bluGill

Robots are everywhere in the factories. They don’t look like humans

The next wave needs to be more flexible to weird stuff than current purpose robots are. What that looks like though nobody knows yet. Some on Robotics have ideas but what will really work is unknown.

I was doing that for years. Despite $3000 per year in maintenance it still needed 10k to be road worthy, with who knows what next. Since repairing trucks is not my hobby I gave up. I want a truck because sometimes you need one and can’t find one but I don’t have one anyway.

We have higher taxes for newer cars. If your car is more than 10 years old, your taxes go way down. When I replace my truck because parts were rusting off, taxes went up because the vehicle is newer.

I did the math in my state and the higher taxes are almost exactly what you would be paying gas tests assuming you are average in every possible way, which is unlikely, but what else are they going to do when they don’t track mileage?

The cost savings, even at $5\gallon don’t make up for the payments, much less taxes and insurance. But the old truck needed $10000 in repairs to stay on the road and so I’m stuck anyway no matter what.

It isn’t unusual for small trucks to float. That was one of the advantages of the small S10 sized 2wd with a 4 cyl. Light enough that it floated if you fell through the ice, thus giving you a chance to get to safety. When driving on 2-3 inches of ice this was important. (I personally refuse to walk on less than 4 inches of ice, and need 12 to drive on)

Nothing in the lab report. Everything in the lab report is far to low to be ‘black stuff’. So I don’t know and those who do are not talking.

So far I have to go with this is nothing but haters trying to yell without concern for facts. If we get more details I may change my mind but for now this is nothing and anyone saying otherwise should be embarrassed for their lack of concern for facts.

If you know what to look for you can often find them growing wild as well.

Yes, but for most people the difference doesn’t matter. BMS systems (see other reply) minimize this, and most people typically are doing a much slower charge at home the vast majority of the time. If you really are driving across the US constantly and thus always fast charging for everything it will shorten your battery life. However you will still likely trade in the car before this affects you, and the new owner will note the reduced range but will accept it as a good trade off for the lower cost car.

You see this all the time in human form as well. Many public input meetings for a proposed building should have the plans drawn with a crayon (or at least some plugin to make it look like that). The conversation changes when you make things look like a quick drawing as opposed to the final results.

I drive a Blazer EV. Another one that you won’t recognize as an EV. The only obvious difference is the lack of exhaust pipes in the bumper. (and possibly the lines where the charging port opens/lock of lines for gas filler.)

If they have a case a lawyer will take this for a share of the winnings. You need a few hundred first to send cease and desists, but if those letters don’t work you just add court/lawyer costs to what you are asking.

Does GM make any of those? Sadly in the US market, selling real cars is almost impossible and so no one makes them. I too would prefer a sedan. However, I have to face the reality that in the current fad world I’m a tiny minority that’s not worth serving and so I have to take what I can get., I’m a tiny minority that’s not worth serving and so I have to take what I can get.

Those are what make the news. GM has a lot of EVs that look just like the ICE of the same name and they don’t get much news.

Mostly. Price is a complex problem. Cost is a floor factor and automation affects that somehow. It is hard to know when automation lower prices as this depends on relative labor costs which have been going up in China.

That China has terrible workers rights is a fact. That China also has a lot of automation is an unrelated fact that is also true.

While the government might be doing that, the US auto manufactures are taking a different approach. GM makes some nice EVs.

Be careful of those numbers - while the US isn’t world leader in production, the US has continuously gone up in production, just that others have gone up even more. You don’t see this because employment in manufacturing is way down, but production is still up. It no longer looks like we make anything, but the numbers show we make more than when we were world leaders.

Strict working hours are important for jobs like assembly line work where if you are not at your station nobody else can do any work. Often they do build enough slack in that they expect you can take a couple bites here and there between doing your work. Though this isn’t the most sanitary so it isn’t common anymore.

For anyone doing work that doesn’t depend on others being at their station at the same time a strict shift doesn’t make sense, and there are not many assembly lines left like that (the assembly lines I have seen lately are much shorter and your team of 10 needs to work the same shift but your team can choose lunch time, and if you get the team’s work done faster everyone can even get an extended lunch.