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I like my coffee one mile at a time in someone else’s shoes

[papuc @turtledome]

R2 fills a market demand where it has no competitor.

I’ve had cars round corners over the Model 3 bumper in parking lots like it’s not there; I’ve scraped the underside over road hazard; it’s too low. Model Y is better but still low ground clearance.

I have my $500 on the R2 but will demo a Lucid Gravity, the lack of CarPlay I’m reminded of every time I rent another car - it’s ridiculous that a rental Camry has more integration tech than my incoming high tech 60k R2

[papuc @turtledome]

@Hilbe Better seal all the power sockets and wall plates

[papuc @turtledome]

@TravisKetchum I don’t know what kind of shaft this is. 12 months of internet comes with it, normal internet bill would be what ? 60-80, so 720-960. I don’t understand how this is not a decent price

[papuc @turtledome]

@SawyerMerritt iOS autocomplete suggesting nonsense replacements is never going to get old

[papuc @turtledome]

@alfcnz Try to stack a couple +4 eyeglasses at a drugstore

[papuc @turtledome]

@dmwilsonh @Hilbe @TravisKetchum @RivianTrackr @R1Stephanie @Mikekantorski @Rivian My config

[papuc @turtledome]

CarPlay allows safe(r) phone use while the phone can sit in the pocket.

Manufacturers refuse to add CarPlay to collect more user behavior data themselves, or for misguided “uniform experience” reasons, even though that’s the only thing familiar to a user going from a Kia to say a Lucid

[papuc @turtledome]

CarPlay is about using my phone safely in the car.
Not having it that forces people to fumble with it while driving and install contraption holders to view it anyway.

Not even getting into the 15/mo connect+ to run assistant and how useful the car remains without.

Or that Rivian is never going to reach parity with my phone apps I already use.

[papuc @turtledome]

@DomDoesMedia Totaled ?

[papuc @turtledome]

For Grok to say that it was trained on copyrighted books, it would mean xAI intentionally added this to its training corpus. It is very improbable they did so, and more probably that it hallucinated an answer it did not have.

However, we know Anthropic did what was described (bought books, scanned and destroyed) them - and they did this because copyright law did not allow them to keep the copies afterwards.

[papuc @turtledome]

CarPlay.
I don’t need a 3rd tier Rivian assistant at 15/mo. I have Claude sub on my phone. Don’t need Spotify in the car. I have podcasts on my phone. I have Google Maps on my phone. Muse. Grok bot. Dots. Hermes. Trail maps.

Let me use my phone safely without dash contraptions.
Save precious car CPU for car stuff.
CarPlay

[papuc @turtledome]

For personal use maybe, but the low cost cybercab is going to feed a wave of new small businesses. One could buy 2-3 of these for the price of a large suv and put them to work for a steady income stream, while doing something else.

There is simply nothing else like it, it’s an untapped market.

[papuc @turtledome]

@RivianTrackr It’s too bad Tesla didn’t explore the non-truck version. Cybertruck is a fantastic platform but people looking for bulletproof machine want interior space like in Suburban, not an inaccessible half.

Rivian R1S consistently outsold R1T so that was pretty obvious.

[papuc @turtledome]

@EytanWallace That’s actually reasonable

[papuc @turtledome]

@SawyerMerritt No that’s exactly what it means by “it has to be on our terms” - it means she does not intend to work with SpaceX, she intends to delay and obstruct as she deems fit

[papuc @turtledome]

@DomDoesMedia These the Costco ones ?

[papuc @turtledome]

@leopardracer Whenever I hide an internally powered radio spy device I make sure to hook it up to an external-facing USB for no particular reason whatsoever

[papuc @turtledome]

@zerohedge Kind of getting overboard with the anti-AI stance here

[papuc @turtledome]

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink Wait so instead of letting the phone be on wifi to stream, you log in to the seat AV system with your phone, which then collects your playlist, account info, interests etc

[papuc @turtledome]

@DomDoesMedia Just be careful with R2 in the sun - I just checked the R2 warranty and it does not cover damage due to… “prolonged exposure to direct sunlight”

Also doesn’t cover “general creaks, squeaks, and rattles”