michael taylor
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Motoring journalist, consultant, observer. Writing for Forbes, , The Irish Times and more. Threema ID: APMBP9Z5
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@mcnees
Mine is six and learned to read to herself only so we don’t know when she is reading.
This only works until she finds a word she doesn’t understand...
She sees our library of 10,000+ non-fiction books as a big pile of knowledge and she desperately wants to know all of it.
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Welcome to Tesla Inventing Things That Have Already Been Invented, by Tesla fans.
In this chapter, Tesla has (re)discovered self parking.
Toyota did this with the Prius in 2003.
Lexus was on board by 2006, Ford by 2009, BMW in 2010, Mercedes in 2011…
FSD 12.3.3 *vision only* parallel auto park is awesome! The accuracy is quite remarkable.
Currently only available on non-USS cars but expected to be deployed in April/soon for everyone.
Thanks to
@bilalsattar
for allowing us to use his S as test subject. I personally
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@juliaioffe
@Still_Fast
I have had the same message from friends in Moscow, so I don't doubt this is true.
They are also busy untagging themselves from FB and insta posts, and fully expect the borders to be closed tonight.
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There needs to be credit given for the research done by
@RonniSalt
and
@jommy_tee
whenever Governor General’s “backhander” is brought up (and it needs to be brought up every day until there are consequences), but good to see Carr standing up.
Take it from me: the Governor General’s role in getting $18m from Morrison for a charity without a record, office or program and no competitive bid is set to be the most controversial vice regal indulgence since Kerr’s dismissal of Whitlam.
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@millepun
Reinventing a proven technology to deliver a system with no tangible, functional improvement benefit to the end user.
That’s not evolution.
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@GouldingChris
@gregmlarsen
@davidallengreen
@surlestombes
Anybody who rolls three languages into a single sentence clearly isn’t a proper conservative
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Where have I heard this story before?
Oh, right. Amaroo, Oran Park, Lakeside, Calder, and that’s just in Australia.
Anybody who moves within earshot of existing infrastructure and then agitates to have it closed down is an arsehole.
Fight me.
The Highway 68 Coalition, a group of nearby property owners, has filed a legal complaint against Laguna Seca.
The group is suing to end racing entirely, arguing that the circuit doesn’t abide by environmental ordinances, they claim the circuit is “a public nuisance".
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@vincenzolandino
I can name every driver in the history of F1 who has ever scored a win, a podium, a fastest lap or a pole.
My passion for F1 has been broken since Abu Dhabi in 2021.
I keep trying to re-fire the pilot light, but it’s not working.
Glad the WEC and Indy are so good...
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Throwback to 1984, when
@Porsche
’s factory 962s drove up Melbourne’s Dandenong Road to the World Sportscar Championship race at Sandown Park after being serviced at Porsche’s Australian HQ.
@motoringcomau
@petrolhedonist
@harrismonkey
@Angus_MacK
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@EchoplexSE
I didn’t miss anything. Users don’t care how. They just care if it works or not.
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Just a McLaren F1 rolling through the streets of Lake Como.
I don’t care who you are or what your favourite brand is, a
@mclaren
F1 is always something special to see.
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I’ll take “Things You Can Do In A VW Polo for $1000” thanks.
Model Y in its natural habitat. You are going to see so many more of these photos.
@elonmusk
made the Y with the vision of off-roading.
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Branch Elonians stunned that Tesla has invented something that’s been in production for 20 years…
…again.
Seeing the Cybertruck 4 wheel steering is mind blowing. The Cybertruck enginnering is on another level.
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To get its new fans, F1 dumbed itself down to the point where ignorant Miami security put their hands on 83yo triple world champion Sir Jackie Stewart.
George Russell had to de-escalate them on the grid.
The current hierarchy has taken F1 from Michelin Star dining to McDonalds.
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@RobLMyers
I did a pit walk with a driver manager at Monza in 2008.
Ecclestone complimented the manager, and said his driver was doing very well.
He followed that up with: “Of course, not as well as the African,” and walked away.
He has never hidden it.
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Driving the
@BMW
3.0 CSL today reminded me yet again of the stuff old cars did better than new ones.
Ride quality.
Progressiveness beyond the grip limits.
Exterior visibility.
Weight.
Instrument cluster design.
Short dashboards.
Thin a-pillars.
Light and comfortable seats.
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Citroen and Peugeot once did a very clever - at least on paper - urban hatchback that didn’t need a panel behind the rear door. Just a light, a filler cap and a bumper.
Then they never did it again, and I often wonder why.
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Does anybody honestly think the world would have killed off freon to stop the growth of the hole in the ozone layer, taken lead out of fuel for our health or stopped acid rain in today’s partisan political and partisan media environment?
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The world’s single biggest polluting transport vehicle, equivalent to 60 million cars of emissions, and even worse because they run on bunker oil.
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BMW's chief engineer thinks the EV push in Europe is "bullshit".
