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The Fog Problem: (and rain, or smoke) A little bit of signal, a lot of noise. Filtering a little bit of signal out of a lot of noise is something computers are truly great at doing. I guarantee that in fog conditions Tesla Vision sees more than you or I can see, and is able to make better...

It is plainly The Spectre of Death. Alias Grim Reaper. Shown here very usefully Blotting out the Sun He likes to play games, Mano a Mano.

Thermal Conductivity is a measure of how fast a material transfers heat within itself, and how fast it gives up it's heat to another object in contact with it. Conductivity plays a dominant role in the equation of how hot something feels to the touch. Put a piece of plastic and a piece of steel...

I even made a meme.

It's a dinosaur killer, so at first I thought: Asteroid But the first two letters make a sound I don't want. CHICXULUB I like the sound of that one.

Very, Very Nice! Thank You Gordon for the link But the drone moves way too fast, I had to pause it repeatedly to try to figure out what is what. I've been inside steel mills before, but the sheet rollers were the only thing I could pick out right away on the first time through the vid. A little...

Back when I was a young whippersnapper, I did the same with a plastic bed liner and eight, ten-foot sheets of drywall. The sheets were laying on the ground, with only one little corner of one sheet damaged. Had to hold up traffic for a few minutes while reloading. After that, I removed the...

If Bozos does go up, up, and away... never to return, more than a few (million) people will say that that is a good thing. I can say that because... My forum avatar is Zorak (with the flamethrower at the talent show). Zorak is Pure Evil, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

GAH! On 5 April he speculated some items were a larger gigapress, shown with the arrows at timestamp 1:08. But then on 7 April he confirmed that those parts were actually aluminum smelters that support the press, and not the press itself.

It will be revealed four to six weeks after they get that larger 8000 ton IDRA casting press functional. In a Joe Tegtmeyer drone video about a month ago I saw that press, wrapped up and sitting 1500 feet from where it's going to be installed. Last week installation began of the concrete columns...

Very sorry to step on your toes, Crissa. I never could dance. Too tall and lanky. I searched the forum a little, should have searched more. Why didn't you put that in the battery section of the forum?

The latest video from Jordan Giesige at "The Limiting Factor" was just released and it concludes his thirteen-part series that began nine months ago, a few weeks before Tesla's "Battery Day". If you know anything about battery chemistry, it is quite compelling to view. It is 74 minutes divided...

No ability to attach racks which will safely carry a 40 foot ladder. That's the only no-go I have.

I was hoping that someone ELSE would use simple logic to come up with the REAL reason that updated CT's are not available for us to see. It's very simple. They don't have an operational 8000 ton IDRA press. They only have the 6000 ton variety. This means they can not make the larger castings...

A dead-blow hammer was used to impact the doors at the CT reveal. The hammer's head is hollow, and there's ball bearings inside of it. At the moment of impact the balls move and dissipate any rebound. The "blow" is "dead". Without a dead blow hammer, there would be a rather large danger of...

They could remove the rear seats and doors, then move the vault mechanism and partition forward... without altering the roofline.

DANGER! THUNK WARNING! Ford's Lightning prototype launch started me thinking! Why is CT's face-to-face reveal taking so long after it was teased so long ago? Why can't they just put a few out, where we can get close enough to touch it? The reveal is taking so long because Tesla wants to...

I expect the CT to be the best off-road pickup (in stock trim) of all time. Electric motors being able to INSTANTLY provide maximum torque to the wheels, AT ANY SPEED is something that has not yet been experienced by many people. I have heard it's nice. Add the ability to modulate that torque...

As for WoodWombat's statements about (vehicle) performance at battery state-of-charge (SOC), well, ....duh. Each and every cell in the battery pack is charged to "full" when it's voltage is 4.2V. ( I assume that Tesla uses this standard voltage as it's cutoff point.) As soon as you start...

If you are really interested in this topic, battery university dot com is where you should start. I will quote one line of the article. "The worst situation is keeping a fully charged battery at elevated temperatures." how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries-BatteryUniversity I will quote one...