💬 OT ❄️ The Official TCG Complains about Snow Yearly Despite Living in the Midwest and it never snows here anyway.

[Spivitz]

I'll be ok

 

[10sec]

There's that beer pic.

 

[boostedguy05]

Power flickered hard. Enough to power off my tv and cable box.

 

[ZXMustang]

its all about the algorithms

Edit - I saw you replied later down the page with basically what I just said. Another point to make is not all the cellular data that your phone is putting out is metered data on your plan. There are plenty of services that your phone uses to talk to different destinations over its cellular data connection, that are not "billed" to your data plan. Same goes for home internet and cable. Your TV and internet run on the same lines and share bandwidth. If you have a 100/100 speed plan on your home internet, there is a buffer on top of that to allow your TV data streams to run along with it. Reserved bandwidth. That way when you are watching TV, its not effecting the speeds you get to your home internet.


That privacy option you get to say yes or no to about google maps collecting data to make it better is for this. If you say yes to that prompt, google collects data on your speed and direction along with all the other morons around you and puts that shit on the map. Thats how it shows you a traffic slow down ahead. Because the people that are currently in it, are not moving. The more people's phones providing the data, the more accurate the maps are. Thats how it knows about the backups on all roads. Because its collecting data from phones in cars that are on those roads... There is no magic here.

 

[Gone_2022]

Is your phone connected to your dash?

No. Tesla has this integrated in their maps on the dash.

 

[boostedguy05]

Just got home. It was a shit show. Zero, and I mean zero plows and I was on main roads. 355, 55, route 59, route 30. Idk what they are doing.

They NEVER plow during rush hour while its still snowing. They rarely plow at all while it's still coming down. Highways at least.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Racing shit heads in 4x4s while in the unplowed lane

 

[Spivitz]

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Racing shit heads in 4x4s while in the unplowed lane

B careful Mang

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

No. Tesla has this integrated in their maps on the dash.

Tesla has active data connections all the time.

 

[Aircal]

Love seeing semis in the 4th lane of 294 . Trucks two right lanes.....yea right.

 

[Gone_2022]

Tesla has active data connections all the time.

Yes it’s google maps on the giant screen just like on a phone. Idk what is hard to explain about this?

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Yes it’s google maps on the giant screen just like on a phone. Idk what is hard to explain about this?

Idk what are you confused about?

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

We all know it’s witchcraft.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Has to be more to it than that. It has to also collect live phone and weather data. It registered multiple large back ups near my house on my dash. None are major roads or highways. There is no way to predetermine those back ups.

You said "has to be more to it than that"....

Then "my Tesla has Google maps".

There is nothing more. That's the point.

 

[Blood on Blood]

3 hrs from Rosemont to Plainfield

 

[Spivitz]

3 hrs from Rosemont to Plainfield

Ouch... Drink a beer

 

[boostedguy05]

Ouch... Drink a beer

#5

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

Elk Grove to Pingree Grove at 5pm took 1.5hrs
Plows were out on 390 and 20.

People were still crawling

 

[CMNTMXR57]

First round of plowing the court is done.

 

[Bru]

Tesla uses google maps, so it collects data from other phones on speed and conditions as well as road traffic sources

It's Google Maps in overlays only. The guidance is all Tesla, and that's pretty recent, too, as I believe they were using Garmin previously.

Tesla to improve maps and navigation 'dramatically' over next several months, says Elon Musk

After over a year of teasing by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the automaker has finally set a more concrete timeline on when to expect navigational updates.

electrek.co

 

[Bru]

Driving, took me 2.5 hours from downtown to north Naperville off of 88 leaving at 4 pm right as it hit the city.

 

[boostedguy05]

Took me an extra 15 minutes

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

First round of plowing the court is done.

Was that you out there doing my cul-de-sac?!?!?

 

[CMNTMXR57]

No, I'm up here in Elgin.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

No, I'm up here in Elgin.

Dammit.

If they did even a half-assed job was gonna give you credit.

For some reason Starol Cream likes to contract out the cul-de-sacs to the people with the loudest trucks. Usually F-250 diesels with aftermarket exhaust and wastegate.

So every time they touch the throttle you hear them, turbo spooling up and exhaust blowing out, usually about 2am.