Find out why it has gone from 'yay, the i3 is the future" to "you know what, we'll just make better plug-in hybrids"
#EV
@BMW
#BMW
#hybrid
#hybridcars
#electriccars
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The last car company caught with software code that INTENTIONALLY broke the law was
#Volkswagen
, and it cost them €30 billion.
I don’t think
#Tesla
fans should be upset that the
#NHTSA
slapped them with a simple OTA
#recall
…
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@MichaelPascoe01
@jommy_tee
There’s a joke about trickle-down economics but 99% of you would never get it.
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@FieldTechFixer
Irrelevant to the driver’s experience except, for what I see, making it slower and parking further from the kerb.
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If you are the supermarket and you don’t drift the shopping trolley around corners, you are not my people.
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@Vladka27629111
@IAPonomarenko
Pretty sure it’s the direct fault of the Russian troops that blew it up.
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Tesla is worried about people using the seat-adjustment motors so much that they’ll lock customers out of using them.
Are you kidding?
Bought the cheap motors, huh
@Tweetermeyer
@BertelSchmitt
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@jar_rosenholtz
Tesla: of course we have a bed in the cybertruck
Also tesla: no, you can’t. We’ve already used it.
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Where are you credentials to become the next Bond car, Lamborghini?
Right here, gentlemen...
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@Aperta
It's so much easier to do that now in good teams, with 23 races a year, compared to seven in the 1950s.
Even Bottas is ninth all time.
Kimi Raikkonen, for example, has driven in a third of all the F1 races ever held, and Alonso will pass him at the end of this season.
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I'm flabbergasted that American authorities haven't clamped down on this.
That cyclist didn't sign up for this.
Neither did your kids or mine, your mother or mine.
Want to watch a video of a self-driving Tesla attempt to randomly steer into a cyclist and the driver barely save their life in time?
How are the people launching this not in jail?
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@there_is_no_if
Very much doubt this. Not only is it illegal in the sporting code, but it makes no sense to gain maximum points.
More likely that the hunt for maximum speed has pulled the car out of the window that accommodates Sergio’s driving style, but sent it further into Max’s.
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"Insane". Like the Volkswagen Corrado and the Porsche 911 had 30 years ago...
Quit it with the hyperbole.
Tesla Model S Plaid prototype with insane retractable spoiler spotted on race track
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Daughter, 7, just saw me highlighting sentences in a 27-page a document.
"What are you reading?"
"EU/ECE r79."
"What's that?"
"The European rules for autonomous cars."
"It will take a long time to read."
"It will."
"But you don't have that long. You're in your fifties."
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Old car cinema. Almost impossible for modern publications to test this thoroughly.
And people just don’t seem to care anymore.
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Ooooo, happy with that. Tidy, and strong enough that someone drove it down from Germany to Italy to stretch its legs.
#bmw
#youngtimer
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With a rolling head start.
And with the Ford in two-wheel drive.
And no mention of the Ford’s Powertrain.
I mean, if you have confidence in the product, why does everything always have to smell so... shonky?
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@john_wilkinson1
@nicolathorp_
I do believe it is now incumbent upon Nicola to walk us through how it’s done.
Just for research purposes.
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@amaia_end
@BradleyPhilpot
@fia
You’re new here, aren’t you?
The FIA is a bit busy with nose rings to worry about drivers trying to crash into other drivers.
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In other breaking news, rain comes from the sky.
Here's proof the Lamborghini Urus is a Lamborghini in name only!
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@elitelifelesson
@RBR_Daily
Who is going to tell you Perez is p2 in the championship, so Montoya is right?
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Our family Christmas tradition was to crack our first beer of Boxing Day in time with the first ball of the cricket Test from Melbourne.
We lost Dad in January, but the tradition remains.
@plalor
@robelinda2
#BoxingDayTest
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@Jas_SV5
@MercedesAMGF1
@ManCity
You realise that Mercedes-Benz was the world’s first carmaker and is therefore the oldest, too?
It dominated Grand Prix racing before WWII.
And it dominated Formula One and sports car racing in the 1950s, until a tragic day at Le Mans brought it all to a halt.
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Twitterverse, is there a car that automatically and uncontrollably makes you judge its driver (for better or for worse) whenever you see it?
I'll start. BMW X6 M (worse).
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@MikeCarlton01
@SBSNews
I’m one of those stuck overseas.
I’m elated that the PM assures me I have the right to come home.
I’m gutted there is no pathway to exercise that right.
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As Nikita Mazepin has shown us, there are different degrees of billionaire sons.
Lance's behaviour in motorsport has been exemplary and he's always worked hard at it.
Like him or not, rate him or not, and isn't a twat, as
@elliejaneF1
will tell anybody who listens.
"I get there are worse things to be than a billionaire's son, I do recognise that.
Lance Stroll is frustrated with people speculating that privilege and not talent or hard work is responsible for what he has achieved in Formula 1.
Full story:
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Seven-year, ground-up restoration and my friend Marco Makaus has his
@renaultgroup
4 back!
