Stop that.

I like your optimism but I think he was just the test run.

Is there a lemmy community comparable to /r/thatsthejoke ?

Pretty much what I expected/assumed.

Aptera claims to be able to get 40 miles a day via solar. Most people drive less than that per day.

You should actually watch their videos and do some research before spewing your speculations. Seems like it’s going to be pretty safe to me.

Their tech isn’t just the solar, they’ve optimized the car solely for efficiency. They claim their car can get 10 mi/kwh, so with 700W of solar panels they can get up to 40 miles of charge per day with just the solar. By contrast, the solar panels that are available on the new Prius get 4 miles of charge per day.

Now that their production-intent vehicles are just starting to be built up, I’m eagerly awaiting their actual test data that hopefully verifies their claims on efficiency, range, crash safety, etc. but we’ll see 🤞 I really hope they succeed.

Lots of people here criticizing Aptera who clearly haven’t researched the company or the tech.

If you want to learn more about microwaves and how incredibly dangerous their components can be you should check out Styropyro’s youtube channel.

They had these in a game I used to play, I wanna say Sim City 2000? It was called a microwave power plant and I think occasionally the beam coming to Earth would miss the power plant and start a fire, but my memory’s a bit fuzzy.

We’ve known this for a long time… Almost 4 years actually

I wonder how they store it

Holy shit that’s a real thing

I miss my LG Alias 2

Well I’m assuming that he still doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. I got a free month of FSD v12.5 on my model 3 with HW3 and aside from a couple issues it’s working pretty well. If the engineering team tells me it won’t work then I’d be a little disappointed but I never planned to pay for FSD either way.

Those couple of issues:

1. Questionable lane changes. Sometimes it makes lane changes that I would consider rude and/or unsafe. E.g. changing lanes into a small gap in between large trucks.

2. The other day it made a turn and the sun was right in front of me and it suddenly couldn’t see and told me to take over immediately. It started slowing down and turned on the hazard lights. Idk why fucking Elon is so opposed to using any sensors other than cameras… This is the main thing that makes me think he’s right about HW3 not being good enough.

I wish I was more disciplined/focused.

Ohhh ok thanks, well TIL still

TIL Jamiroquai is a white dude band with a white dude as the singer

What about ADHD?

I like the sign and I agree but where’s the humor?