Random Mode...
It's ba-a-ack... and it's electric.
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mnem
Suck it, Elon Musk.
Musk set out to make electric cars sexier and take them out of the territory of ridiculous looking and impractical vehicles, which is arguably needed to make them broadly accepted. This is doing the exact opposite.
No, Musk set out to make the biggest penis extension he could think of; but there was too much competition with experience in ICE-powered vehicles, so he decided to go electric. Everything else he's done that was good has been a byproduct of that quest. You can say exactly the same thing about his space travel projects.
The Isetta, while foolish folks think of it as a toy, was actually the epitome of practicality for those who only care about basic transportation. The joke that it was a motorcycle with a roof wasn't really a joke. Serious motorcyclists like myself often got into motorcycles as absolute minimalist transportation; we could mod and tune and race and donk in the dirt, but the one thing we couldn't do was drive at even moderate highway speeds with any measure of safety or comfort in the rain. That is what the Isetta does, and it is a perfectly valid market segment, which has been dreadfully ignored in this age of style over substance.
Modern technology and manufacturing processes make this kind of vehicle even more attractive... the fact that this startup can bring it in at 12K a pop using essentially prototypying build facilities and existing off-the-shelf components proves that Musk's problems in getting the Model 3 (the "Normal person" Tesla) into production are entirely a byproduct of his fucking ego, not the technology available.
I see, fair enough, never released that there was so much difference between the 2 systems.
The difference, in a nutshell, is that you can do Morse Code with a Ford vibrator ignition coil, an air coil made out of coathanger, and a coathanger as an antenna. I've seen it done. Essentially a white noise transmitter; it stomps all over anything that doesn't have a narrowband filter. But it gets a signal out.
But the main point of that particular subset is EMERGENCY communication, and knowing enough that you can knock together something that works and gets a signal out. For that you need to program the "signal processor in your head", as it is the critical frontend to that rig. Once you "know" MC, you can go down the rabbit hole at the opposite end of that spectrum... making contact as far as possible with the smallest amount of transmitted power on a proper narrowband transmission. Mmmmm.... chock full of nerdy goodness.
I've tried several times... but evidently that function is connected to the part of my brain responsible for my "math defectiveness". I just can't seem to get it to stick so it's reflex.
mnem
"Address...?"
" brown, green, black, violet South Winding Road... "