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Ah yes the “Full Self Driving” brand of limited autopilot requiring constant human supervision.


aw, he may be a genocide loving nazi, but at least its from the heart. won’t someone give him some money?


Seems to me mainly of interest to devs who want to prep for a future generation of risc-v chips.


Just like mercedes ‘full self driving’ this sounds like its on limited routes where there’s been extensive testing. I don’t expect truck driving to go full auto on arbitrary roads in the next few years. The tech is not there yet.


Its kind of insane that EV manufacturers are making battery packs out of a lot of individual cells, rather than one integrated unit like this.



I might consider one used, for 1/3 or less the price of new. But would be holding my nose for sure. And not enthused about driving a phone with wheels, but there’s hardly an EV out there that isn’t.



Trucking in ballast would work for the case where roads exist, but aren’t appropriate for a 100+ meter turbine blade. If no roads exist, you’d be stuck filling sandbags on site, pumping in water, or maybe shipping back felled trees or boulders. A hassle but not impossible. Worth it?

Where huge turbine blades will come into their own (if they do) initially is in ocean based turbines. They can be manufactured at a port and go directly to a ship without navigating roads, so they won’t be limited by overpass height and so forth. If the large turbines are that much of an advantage, it should become apparent as sea installations evolve.


To me a main use case is transporting windmill turbine blades. Blade size is currently limited by rail and truck capacity, but with an airship transport you don’t have to fit the blade through tunnels and around corners.



Its a continuing mystery to me why people want these vehicle-integrated tents. If you want to go into town for a burrito, you have to break down your camp. If parking is only by the road that’s where you sleep. If parking isn’t level you aren’t sleeping level. Your tent is exposed to road dirt and water all the time. They are way more expensive than a regular tent. They are locked in to one vehicle. They make your gas mileage worse. They are hard to install and remove.

If you could have HVAC in the tent then ok. But sounds like that isn’t a thing here either.


If you’re at a campsite with hookups you don’t need to use battery for HVAC.



Limping along with a wonky hinge on my 5 year old laptop waiting for these to come out. Haven’t run windows for years now so I don’t think I’ll be missing intel much at all. Might have to do some cross compiling for deploying software to intel cloud nodes, but arm VMs for android development will speedy.