Comments by "raw beef" (@-whackd) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1. George Hotz, Elon Musk, and Anthony Levandowski think it can be solved through vision only. Sandy Munro is an engineer but he is not in AI/ML whatsoever. Lex Friedman has asked the top AI researchers whether they think vision is sufficient, and there is a compilation video of it on YouTube. Most think vision is "sufficient".
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  2. The plastics are made with the leftover gunk that we didn't know how to recycle. Plastics are not the driver for the oil prices. We need plastics but I also sure as hell hope we get them and PFAS out of our bodies, food and water supply.
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  3. I don't understand the difference between an electric bike and an electric motorcycle. Is an electric motorcycle an e-bike you have to insure and pay registration for?
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  4. ​ @AllDogsAreGoodDogs Tesla hires Americans
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  5. Towing with gas is also super expensive. Because towing is energy intensive.
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  6. A human being drives with basically one forward facing camera.
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  7. Lost sales of cars they can't produce fast enough?
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  8. They should just buy their own grid scale batteries if they're going to pay for all those costs.
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  9. Lmao did you buy at the top
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  10. EVs aren't the money maker, it's autonomous. Selling software as a service has much higher margins than manufacturing vehicles. All the top autonomous players are in America, with Tesla leading the pack.
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  11. Tesla is in California, New York, Nevada, Texas, Berlin, Shanghai and soon to be Monterrey Mexico. Maybe Musk is communist because he built a huge factory in China and a Nazi because he built one in Berlin? Only California is full of saints. California, where the deluded residents think their farts don't stink.
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  12. The LDS church has 100 billion USD in publicly invested stock assets, Sam
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  13. Wow, amazing, we'll just take your word for it Mary since no customers ever get to do it lmao
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  14. The prices of everything are going up due to monetary expansion in 2020. As far as winter heating goes, solar can't do it. Not in Europe or North America, at night.
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  15.  @vawlkus  It is not an issue with the facility. Nobody cares about the concrete floor and ceilings. It's about putting new robots/machines in there. Which means that a lot of companies just use a different building/warehouse that didn't have cars produced at it before, or they build a new facility.
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  16. It's probably safer than an e-bike, if you're using that now. Depends if your city has dedicated bike paths.
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  17. The main investors into Lucid are people who have more money than they know what to do with. They didn't vet properly. I'm a small fish and even I knew who to buy in the EV market.
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  18. Yeah it will be done at a garage of the Tesla autonomous car company, and Teslabots will do the swap while they vacuum the seats and clean the interior between customers. What I'm saying is, swapping batteries is so far out in the future, there will be no market for it until we have lots of cars at 600,000+ miles. Only taxis, delivery drivers, etc will have that many miles before 2030.
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  19. Need extra income that at least pays for the depreciation/wear on your expensive EV battery. But if the grid/govt is going to pay for those costs, they might as well just divert the money to large scale grid storage.
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  20. It's not a study. They're claiming someone will save on gas money even though they have to start financing a 55k car. Okay, cool.
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  21. Leadership and cohesiveness are not what they need. They need to produce things.
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  22. My bicycle that I put a battery and motor on is way more efficient than that. It costs 2 cents to fill at home and zero at work.
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  23. IF there is grass underneath, they can bring in sheep. The sheep get healthy pasturing and improve the biodiversity of the soil yet they don't chew through wire like goats. Usually grid scale solar is built in lifeless deserts, and residential solar is rooftop If we need city or suburban solar farms, they can be done over large mall parking lots. They protect cars from overheating in the summer and the concrete from ice and snow in the winter. You can walk through the parking lot without getting rained on.
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  24. No they won't. They are in expensive corner or highway real estate that would not be ideal to put a parking lot. Better to put a coffee shop or whatever there, but most environmental regulations require the areas to sit dormant for a few years after the gas station closes.
