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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    I'm breaking off a new thread here from the discussion in Tesla because I think it is interesting. I'll move the off-topic posts into here.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Wonder if they'll start to up the limit for owners who charge cars.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Wow! Good year... you had a lot of great choices to pick from as well.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    I'm curious about material quality on this one.... if it is as good as you say, it would be better than the RLX that I drove 2 weeks ago.... and I wasn't impressed.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    But he did state it correctly, I followed the links and even the Canada government shows it as $6.21 per KWh. The web site unless I am miss understanding is wanting people to stay under the 30KWh thresh hold. Seems crazy expensive but that is what they post and say on the web site. Still electricity is cheap but they do have a big hit for heavy users according to the web site. You're right, I found another PDF that lists that same rate.... but still, that is a LOT of energy for a residential place to use. I went and looked at my bill and I'm only using an average of 12kWh - 15kWh per day... even with electric heat, I would think it would be hard to hit 3.3 times that.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    I think he meant 6.21 cents/kWh.... not dollars.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    I don't mind the idea of the self driving car. There are times I want to drive and there are times (like my frequent trips to NJ on the PA Turnpike) where I'd rather someone else was driving.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    So that we're not flooded with a bunch of supercars that even William and I haven't been able to drive, lets try to keep it to makes/models that are accessible to most of the population: What car have you always wanted to drive, even as just an extended test drive, but have never had the chance? I mentioned one in the "Cars from your soul year?" thread, the Mazda RX7 I've also never been behind the wheel of an old Air-Cooled Beetle.... and while not fast, I still think it would be neat. I also would want to "return to my roots" and drive one of the old Old 350 Diesel power GM cars on a long drive.... just to experience it.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Well in the case of the sensors, I assume there will be some self diagnostic built in that will disable the autonomous drive if the sensors aren't in perfect working order. I had a test Lincoln MKS years ago with adaptive cruise control. I took it on a trip about 2.5 hours into Ohio during a heavy snow storm. The front end would get completely caked over with ice/snow/mush, including wherever the sensor was located for the ACC. After a very short time, ACC would simply refuse to function, citing a sensor error.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Very good question. The Benz CLS400 I had over the summer had a bad habit of its navigation system freezing up on me and me not realizing it until 5 or 10 miles down the road. Then it would reboot which seemed to take 2 - 3 minutes.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    So here's a question about self driving cars: Can it recognize a road closure? What happens if your maps are out of date? Here in Pittsburgh, one street was suddenly switched from 2 way to 1 way with one lane converted into a bike lane. Even with instant update Google Maps, it would take a few days for that change to be reflected in the Google Map ecosystem. Does your Benz just plow into the bike lane until you get a map update?
  12. Drew Dowdell
    OK, so how much per Kilowatt hr? Washington state which is 100% Hyrdo powered and they just built a couple of huge wind farms on the Columbia river so do not know how that factors in, but we have always had almost the cheapest electric cost in the nation. One reason the aluminum plants all came here. Our Home rate is 6.94 cents per Kilowatt hr. Only 2 other states are cheaper than us at 6.90 and 6.92. http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ Course on this Gov web site they show us as the cheapest in the nation. http://www.neo.ne.gov/statshtml/204.htm So what is your rate? I'm at 7.5 cpkwh.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    The RX7 is one car I've always wanted to drive but have never had the chance.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Really? Like what? The only thing I bought there, a car wash brush hose attachment, broke after 3 uses. Did you take it back for return or exchange? Costco has a great return program and while the say 90 days, I have seen them take stuff back that was far older. They are the Nordstroms of Big Warehouses. Awesome customer service. 90 days is only for electronics. Everything else has no pre-determined time limit.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Agenda: 1. Win the powerball 2. Build a 1983 Buick Electra coupe with the above powertrain.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Really? Like what? The only thing I bought there, a car wash brush hose attachment, broke after 3 uses.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    It seems like they're going for a Low-Ash diesel spec and the Mobile-1 I listed above has that
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Find out the spec, and as long as you get an oil with a matching spec, you should be fine. A quick googling says that "Mobil 1 5W-30 ESP Formula" is an acceptable substitute.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Which truck is this and what specific formula is required? Never heard of a truck that requires only a specific kind, usually if synthetic, you can use any synthetic as long as it is the right 5w30 as an example. I believe he has the Ram Ecodiesel V6
  20. Drew Dowdell
    By the description of what SuperCruise does, it would have to be fully autonomous capable. It sounds like it is the legal department holding things up. SuperCruise can drive for you in heavy traffic situations and can drive for you on an open highway. To do either of those things, all the hardware that fully autonomous requires would need to be already in place .
  21. Drew Dowdell
    No, not completely different at all, in fact it is quite similar. It is a bit unnerving at first to have the car accelerate and decelerate in response to traffic. If a car pulls into your lane and slows down, your natural reaction is to go for the brake, but that's no longer needed, the ACC has got it for you... and when that jack-ass gets back into the slow lane, your car automatically gets back up to the proper speed. It takes a good many miles to get used to.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Like with active cruise control, I'm sure it will take getting used to. I like Adaptive Cruise Control now that I'm used to it... and in at least one bad weather situation, it was safer to use the ACC than for me to try to drive. I just locked on to the F-150 in front of me that I could barely see and let the ACC do the work.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Ah, but the Parktronic, which will certainly be required for DriveTronic, is another $950 and also requires a $4,000 navigation package.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    $100 Costco Giftcard for snow tires.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Thanks a lot! Found a way to get it back.
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