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Accidental Tech Podcast

183: I Filed a Radar

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 β€’ 2.4K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 August 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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0:00.0

It is so hot in this room and so humid

0:05.0

The humidity has been brutal here. It's only 77 degrees and I'm dying in this room because it's so humid and of course

0:11.2

It's probably 90 degrees in this room. I feel great air conditioning zone. I even put my slippers on mid show because my feet were getting a little bit cold

0:20.0

I we should probably actually get the show started, huh? No, that's making it in the show. None of it. Oh come on

0:24.8

No, oh, so here you know how I'm gonna make you put some of that in the show watch this

0:29.4

Hey, so speaking of cars we should probably do some follow-ups starting with more reasons for Q and X

0:34.6

Hey Casey, do we have any follow-up?

0:41.4

So Casey do we have any follow-up who we should probably start with some follow-up Marco that you make an excellent point and

0:47.6

We had an individual right in with more reasons for using Q and X and these actually were the

0:54.4

To my ears and eyes the best reasons I've heard yet and what it boy basically boiled down to was

1:01.3

Incredibly fast boot times

1:03.3

Were important are generally important for cars because you don't want to say have to wait until your five minutes down the road before your air conditioning or your radio turns on or something like that

1:13.5

And the other reason that this individual gave was you know if you think about it the instrument clusters on a lot of cars are

1:19.1

Often driven by some sort of display or perhaps driven by a signal that's coming off some Q and X derived

1:25.8

computer and

1:27.5

Those need to be real time. I mean that data needs to show you exactly how fast you're going right freaking now and so having a real time

1:35.1

OS like Q and X makes that sort of thing a lot easier

1:39.0

Like Tesla system is not based on Q and X

1:41.3

I'm pretty sure it's just some kind of Linux and you can tell like you can tell because like you know some like again

1:48.0

I like with it last time like most of the time it works fine

1:51.1

but sometimes like we were upstate and and I heard

1:55.6

We were driving around I was following that directions and the map is getting a little bit wonky

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