You will never see those in the EU.

> “…with proper regulations.”

Enforcement, no?

NY state has 30% tint law, but my Uber driver last night was more than that.

I’ve heard tint being enforced with other violations, but i believe window tint analyzers are in short supply or costly, and they have to share. Which leads to longer roadside detainments.

What makes them so difficult to test?

https://dmv.ny.gov/inspections/tinted-windows

No it wouldn't, because there is no obvious fence here.

You can't call any change "dismantling Chesterton's fence" - "Windows made the corners of the windows round, users hated it, obvious example of Chesterton's fence"

Always on cellular data is fine, and useful for many things. They should just stop gathering and transmitting the data to the manufacturer. Cars above a certain price point need a tracker to be installed in order to get insured as well. Also not necessarily a privacy problem.

It's probably because they started mandating reverse cameras. Which is great, but any cars without screens suddenly had them. At that point, it was probably cheaper to put the rest of the functionality on the screen.

The reason is cost savings. It's cheaper to modify software UI than it is to modify hardware UI.

BMW launched their unified iDrive controls in 2001 (to much controversy).

Reminder: You shouldn’t drive blindfolded, no matter how well you know your controls.

Ironically the most hated car features right now (speed limit warning and lane departure alerts) are designed by government.

In fact they are hated so much people are deliberately buying older less safe cars instead.

This is ultimately a matter of corruption and a failure of government to regulate.

A 0.5-1% efficiency gain is not much.

You'd want things to go fast after the crash too. I've had fascinating conversation with people about safety measures in general. Many prefer to imagine it wont happen. Inspections are still real. They cant imagine them away.

> Red means Rear, and white means front

And yellow means sides then? Make sense to me.

At least Tesla was the first to make an EV that looked normal on the outside.

By "current fad" (and waning) metric, sure.

Still a good 42 million or so short of, say, a Toyota Corolla.

IMO including the totally unnecessary phrase “unlikely situation” here is quite indicative of a toxic environment within the company.

Reminds me of the old joke: To stop the car, open the "Start" menu.

Isn't it only the Model S that has those electric door handles that pop out on their own? And the cheaper Model 3 has hidden ones that you pop out yourself.

Is it really though? On a Tesla you have both the electronic button and manual door release from every door on the inside. You wouldn't need those manual releases if the doors weren't electronic.

Strong disagree; it's not saving anything but the jobs of those who seem to really enjoy overcomplicating things so they can justify their continued employment.

The old-school pure mechanical lock can be converted into an electric one with just the addition of a solenoid to unlock and lock it.

They can be just as flush and aerodynamic without introducing more complexity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415744

I've dealt with the complexities of automotive mechanisms long enough to see many cases where it seems someone just wanted to make something extra fancy rather than solve the fundamentally simple problem. German designs were notoriously one of the worst in this regard, but others are catching up.

They look way more complicated than the previous mechanical locks.

How about a mirror that is only there when you need it? The car could detect from a combination of your eye movement and from its own monitoring of the road behind when you are likely to check the mirror, and pop it out then.

This sounds like a lot of overengineering - you need reliable low latency eye movement detection and a motor mechanism that can react that fast but withstand the air forces at highway speeds. Just to deliver a worse UI - imagine the complaints about how Tesla doesn't detect my eyes unless I look just right. But 6% fuel usage sounds like an enormous saving that would be worth some of your complexity budget.

You could replace the mirrors with tiny cameras and screens inside the car, perhaps.

But not sure that would be legal.

Sports car side mirrors are a deeper teardrop shape probably for this reason

Yeah, everything about it seems trying too hard to be cool. My friend let me drive his new Tesla for a bit and I was like nah. Then a month later he was complaining to me how annoying it is to activate blinkers on it.

whew, that's going to be a relief to the driver that hits an unexpected cloudburst while driving 80mph (130km) down the highway.

Reading and basic observational skills are required though. Apparently too much to ask.

Owner of a Model 3 here: I absolutely need to look at the screen to know what speed it's set to, or if I've accidentally turned it to "Off" or "Auto". The scroll wheel does not tell me this.

It's very different from traditional wiper controls in older cars, where the slider/wheel has a hard stop at min and max, and you can pick the right setting entirely by feel.

> dangerous or polluting

IIRC more than half of cars sold in China are EV or PHEV. I am receptive to learn that there are PHEVs that are too polluting to be sold in the west, but I would love to see the data.

The current top three auto-makers by sales in Australia are Toyota, BYD, then Ford. They might not have quite the same market penetration in Europe but BYD vehicles are sold there, and some have 5 star safety ratings.

They’re pretty much dominating new electric cars in a lot of places now

Seems like old information. Pretty sure most new Chinese cards are electric.

Shades of I. Y. Yunioshi's Asian roundup.

Yeah so in like 2014 you would see chinese EV's mostly when they caught fire, exploded, or their batteries died in like 20 minutes.

The thing was, that the chinese government really sort of accepted that outcome as they wanted to brute force EV tech into existence.

Nowadays, Chinese EV's are easily at parity. Better than parity if you consider the price and standard features. They have heaps of export quality cars.

So yeah, continuing feels right. I don't know if the policy worked, or if their car market would have caught up anyway, but they knew what they want, and got it.

I’m wondering if a reinterpretation of that national security article in their constitution could weaken its use to control all facets of life

The rest of the constitution is at parity with western ideals but its been undermined by that one clause, all nominally communist countries fall into the same dilemma

That, and I realize that a single party system is effectively a partyless system, rule of law would therefore be going through motions, but I like the direction things are currently going there

Hey, CCP bot, please explain the downvote. If you disagree with what I write here and can prove what I wrote is in error we'd all learn something. If what I wrote is correct and you just hope other knee-jerk downvoters will follow your example I'd say get lost.

It is quite revealing that on this US-hosted and -managed site this same post aimed at "Trump" or "the US government" instead of "Xi" or "the PRC government" would be up-voted, most likely by the same group of people. Try that in the PRC and you'd soon find out the truth of what I wrote here.

I personally don’t find a thin corporate layer in the West controlling all facets of life to be a functionally different user experience than a system where everything is theoretically effectively nationalized and is the government controlling all facets of life

In both systems, anybody with a pulse knows what they can’t talk about. Who you can’t criticize to keep your standing in society

It doesn’t really matter if most of the deplatforming is social and corporate digital fiefdoms, or directly from the state run “Ministry”. It’s too similar at this point to single them out, even when it comes to disappearing and held without a way out. Every country has marginalized people, single party states don’t have assurances for dissent and Xinjiang already has economic sanctions against it. Check your privilege, if you aren’t marginalized in the target region, the check passed, proceed

To detect impacts cars typically use sensors that require the entire car to experience significant acceleration, tapping the car definitely won’t do it.

Even in the US it's nearly impossible to steal a Tesla. In China with their omnipresent surveillance it would be suicidal to try.

it would be easier to climb mount everest barefoot than steal a Tesla in China

> And the Tesla recalls are just an OTA update?

I don't think that's the case here.