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  • Regulations require specific colours for specific indicators.

  • Why stand in line to board an airplane?
  • It’s been a while since I’ve played that. But yes, it’s helpful to see a graphical representation of where noisy things are, as I’m completely deaf in my left ear and can’t locate sounds.

  • Why stand in line to board an airplane?
  • Hard of hearing also. It’s so frustrating that text signs that list announcements are so rare.

    Captions on television/movies and games are commonplace, but in the real world, very few places care.

    Might be because I’m in a red state for a few more years due to family; blue states likely tend to be more aware of issues like ours.

    I did see written callouts of upcoming tram stops once, but I can’t recall which airport. It may have been ORD.

  • US judge receptive to Trump documents claims in warning sign for prosecutors
  • The marque is actually named for the daughter of the trademark registrar, Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek.

  • Windows AI PC manufacturers must add a Copilot key, says Microsoft
  • Some keyboards also come with software that lets you disable or remap keys. I turned Caps Lock into something more useful to me, for instance.

  • Rivian confirms Tesla Supercharger access in March
  • They and Tesla are the holdouts. GM only recently killed phone mirroring but those two never had it.

    I will not buy from any of them.

  • Rivian confirms Tesla Supercharger access in March
  • That doesn’t really make sense considering it’s a charging standard and the entire point of a standard is to avoid problems like this. Hopefully it just means I need a software update for the car.

    Which VW has been very silent about. I’d feel better if they explained what the issue is and what needs to be done to fix it, even if they say it will take time to fix.

  • Rivian confirms Tesla Supercharger access in March
  • It doesn’t work right. I have an ID.4 and even though my local charger is listed on the Tesla site as being CCS compatible with an adapter, selecting my car and claiming I have an adapter still fails to make the site show up in the listings.

    The car has a CCS port and has been tested to work with the magic dock by testers, so it’s compatible. The app needs work.

    VW is strangely silent on this, which is making me think that my next car will not be a VW. That, and Ford got Apple Maps EV routing working and I still can’t get it to see my car.

  • Why in Sci-Fi they always use Marine or Naval terminology and structure instead of Aviation for the spaceship structure, navigation and military ranks?
  • Naval aviation is the general term for what you’re thinking of, and is the term used in the United States. In the UK, carrier pilots are part of the Fleet Air Arm.

  • User guide: End of Life (EOL) for Twilio Authy Desktop app
  • This is how I did it, using my Mac laptop. You can’t do it with the phone app, but a Mac or Windows computer can.

    https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d958c93

  • Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time
  • Honda’s sensing system will read shadows from bridges as obstructions in the road that it needs to brake for. It’s easy enough to accelerate out of the slowdown, but I was surprised to find that there is apparently no radar check to see if the obstruction is real.

    My current vehicle doesn’t have that issue, so either the programming has been improved or the vendor for the sensing systems is a different one (different vehicle make, so it’s entirely possible).

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  • I never liked it because I didn’t want to accidentally change the face, which happened a few times.

    I was always surprised that there was no way to disable the feature.

    But now we can both be happy. It’s a shame that the simple solution of making it a toggleable option took this long.

  • Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive
  • It was bad, yes. Not debating that, and I’m glad that the design was changed and existing owners could get the shifter replaced at no cost to them.

    However, it’s frustrating to see that people so often ignore recalls and then are injured or killed in a way that would have been avoided had they done the free recall. I usually feel sad when I think of deaths like that because the death is just so final and was easy to avoid.

    People have recently died to exploding airbag inflators, even though the Takata recall has been in the news for years, and even if a vehicle has had multiple owners, the publicity means that chances are that the current owner has seen at least a headline about it. Yet clearly people aren’t getting the recall work done, and they’re dying because of it.

    Is it a hassle to take a car in for repair? Yep. Had to have mine serviced due to a recall for something that hadn’t manifested on my car in my own use. But given that the alternative could have been very bad (the car’s software was updated to ensure that it would shift into park more reliably when there was a rollaway risk, if the driver didn’t do so manually), I dealt with having a loaner for a day when the update took longer than expected.

    Designers sometimes make bad choices. Regulations are written in blood, it’s said, because it’s often tragedy that leads to changes. But I don’t think it very likely that shifters like that will make it past design reviews again. It’ll be some other bad decision that causes the next big recall.

  • Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive
  • Both of those things have been acknowledged and will be changed. Cars have very long design cycles, though.

    The ID.7 has the new sliders as does the facelift of the ID.4.

    Yes, there’s other problems, but this one is already on the way out.

  • Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive
  • That vehicle had a recall out to replace the badly-designed shifter. It was ignored.

    The fix would have been free.

  • Porsche will adopt Android Automotive, complete with Google apps
  • Neither company has a monopoly anywhere but the mix of Android and iOS varies greatly by region.

    Thankfully, most cars that support phone projection support both, probably because of that fact. Easier to develop a single configuration that works for everyone.

  • Porsche will adopt Android Automotive, complete with Google apps
  • Android Automotive (the car OS) does support phone projection (Android Auto and CarPlay).

    From what I’ve seen in reviews of cars that have it, Automotive is pretty solid, and I’d take an EV that had it as long as CarPlay were an option. (So no GM for me).

    They can’t gather data from my use of the built-in apps if I don’t use them.

  • ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Used AI For A Dead Voice Actor’s Performance, With Permission
  • World of Warcraft would benefit from this. Local processing power is quite up to the task these days, and it’s jarring to see your name on the screen but the audio says “champion” or something similar.

    Maybe in 11.0…

  • More presumed human remains recovered from imploded submersible: Coast Guard
  • This is typical in forensics. No one cannot make a definitive claim yet until a lab examines everything that’s been recovered. Most likely, that is what’s been found, yes, but confirming it takes time.

    It’s also why you may hear a technician say that a sample is “consistent with” something (say, a person) when it is not possible to confirm where it came from.

    Until relatively recently, a hair with no root was just about impossible to match to a single person, so that was a common example of that phrasing. Now, in some cases, it’s possible to get DNA from the strand.

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