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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't take it to the sea it's not ambidextrous.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Heehee, yeah it doesn't even have hands

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago

Calm? It scares the ever-living shit out of me that I’m surrounded by these people every day. They drive next to me. They have power over me. It’s frightening.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Since no one else has said it, this isn’t a design flaw of the truck. The operator didn’t let air out of their tires. Before driving on sand you really want to let your tire PSI down to like 15 to be safe. I used to pull hummers out of the beach with my old four cylinder Nissan pickup because their drivers were often overconfident they didn’t need to deflate their tires (or just completely unaware). I don’t like Tesla but this is an operator error, not a fatal flaw of the truck.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago

It's more of the taking $150k truck that doesn't like sand, salt, or water to the beach.

You aren't wrong though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This is definitely a Tesla flaw. Anyone dumb enough to buy one of these trucks is dumb enough to take it on the beach.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I used to race cars, and would over/ under inflate my tires based on the weather and track conditions. Never thought about driving on sand, but that's a super useful tip that I would wager most people have never heard.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not just sand, rock crawlers will deflate tires down to single digits (that's why they use beadlocks) so that the tires actually wrap around the rocks.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I guess you're talking about psi.

(No offense to you, dear Buffaloaf, I just looked it up and thought I might share).

For everyone of the 191 non-USA countries, 10 psi is 0,69 bar or 690 hPa. That's pretty low.

By the way, why is psi written in such a weird way? It should be lbs/ in^2

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Because in^2 is generally said "square inches."

So it's "pounds per square inch."

Sometimes "per" will get its own letter, like in PPM - parts per million - and sometimes it's left off, as in PSI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Thanks, friend :)

I know how it comes to be, I just think it's stupid.

For example, kW times h is not the same as kW per hour. That's why kWh means kilowatt times hour.

If I wrote ms to denote meters per second that would create massive confusion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That is an excellent point. Yeah, PSI would totally read as pounds times square inches which would be something else entirely. Adding in the extra P would fix it, too. PPSI. Suppose it's another thing that people just have to get used to, haha.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

And why?

Because we said so.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Yeah it made me a lot of extra cash when I was in high school. I would park over the on-ramp for beach access and wait for a tourist to inevitably get stuck. Most of the time I wouldn’t ask for money but they’d give me a nice tip since they knew the only other option was to call a tow truck. The park service requires a permit to off road now, and that info is on the permit so fortunately for visitors it happens less often now.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago

Back in the late-80s or early-90s, a guy in my coastal town bought a new Nissan Pathfinder, took a bunch of friends for a nighttime joyride at the beach. I do believe there was beer involved.

When they hit water lapping in the sand and made a sharp turn, the tires made a wake that looked really, really cool! Do that again!

Suddenly, the car stopped moving forward. They had drifted too deep. Of course none of these rocket scientists had any idea if the tide was coming or going... it was coming.

They got out - through the windows I guess - waded onshore and prayed for the best. But like I said, the tide was coming. They saw the Pathfinder that still had that new agency car smell, getting completely submerged.

Next day a tow truck pulled it onshore, but as you probably guessed, it was a total loss.

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