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Ha ha! Fuck you Elon. Way to make your shitty platform irrelevant faster.
Ha ha! Fuck you Elon. Way to make your shitty platform irrelevant faster.
Jokes on them newspapers are written on an eighth grade reading level.
There was a study done about this in the late 90s. With existing analog cameras in New York City police were able to track cars license plates with 90% accuracy. Keep in mind this was pre-GPS, pre-digital processing, and pre-image recognition.
Just think how much further camera technology, computer software, and image recognition has come since then. Not to mention that your phone and car or GPS enabled and constantly tracking your location.
This has been here for over 30 years.
Tesla opted not to use LIDAR as part of its sensor package and instead relies on cameras which are not enough to determine accurate location data for other cars/trains etc.
This is what you get when billionaires cheap out on their products.
Let me explain this to you using simple words:
Trucks are taller than cars.
Trucks have bright new LED headlights.
Truck lights are not pointed down enough and don’t have the same regulations as in Europe.
Since trucks are taller and have stronger, brighter lights, they blind people.
The same applies for cars with new LED lights.
Stop blaming roads on consumer trucks. Nearly all the damage is 18 wheelers.
No where did I mention that the cause of road damage was caused by SUVs. I said that people prefer larger vehicles because they driver better on poorly maintained roads due to larger tires and heavy duty suspension.
Also, 18 wheelers don’t drive in residential areas and therefore don’t affect most smaller roads. Those roads fall apart due to a variety if reasons including weather and lack of maintenance and drainage.
As for your other claim, there is plenty of evidence that LED headlights are brighter. This is easily measurable and new headlights have higher lumens and a different color. Newer cars all have LED lights that are more blue than older halogen lights that were yellow.
Trucks and SUVs have gotten bigger and taller over the last 2-3 decades and those headlights are at eye level for most cars. This causes more glare and when combined with brighter LED lights that have a blue color balance lead to glare!
US laws around headlights have not been updated since the 1970s! European laws are also more strict on aiming downward to reduce glare from trucks and tall vehicles.
Since you want some proof:
Blinded by the light: Cars in the U.S. still lack glare-reducing headlights
Here is another study done by AAA: (it has pictures and comparisons so you don’t need to strain yourself reading too many big words)
COMPARISON OF EUROPEAN AND U.S. SPECIFICATION AUTOMOTIVE HEADLAMP PERFORMANCE
The US also has this loophole, all SUVs are classified as ‘light trucks’ and therefore don’t have to follow the more strict emissions laws. This is what led to these massive cars and trucks.
Also, the roads in many US states are falling apart and larger vehicles and trucks drive better over potholes and bad road conditions.
People prefer big SUVs and trucks when the roads are badly maintained and it will damage normal cars. The trend of larger rims with a thinner sidewall almost guarantees normal cars will have much worse ride quality and be more prone to damage and costly repairs.
The new trucks are so tall and have a massive blind spot in front, you can’t see anything. They are a danger to pedestrians and children in addition to having blinding headlights that shine directly at eye level for any normal car.
So this will just make even more space junk floating around above the planet? Great.
The enshitification continues.
It’s not their fault! People should recycle everything! /s
Lies. Fallout 76 is trash.
It’s not like we didn’t know this for over 50 years. Why act surprised now? The oil companies had studies for decades on global warming, climate change, etc. Scientist have been talking about it for just as long and no one listened.
Say drugs to pizza yes.
Birds of a shit-feather flock together.
Clearly, you’ve never used Paramount+
Ironic that reddit goes the way of digg.
Can any of this be used for propulsion?
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