Alex Wheatley
@thealexbear
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GRRC Member. Interesting car titivator & data bore. Fell down an AI rabbit hole.
Surrey - England
Joined May 2010
Good they're looking into it. But, its not the brightness. Its lazy auto-dip beam and slow levelling. Plenty of modern cars have safe, powerful headlights. BMW, Tesla and JLR seem to struggle. When I'm shouting expletives because my retinas are burning its always one of them.
🚨 NEW: The Government will review car headlights over fears they are becoming too bright [@BBCNews]
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My old 'Free' 2003 (very late) BMW E39 530i Manual Sport Touring (with 1 previous owner and about 100k miles)....sort of. Just telling you very cheap interesting cars can still be done, you just need a workshop, some time and a little luck... In 2020, (just before covid) i
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Today’s clock rules: 1. The iPhone clock automatically went back 1 hour. 2. Wall clocks to be wound back 1 hour. 3. It will take 1 hour to work out how to reset the oven clock. 4. The car clock will remain 1 hour ahead of time until the clocks go forward in March. #clocksgoback
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I once had complete brake failure on my old 2003 SL350, ended up going into a roundabout if I wanted to or not. Despite being 12 years old and over 100k miles Mercedes repaired it with a new SBC pump under 100% goodwill, with no papertrail at all. It was probably because some
Even Mercedes can overthink engineering. Mercedes tried to reinvent braking with SBC - a brake-by-wire system on early 2000s E-Class SL, SLR, Maybach and CLS. It used sensors and pumps instead of hydraulics for faster response. The result? The system works brilliantly when it
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Marketing, Meeting Culture and Engineering Culture
Why do we keep changing things that have worked well for decades for the much much worse? Who is asking for this?
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TVR in 2025. It genuinely pains me but at least to an outside observer this is how it seems... -No further prototypes built or tested (OK, one concept demonstrator, possibly one mule) -No obvious support from the original design and build team -No updates to the original
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10 days before the AWS outage... it hasnt endeared me to it any more
'Cloud Storage' just means putting your data on someone else's computer. Nothing else
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https://t.co/HpswIddNCH new Mclaren F1 video alert! New Mclaren F1 video alert! (Is it just me who gets unreasonably excited about this?)
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Ready for #Uncanny live! Almost the same seats we had 2 years ago. Looking forward to it @danny_robins
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Way too much talk of AI tools. Not enough on AI solutions or AI workflows. Like For 99% of tasks in a business image or video generation isn’t that helpful
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I do not care for windows updating all the time. Especially when im mid way through some work. I think I'm moving to linux next. Same for phone updates. Just sell me the product and leave me alone for a few years.
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Back in 2014 I was running a Mercedes E500 - on the way into work at JLR one day the waterpump gave up just as I was pulling into the car park. Luckily I had a basic socket set in the boot so I did a 'test drive' of one of the cars from work via GSF car parts and picked up a
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Oh right so NOW the French are bothered about having a crown jewels
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I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is. They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails,
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It was a great car too, I did a load of work to the mechanicals. Running 330-350hp. Needed a little paint
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