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    Bosch Builds Self Driving Car with Ubuntu and Tesla S

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    • MattSpellerM
      MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller Yeah there is but I can't remember it now. Problem with conversions is they absolutely destroy transmissions which are not designed for the stupid amount of torque electric motors can put out from zero RPM on up.

      I looked into one of the Ford Ranger conversions almost a decade ago and they were cool but still really gutless and no range on lead acid batteries.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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        @MattSpeller said:

        @scottalanmiller Yeah there is but I can't remember it now. Problem with conversions is they absolutely destroy transmissions which are not designed for the stupid amount of torque electric motors can put out from zero RPM on up.

        A good electric car is electric transmission. If you have an old transmission in there, a mechanical transmission, you are getting only a fraction of the value of going electric. That screws everything up. You need to remove that to make it really work.

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        • AmbarishrhA
          Ambarishrh
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          Youtube Video

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          • tonyshowoffT
            tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said:

            That's my first car! Almost. I had a 1981 Chevy Monte Carlo V8. Same frame, same look.

            I've always associated Monte Carlos (the iconic, specific 80s type, usually brown) with white trash people. I can't figure out if it's a white trash car or a car popular with people who are white trash. I do sometimes see non-trashy people driving them, and it's always pretty shocking (not in a bad way), like this one time I met a black man in Russia who spoke Russian with a perfect (standard) accent. Anyway, at least where I've lived in the US, if you see a Monte Carlo, odds are the person driving it is white and is either wearing a "wife beater" or no shirt at all on his way to a meth dealer.

            Then again my first car was a Trabant 601, so I don't really know classy.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              Well, I am awfully red neck.

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              • MattSpellerM
                MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said:

                A good electric car is electric transmission. If you have an old transmission in there, a mechanical transmission, you are getting only a fraction of the value of going electric. That screws everything up. You need to remove that to make it really work.

                Yeah there's some associated power loss but no different than a gasoline engine. I just mentioned it because you need a beefy one to handle the torque. I want that same driving feel, hell, even a manual would be a TON of fun!

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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                  @MattSpeller said:

                  Yeah there's some associated power loss but no different than a gasoline engine. I just mentioned it because you need a beefy one to handle the torque. I want that same driving feel, hell, even a manual would be a TON of fun!

                  It's a lot of loss of power, having to go through the gears and shifting is all unnecessary. It would work, but it just adds things to break, lowers the power and cripples the electric system.

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                  • MattSpellerM
                    MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller Yeah and sweet burnouts. You can keep your fancy pants electronics and stuff, I want to go around corners sideways in a blaze of smoke 😄

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @MattSpeller
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                      @MattSpeller said:

                      @scottalanmiller Yeah and sweet burnouts. You can keep your fancy pants electronics and stuff, I want to go around corners sideways in a blaze of smoke 😄

                      If I'm not mistaken this could easily be done in an electric car since you are always in your torque/power band. I think the major reason it doesn't is stability/skid control.

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                      • MattSpellerM
                        MattSpeller @coliver
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                        @coliver 100% correct

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                        • coliverC
                          coliver @MattSpeller
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                          @MattSpeller said:

                          @coliver 100% correct

                          To be fair... I love a manual transmission. Probably some of the most fun I've ever had when driving a car.

                          I wonder if electric cars will adopt new transmission styles like the CVT transmission a lot of the Japanese manufacturers are going to.

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                          • MattSpellerM
                            MattSpeller @coliver
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                            @coliver I love mine too. Good grief I hope not all of them. It's ok if you want to purchase transportation. Then mileage and features and stability (fun)control are all excellent items to look for. I want my next car to terrify me a bit, for which none of those features would add anything useful unless they're easily disabled.

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                            • coliverC
                              coliver @MattSpeller
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                              @MattSpeller said:

                              @coliver I love mine too. Good grief I hope not all of them. It's ok if you want to purchase transportation. Then mileage and features and stability (fun)control are all excellent items to look for. I want my next car to terrify me a bit, for which none of those features would add anything useful unless they're easily disabled.

                              Haha... I would love to get a track car at some point in the future... although I would probably get a track bike instead... a lot less overhead.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Here we can track cars "trains". 🙂

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                                • coliverC
                                  coliver @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  Here we can track cars "trains". 🙂

                                  Is a track bike a monorail then?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @coliver
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                                    @coliver said:

                                    To be fair... I love a manual transmission. Probably some of the most fun I've ever had when driving a car.

                                    I love manual and one of the benefits of living in Europe is that everything is manual.

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                                    • art_of_shredA
                                      art_of_shred @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      @coliver said:

                                      To be fair... I love a manual transmission. Probably some of the most fun I've ever had when driving a car.

                                      I love manual and one of the benefits of living in Europe is that everything is manual.

                                      and diesel.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Yup, way more diesel than benzine here. About 25% of pumps are diesel only!

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                                        • art_of_shredA
                                          art_of_shred
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                                          This is cute, but there's no substitute for cubic inches. Period.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @art_of_shred
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                                            @art_of_shred said:

                                            This is cute, but there's no substitute for cubic inches. Period.

                                            You can only say that not having been in a Tesla. No engine on the market makes you launch like those electric engines.

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