Obscenely huge, obscenely expensive, and obscenely wasteful - and its American owners are hoping the ev badge will keep the local climate change operatives from flattening it's obscenely big...
Obscenely huge, obscenely expensive, and obscenely wasteful - and its American owners are hoping the ev badge will keep the local climate change operatives from flattening it's obscenely big tires. Or at least make them pause with a moral dilemma long enough for security to chase them away.
There is some definite logic to starting with the most expensive EVs, learning from it and using that knowledge to make better, more affordable EVs like Tesla did. But God damn these giant EVs...
There is some definite logic to starting with the most expensive EVs, learning from it and using that knowledge to make better, more affordable EVs like Tesla did. But God damn these giant EVs definitely aren't going to save the planet and will murder anything in an accident.
North American automotive manufacturers taking advantage of the small truck loop hole and convincing everyone in NA they need an SUV or Truck is easily one of the worst things to come from the past century.
I'm really curious how GM's bet against Android Auto and Apple CarPlay will pan out over the next few years. When I first heard about this, I was honestly surprised. Whenever I rent a car for a...
There's no Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, but the infotainment system uses Android Automotive OS and includes Google Maps, Google Assistant, and the Play Store.
I'm really curious how GM's bet against Android Auto and Apple CarPlay will pan out over the next few years. When I first heard about this, I was honestly surprised. Whenever I rent a car for a trip, I basically require Apple CarPlay now. It's so easy to use, has all of the apps & music I want, is a familiar and comfortable UI, and seamlessly bypasses the car's UI.
In the market today, I can imagine most buyers are expecting at minimum Android Auto/Apple CarPlay feature, especially the type of customers who can afford a $130,000 luxury SUV. How will they position this to buyers with the latest flagship smartphones that aren't interested in learning another UI? I guess we'll see.
There's the wheelbase... And then the dashboard is one big touchscreen, and there's a touchscreen under the touchscreen, and touchscreens in the second row. Even big keyboard trays in Row 2, I...
There's the wheelbase... And then the dashboard is one big touchscreen, and there's a touchscreen under the touchscreen, and touchscreens in the second row. Even big keyboard trays in Row 2, I hope you can attach a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to those and run real Android apps, maybe even Remote Desktop over 5G.
... And it's got night vision, something Cadillac has wanted for its target market for a real long time.
I have an Arduino project that I got stuck on where the idea was to put one of those addressable light strips on the side of a car and use it as a persistence of vision display when I drove by. I...
I have an Arduino project that I got stuck on where the idea was to put one of those addressable light strips on the side of a car and use it as a persistence of vision display when I drove by. I got hung up on: (1) how exactly to attach it to to the car and (2) how to test that the graphics generator works correctly both in terms of generating the right images and that the images make it to the LED strip.
I oughta get started on that one again. I also thought about building a dot matrix sign with several lightstrips that I could use to intimidate tailgaters, for instance show a graphic of a car like mine driving along, having the hatchback pop open, and a barrel roll out. I guess if I do that though I'll need to back it up with a real barrel roller.
It's an obscene monster. The fact that it's an EV doesn't mitigate its awfulness.
Obscenely huge, obscenely expensive, and obscenely wasteful - and its American owners are hoping the ev badge will keep the local climate change operatives from flattening it's obscenely big tires. Or at least make them pause with a moral dilemma long enough for security to chase them away.
There is some definite logic to starting with the most expensive EVs, learning from it and using that knowledge to make better, more affordable EVs like Tesla did. But God damn these giant EVs definitely aren't going to save the planet and will murder anything in an accident.
North American automotive manufacturers taking advantage of the small truck loop hole and convincing everyone in NA they need an SUV or Truck is easily one of the worst things to come from the past century.
I'm really curious how GM's bet against Android Auto and Apple CarPlay will pan out over the next few years. When I first heard about this, I was honestly surprised. Whenever I rent a car for a trip, I basically require Apple CarPlay now. It's so easy to use, has all of the apps & music I want, is a familiar and comfortable UI, and seamlessly bypasses the car's UI.
In the market today, I can imagine most buyers are expecting at minimum Android Auto/Apple CarPlay feature, especially the type of customers who can afford a $130,000 luxury SUV. How will they position this to buyers with the latest flagship smartphones that aren't interested in learning another UI? I guess we'll see.
There's the wheelbase... And then the dashboard is one big touchscreen, and there's a touchscreen under the touchscreen, and touchscreens in the second row. Even big keyboard trays in Row 2, I hope you can attach a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to those and run real Android apps, maybe even Remote Desktop over 5G.
... And it's got night vision, something Cadillac has wanted for its target market for a real long time.
I think we can officially say that the automotive industry has approached it's baroque period.
If it's Baroque, then you gotta fix it.
I have an Arduino project that I got stuck on where the idea was to put one of those addressable light strips on the side of a car and use it as a persistence of vision display when I drove by. I got hung up on: (1) how exactly to attach it to to the car and (2) how to test that the graphics generator works correctly both in terms of generating the right images and that the images make it to the LED strip.
I oughta get started on that one again. I also thought about building a dot matrix sign with several lightstrips that I could use to intimidate tailgaters, for instance show a graphic of a car like mine driving along, having the hatchback pop open, and a barrel roll out. I guess if I do that though I'll need to back it up with a real barrel roller.