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I mean that looks alright to me. As long as they're not haptic buttons.

Sort of like a busy racing wheel sprayed matt black.

What about when you’re going around a roundabout and you can’t reach the indicator because your wheel is upside down?

It’s fucking daft.

That seems like a problem that didnt need fixed, just for aesthetic purposes

Good point. I hadn't really thought about how it would feel.

2nd date with my (now) wife, spent 20 mins looking for her car after the date only to find we were in the wrong multi-story car park.

3rd date, we were on the wrong floor.

Still married her though.

Tell us you had the ceremony in the car park?

No, but I did tell those stories in my speech.

going around a roundabout and you can’t reach the indicator because your wheel is upside down?

All 17 people in the UK who actually bother to indicate when leaving a roundabout nod in agreement

Tesla tech services reply with ' Please define a roundabout'.

You could probably accidentally trigger that Tesla indicator pretty easily too

By telling it that Musk is a fascist cosplaying cunt who has an ego the size of a planet?

They call them traffic circles in the US. They are wrong.

I think this is the second such story I have read recently.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68500233

The safety of our clients and vehicles is JLR's highest priority.

But everyone else on the road can get fucked, right?

i'm guessing it wasn't able to coast to a halt if the police had to box it in?
throttle stuck on maybe? can you not just switch it off to get it to stop?
scary...

Well the speed was conveniently omitted from the story wasn’t it! Could well have just been coasting by that point. Switching it off would probably lose you your steering as well.

I imagine rthere are safety interlocks to prevent turning off at speed. The motors would likely just stop, leading to an accident

Another Jaguar with a bit more detail, may or may not be the same failure mode.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68514718

Warning for anyone buying a Polestar.

Mine was delivered with a fault whereby the car doesn't take a high-speed charge.

I finally got around to calling to get it resolved. Every single Polestar service centre in the London area is backed up until late May with diagnostic testing.

Not the greatest advert for reliability or service support.

Cross-post from the eco-dork thread:

Does anyone have any insight into 'pavement cable gullies', specifically in relation to Waltham Forest?

We will likely (and sadly) have to ditch our ancient petrol Volvo XC70 soon, and are looking to replace with an EV and home charger, with the caveat of us having no driveway, and not fancying being sued for some kid tripping on a charger cable and smashing their teeth out.

Heard of some trials with councils allowing the installation of cable gullies across pavements outside people's houses. Would be great if this could be done at homeowner's request, or under permitted development.

I hope they don't happen. Pushing my mum in a wheelchair is already hard work, don't need more things which might be fine when they go in but if they have the same maintenance as the rest of the pavement will soon by awful.

Barnet are installing Trojan Energy charge points in some streets which seems okay from a pedestrian perspective. https://trojan.energy/hub-locations/london-borough-of-barnet
Haven't seen one in use yet but they are quite new.

Also interested to hear about this - very different context (Welsh valleys with no paved access to our garage, street parking only otherwise) but same issue.

Tangentially - sorry to hear the XC70 is going... dead or just uneconomical? Have been looking at one as a bridge between our current old banger and a practical/affordable EV in a few years

Ah, completely empathise with your situation, my sister is often wheelchair-bound and I agree it's often no fun navigating busted up pavements!

However, cable gullies are literally a tiny flush slit in the pavement perpendicular to the street, and wouldn't impede many wheeled vehicles.

There are plenty of on-street charging points around the corner from our house, from 4x different companies no less, but they're all eye-wateringly expensive compared to home charging, and obviously not as convenient.

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There's nothing wrong with the XC70 (it's a 2006-model), it's a fabulous car and does everything we need with aplomb, but it's also a hefty 1.8-ton AWD lump with a 2.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine and loves to chug the sauce. Also, I often feel like the cunt that I am driving around town spewing particulates and ~280g/km of CO2.

I did the napkin maths and we would save ~£100/month switching to leasing a home-charged EV all-in.

Also, I often feel like the cunt that I am driving around town spewing particulates and ~280g/km of CO2.

I get you - our Berlingo isn’t quite that bad but doesn’t feel right spewing fumes. Old Leafs from 2016 ish are getting affordable but the range/battery health is a bit of a crapshoot from what I’ve heard.