1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

109 U-Pull it says they have a 2000 Taco with the 2.4 on the yard. The 5 luggers tend to last longer on the yard than the 4x4 trucks do so you may get lucky.

 

Mine kinda works for that

 

thanks, I was actually there yesterday, truck is thrashed

 

Door is good tho lol.

 

I'll play. The thing about robots is they don't complain as much, they don't need salaries, they don't need health plans, and they don't need training (after they get setup right, anyway). So if a company can figure out how to automate a task, they're gonna do it. If you're a skilled laborer and can fix robots, that's probably fine. But, keep in mind that the scale changes - they don't need one robot repairman for every robot, might need one for every ten, or even a hundred robots. So even if everyone in a factory thats getting replaced by robots is a robot repairman, a chunk of them are gonna be out of work if enough tasks get automated.

That said, lots of tasks are really hard to automate - until they aren't. I think its the suddenness that people might want to be concerned about, especially given the advances in machine vision and machine learning that have been made. Tasks that were previously unsolvable can be made very easy if the right people with the right experience are working on them. Just look at how far Boston Dynamics has come.

AI is a whole other ball of wax that I think we should be careful with.

 

This video came out in 2013...

https://youtu.be/0p4BQ1XzwDg?t=95

 

First EV truck I actually like.
And its a reg cab.





Alpha also has this goin, bonus points:

 

Used to run it a few times a year, last time was summer '19. Definitely one of the more challenging trails I partake in, it's fun. Miller itself is pretty short, just a couple mile climb up the mountain. Lockwood Canyon trail leads to Miller and it's longer + equally challenging. We should do it when you come out, though you will want sliders and a steel IFS skid for it. Tcase skid would be wise

 

https://youtu.be/6Zbhvaac68Y

 

Fack

 

Lol ain't gonna do shit. All the cat clamps and covers I've ever seen are an extra 10secs to remove haha.

 

If a robot workforce reaches critical mass though everyone could have a much easier, non work based, life.

 

Spent all morning and afternoon moving a ton of equipment out of storage and into my wife's studio for her business to reopen next week...driving a 26ft UHaul truck around LA is not fun.

 

Best thing would be skids that cover them, anything else probably cuts off just as easy as the cat itself.

There was some crazy alarm system I saw once that would basically render any would be cat thief deaf and dumb for the rest of their life when they start cutting, but I can't find it now

 

I'll have to find a good video on it.

I remember watching a video of some yota's running Miller Jeep Trail, only to stumble across it today again.

 

There are some of my truck doing it last I looked on YT, both are of the same obstacle lol. Be sure to watch one that includes Lockwood Canyon as well cause that's the only way to get to MJT unless you run it backward/downhill... Which wouldn't be as fun

 

Some years ago, we had a house that was only used maybe one or two weekends a month. Some neighbor's grandson got all tweaked up and started stealing copper wire and pipes. He got under our house and stole a copper gas line. I tried to run the dryer and couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. I was going to replace the dryer. When I went under the house to turn off the gas line it was gone. Luckily, there was a shutoff that he used to turn off the gas before he took the line. LOL

 

There's a big recovery thread on TW from 2016 or so when someone with a Prerunner tried doing MJT backward at night and got stuck hardcore lol. It's a funny thread

 

@Kwikvette found the thread

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/recovered-bottom-of-miller-jeep-trail-socal.456064/

 

Oh FUCK YEAH