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  25. Were you able to take an electric skateboard on the plane? Most airlines ban the battery
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  26. Japan imprisons Intl car company CEOs
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  27. We'll spell her name right when they can produce and sell an electric car
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  28. It is better to have charging stations in hot areas, with solar panel "carports" for the cars to drive under and stay cool while charging. Keeping solar panels parked in a sunny place is more energy efficient.
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  29. You must be both an engineer and a scientist.
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  30. Americans also spend money on oil. If you reduce their costs you free up money to invest in other areas. That's called an economic boom. I recommend you read "What is seen and what is unseen" by the late French economist Jean Baptiste Say. You're making the classic mistake of only looking at what is seen.
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  31.  @PeterPanQuails  I don't think you understand my post.
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  32. Toyota will continue doing okay. When a Southeast Asian farmer or construction worker wants a pick up truck, he gets a Toyota. He doesn't wait until 2027 to get on the Cybertruck waiting list.
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  33. Tesla's sources for the metals are always changing because they're always adding on new sources. I know that they made a deal with a big company in Quebec but I'm not sure if they're delivering lithium yet. The company is supposed to use a lot of electric vehicles in the mining. All of these contracts are set in place a couple years in advance and then the contract is for years as well.
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  34. It makes more sense to put solar panels at charging stations. They can be placed over the parking spaces as car ports which protect the car from rain and give it shade in summer. If the solar panels aren't moving around, they'll get maximal light exposure. They won't get damaged on a vehicle.
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  35. Japanese auto companies do not relying solely on the shrinking Japanese population, they are all export orientated.
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  36.  @pwells10  Yes, they have a seat facing camera. And everyone who pays on the app will be liable for extra fees on their credit card if the car is left dirty.
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  37. Imagine last mile delivery drivers using these things and charging at lunch and after work. There would be so much money saved.
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  38. Biden praising Detroit is just openly showing he's bought by the unions now
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  39. The cost of insurance here makes an electric bike with a trailer hard to beat on long term affordability.
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  40. Lol credit for something that isn't for sale
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  41. Can I trade in my Nissan Leaf for a Tesla?
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  42. There is little life at 4000 meters below sea level because life is generally dependent on light. There is no light below 100m, even the red spectrum.
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  43. Please refer me to the gas station job paying the same wages and benefits and time off as a public school teacher. I also like the idea of never being fired after two years of tenure.
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  44. Amazing that they can patent this. Putting heating coils in the arm rests lol
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  45. ​ @stevenjones916 It doesn't matter what you think, since hundreds of millions of people use rideshare.
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  46. ​ @ikwikwi  Yes, charging the vehicle is the least hard problem in solving fully autonomous driving.
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  47. There is a company called Tesloop that ran a Tesla 600,000 miles and then they got a free replacement because they were only able to charge to 75% capacity (80% is the cut off). Obviously this was an older chemistry, the Tesla Panasonic batteries produced in California, that made it 600,000 miles. I have no idea who Chevy bought their Volt batteries from, but they "moved up" to exploding batteries by LG afterwords. With Tesla, you do everything with Tesla so that's why there aren't independent battery repair services for your shit box. "hey wheres all the independent battery repair facilities in LA to fix my limited run Chevy shit box cancelled car that was produced for 4 years max" I dunno contact Jehu Garcia. Most mechanics have never taken a battery pack apart and tested the batteries, that's an electronics job. By the way there are tonnes of guides on YouTube of how to do it yourself.
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  48. ​ @jimpackard8059 will they pay them to make cars that aren't autonomous that people won't want?
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  49. A company called Tesloop that runs a back and forth service between LA and Vegas for years, had to replace a Tesla battery at over 600,000 miles. I believe Tesla did it free, thanking them for the info.
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  50. The manufacturers won't matter anymore when ground vehicle trips become Software as a Service (through owning driving software). All the margins come in SaaS, not part manufacturing. Plus, we will need 1/10th the cars for the same amount of trips. Vehicle manufacturers that don't own any robotaxi / fleet software will end up making in the 3-4% margin range while software as a service is 30%+
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