beastpilot

Make unemployment illegal by automatically reducing everyone's work hours

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Took a buddy to a farm strip for lunch and the narrow runway absolutely humbled me

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Every software is trying to put AI, what if we do the opposite and support softwares that have No AI slop features?

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beastpilot@reddit

You have to define AI slop very precisely to do that. Do you mean anything with even a single line of code written by AI? Then put down your phone.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

And I didn't make you make up a story that has nothing at all to do with your original post which had zero to do with safety and was all about cost.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Bullshit. You have no proof a manual window would have saved them, and electric windows can work fine when wet. Why don't you ride a motorcycle if you are so concerned with the cost and so unconcerned with Saftey statistics but only anecdotes?

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Pedestrian and bike fatalities are absolutely considered in the traffic stats. They are part of the 40k total fatalities per year that involve motor vehicles. Pedestrians are about 18% of that number and bikes are 2% per the iihs.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Total numbers or per population are pretty worthless for deciding if travel has gotten safer. And yes, Canada is better per VMT. But this discussion is about if cars or driving are getting more dangerous due to modern cars, and from what I see, Canada came up during COVID just like the USA did. This is what I used: [https://www.preszlerlaw.com/blog/motor-vehicle-fatalities-on-rise-in-canada/](https://www.preszlerlaw.com/blog/motor-vehicle-fatalities-on-rise-in-canada/) Plus, even if you are correct that Canada has gone down and the USA has gone up, we basically have identical cars in the two countries. So it's hard to see how this argues the cars are getting more dangerous instead of other societal changes.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

There has been a bump post covid, yes. But it has not above before we had cars with no electronics, infotainment, etc. Everything pre 2007 was unquestionably worse than since after 2007. Vehicle Technology has made big improvements in safety. Canada went up in Covid too. You guys aren't special. The changes in Canada per VMT basically overlays the US exactly.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Meanwhile, NHTSA defines distracted driving as talking to people in your car at all: [https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving](https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving) Glad there are so many people here that will **never** use hands free calling because they will **never** take any kind of call in their car, so there is zero reason for manufactures to include it and it's just a wasted expense. This has somehow taken on the discussion on if it is safer, when the actual discussion was someone saying they would **never** use it.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Per NHTSA talking to someone in your car is also distracted driving. I assume you never do that either, correct? Am I reading you correctly that you tried using hands free and immediately got into an accident? Driving a car is never safe.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

You have to understand that a bluetooth IC is about 10 cents in volume, and require no holes in your product, and it can't be physically broken off and doesn't care how many times you use it, unlike a jack that wears out. Also, a jack like this is an analog connection that requires an analog to digital converter to get the signal into the processing that every radio uses today. Bluetooth literally costs less over the life cycle of the product, and provides a better customer experience in 2026. That's what building billions of something will do.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Weird how those things cost more than a car adding bluetooth, but everyone assumes Bluetooh is expensive. The literal reason for bluetooth existing was to cost manufacturers less than a jack and cable. Connectors are the most expensive part of electronics.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

We're here discussing the cost adder of hands free in a car, and you bring up CarPlay and an iPhone? So you own an expensive phone but care about the cost of hands free in your car, and think you can have CarPlay without the hardware to do hands free? What is it with everyone assuming all calls are work calls? You know what I'm not doing between 9-5? Driving, because I'm at work. So many different human experiences...

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Too bad we don't have r/completelymisinformedideas A crazy idea is one that might work- your crazy idea is that bluetooth and electric windows should cost $5K each so that they can sell cars for $15K without them.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

\>I don't want to pay for an option I will never use. \>I have a block on any phone calls going through while my phone is blue tooth connected to the car. \>No it doesn’t need bluetooth for it to work Yes it does. Your phone needs bluetooth to know it is in the car. Without that, it would be a manual process that you had to take each time you got in the car. Which means you are using the bluetooth feature to automate something. Not that you aren't using it at all.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Ahh, interesting, now you see the possible use cases for a phone in a moving car! Maybe we should add hands free to make that safer when it is needed? Rather than say it is "a feature I would ***never*** use!"

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

In your head however, you are assuming that hands free, streaming music, electric windows, and electric seats are thousands of dollars. They are not. You want a $15K new car. This is impossible to build in 2026 and meet US safety and emissions standards, but you are trying to blame it on a few $100 nice to have features.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

All driving is hazardous. It's the leading cause of accidental death in the world. There is no single threshold that makes "distracted driving" hazardous and non-distracted driving "safe." Yet the fatality rate per mile keeps going down, despite the arguments that car manufacturers are making it more dangerous. I assume you're never stuck on a highway in a major city where the next exit can be 15 minutes away in a traffic jam and getting off will cost you 30 minutes? It's interesting that you assume the people talking on phones in cars are talking to their employers or taking work calls. Also interesting that you pull over multiple times a day for a phone call. I don't even get multiple phone calls a week.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

All of the expense is in the speakers and amplifier. An AM/FM radio antenna costs more than a whole bluetooth module. But once you have speakers, bluetooth music streaming and hands free is basically free to add. Zero Americans are going to buy a car without a radio in it. Even fleet vehicles have radios in them because everyone knows that if you don't include it, people will bring their own music sources, which is more dangerous than having it built in. Even Amazon put streaming music in their custom delivery vans.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

The cell sites absolutely do know the velocity of the mobile terminal. Just cut off all devices going >20 MPH, easy peasy. The fact you are avoiding telling me how you took the call means you know you took it hands free and it's a useful function. Do you really not have your phone sync'd to your car so that hands free is just automatic?

