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What are they going to use? Firefox?
with ublock origin, yes
They saw how the cybertruck is super sharp and can cut you so they intend to use Edge.
They'll have to use some sort of mosaic.
How would that possibly give them an edge?
They might have to explore more options
You mean like a navigator?
Not sure if they would gopher that
Nice
As much as I appreciate that added bit of flash and glamour of chrome, the health problems from dealing with that shit are nassssssty. I also feel like the younger generations of purchasers are looking less for chrome than my generation.
It has another danger too, when it glints in the sunlight and blinds other drivers.
Chrome was always a bad idea.
Now we've got those stupidly bright headlights instead.
The US feds recently approved automatically adjusting headlamps that point down at the road, so hopefully the current nonsense will get better. Europe has had these for a while.
I’m in Europe and I still get blinded by modern SUVs with LED headlights constantly, having auto levelling headlights is nice and all but when the headlights themselves are at eye level for drivers in anything lower than a landrover it doesn’t change much
Do they work worth a damn? Auto-highbeams suck ass (one of the first things I disable) and turn high beams on in inappropriate conditions
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That's usually from misaligned headlights. Most often people swapping their headlight bulb and not adjusting them. You can't simply pop an HID bulb into the existing reflector housing without adjusting the headlight to compensate.
To quibble, you can't pop a HID into a reflector housing at all, usually. Halogen and drop in replacement LED have a different focal point than HID bulbs do.
This means if switching to HIDs you also need to replace the entire housing so it will focus the light correctly. No amount of adjustment will be correct if the beam isn't focused properly.
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It turns out, automakers were actually using headlights that were dimmer than legally required and getting away with it for decades.
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That has never really been a problem for me.
A waxed car does the same… a window does the same… that’s literally not a reason.
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I’m 30, it’s not that I don’t want chrome, it’s more like I don’t care either way and I’m not paying more for it because I just don’t care about it
Lol that is probably the real answer. The Young's don't like the look of it so they are not using it
When was the last time real chrome was on any of their cars? All chrome-like pieces on my old assed Jeep are shit assed plastic.
Maybe the bumpers on some of the Ram trucks?
Any of the decorative chrome bits have been cheap plasti-chrome for something like 30 years now.
Even the trucks have chrome painted metal bumpers. Always thought it was too much
At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.
Are they going to stop making cars with huge front hoods which are hugely dangerous to pedestrians? Or stop marketing their cars as if they're meant to be driven dangerously?
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At least at one major auto maker, environmental and serious health concerns are outweighing its aesthetic appeal.
Suuurree they are. Hasn't chromium getting more expensive over the past couple years? I'm guessing this sudden concern about the environment and the health of the workers will save them quite a bit of money in the long term.
Still, credit where credit is due, at least this cost cutting measure that actually has positive benefits for once.
Here in Detroit, Stellantis just asked for their factory to be allowed to pollute more, despite neighbors pushing back at how much they already pollute.
Bingo, and California moving to outright ban chrome plating shops. It's all about money, always was.
This is just like Apple and Samsung removing the charger from the cellphone box and claiming it's for the environment when in reality it's because now they can charge you $30+ more to buy one separately that comes in a second box.
Stellantis consistently builds some of the worst cars in the world and have been ignoring electrification for too long. They have a dim future once the Charger/Challenger are gone and this is just a cheap trick to attempt to revise their image.
They really should make polished aluminum a thing. It's so hot looking if you take care of it.
What exactly is involved in taking care of it?
If it involves more than a couple trips through the automatic car wash a year I'd personally rather just forego the shiny bits altogether.
You usually need to buff it because calcium builds up on it. If your in the states eighteen wheelers gas tanks are usually made of aluminum and they pay good money to get them polished.
Or acid wash whitens them, but I don't like that look, since it isn't mirror finish.
That's very surprising to me, I'd always assumed tankers were stainless steel. Do they have to have a lining inside?
They would have to now days. I don't t think they originally did. My understanding is the stainless steel ones rust quickly.
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Will they use Firefox?
It's also very expensive compared to other finish options like plating or different types of paint. I would be surprised if price wasn't also a factor.
(source: I used to work in metal fabrication)
I would be surprised if price wasn't the only factor and they're just talking about employees' health for PR reasons
Never mind the hazards of producing it; It's fucking annoying to look at while the sun it out.
I live in Arizona, so double fuck me.
My wife and I went on a road trip for the 2017 eclipse. At one point she was driving around and I was goofing around in the passenger seat with our eclipse glasses.
Couldn't see shit through them, I could see the sun, maybe just barely the vague outlines of certain big things off the side of the road if they were in full sun
I could absolutely see the sun glinting off of every bit of chrome on cars that drove past though. Couldn't see the cars themselves, just a brief little flash of light.
Kind of made me wonder what kind of cumulative eye damage you might get from millions of small flashes from chrome bits on cars over your lifetime. It could very well be negligible, I'm certainly no eye doctor.
My wife and I went to see the eclipse (it as our honey moon, literally) a few months ago and I had an identical experience xD
"Holy shit, are these laser-beams of sun cutting across the back of my eyeballs all the time?"
Mind you, it's anything shiny, not just chrome, but why add to the problem?
Chrome doesn't really look good on late model cars anyway
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