• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Oh noo, it caused mass terror throughout the country … when people saw mildly vandalised pre-shitty cars, PTSD for life.

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    10 hours ago

    So what you’re saying is: the only wqy to not be a terrorist is to threaten elected officials until I get my way?

    I’m off to be an upstanding citizen.

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    9 hours ago

    Terrorism only applies to brown or poor people.

    If you’re rich you get a free pass to do anything including genocide.

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      It’s only rich people who can boycott Teslas (poor folk wouldn’t afford them in the first place) so it must be pardonable to boycott! Problem solved!

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      10 hours ago

      Cyberwindshield: $1200

      Cyberwindshield wiper: 3 months backorder

      Making a Nazi supporter cry: priceless

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      12 hours ago

      I heard the horse cock of a windshield wiper is almost irreplaceable because it’s 4 feet long and in limited supply.

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      You’re not technically wrong since they were just early to the party with driver assistance & Lane departure warning/avoidance systems, but since the USA made those types of systems mandatory for all cars in 2023, most vehicles 2023+ will now have a similar cost.

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          The cameras that track the lines on the road and other cars are mounted to the windshield. these windshields are more expensive because the camera brackets have to be precisely aligned and the glass (in that area) must be completely free of optical distortions. Both of those things raise the price of the windshield, and increase design complexity

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              Yes, a design decision initiated by Tesla and a trend the entire industry followed outside of a few autonomous taxis that have the lidar units on the roof.

              However, the alternative requires a separate lens cleaning system as the former just reuses the windshield wiper. So it does reduce the complexity somewhat.

              Or maybe I’m missing your point entirely?

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                Would a small wiper to handle the lens cleaning not be more cost effective than increasing the complexity of the windshield to the point of significant cost increase?

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                  You would still need the windscreen to be near perfect where the cameras are, which is the big cost.

                  Another option would be a separate piece of glass to cover the cameras.

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                  I’m not on the production/manufacturing side so I could only speculate on the costs. The entire industry’s use of the windshield mounted cameras would suggest the costs are lower. Even at the ultra high end like Bently, where there’s plenty of profit margin to experiment with, they’re still using the windshield mounted cameras.

                  The other factor to consider would be that the driver can very easily know when the windshield wipers aren’t working (an therefore ignore or deactivate suggested lane departure corrections), but a tiny wiper mounted above the roof would be impossible to see while driving.

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      For the cybertruck? The design of the others are mostly reasonable, I would assume every replacement part for the cybertruck is much more expensive since it’s so fucking ridiculous. I’ve never had to replace a windshield fortunately so I don’t know how much they normally cost.

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        ‘mostly reasonable’ they integrate into the roof glass and their shape makes them 10x the price of a new windshield

        I can get a replacement for a 2010 Ford for about 200$

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          You might have misread, nothing about the cybertruck is reasonable, the other models are mostly reasonable. $200? Good to know.

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    13 hours ago

    Remember, Trump doesn’t say things that are true - or even things he thinks are true - he only says things that he thinks will benefit him to say. So yes, it benefits him to say Jan 6 wasn’t domestic terrorism, and that vandalism of his boss’ cars is domestic terrorism.

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    They’re clearly destabilizing the countries integrity by checks notes vandalizing cars! Property damage is obviously much worse than actual violence, so long as the property is expensive enough. /s