He bought the ‘79 model new in 1980 and has had it since. Now it has a new chassis under it and everything is either new or reconditioned.
And it’s just lovely.
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@BelindaJones68
@BorisJohnson
They dumped us, and every other Commonwealth country, lickety-split to join the EU and left us to fend for ourselves.
Now that they've abandoned their biggest trading bloc in a fit of pique and nationalist fervour, they want us back?
It's hard to feel the sincerity.
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Overheard at a
@Ford
launch:
“No, I didn’t drive. The road was too windy”
“What’s a platform?”
“I was disappointed in Goa. I expected more of a cool vibe and local atmosphere but the Thai food at the W was good.”
Yes, the
#Influencers
are here...
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He didn’t make it.
The venom from the snake bite combined with head trauma from his collapse were too much and he never regained consciousness after surgery a week ago.
He passed away peacefully this morning surrounded by family.
One last single malt for you.
Farewell, dad.
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@AngiraB_
@simonahac
@climate200
Independently verifying facts is your job, not Simon’s, and should be done before you run the story.
What you’ve published is a lead on a story, not a story, and it looks very much spoon fed.
For shame.
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@EngineMode11
Half that grid wouldn’t be alive today if not for SJS.
I’m so angry with the sport about this.
Symptomatic if everything that’s wrong with modern F1, disenfranchising 70 years of history in favour of ignorance.
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My local bar on
#cernobbio
still rocks a 1962
#faema
E61. It started the global espresso/cappuccino boom, as the first machine with a volumetric pump to give the water a constant 9-bar pressure during the whole extraction process.
And it’s still in daily use. Still working hard.
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Did anybody else stumble across Gabriel Nemeth’s wicked
#Fiat
131 Abarth tribute today?
@Roadster_Life
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@F1ElbowsOut
Car at least 28s faster than the next best car over a race distance puts 28s on the next fastest car over a race distance.
But, sure, it's a big deal if it makes you happy.
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Italy, stop using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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@AdiZonga
Being snide doesn’t disguise the fact that the end user couldn’t care less how the car does it, as long as it does it well.
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At least half the drivers on the grid have had crashes that would have killed them, if not for Sir Jackie Stewart.
Max ✔️
Russell ✔️
Bottas ✔️
Zhou ✔️
Leclerc ✔️
Albon ✔️
Perez ✔️
Hulk ✔️
Magnussen ✔️
Ocon ✔️
Gasly ✔️
So angry at
#F1
security for putting hands on him.
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@georgialewis76
As a magazine editor in Australia, we were sent on training for exactly these kinds of scenarios every year.
And, under Australian workplace law, these definitely fall under “actionable”.
Repeated requests to stop, repeated not-stopping action.
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@xkcd
I stay in a lot of hotels a year, and showers and lighting systems are the bane of my life.
Imagine my glee at finding a hotel in Munich with a single pull cord to turn off not just every light, but every LED as well.
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@adamliaw
If there are no schedule changes, Kimi will retire having driven in 33.2% of Formula One Grands Prix since the sport began.
A third.
Of the entire history of Formula One.
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I know there’s too much going on in the world to grieve over a dog.
But I’m grieving over a dog anyway.
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@RonniSalt
@tonymdolan
@SquizzSTK
Morrison: I won’t allow a woman to be silenced.
Also Morrison: silences female reporter for asking questions about preselection.
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Remember when you didn’t need a two-tonne SUV for all those difficult Christmas jobs?
@Roadster_Life
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@_Angry_Engineer
2015 was the only year that Hamilton lead the championship from start to finish.
Schumacher did it four times (94, 01, 02, 04) twice as many as anybody else), but nobody complains about that era.
Also, Peak Hamilton lead 53.9% of laps in 2020.
Jim Clark lead 71.5% in 1963
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@dav1on_
@_LindaLER_
@Rainmaker1973
Then why make your irrelevant, ignorance-based comment in the first place?
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@DiaryofaSickGrl
l live in Italy despite being allergic to olive oil.
I cannot begin to tell you how many times this has happened to me.
Between “a bit couldn’t hurt him” and “I don’t believe him, let’s test it”, it is very, very difficult.
Feel for your dad.
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@TheBishF1
Died doing what he loved, struck by a heart attack descending Mount Panorama during the Bathurst 1000 in ‘92, telling his team on the radio that everything was turning white, like a fog.
His last living act was to bring his BMW M3 to a safe halt on Conrod Straight.
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@Foetballuh
@lewfigo
@redbullracing
It seems you can’t be objective because you don’t know the rules. The F1 rule book: “More than one change of direction to defend a position is not permitted.”
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Imagine how angry Dmitry Mazepin must be now.
His money has paid for
@HaasF1Team
to build a pretty quick
#F1
car and his son isn’t there to crash it.
#f1
#mazepin
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Hey,
@renaultgroup
...
Please don't screw it up.
Please don't screw it up.
Please don't screw it up.
Please don't screw it up.
Please don't screw it up.
#renault5
#renault
#EV
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