Turbofrog

Does hardware raytracing have the accuracy required for professional rendering output?

(I actually have no idea, I haven’t heard whether the RTX line has any functionality to support ‘creative’ rendering applications in raytracing specifically, rather than CUDA generally).

Out of curiosity – as AWD has become increasingly popular for ICE sedans as well in the past decade or so, has that pushed up the height of cars across the board somewhat so as not to make passenger and trunk packaging worse with the transmission tunnel? Obviously that’s only in the car’s centerline (where there is usually a structural stiffener even on FWD cars), but still…

Honestly depends on whether you prefer that your car stand out from the crowd or not. Believe it or not, that’s a pretty binary buyer preference.

Fear the potentially consequences of designers that specifically seek to distinguish their vehicles from the competitors – it’s how you end up with gaping oversized grilles like the BMW M4 and X7 (and the buyers who actively lap them up).

Yeah, found that to be a bizarre comment.

I feel like VW could emphasized efficiency both functionally and aesthetically with some 18" pseudo-disc wheels, but the aesthetic industrial design arms race dictates that high cars (i.e. EVs with skateboard platforms) need huge wheels to look proportionately "right."

Curious to see where VW sees this slotting in price-wise. If they drop it in right at the Model 3 price tag but de-emphasize straight-line performance to the benefit of driving range, comfort features, and build quality I could see it being a big hit for buyers who want an EV sedan, which is a bizarrely underserved market. I don’t see much value in competing at the higher end, since that is going to be a very crowded market as the Polestar 5, Mercedes EQE, and anticipated BMW i5 drop in. VW just doesn’t have the name clout to compete there, as the Phaeton demonstrated (regardless of its merits).

I still think the switch to under-screen fingerprint scanners has been a mistake. Or at least, omitting the – incredibly reliable and instantaneous – rear fingerprint scanner as well. Why not both? It seems like flagships could very easily afford the additional $3 BOM cost of a rear fingerprint scanner to give you options regardless of whether your phone is flat on a table or being pulled out of your pocket.

My partner’s Samsung A52 has a screen sensor and its completely unusable, at least under a screen protector (which is a de facto requirement for her, given that she’s not gentle with her things). Big downgrade from her previous 3 phones which have all had fingerprint sensors that "just worked."