Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
regularly shifting from 1st to 2nd to 3rd and then down again multiple times in the span if minutes.
You actually get into 3rd gear? When I used to drive a manual in heavy traffic, it was quite the pain in the left leg, constantly feathering the clutch to not stall out in 1st. By sheer coincidence, I'm sure, it was a worn-out clutch that finally caused me to trade that car in on a new one.
Stop-and-go - that regularly meant going from 0 to ~40/50 km/h and then back again.
That's about right for Silly Valley, although 40/50 is an odd way of writing 0.8 km/h.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The punchline is "Why shouldn't I enjoy a bit of music while driving? It's not my fault I can't afford a car stereo."
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
EVs generally don't have a transmission at all. If EVs really are our bright future and ICE get phased out, knowing how to operate a manual will become irrelevant without considering the awareness or convenience.
I fully expect someone to build a manual transmission for EVs as a crowdfunding project, and collect money from hipsters.
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
EVs generally don't have a transmission at all. If EVs really are our bright future and ICE get phased out, knowing how to operate a manual will become irrelevant without considering the awareness or convenience.
I fully expect someone to build a manual transmission for EVs as a crowdfunding project, and collect money from hipsters.
Technically, EVs does have a transmission, unless a rim motor is used. It's just a fixed ratio gearbox.
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
EVs generally don't have a transmission at all. If EVs really are our bright future and ICE get phased out, knowing how to operate a manual will become irrelevant without considering the awareness or convenience.
I fully expect someone to build a manual transmission for EVs as a crowdfunding project, and collect money from hipsters.
There have been gas-to-electric conversions. Some use the original drivetrain, gearbox and all. Do those count?
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
EVs generally don't have a transmission at all. If EVs really are our bright future and ICE get phased out, knowing how to operate a manual will become irrelevant without considering the awareness or convenience.
I fully expect someone to build a manual transmission for EVs as a crowdfunding project, and collect money from hipsters.
Technically, EVs does have a transmission, unless a rim motor is used. It's just a fixed ratio gearbox.
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
because one does not normally shift down as they are slowing down, just step on the clutch
I'm sorry, did you just assume my driving style?
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Hey @Rhywden, ISTR that you drive a recent VW, can I ask you a question?
My mother has one and we find the satnav voice does weird things, is that the French version only or is it all VW? Two things mostly:
First, the sequencing of words is done pretty poorly, with some words cut out. Like the voice is saying "turn left" but it comes out as "tur- left" because the next word starts too early. It only happens with some words, not all, though it always happens with those words, so it really sounds like the sound data itself is wrong. It gives a pretty poor impression of the system, especially since I can't see how anyone could have missed that even in the most basic of testing.
The other issue is maybe more a stylistic issue, but it throws me every time I hear it. When arriving at a roundabout (cue about Vader recording for TomTom) and you want to go straight ahead, the satnav tells you to "do a half-turn of the roundabout." Which is , you need to cross half of it. But "doing a half turn" also means doing a U-turn i.e. going back from where you come. So it's confusing.
Both things might be language issues (I expect yours is in German, if it speaks at all (mine is silent because I find a voice more annoying than helpful, I prefer to follow the map)), but maybe not. So... ?
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@remi Can't repro that in my ID.3 - the instructions are full sentences and at roundabouts it tells me to "exit the roundabout at the 2nd exit in direction of Foo" or similar.
The next update is supposed to bring even more helpful indications like "take one of the two left lanes" (of the 5 lanes available) so you don't have to scramble because you were previously in the rightmost lane and suddenly have to turn left.
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@Rhywden Thanks. Either it's a localisation issue, or maybe my mother's car is from an older (cheaper? it's a Polo, not an high-end model...) generation.
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@remi Have a look if there's an update for the satnav. Older models still need to do that by USB. You can usually download that from the VW website.
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@Rhywden Good point, I'll look into that next time I see her (I'm not going to tell her to do it herself for obvious reasons of 1) avoiding IT support for relatives 2) that are rather elderly and 3) by phone).
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@remi Other models have an SD-Card in a slot in the glove compartment. You'll need to pull that one and overwrite the data on it with the updated data. But the VW website should tell you what to do for each model.
Oh, and if it's an SD-card: You'll need to use the original one. VW also write some special data somewhere on the card so other cards don't work out of the box.
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Are there usually this many bus incidents in one day? I guess there must be, just nobody randomly searches "bus" in the news tab.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/school-bus-involved-in-crash-in-oconee-co/ar-AAWHqAD
Not to mention this one that happened in February, but was all over the news yesterday for some reason:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/28/school-bus-crash-albuquerque-video/
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@hungrier I seem to recall news about a lack of competent drivers. But why would they all get even less competent on the same day? School buses don't change winter tyres, do they?
