Can someone explain "Alpha Long" and or experimental mode?

2018 CRV with comma 4 sunnypilot.

Is alpha long worth enabling?

Are the risks high?

Mostly happy with the sunnypilot experience especially on highways, but slowing around curves and for stopped traffic would be nice instead of just stock cruise control blasting along. Recognizing stop lights and stop signs would be interesting but it's not something I really need.

My final question is why does it have to disable the stock cruise control? Couldn't the feature work with or around the stock cruise control rather than entirely disabling it? For example if it saw a curve coming up couldn't it just decrease the cruise control speed to accommodate that curve or does the system not have that ability?

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u/Lord___Rictor — 5 days ago

Anyway to get feature similar to Ford's Blue cruise that will move to side of the lane when you pass or another car passes you?

I'm thinking they could use the blind spot detector and camera to enable something similar to this feature?

Maybe it already exists on a fork?

This is what I'm talking about. I would think open pilot would have the capability of doing this... Especially for vehicles that are ahead of you. But also using the blind spot detection it could move over as well in the lane.

https://youtu.be/qhyjf2Zpq98?t=360

u/Lord___Rictor — 10 days ago

Why would the system lock out because distraction too high, thereby forcing you to unplug the device and become more distracted?

If you are going to lockout punish at least make it time based. 3min, 5min or whatever to re-engage. It's a dumb feature that serves no purpose.

I find it frustrating and silly. I get punishing someone for 5 min, but locking out for the entire trip? Absolutely ridiculous.

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u/Lord___Rictor — 13 days ago

When the distraction level is too high alert triggers, when does the system allow re-engagement?

Does it really require the car to be restarted?

My mother had this happen on the way home, she was distracted for a moment to be fair, but now she has to pull over to reboot the system?

When I was driving I let the alert fully trigger and it still let me re-engage the system...

How does it make that determination?

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u/Lord___Rictor — 15 days ago

[Q] I've got 1000s of older cases such as 2 and 3, Esports summer and winter, Phoenix cases, breakout cases, etc. Been holding since 2015. What would you do?

I'm well into large profits but don't need any money. I'm perfectly happy to keep holding them for long-term.

My only fear is Valve does something like removing them and totally destroying their value. Is that a possibility?

Finally cashing out itself is a daunting task I've not been involved with CS2 trading or selling or real money or any of that.

The only cashing out I've ever done was buying some steam decks and then just selling them on eBay... Is that still one of the best routes to go?

The reality is I most likely plan to do nothing for right now unless there's some very strong advice that I need to do something.

I would guess the total value is close to $100,000 in steam credit but I understand the liquidity with the market wouldn't support just dumping them.

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u/Lord___Rictor — 26 days ago

If see no cars ahead of myself on the road and want to look out the side window, how long does the system allow me to do that?

I'm thinking of buying the comma 4 for a 2018 CRV.

Does driver monitor take into account how busy the road is?

Does sunny pilot not have these new horrible changes people keep talking about? Can I just not update the software?

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u/Lord___Rictor — 2 months ago

Questions about 2018 CRV and Comma 4

I currently don't have any of these products.

Will turns or bends on the highway cause this system to disengage?

When it does disengage how do you know that that's happening is there an alarm?

Does it at least slow the car down or would you just run straight off the road?

I've heard some cars don't do the best with turns. I would be using a 2018 CRV which seems to have fairly good support but not perfect support... I'm just wondering what are the problems I would notice compared to a better supported vehicle...

I would be mostly planning to use this on 1200 mile car trips across the country to help alleviate driving strain. Which my understanding is the perfect use case for this device.

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u/Lord___Rictor — 2 months ago

Deseret Industries thrift stores have the most hardcore flippers I have ever seen.

These people stay in the thrift shop all day waiting for employees to bring out carts of new stuff, then pounce on them even as being pushed out through the doors. I visit family out west and you can recognize the same people year after year.

You would think the store would ban them or realize hey, we should raise prices a bit... It's a frustrating experience for the casual shopper.

My theory is AI pricing systems may get rid of these folks by recognizing obscure but valued items and pricing them accordingly. Pretty sure the industry is headed that direction. Normal staff are clearly making pricing errors to allow this kind of behavior where essentially the store has a whole group of people that just work there unofficially annoying both customers and staff.

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u/Lord___Rictor — 3 months ago