Unfortunately it only had older still photos and videos, nothing from the last dive. Looks like they had the camera configured to send the data to the onboard computers and those were smashed into a soild mass, of which, no data was able to be recovered from.

From what I am understanding, it was a 40 minute window when the malicious model was available to download in the repositories. After it was downloaded, they had all the time until it was detected in the organization to exfiltrate the data, which was potentially weeks or months.

"The casks are expected to last 50–100 years...". Let's see 2025-1972=53 years. Sounds like it is nearing time to start replacing these or to figure out a better solution to reuse the high level waste.

That site is something special.... Basically lobbying against renewable energy, promoting "the hydraulic fracturing revolution", and stating how bad an Obama policy was in nearly every article.

It's not, many EVs intentionally heat up to over 50°C during fast charging. They also have several layers of material between the bottom of the battery and the road along with airflow across the entire area, so radiant heat isn't going to have a meaningful impact.

Millions of times more processing power than that code needs to run, at that.

It certainly can vary quite a bit as the graphs in the article show. Seems that cell chemistry, thermal management, and total cycles are the largest drivers of degradation. EV's with generally smaller, more frequently cycled packs, no active thermal management, and cell chemistry not optimized for that use case will not fare well in hot climates. Something with a larger liquid cooled pack, that doesn't experience as many cycles, will fare much better regardless of the chemistry and easily still have useful amounts of capacity after 20 years.

As a data point, this is from an early 2016 EV with 90,000 miles, roughly 50% DCFS, and about half of its life in a temperate climate. Nearing 10 years and just under 3% degradation.

Do you want realtime traffic updates, live charger status, streaming entertainment, software updates, emergency crash response, Wi-Fi hotspot, remote alarm status and controls, remote telematics? If yes to any of those, then you have your answer.

Of course, simply having a connection opens it up for privacy abuses, just like a smartphone, there are number of reasons why consumers would want a connected vehicle.

Who pays if you get myocarditis from COVID?

You are they lucky one today! Here is just the video for all your dishwasher woes!

And to think, we haven't even reached the hotter months of July and August in the boreal summer yet.

At least this looking like a neutral period for the ENSO so maybe we won't break as many records this year.

Another likely reason for the engine 2 compressor stall is due to debris from the left wing being ingested. Either way though, as you pointed out, it wasn't going to fly on one remaining engine with that takeoff weight.

Every vehicle I've had with an electric parking brake operated the same way. Hold the park button while moving and it starts clamping the parking brake down, let off the button and it starts to release. So you can basically PWM the parking brake in an emergency.

You can make it work on 120V, it just uses ~20-30% more energy due to the overhead of running all the vehicle systems for so much longer while charging.

For sure, I agree the phone integration is a better solution and could easily take the place of any connection requirements for the vehicle, was just providing insight into why any consumer might justify it.

Why the manufacturers push it would be a totally different answer...

No worries, we can just fly everywhere. Wait, what's that, they just put AI in charge of air traffic control? Okay, yeah, we're doomed.

Impressive for sure, but curious how this Guinness World Record is different from the 749 mile (1205 km) one Lucid set in June?

Edit: Looks like the Polestar record is for "longest journey travelled by an electric SUV on a single charge" while Lucid was for "longest journey by an electric car on a single charge".

Was pretty interesting seeing the Gen3 car they had in the fan area at some of the Formula E races last year with no rear brakes. They still had front brakes (article states otherwise, not sure if they meant rear or if there was some later change I am not aware of).

At any rate, definitely exciting to see the performance levels starting to eclipse the combustion counterparts while being lower cost.

I am quite curious to know what news sources you consider to not be "corporate-neolibral brained" if NPR, The Associated Press, Newsmax, and Fox News are all the same in your book?

Maybe I just misunderstood the point you were going for and need some clarification.

Here is a video demonstrating the lidar killing pixels in a phone camera sensor.

They also tried cameras on other vehicles but those were not affected, only the cellphone aimed directly at the lidar suffered damage.