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You misunderstand. I would never advocate for someone to not wear their seatbelt. That is not a plug, it is an extender. You still wear your seatbelt. It is meant for people that need extra length for the seatbelt to fit. We used them in the rear seat of my wife's Model S when the kids switched to booster seats. The Model S seatbelt receptacles were down in the seat and the kids could not buckle on their own. With the extender it was no problem.
I know what it’s intended for, as did he but he decided that was more convenient than wearing a seat belt. He was a different kind of person
 
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No, the problem, as I’ve pointed out repeatedly, is that without a button you’re at the mercy of someone’s algorithm. There’s absolutely no reason not to have a button, and lots of reasons to have one. An algorithm can never read my mind to know when I want it on or off.
I've grown tired of the constant prosyletizing from the anti-buttoners. It doesn't seem worth engaging. They don't seem to care to learn about why the buttons are useful to people who use their vehicles differently from them.

Regardless, I believe I may have found a solution to GM's mistake of removing the Start/Stop button. I may be able to install the equivalent of that button back in the vehicle. It may cost me a few hundred dollars, but it'll be worth it.

Other than that one issue, the vehicle is performing quite well. We're definitely happier with it than we would have been with any other option available today; other than the Lightning, the Silverado so far (after ~500 miles of driving) is far superior for our use than any other truck on the market.
 
From what I'm hearing, sounds like the GM SW stack needs some serious work.
Not really. My experience with the sw stack so far is far superior to any other truck on the market. I hated Rivian's software. Ford's was slow, though functional. Chevrolet is simply suffering from a mistake in interface design by having removed the Start/Stop button.
 
Oh that’s good to know. Admittedly I gave up on it awhile ago and haven’t looked at it recently. Also, @SpaceEVDriver if your job ever has a take-a-forum-buddy-to-work-day-so-they-can-drive-a-mars-rover (or something) let me know lol…
If you need a reason to be in Pasadena on 10 or 11 October, here it is:

JPL is restarting its open house. You’ll need free tickets. They become available on 29 August at 09:00 in California. They’ll be fully booked within a few minutes.

 
If you need a reason to be in Pasadena on 10 or 11 October, here it is:

JPL is restarting its open house. You’ll need free tickets. They become available on 29 August at 09:00 in California. They’ll be fully booked within a few minutes.

Ooh, thanks for the heads up! I live about 25 miles from Pasadena and have the ticket date in my calendar now. Can’t wait!
 
I’m jealous!
I got to visit the JPL site in Santa Clara with a work colleague…
They told me it was an old airship hangar!
It was pretty large!
Oh yes, that must have been at Moffett Field, I used to live near that hangar 20 years ago. Went there once during an airshow. To say it was cavernous would be like saying Ton 618 is a large black hole 😆
 
Oh yes, that must have been at Moffett Field, I used to live near that hangar 20 years ago. Went there once during an airshow. To say it was cavernous would be like saying Ton 618 is a large black hole 😆

I lived just down the road/across the road from Moffet Field for a few years. Close enough that I could hear the wind tunnel spin up at night when I had the windows open, and I rode past it on my bike when I commuted to work, or when I did workout rides on the MUT nearby.

I had a work colleague who used to work at Moffet, and still had friends there. He gave my wife and I a tour of the facility, and we got to walk through the wind tunnel. And by "walk through" I mean, we got to walk through the turbine blades. They're around 4.5-5ft tall each IIRC, and the wind tunnel drew something like 6MW of power at full tilt.

I can't find our photo right now, but it was these ones.

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I lived just down the road/across the road from Moffet Field for a few years. Close enough that I could hear the wind tunnel spin up at night when I had the windows open, and I rode past it on my bike when I commuted to work, or when I did workout rides on the MUT nearby.

I had a work colleague who used to work at Moffet, and still had friends there. He gave my wife and I a tour of the facility, and we got to walk through the wind tunnel. And by "walk through" I mean, we got to walk through the turbine blades. They're around 4.5-5ft tall each IIRC, and the wind tunnel drew something like 6MW of power at full tilt.

I can't find our photo right now, but it was these ones.

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Now that’s a woodworkers dust collector!