the maximum and we will get cheaper electricity simply because we are finally fully utilising the grid capability. There will be less unused capacity. How do we use those unused capacity? By leveraging time-of-use tariff or smart charging. It's like buying cars, people don't buy a giant 7 seat SUV for that one chance oversea relatives might come to visit. But the grid unfortunately has to be built for that maximum possible demand.

Roof top and over every single industrial buildings should have some level of solar installed. Just looking on people's roofs, it's clear there's still HUGE potential in this area alone. This is UK grid mix over last few days, minus solar to clearly show blue gas being replaced, dips down during middle of the day. Imagine more solar and we see dip to almost zero in blue shading. Any reduction in blue shading area on this graph, displaced by renewable, are a win.