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Gomev said:

Only a few years, supposedly, before there will be electric ferries for you to go play on.

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Cut out the middle windmills - just use sails

Susanna said:

That’s weird - I only get the one where @Archev was. Other places with a slight difference in the words though. Each what3words is supposed to be unique??

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I’ve never encountered different places with the same exact words. I’ll check it out later. It’s quite amazing that there’s enough words to go round.

emmrecs said:

Apparently there are three locations in the world that use those 3words

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My schoolgirl maths suggests that for three given words there are 6 possible combinations that use those 3 words. i.e. 3 x 2 x 1

Susanna said:

Each what3words is supposed to be unique??

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Yes they are...because the order is significant, so it is a permutation, rather than combination. So "searcher, gullible, reputable" will be a different location than "gullible, searcher, reputable", for example.

With the concern above, though, the three "results" seem to be just suggestions for misspellings (though I got given a different 2nd option). Maybe it depends if we are 'gullible' or 'reputable' searchers?

emmrecs said:

Couldn't resist searching on what3words.

Apparently there are three locations in the world that use those 3words:
"near Brodick, North Ayrshire"
"near Zouerte, Tiris Zemmour"
"near Lichinga, Niassa"

No idea at all about where in the world the second and third ones are!

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Zouérat (Arabic: الزويرات) is the largest town in northern Mauritania and the capital of the Tiris Zemmour region, with an approximate population of 62,380


Lichinga is the capital city of Niassa Province of Mozambique. It lies on the Lichinga Plateau at an altitude of 1,360 metres

Everest said:

My schoolgirl maths suggests that for three given words there are 6 possible combinations that use those 3 words. i.e. 3 x 2 x 1


Yes they are...because the order is significant, so it is a permutation, rather than combination. So "searcher, gullible, reputable" will be a different location than "gullible, searcher, reputable", for example.

With the concern above, though, the three "results" seem to be just suggestions for misspellings (though I got given a different 2nd option). Maybe it depends if we are 'gullible' or 'reputable' searchers?

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Interesting, when I type the address in I get these options to confirm. It seems that the options depend on which bit it thinks you typed wrongly as each is subtly different.

Gomev said:

Interesting, when I type the address in I get these options to confirm. It seems that the options depend on which bit it thinks you typed wrongly as each is subtly different.

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That’s why you need to type the theee words carefully exactly as noted - the singular and plural of the same words are looked on as completely different- for instance searcher and searchers.

Yeah ... like The Seekers and The New Seekers.

siteguru said:

Yeah ... like The Seekers and The New Seekers.

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Exactly, shepherding problems trying to find another ewe

All shades of grey today looking down the river Forth. Zoom in for bridges.

So Calibration charge time, so took a tourist drive to the most distant Giant, and for us a long 3.5km round trip walk. Of course we did it midday, with no water.
Fortunately we didn't expire from dehydration.

Parked the car.


I'm glad it's in the shade, keeps it cooler and you can't see how badly it's in need of a wash.

Here's the giant, well worth the walk.




Dot is kindly standing in front of his right foot, to hide, where the white ants have started eating his sole away.

Great trip, and the car is on 9% waiting for me to plug it in as soon as the sun comes up.

Nice to be home though and drinking a cuppa tea.

PS if interested in the giants, google Mandurah Giants.

decrep said:

So Calibration charge time, so took a tourist drive to the most distant Giant, and for us a long 3.5km round trip walk. Of course we did it midday, with no water.
Fortunately we didn't expire from dehydration.

Parked the car.
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I'm glad it's in the shade, keeps it cooler and you can't see how badly it's in need of a wash.

Here's the giant, well worth the walk.


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Dot is kindly standing in front of his right foot, to hide, where the white ants have started eating his sole away.

Great trip, and the car is on 9% waiting for me to plug it in as soon as the sun comes up.

Nice to be home though and drinking a cuppa tea.

PS if interested in the giants, google Mandurah Giants.

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55 mph winds here most of the day so the windmills must have been on overtime. I’ve been on OVO off peak most of today.
Just went out to unplug and caught the car doing a performance Improvement over the air update.

The car is a Citroen e Berlingo XTR.
I believe the XTR now stands for X Trouncing Rocketship

If only MG did that (as they advertised)

Gadget Geek said:

If only MG did that (as they advertised)

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I would want any such system to require approval from the driver. A good friend of mine had a Tesla Model X, he was going away to France with his family, ferry booked etc. They packed the car the night before ready for a 6am departure and I'm sure you've guessed where this is going. The car overnight did an over the air update which bricked the car. Tesla had to recover the car to Tesla Leeds and it took 3 days to get him mobile again. He lost his ferry booking as well as the accommodation in France. His annual holiday didn't happen.

johnb80 said:

I would want any such system to require approval from the driver. A good friend of mine had a Tesla Model X, he was going away to France with his family, ferry booked etc. They packed the car the night before ready for a 6am departure and I'm sure you've guessed where this is going. The car overnight did an over the air update which bricked the car. Tesla had to recover the car to Tesla Leeds and it took 3 days to get him mobile again. He lost his ferry booking as well as the accommodation in France. His annual holiday didn't happen.

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The Berlingo needed my approval to go ahead with the update and warned that the car could not be used during the nine minutes it would take to download and verify. So if I’d been going anywhere I could have left it til later. As it was I hit go and watched it happen. I needed to move the car a wee bit to get the bin past for collection.
As soon as the update was completed I turned the key in the “ignition” switch and hit go. Yeah - none of your sissy Go buttons The key has to be inserted and turned to make things happen. You get clicks and screen displays to let you know things are happening. Then it needs one final turn before it will go and I still can’t get fully used to it.
My previous Berlingos used exactly the same switch and key to make the music I craved. They were diesels and growled and I liked it. This one’s electric and silent and smooth and I really really love it
But that last turn of the key does nothing for me. No diesel growl, nothing whirrs, Nothing !! I get a split second of anticlimactic Nothing before swooping off on my next adventure.

The problem is though, that even if the Tesla had needed driver approval before updating, (and the driver had okayed it), the outcome would have been the same, in that instance.

I don’t know how long ago the incident happened, but hopefully things have improved since then. There would never be a right time to have your car bricked!