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If anybody thinks the difference between major brands is due a difference in factory processes they would be very wrong. The reality is every large manufacturer now has a culture built around Six Sigma/Lean/6S/Continuous Improvement/etc. Vehicles aren't manufactured in underground hideouts of secret societies. If a process if found to work well in one corner of the industry it absolutely permeates to other parts.

Here is video of a Mercedes C-lass production line moving as workers assemble by the way: https://youtu.be/z6c_Zs5DG0s?t=531

"however they may have been able to do a sharp swerve."

As someone that enjoys racing cars and other types of high performance driving I feel like I can pretty confidently say this isn't even remotely a realistic statement.

You're grossly overestimating human response times. Even if we're ignoring response time and imagining the driver instantly turning the steering wheel, large SUVs like the XC90 simply can't generate the lateral acceleration required to move the vehicle clear of the pedestrian in the time and space shown in that video.

Does it work on mac yet?

You typically have to hold it for multiple seconds

You're confusing the parking brake for the hydraulic braking system.

The brake pedal is alway mechanically connected to a split/redundant hydraulic braking system.

Did you know you can buy baby formula in third world countries for a fraction of the price here? All because evil regulations make companies make use actual safe ingredients and manufacturing practices.

When will this big government madness end. When will the US admit their regs are too strenuous so we can finally buy our cut rate industrial runoff baby formula in peace.

Not sure what you mean by "mechanical safety" but in addition to advances in energy dissipating crash structures, the use of advanced and high strength steels has risen dramatically in the past couple years.

This video explains the issue: https://youtu.be/8tOlNSrxcLs?t=49s

Apparently the crash test dummy's head slips between the steering wheel and the side curtain airbag to hit the steering wheel.

The Model S also doesn't seem to glance off the test structure in that particular test the same way other cars do and instead takes the full force of the crash to its firewall. Which certainly doesn't help.

Here's the Lincoln Continental in comparison: https://youtu.be/pMc4NERWChc

It's probably safe to assume Tesla is going to update the Model S in the relevant areas.

I guess that makes you a bad person, huh?

No, they call it an SUV which it is. Crossovers are typically smaller with much lower towing capacity than the Model X.

The Model X is most certainly an SUV from a size perspective.

You're confusing its shape for its size. Likely it's slopped rear hatch vs the vertical rear hatch of that gives the box shape you associate with SUVs.

For the record SUV stands for Sport Utility Vehicle and thought there's not really one set of characteristics or definition for them, their utility is typically the thing that defines them. This might include things like passenger and cargo capacity, off road capability like ground clearance and 4wd, on road capabilities like towing capacity, etc.

Shape is not what defines SUVs

That's not how democracy works comrade. Russians and right wing populist nut jobs are engaging in concerted effort to harm the free world and everyone in it for their own benefit. If you don't actively help to protect the principles of modern democracy you're effectively complicit in it's destruction.

You don't get to sit there crying like a child "wahhh but it's not exactly the way I like it!". The fact of the matter is if one option isn't great when the other is actually dangerous, you get off you butt and participate in the process. That's your duty as an adult that get's to live in a democratic society.

How exactly is the comment you're replying to "incendiary"?

You mean copywrite? That already exists.

Which plugins?

Yeah, that's what everyone used to say about "Digg-like" comments on Reddit.

What comments? Why? In what regard are they "fake"?

Halbach arrays are just a pattern or orientation of magnets that biases the total magnetic field to one direction.[1]

Polymagnets are just magnets with a pattern of multiple north-south poles on one face. [2]

At best you could have a Halbach array on a single polymagnet and have it be just as effective as individual magnets in the same pattern.

Though for large scale applications there wouldn't be much point as you could just use cheaper off the shelf magnets.

[1] https://www.kjmagnetics.com/images/blog/halbachvsalt.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/Nz9QJTV.png

It is on pretty much any quality laptop from this decade. I don't remember the last time I've had to replace a laptop battery.

Shoutout to the open source KiCad EDA project.

"Trump wants us to stop fighting these wars."

Proof?