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Commercial Items Identified on my Commute

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I see a lot of interesting commercialitems on truck on I-75. When you make the commute many times you start to see the same items over and over again. Sometimes it is huge equipment tires, sometimes heavy equipment of different types. I see these huge blocks of aluminum going North. I think about what the mill must look like and where it is going. And how much aluminum foil a block like this will make. Using the Tesla Full Self-Driving (supervised) allows me to look for these things on the highway. The FSD also helps me through the crazy stop and goes. Easily over 70MPH and then sudden traffic at dead stops, frequently. I see accidents every trip. It is amazing there aren't more. A side note- aluminum foil has a shiny side and a dull side. The reason why is that the foil is folded as it goes through massive rollers. The shiny side is the side that faces the steel roller. The dull side faces itself - aluminum.
feeln awkwd is alwys prt of grwth.

Old Trucks built in Upstate NY and New Electric Cars

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I went to a car show in Atlanta the other day. I test drove a Chevy Volt. I was very impressed with the Volt. I may buy one of those. I also went into the Atlanta Underground and found a few old trucks. Both of them were made in NY. The Selden was made in Rochester and the Larrabee was made in Binghamton. Things sure have changed. It seemed appropriate they were on display down here not up in NY.