Regen Braking sounds like helicopter

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  1. notspam3

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    Rusty rotors and un-serviced callipers can cause shuddering or "helicopter" sounds while braking

    Here's the shelaborated explaination:

    The inability to make logical inferences, often characterized as a, "lack of critical thinking" or low, "cognitive competence," stems from a combination of underdeveloped mental models, cognitive biases, and a preference for simplicity over complexity. Rather than a complete incapacity to think, this behavior is frequently described as a, "double-burden" where individuals lack both the skill to perform a task and the competence to recognize their own errors (the Dunning-Kruger effect).
    Here are the primary reasons why, based on psychological and cognitive research, this occurs:
    Metacognitive Deficiencies (The Dunning-Kruger Effect): Individuals with low ability in a specific domain often lack the "metacognitive" skills—the ability to evaluate their own thinking—to recognize when they are making poor inferences. They are unaware of their own, "incompetence" and, therefore, mistakenly believe their faulty reasoning is sound.
    "Mindware Gaps" and Poor Foundation: Intellectual capability often relies on accumulated knowledge and rules (what researcher Keith Stanovich calls "mindware"), such as understanding statistics, probability, and logic. If these foundations were never learned, or if the individual never learned to evaluate alternative hypotheses, they cannot accurately infer outcomes.
    Reliance on Concrete over Abstract Thought: Inferences require abstract thinking—connecting, "dots" that are not immediately obvious. Lower-performing individuals often struggle to see beyond the immediate, "surface-level" information, whereas higher-performing individuals can infer trends, hidden motives, or future consequences.
    Confirmation Bias and Emotional Reasoning: Unskilled individuals often suffer from high confirmation bias, meaning they only look for evidence that confirms their existing beliefs. They often rely on emotional, "gut" reactions rather than evidence-based logic.
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    In short, the inability to make inferences is not necessarily a permanent lack of intelligence, but often a, "vicious cycle of ignorance" where, due to a lack of, "metacognitive sensitivity," people are unable to recognize their own, "flaws" and continue to rely on faulty reasoning.


    Thank you A.I.

    For everyone else service your brakes as per the owners manual. I do mine every time I take the winter wheels off in spring. One negative of regenerative braking is the callipers tend to seize up with salt and crud every winter here in the rust belt.

    On the flip side go buy a Tesla. According to Tesla owners, Tesla's never need maintenance and electricity is free
     
  2. ChapmanF

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    Something tells me that, if we were shown the prompt that notspam3 used to generate that AI 'explaination', it wouldn't turn out to have been about brakes or helicopter sounds much.
     
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