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Ahh, but you were willing to say it was 5 years ago when that was useful to your argument. Hands free is cheap to add to cars and increases safety for the overall population. This is not making cars expensive, and it's better than not having it. Write your legislature if you want all calls while in a moving car to be illegal. The cell carriers can do it.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

It's your car. You sync it once when you get the car. You're seriously annoyed over hands free calling which adds maybe $10 to the price of a car today?

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

It's impossible to "safely" drive a car period. The safest car in the world is one that is broken and can't be driven. Everything after you are in a moving car is a continuum of reduction in safety. Why not set speed limits at 5 MPH everywhere? Because you have to do a risk/benefit analysis. What data do you have that taking an average driver without being on a hands free call is above your risk/benefit analysis for driving but being on it is now below it?

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

You have to factor in real human reality into this. People do take calls in the car. Hands free is better than holding your phone. It's a good idea to build things that work with human nature instead of fighting it. As long as you have never, ever, once taken a call in a car, you can sit on that high horse. If you ever have, even once, then having hands free is a useful option, especially for the $5 it adds to a car nowadays.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Umm, so you are saying your phone needs bluetooth in your car to know you are in the car? In other words, you DO use the hands free feature, just for a different purpose. The argument here is that any kind of electronics in a car are pointless, and OP wouldn't use them, but you just explained how you use them.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Ahh yes, the good old days of 1982- carbureted, polluting, no crumple zone cars and a much higher per mile fatality rate. Let's argue about how cars 45 years ago were cheaper! The $5K today gets you: A much larger car with more engineered structure for crash safety Airbags, traction control, ABS, stability control, reverse camera, lane keeping, collision avoidance, adaptive cruise control, 4 wheel disc brakes Air conditioning, infotainment, 3X the horsepower. Much lower pollution combined with much higher reliability Longer/better warranty To say that just removing emissions controls would lower the cost by $5K is not supported by the facts. Plus, in the modern world, a fuel injected car is probably cheaper to make than a mechanical carburetor due to volume.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Hence the reason 250 kids a year were killed by being backed over in the past. It's down to about 100 now that cameras are required for the last 8 years.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

You're saying that if you are in a car with hands free calling, you would refuse to use it? Would you just never, ever take a call in the car, or would you take the call a less legal way just out of spite?

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Where does this constant $10-$20K less come from? You can buy a Civic for $24.5K. You really think it would be $5-$15K if they just didn't need to meet emissions? It might add $10K to $70K cars, but not to the economy ones that we're talking about.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Doubles? You think adding a bluetooth module to a stereo that is already there costs the same as a body, glass, paint, engine, tires, brakes, seats, headlights and more? You can buy a Bluetooth chip for 50 cents in single quantities and a microphone for 10 cents.

Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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Auto companies should provide a baser-than-base model.

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beastpilot@reddit

Nowadays, power windows cost less and weigh less than manual windows. Remote door locks are cheaper than a key hole in every door. Plus it's more secure, and companies get sued when cars are easy to steal. A backup camera is federally required, so a camera and screen is required. So you're basically leaving off parking sensors, auto headlights, auto wipers, radar cruise control, and lane change assist, which basic cars already don't have. And if you think those above things are adding $10K to a $25K car you're the crazy one.

NTSB Chair gets called out in X (Twitter) community notes for UPS CVR Claim

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Are EVs just hype?

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beastpilot@reddit

I never said the load went down. I said it was more efficient. You told me to Google, I did, and now you're refuting what I found without any data on your side.

Are EVs just hype?

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beastpilot@reddit

Ok, I did, and every answer says it can and it might even make the grid more efficient. EVs can utilize excess production of renewables during the day, or be set to charge at night when the grid is under utilized. So, feel free to go edit your post.

What cars have a really good sound nowadays?

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Are EVs just hype?

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would this work in vacuum failure?

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beastpilot@reddit

Magnetometers do not detect heading. They detect single axis magnetic field strength. This only turns into heading after a algorithm is applied. So no, magnetometers are not 1 degree tolerance. Unless you can explain hard iron, soft iron, and orientation calibration, you have no idea how to estimate the heading accuracy of a compass of any type.

would this work in vacuum failure?

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beastpilot@reddit

I've taken an electronics course and it's a magnetometer. Also, the sensing technology has nothing to with accuracy unless it's calibrated for the exact magnetic environment it's in.

Importing bottled water from Fiji / Norway / etc. to North America should be illegal, to reduce climate change

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United Airlines 767-400 Newark Incident

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Move the entire human race to the moon, allow greenhouse gas levels in Earth's atmosphere to return to pre-industrial levels, then move everyone back.

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Can airbags be safer?

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Directionally locking swivel caster wheels

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Cars project a “safe following distance” box on the road + blast an alarm at tailgaters

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beastpilot@reddit

The safest road is one with no cars on it. Any search with 2,400 or 2,200 vehicles per lane hour will show you tons of links to where this is considered the optimal. Which is 1.6 seconds. https://www.kittelson.com/ideas/how-connected-automated-vehicles-may-change-freeway-capacities/ And these are real volumes: https://www.ctps.org/data/html/studies/highway/Bottlenecks/Express_Highway_Bottlenecks.html During peak periods, between 2,300 and 2,900 vehicles per hour exit I-95 southbound to I-90 and Route 30. Farther downstream, between 2,000 and 2,400 vehicles per hour enter I-95 southbound from the same roads. Are you saying that if everyone increased their follow distance, this would become more efficient? Are you aware that physics makes this impossible?

Cars project a “safe following distance” box on the road + blast an alarm at tailgaters

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beastpilot@reddit

There is no two second following law. Data proves that the densest traffic flows occur below 2 second following distances, at about 2000-2200 cars per lane hour (1.7 seconds between cars, which is less than a 1.7 second following distance)