Remove Buy Remove Cheap Remove Personal Remove Store
article thumbnail

Feature: Choosing the Right Car to Suit Your Needs

Clean Fleet Report

No car comes particularly cheap. The perfect car for one person could be a nightmare vehicle for another. Will you be using the car to head to the store and get your grocery shopping? A sports car will be great for one person but entirely impractical for another. Size really is an important factor for anyone.

Cars 69
article thumbnail

Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. And we’re really good at that.

Personal 145
article thumbnail

I drove the new Tesla Model 3, here’s what got better

Teslarati

To me, it’s too much of a process to perform these simple tasks, and the lack of things to look at is something I personally do not enjoy. I totally realize that these are pretty tedious complaints, but I do believe there are some people who would see this as such an inconvenience that it would stop them from buying a car.

Tesla 122
article thumbnail

First Look: 2024 Ford Ranger and Ranger Raptor

The Truth About Cars

Ranger happens to be to the versions you can already buy in countries where they have the steering wheel on the wrong side. Since we already knew the majority of what Ford had in store for us, those little details mattered. But some of the materials used on the test models I previewed felt a little cheap.

Ford 91
article thumbnail

Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

Design 107
article thumbnail

What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

Cars That Think

After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Will Jackson.

Boston 145
article thumbnail

Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. It’s a personal challenge.

Engine 120