roman_savchuk

>The brand getting the most buzz in the car industry is Tesla

Nope, It’s nowhere near that. The fact that tech media writes a lot about a car manufacturer doesn’t make it the most popular manufacturer in the world and brief google trends research shows that.

>"The next time the Kremlin orders someone's ticket punched they're going to claim they're not really dead."

Right, like Kremlin never made claims like this before. i.e., https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russian...

That's clearly for customers who are carrying captives in their jets.

>Mr Musk has gone further still. Rather than using his business wealth to support philanthropy in an unrelated area, he runs two giant companies, Tesla (a clean-energy firm that sells electric cars) and SpaceX (which builds the Falcon rockets), that further his ambitious goals directly.

Well, by launching many rockets burning hundreds of tons of kerosene each, SpaceX kinda offsets Tesla's clean energy efforts.

I'm not going to criticize that particular aircraft, no. I respect the effort it took to get it up in the air. But everyone is building an electric, pilotless vehicle for ride sharing, which also happens to be an oversized RC multicopter. Like trying to put Tesla, Uber and DJI products and business models into the blender and get guaranteed receipt for success. I'd love to see more thinking outside of context here.

Here is a thing about Robinhood: it does advertising in ineligible countries, apps are allowed to be downloaded, profiles must be filled in down to the last field and only then there is a message saying that you're not allowed to use the app because it's unavailable (really?) in your country. Guerilla data collection at its finest.

And I remember someone was selling t-shirts with that string!

“People only post what they want you to see, so it can seem like their life is better than yours.”

Not mention how often these displays of a better person/better life are exaggerations or straightforward lies.

No, I'm only saying this calibration QA has no readable source code to work with. And there are ways to obscure some parts of the ECU behaviour.

Except, they don't work with actual source code. An engineering team responsible for adaptation for certain market, most likely works in calibration space, that's it, just data (flags, thresholds and tables, thousands of them). To access this data they rely on ASAP2 description databases which are simply very large text files [1] containing ROM addresses, parameter names, etc. I don't know the whole VW workflow, but can imagine how one could define a set of switching parameters for cheating, and then delete their definitions, leaving these parameters invisible.

[1] https://vector.com/vi_datadescription_ecu1_en.html

Ok, thanks for explaining.

I'm sorry if it's dumb question, but how could one perform dictionary attack without having access to the hash table? From the login page? Unlikely, it will lock itself after a few unsuccesful attempts. Yet article implies that if password is weak everything else doesn't matter.

I don't get lip-syncing part of it. Their website says it's "musical.ly is a social media platform for creating and sharing short videos." I think this abstract "short" word explains a lot: Youtube videos lose a lot of views, because Youtube tells how long they are. Impatient kids are like "Nah, it's too long". But by promising the videos are short, you can probably make viewers to spend even more time with an app, watching many shorter videos instead of a long one. No data to prove it, just gut feeling.

It also has a lot to do with "being born into context" [0] of money. I can imagine kids observing good skills (like money management or business communication) of their parents will develop these skills for themselves rather easily.

[0] Quote from Alan Kay's talk for YC https://youtu.be/1e8VZlPBx_0

Which gen Miata? IIRC NA had something like 5.5x14" wheels which are tiny. But if we look at bigger production car wheels even modest 8x18" could weigh > 30lbs. Second, (unsprung mass/sprung mass) ratio is the thing that counts, not the mass itself. So, while 40 lbs wheel is terrible for the Miata, it might be quite ok for the vehicle twice Miata's weight.

Large outrunner motors like Emrax aren't much heavier than typical cast alloy wheels. Assuming wheel-motor eliminates disc brake components (sounds scary, right?) assembly will probably be even lighter.

http://emrax.com/products/emrax-268/

Surprised to see that of all motorcycles only HD Electra Glide made it to the top 250 vehicles.

We need small cross section tube transport for last mile delivery. Fully automated, so we can call it "Internet for transporting physical objects". Or even "Hyperloop for parcels", whatever.

I'd assume they had a (small) pool of candidates to start with and finding the author of texts in the group of authors is very far from identifying every person on Earth by linguistic style (as the article states)

Never saw a separate fuel flow sensor in an automotive application, but fuel injector is technically an orifice flow meter in this calculation method (pressure differential is constant and you calculate how much fuel is flown through orifice by measuring time it is open). Sure, when orifice size is reduced by lacquer depositions or dirt it will cause measurement error. But it will also cause increasing fuel trims (to the point when CEL goes on) and bad driving performance when fuel trims don't apply

When I was reverse engineering car ECUs, one of the interesting little projects was finding fuel consumption display calibration data and calculation algorithm, on 2008+ Subarus. And then I did some measurements trying to get accurate real world consumption, and "sync" the dashboard with it. And while there was ~3% error IIRC, I think it has more to do with getting the most accurate average consumption over the car's lifetime, than fooling the customer on purpose. The calculation is based on the effective injector pulsewidth (ECU can't count actual fuel flow))), and as injector performance deteriorates over time, you get less and less optimistic values with more miles.

Probably 2nd bomb tactic was something unheard of back then

I'd choose bmw's charger http://www.bmwblog.com/2017/04/27/bmw-wireless-charging-530e...

It should be possible to print those meshes without converting curves to tubes, because, obviously, any form of additive manufacturing gives non-zero line thickness. I mean not out of the box, but after modifying slicer software for the task

I thought gold teeth were so Soviet/Eastern European thing at the time, that it should be an immediate giveaway of woman's origin.