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You may have heard about Tesla's "insane mode," which accelerates a sedan from 0 to 60 mph in a mindboggling 3.2 seconds. But Tesla is already moving ahead with something even better: A "ludicrous mode" that sends you from 0 to 60 in 2.8 seconds.
Shaving off half a second may not sound like much. But the $10,000 option on the Model S shows off some of the advances in battery technology that Tesla is building into its newer cars. Under ludicrous speed, said Musk, the car will accelerate at 1.1 times the force of gravity.
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The Model S is also getting a battery capacity upgrade from 85 kilowatt-hours to 90 kWh, an increase of around 6 percent that will cost existing owners about $3,000 if they choose to upgrade. Not everyone should be upgrading every year, though, as Tesla expects to add around 5 percent capacity to its batteries every year on average. That translates to a roughly 5 percent annual increase in range. Musk said he expects most customers to upgrade batteries once every three to four years.
Not too much longer before "range anxiety" becomes an ICE problem.
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(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday July 19 2015, @05:08AM
Truck driver here!
You are correct.
It is simply parking. The other point of a sleeper cab is two person operation, called team driving. As a trainer this is what I did. One up, one sleeps. You can go across the U.S. in about three days doing that. Single driver trucks face the parking nightmare every night. You either stop earlier, to be certain of finding parking, or drive all night as daytime parking is usually very easy. It all depends of course, on your pickup and delivery requirements, along with weather and mechanical issues.
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(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday July 19 2015, @05:20PM
Ah, yes. Impossible to find parking at night. I used to do night driving whenever possible. Park around 10 am or so and there are pull-through spaces available!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @07:33PM
Think they changed the rules recently to make night harder. Something about must have a sleep during particular parts of the night. I bet this is making parking even worse.
I used to write 'that damned' software that tracked drivers. You move the truck, up to the D line for you and let me mark where your are at.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours_of_service#History [wikipedia.org]
I had the 'pleasure' of making a computer doing the 2003 set of rules. The earlier rules fit in a small paragraph of code. The 2003 rules took about 20 pages to work correctly. You could have up to 6 different 'out of hour clocks' going all at the same time depending if you split sleeper or not.
Just be glad you were not in canada. They have about 12 different countdown clocks. Daily limits as well as time limits and weekly limits. In addition to split and 'ferry' items.
I am glad I am out of that goop. The newest 2013 ones look nasty and similar in scope to the Canadian ones. My back of the envelope figures say there are about 14 countdown clocks until out of service. I could be wrong as I did not fully figure it out.
For the 1962-2003 set of rules it was possible to do 4x4 in a team and get across the country and never have to really stop. One of the reasons they tweaked the rules.
Its funny did you know you dont legally have to fill in the lines and its actually optional? But most cops expect it and get pissy if you dont. So you fill it in anyway. The line items bellow the graph are the real log (time and location of start of activity). It was pretty sweet for some of the drivers I wrote software for 'where are your logs' points at box 'in there' 'move along'. The cops didnt want to fuck with it. :) Doubt that is the case anymore.