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@DogsB said in Nato Funded Commie Incursions:
Reminds me of an accident.
So I was cycling on the road in the evening. Two motorbikes, driving in parallel, were approaching. I wanted to go thru inmidst between them. They turned out to be a car...
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
"tur- left" because the next word starts too early
Everyone knows that in French, you do not pronounce the last letter of any word...
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Nonsense. There are plenty of other letters you don't pronounce, either
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
the satnav voice does weird things, is that the French version only or is it all VW?
Let me come back to this point.
You remember Clean Diesel by VW?
And the software module they used?
Exactly: the sound module.
And now you can even hear their scamming software!
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Nonsense. There are plenty of other letters you don't pronounce, either
Hein ?
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@boomzilla Curiously, the 'I know my car' people tend to be those who reload videogame guns after every burst
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@Applied-Mediocrity Guess they don't know their enemy.
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It may actually be more effective than some of the wipers you can buy.
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@boomzilla first of all , you should make sure that your wipers don't freeze on the windscreen....
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@boomzilla
High chance thatiswas part of the interior
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Hey @Rhywden, ISTR that you drive a recent VW, can I ask you a question?
My mother has one and we find the satnav voice does weird things, is that the French version only or is it all VW? Two things mostly:
First, the sequencing of words is done pretty poorly, with some words cut out. Like the voice is saying "turn left" but it comes out as "tur- left" because the next word starts too early. It only happens with some words, not all, though it always happens with those words, so it really sounds like the sound data itself is wrong. It gives a pretty poor impression of the system, especially since I can't see how anyone could have missed that even in the most basic of testing.
I've driven many VW/Audi cars with factory nav and never experienced that in English so either it's a French thing or the unit itself.
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The other issue is maybe more a stylistic issue, but it throws me every time I hear it. When arriving at a roundabout (cue about Vader recording for TomTom) and you want to go straight ahead, the satnav tells you to "do a half-turn of the roundabout." Which is , you need to cross half of it. But "doing a half turn" also means doing a U-turn i.e. going back from where you come. So it's confusing.
I've always found "turn half left" and "turn half right" odd but in English at least on roundabouts it specifies the exit by number.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
(cheaper? it's a Polo, not an high-end model...)
Generally the same units are used across the range - so for similar years the same units are used in the Polo as the Golf, Passat etc.
@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi Have a look if there's an update for the satnav. Older models still need to do that by USB. You can usually download that from the VW website.
Or update discs which rather than buying from VW can be aquired from other sources.
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status
rant
While out for lunch, I watched 2 cars drive pass a stopped school bus. Red lights flashing. Stop sign extended. First slowed, then continued (they were in front of me, opposite direction of travel from the bus). The 2nd didn't slow, just swerved around the bus. 2 lane neighborhood street.
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Drive southeast along
Federal St
and then
crash through
Cumberland County Parking Garage
and
Portland Police Department
and then
get stuck in railing down to
Middle St
and you will have arrived at your destination.
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The game BeamNG.drive is a traffic simulation game based on "soft body physics," meaning it gives you realistic outcomes based on the laws of physics.
Eh...ish. It's as cartoonish as it is realistic.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The game BeamNG.drive is a traffic simulation game based on "soft body physics," meaning it gives you realistic outcomes based on the laws of physics.
Eh...ish. It's as cartoonish as it is realistic.
Cars that hit ramps at speed do fly in vaguely cartoonish ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqIRCcWqKJY
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
simulation game based on "soft body physics,"
Eh...ish. It's as cartoonish as it is realistic.That actually looked much more realistic than I expected*, until the bus showed up. What the heck was that?
* Might be because my expectations were on the level of Elastomania.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The navigation system turned out to be more intelligent than could be expected.
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Florida people: not always terrible.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Florida people: not always terrible.
Not a counterpoint. The number of Florida people was not reduced, given an opportunity, which is terrible.
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There are moments when "No, I'm taking the stairs" is not what you want to hear:
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charged with "aggravated damage to cultural and monumental assets."
Poor Maserati.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
charged with "aggravated damage to cultural and monumental assets."
Poor Maserati.
Given that it's a Maserati, it'd have some form of unscheduled disassembly soon anyway.
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@JBert said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Maserati
Decades ago, I worked in hospital equipment business.
Since that era, "Maserati" gets associated with "disposable bedpan macerator".
Actually, why?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
"disposable bedpan macerator"
If they needed someone to chew them first, they sound neither fully disposable nor fit for purpose. Although, this was in Germany.
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I refuse to believe that this did not involve either mind altering drugs or Photoshop.
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@izzion said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I refuse to believe that this did not involve either mind altering drugs or Photoshop.
You have far to much faith in humanity.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Gribnit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Although, this was in Germany.
UK.
Second suspect.
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@izzion said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Photoshop.
True. The license plate didn't obscure itself.