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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by LP -
Just heard on the news a man just died after his motorbike hit a pothole on the western hwy.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by Gointocarlton -
Come drive some roads in the Northern suburbs where you play pot hole roulette and tell me how the end navigate that.
There will be a long line of cars pulled over on the side of the road with flats and no drivers to change them.
Just heard on the news a man just died after his motorbike hit a pothole on the western hwy.
I could say more but you have all heard it before.....
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs North Melbourne @ North
Last post by kruddler -
Watch the game. You'll get your answer. Its got nothing to do with the coach
Yes, it was poor and inconsistent umpiring that I'm sure both teams found frustrating.
There seemed to be little communication between the umpires ... except when they had a pow wow to determine a lasso free. Something as inconsequential as an out of bounds seems to be more important than whether a player gets taken out of a marking contest or ducks into a tackle
...and that pow wow they got wrong too.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs North Melbourne @ North
Last post by DJC -
How much of this is officials, and how much of it is a coach?
I'm sure there are coaches who will happily burn the sport to secure a win, I suspect Norp AFLW is doing just that, while many of the other teams are doing the best they can to play a more attractive style. Norp will play attractive when the game is on the terms they accept, but when it isn't going to plan they turn it into a pile of sludge.
Think of the comments over the last season of so from both Voss and Fraser about not just wanting success but also to play an attractive brand. That is what gets +95K to the MCG, not just the chance of a win!
See, Clarkson Sacked!
Which do you think is the AFL and AFL Club priority, 95K watching a potential win or 50k watching a certainty?
Watch the game. You'll get your answer. Its got nothing to do with the coach
Yes, it was poor and inconsistent umpiring that I'm sure both teams found frustrating.
There seemed to be little communication between the umpires ... except when they had a pow wow to determine a lasso free. Something as inconsequential as an out of bounds seems to be more important than whether a player gets taken out of a marking contest or ducks into a tackle
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Rd 5 2026 Carlton vs North Melbourne @ North
Last post by kruddler -How much of this is officials, and how much of it is a coach?
Absolutely and I understand they are giving everyone more leeway to keep the game moving but not multiple times constantly… at one stage both teams’ Players stopped and looked at the umpire waiting for a whistle. It was way too long and ugly to watch tbh.
I'm sure there are coaches who will happily burn the sport to secure a win, I suspect Norp AFLW is doing just that, while many of the other teams are doing the best they can to play a more attractive style. Norp will play attractive when the game is on the terms they accept, but when it isn't going to plan they turn it into a pile of sludge.
Think of the comments over the last season of so from both Voss and Fraser about not just wanting success but also to play an attractive brand. That is what gets +95K to the MCG, not just the chance of a win!
See, Clarkson Sacked!
Which do you think is the AFL and AFL Club priority, 95K watching a potential win or 50k watching a certainty?
Watch the game. You'll get your answer. Its got nothing to do with the coach
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by kruddler -
Come drive some roads in the Northern suburbs where you play pot hole roulette and tell me how the end navigate that.
There will be a long line of cars pulled over on the side of the road with flats and no drivers to change them.
Just heard on the news a man just died after his motorbike hit a pothole on the western hwy.
I could say more but you have all heard it before.....
Yep.
Lots of backlash about potholes all over the joint.
It gets a bit tricky to work out who is responsible for different roads. Bigger roads is the state, smaller roads is the council.
At the end of the day, roads are not getting maintained as much as required, as quickly as required.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by LP -I only test drove the base model Y which was quick.
The AWD YL has more power but will have to take it easy driving to Adelaide along the Western hwy for xmas.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by LP -I will never have faith in automated systems in that situation.
Ive seen too many machines have a "run away process" that consumes too much ram or cpu and then the machine stops behaving properly.
Lets not get started on bug and patch fixes, and the obvious cyber security issue and threat actors that could hi-jack such systems.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by madbluboy -I just ordered the Tesla Model YL.
Good on you mate - Im sure you will enjoy it
I booked an uber to the airport a few months back and he arrived in a tesla. I mentioned I've heard about their acceleration and he said do you want me to show you which i replied yeah why not. Well he pulled up to a dead stop and floored it and within a few seconds i had to tell the bloke to stop as it literally made me feel sick in the head. I have had a few bouts vertigo in the past and the pressure was too much.
Been in several modified V8s and owned a few muscle cars over the years and never had an issue but the smooth dead quiet acceleration my head couldn't take it.
Felt like the take off on the tower of terror ride at a Dreamworld.
I only test drove the base model Y which was quick.
The AWD YL has more power but will have to take it easy driving to Adelaide along the Western hwy for xmas.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Last post by shawny -It's hard to see 100% public trust in self-driving cars, but they are inevitable, and of course EVs are the natural delivery method for this technology.
No matter how good we think we are, how well we think we can focus and concentrate, compared to just about any working machine we are rubbish.
The vast majority of accidents, minor or major, are caused by driver distraction, inattention or fatigue regardless of other contributing causes. Much like the weight of evidence in favour of vaccines, the data is now building that in general full self-driving is safer than human driving, as uncomfortable as that may be for some it's a harsh reality of human versus machine. I travel a lot, and almost daily I see people driving on the freeway, usually in a Tesla, while doing their makeup or reading a document, it's disturbing but keep this in mind, the people who you see doing this don't stop behaving this way when they haven't access to some form of self-driving mode. Cruising down the highway at 100kph doing your makeup is not a new phenomenon, it didn't just appear with the invention of self-driving.
Another thing EVs have made worse, getting cut off on the freeway and people taking your braking space. They have so much available torque at freeway speed they can just accelerate relative to the cars around them like never before, and duck through the smallest spaces. Anyone who runs a car with radar cruise control will know what havoc this causes, truckies must be going crazy, some drivers cut through spaces many couldn't even make a park in!
Come drive some roads in the Northern suburbs where you play pot hole roulette and tell me how the end navigate that.
There will be a long line of cars pulled over on the side of the road with flats and no drivers to change them.
Just heard on the news a man just died after his motorbike hit a pothole on the western hwy.
I could say more but you have all heard it before.....