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Software engineering idea: Tesla should make all of their blinkers’ timing based on the vehicle’s internal clock. That way, every single Tesla blinker in the world is synced. Beauty in the details 👌

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Bryon2 years ago

The clocks in the cars would always be off ever so slightly but this is theoretically possible within the human perception

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O G R E → Dennis2 years ago

One step further… use their GPS location and have every foot of difference be a ms delay. Each car is about 25-30 feet long, it would flow from one to the next.

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Traube Nuss2 years ago

They all have highly accurate GPS clocks (~1 microsecond), so definitely possibly. Can a turn signal legally start with a fraction of regular on timebor does it need a full cycle? Can it be delayed to the next cycle time?

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EVhicle2 years ago

I didn't want to be that guy, but someone had to verify that 😉

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MD VOLT INC. ꈌ2 years ago

And make the cars fart in sync too when blinking.

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Ryan2 years ago

I've seen multiple emergency vehicles at a crash site before and all their lights were synced. Turns out it's on purpose and that's a good thing.

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Just Another Software Engineer2 years ago

With time dilation, you will know who speeds the most 😂 Also, it is technically super challenging. The best case is to periodically ping a time server and subtract ping. The error can still be at a few milliseconds. Unless we have an atomic clock.

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Mike OConnor2 years ago

Apple does this with their wristwatch. Every Mickey Mouse watch face taps their foot exactly in time. Apple even demoed this once!

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TeslaDoctor2 years ago

Tesla’s are on Unix time already

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Finlay Craig2 years ago

I’d rather they synchronize traffic light timing data to manage how quickly someone should approach lights for max efficiency.

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