That’s fuckin awesome

Based.

Thought crossed my mind.

That’s my exact reaction to Waymos (also San Francisco). Both surreal and probably the direction of all automotive transit.

Seriously! Amazing.

For me, my commute is easy, but I like road-tripping. I’ve got a flight ceiling of about 6 hours where it stops being fun. I’ve got a destination about 12 hours out that I love (Hot Springs AR, it rocks). I’d go to Hot Springs way more often if I didn’t need to drive it, or even if I could flip a switch and take a break safely.

So, they do have details in the source docs: they specifically reference both ADS and ADAS.

ADAS is currently a Tesla FSD-type experience. You need an attentive human in the driver’s seat (for now). It’s a driver’s aid.

ADS is the wild west. That’s what Waymo currently provides in their autonomous fleet. No occupants, no problem.

I am stoked to see how it does what Toyota trucks do best, which is hauling trailers and going either down rough roads or going entirely off-road. I wasn’t mentally ready for this news today, so I have no idea what this means for the fully off-road experience.

Yeah, I think smart/honest engineers do it exactly like that.

The GPS validates the physical rotation data, corrects for errors. That’s why the standard of accuracy has improved in the last 10 years.

Wow way to rub THAT in XD

Just kidding, I love that for y’all. Every parent should have that (or better!)

“What could a childcare cost, ten dollars?”

We all know that guy doesn’t have the talk game to get ladies through the door.

That’s what fucks me up here! XD

Tesla is probably the most closely watched auto manufacturer on earth. And it’s mostly fans! So like, friendly faces doing hypermileage content or commenting to other friendly fans about their fuel savings…

The video I linked is literally a Tesla fan being like "oh wait, it skipped a mile, what the fuck, did it always do that?"

Very accurate. Most anti-tamp protections watch for lowering. Because who in their right mind would increase the mileage, right? :)

No reasonable manufacturer would do that. A manufacturer would be caught if they did that and – oh wait shit that’s exactly what happened

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It’s trivially easy to discover odometer tampering in the USA, and the law is actually enforced.

Carfax, for instance, will automatically flag if any data point has the odometer lower its mileage. Each time a car is brought in for service or sold, the mileage is recorded. If any of the datapoints do not advance logically, the car is flagged and all sorts of liability questions arise.

If Carfax can purchase the data, I’m certain that insurers do, too. Insurance is legally mandatory, and the corporations don’t want to cover the cost of insuring a car with a cooked odometer (and unknown true mileage).

I mean this utterly unironically: I’m glad :)

Can’t argue with that XD

His main deal is that he does Tesla stuff. His website is “Tesla Pittsburgh,” so yeah, he’s a Tesla guy.

T.I.L. :) Thanks!

I guess, the word got out, or the economy got bad enough where suddenly lots of folks are doing it? Or the easiness of fencing the tailgates on social media is encouraging folks who wouldn’t know how to sell a catalytic converter to get into the “steal components” game? Not totally sure!

I am sure that it’s newly cropping up as a common problem. It’s all over the Tacoma subreddit, even the news is covering it (local news in Alameda covered a chop-shop bust that was targeting Tacomas specifically, and that was like, 2 days ago).

So yeah, I’m as mystified as you are. I explained the removable tailgate concept just for folks who maybe never drove a pickup truck or the many folks who don’t use that feature.

(Edit: and thanks for the dealership insights! I never drove any F-Series other than the F-150, so I had no idea how the heavy duty models handled tailgate features)

That’s brand new to me! Both the symbology and the magazine, and I love them both. Thanks!

No sweat, happy to help ID it :)