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Tesla AutoPilot Cost and Take-Rates

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Model S autopilot

Last October, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk stepped onstage in Los Angeles to announce the new P85D edition of the Model S and a new semi-autonomous driving feature called AutoPilot. Surprisingly, Musk told the audience that, starting two weeks prior to the event every Model S coming off the line was already equipped with the package of radar, camera and ultrasonic sensors that would enable AutoPilot. The engineers were still working on the software and it would debut in 2015. It’s now August 2015 and AutoPilot still hasn’t been turned on but the company’s second quarter earnings release did make an interesting mention of the new capability.

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2015 Chrysler 200C V6, Finally a Real Midsize Competitor

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2015 Chrysler 200C 01

When Chrysler unveiled the new 2015 200 midsize sedan at the Detroit Auto Show last January, the team from Auburn Hills was clearly trying to expunge the final remnants of the company’s lost decade under first Daimler and then private equity ownership. Chrysler’s new mainstream family sedan was certainly a huge leap forward from its disappointing predecessor in the aesthetic department, but could it compete with the class leaders from Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai and Ford? The only way to find out was to drive one.

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Cool training film produced by Bell Labs in 1951 designed to teach people how to…

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Cool training film produced by Bell Labs in 1951 designed to teach people how to make long distance phone calls by direct dialing with an area code, something that was still a new concept at the time. Interestingly, Bell thought that a mere 80 area codes would be sufficient to cover the United States and Canada.

There is some interesting stuff in there about the history of the phone system and how it all began with manual switching and gradually evolved to automatic systems by the 1950s. It's pretty amazing that they were able to make all this stuff work at all in pre-computer days.

via TechnoBuffalo http://www.technobuffalo.com/technobuffalo/flashback-friday/flashback-friday-the-nation-at-your-fingertips/

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A number of years ago, I wrote a blog post about my then 11 year old son encountering… 1

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A number of years ago, I wrote a blog post about my then 11 year old son encountering a rotary dial phone for the first time.
https://sam.abuelsamid.com/2007/04/01/feeling-out-of-time-and-place/

Needless to say, the rotary dial phone was not an intuitive human-machine-interface and things did not go well. Too bad he didn't get to watch this training film first. Interesting to see how little the format of the the phone book has changed since 1927.

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