Ryan Shaw has a YouTube Channel where he reported on a number of details and speculations about the cancelation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiHPJVlX00I I've been trying Full Self-driving and my wife describes it as "being an adult in a car with a first time teenage driver at the wheel". Whenever we use FSD, we are nervous to very nervous as it can be in charge up to a point. I don't see how people can let their hands off the wheel. Here are some of our experiences: First, it accelerates quickly around a right hand turn where the road was not banked properly (felt like we could go over). Second are potholes, depressed manhole cover avoidance that I try to avoid - it's oblivious to them. Third, in turning right into a narrow two car wide driveway from a busy 45 mph 2-lane highway, the car almost stops with quite a bit of hesitation to line up properly. Fourth, it gets us to the curb outside our home but NOT up our driveway (and NOT in backed in for home charging). Our rear end ends up sticking out into the roadway. There are others but most are of a similar nature. I just went out to the car and set the FSD driving mode to Chill. That might have an effect on the right hand turn mentioned in "First" above. On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 11:39 AM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > On 6 Apr 2024 at 4:34, EV List Lackey via EV wrote: > > > robotaxis > > A possibly interesting bit of EV trivia: > > The "modern" robotaxi archetype is arguably the Johnny-cab from the 1990 > film Total Recall. > > Jim Tervort - who I think is still with us on this old earth - was part of > the original Sebring Citicar and CVI Comuta-Car / Comuta-Van crews. In the > late 1980s and 1990s, he sold parts for those EVs, and worked on a 3-wheeler > EV design, from the Sebring FL airport hangar. > > Jim said that Total Recall's Johnny-cab was an extensively reworked Comuta- > Van. Check out the clips on Youtube and see if you can see the resemblance. > > Another FWIW: an EV I once owned was the sound effect source for the Johnny- > cab and other Total Recall EVs. > > It was a converted 1974 Honda Civic, typical for the time - 96 volts of golf > car batteries, a Prestolite MTC4001 DC series motor, and a Curtis PMC-25 PWM > controller. > > The previous owner lived in the LA area. The film's foley crew got in touch > with him through the EAA. They drove a sound truck out to his house and > spent a few hours recording him driving the car. > > They actually recorded several other conversion EVs, but they chose the > Honda because they liked its transaxle's gear noise. > > There are places in Total Recall where you can clearly hear the 2kHz Curtis > chopping whine as the EVs accelerate. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > Most Russian citizens are good patriots. But there are scoundrels > running from the conscription, and, unfortunately, there are twice > as many of them. > > -- Russian Duma deputy Viktor Sobolev > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
