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When the testing started the bot-walkers were following the drones a few steps behind. As the bots have become smarter the walkers have been quite far behind, like across the street and 50 yards back so you can't even tell which one it is. Regarding theft for parts: it is deliberately made of cheap parts with a controller board like a one in a cheap smartphone and web camera modules. So stealing it for parts is more pain than gain. The only expensive part is the body (and naturally the software) and that's of no use for anyone. Also the robot is continuously streaming video from nine cameras back to the command center, so unless you're well prepared there's probably a video of you stealing or attacking it. We'll see. They have put enormous resources in development and testing, hope it works out for everybody.

Oh, everybody are used to these already, they've been roaming around for a year all over the town and considered a normal part of sidewalk traffic. https://www.starship.xyz/starship-technologies-completes-first-year-testing-reaches-10000-miles-driven/

Had the same blue but turned it into turd shade black.

Actual food deliveries with these robots have started over here: link to the article (mind the Google translation, it has replaced Estonia with Africa etc)

Washington DC is just one place and food is just one article. They're going to be a global solution for small range delivery at least in some areas, not the ghetto and trailer parks, obv. The company is located in our office building, they've been working on these drones for two years (I think) and we've had fun watching the robots roam around the town and the house. There are always two in visible range. A confused robot is the best nerd entertainment. A good silver medalist is a robot stuck in snow trying to figure itself out.

Well, that escalated quickly.

I did, nope, not available. Not in DRL mode, not in switched mode.

That's half of the structural integrity of the McPherson strut tower.

Yeah, the quoting function has some issues.

Welcome! I have an identical 2012 Colorado red. Please document everything, looking forward to the conversion.

I now get it. The bank sees a commercial van in private use a burden if you fail to make payments. A used commercial van has less resale value. For a business it's not as much of an issue as the vehicle serves a purpose in your business income.

Plenty of threads on the issue. This was the second thread before your post: Have fun digging through the forum and make lots of pics and a detailed report of the project, thanks.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/10/03/these-robots-will-be-delivering-food-in-dc-very-soon/

Time to restore the original third brake light:

It does have a reserve tap tho?

Heh. I was driving in Germany on the Autobahn this spring (Toyota, not Ford). The full tank range was 500 miles, the range anxiety hit at 250 miles already. At 150 miles I started to feel a bit panicky. Could not imagine doing that in an EV.

Our government bought 507 of those i-MiEVs for social workers and other govt institutions. EV is more suitable in warm climate, over here they cover 75 miles in the summer and 35 miles in the winter per charge.

It's actually a DIY level job with some fabrication, motor mounts + something minor.

Tested, nope.

Not really. The ESP error is probably related to the wheel bearing replacement.

It's about the amount of daylight and the brightness of it. We have always had DRL mandatory but we're also at the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska so plenty of dark time from August to April. The sun barely sets in June tho. Just a couple of hours behind the horizon.

No such menu in mine.

Flash the high beams for a fraction of a second and the parking lights go out.

Frontier/Navara is diesel only over here and it's definitely adequate. I've hauled compact diggers/frontal loaders around behind it (wide dual axle trailer) and had no issues. The suspension is a bit too "truckish" for a daily driver but the steering and transmission are accurate. Shift points are okay even fully loaded.