I lived for 3 years with a 100 mile range EV as my only car. Very rarely did I need more range than that. When I did I just rented a car for $40/day. When I upgraded to a 220 mile range car it felt like infinite range. I was able to charge at home, though, so it was much easier to deal with.
You are behind the times. This is a pretty well-studied and implemented thing. It is expensive, though, which is why you don’t see if more often. If a motor stops working, you can still drive the car with the other three motors. That’s SUPER simple with modern computing and software.
Now, the part where the motors are Ferrari-made… let’s see how that turns out.
Yeah, I’ve been wanting one of those since they were announced. Such a good looking car.
The opposite is happening in Los Angeles. They are scrapping laws that require builders to create off-street parking for apartments, but the parking spots are wanted and used. LA is nowhere close to a walkable city, and biking is putting your life in the hands of some very questionably talented drivers. So everyone here has a car. In the past there have been laws for minimum parking spots for a new building project, but the city has prioritized creating housing and is getting rid of those laws. The only issue is this isn’t NYC or London or Paris. We don’t have a comprehensive subway system, and our buses system takes a long time to get anywhere. Those renters are going to park on the streets or will be faced with streets putting up resident’s only parking that excludes their specific building.
It’s interesting that Australian cities have 40 percent of single-bedroom apartments with people who don’t have cars.
My highschool job was working at a sporting goods store. My closing duties each night were to clean the women’s restroom and occasionally cover for another department to clean the men’s room. I can tell you that the women’s restroom was always grosser. Yeah, there would be more pee on the seats and floor in the men’s room, but the rest of the place was far cleaner than the women’s.
GPS is a broadcast-only system. It is not the source of your privacy concerns. What your cellphone/car/whatever does with that broadcast data is not GPS’s fault.
This was a dev who wanted to sync data between their home and work computers so they could do check-ins from home. This is a combination of a lazy person who values their own ease of use over basic security practices, plus a government contractor who values making as much money as possible by paying shitty devs without any real oversight over those shitty devs, plus an oversight government entity that had its funding slashed by people who only understand cutting money as opposed to national security.
I’m not sure, but that sounds likely. We have Silicon Valley, which contains billionaires who think they are more important than other people and have no problem saying stupid stuff like, “taxing digital products will cost jobs and move companies out of CA.”
You just described what regressive means. Sales tax is absolutely a regressive tax, since it impacts poor people more than rich people.
That’s only partly correct. Steam only charges a state sales tax for states that require sales tax on its purchases. CA does not impose state sales tax on digital products, so Steam does not charge CA residents a sales tax on purchases. This is aiming to level the playing field for brick and mortar stores as well as make more money (from normal people instead of taxing billionaires).
Your first paragraph has way too many questions marks. I’m not asking you to buy a teenager.
Your post is reaching Trump-level stupidity. Do you know what the F in FOSS stands for?
The actual reason is because the church was protecting its assets from the priests. Back then, priests were very powerful members of local government and controlled a large percentage of the wealth in an area. If they could get married and had kids, their kids would inherit the wealth they accumulated instead of that wealth going to the church.
These people have discovered “therapists.”
Funny, I know just as many anti-AI people in real life as very pro-AI people. It’s almost like there are all kinds of people in the world, and not everyone knows all of them.
You do realize, don’t you, that there is more to hurting the environment than just energy use, right?
Water use is through the roof, and water is kind of useful for making food and keeping humans alive: https://theconversation.com/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much-262901
Construction uses concrete and steel and other natural resources, as well as using gas to run the heavy equipment to build.
Large centers take away natural land that could be used as carbon sinks but instead are concrete heat traps.
There are more hits to the environment, but I’m not going to lay them out. Just looking at one source of possible energy use, which they aren’t actually using since many are in the US and not in France, is stupid.
Also, to your pseudo-intellectual “gotcha” points about thinking AI was a waste so how can billionaires profit: just because it doesn’t make money in the long run doesn’t mean billionaires aren’t making a TON of money in the short run. Long term losses will be born by the public and not private money-holders. And even if AI is mostly useless, billionaires will still lay off employees only to learn that AI was in fact worthless, but the people who lost their jobs will fall further into debt and will be slaves to that debt.
It’s right there in the blurb, you don’t even need to read the article:
““We have no chance against this,” Mibe said upon a visit to a Shanghai parts factory, commenting on its seamless automation across all levels of production. Logistics, procurement and all aspects of the process were so automated, in fact, that he did not spot a single human worker on the supplier’s floor.”
No, I don’t think they have no employees. But your five times the employees thing is misleading. BYD Corporation has 5 times the employees as Ford, but that is for the entire BYD corporation, including their batteries, cell phones, fork lifts, solar panels, semiconductors, and rail transit systems. BYD Automotive is closer to 2 times the size of Ford. BYD is also vertically integrated, meaning they build a lot of the parts/components that go into their cars. Ford outsources a lot of parts and components.
Again, you are quoting sales of a car that was discontinued 2 years before your sales numbers.
In 2023, the year the Bolt was discontinued, they sold 23,000 Bolts. Yes, that’s far fewer than F150 numbers, but it is more than all EVs sold in the US by Audi and BMW combined in 2023. It sold more than any other EV besides Tesla.
But yeah, keep using the Bolt as an example for why cheap EVs don’t sell.
The only reason these cars are so cheap is because they have no humans manufacturing them and have heavy subsidies from the government.
Are you really saying you would have been happy to hear that a CEO laid off all their blue collar workers and took government bailout money?
What risk? There is way less risk than a traditional setup due to not having a differential. And it is being done literally all day every day by existing cars that have this setup. Rimac and Rivian both have 4 motor configs. BMW releases theirs this year. Audi and Tesla have versions with 3 instead of 4. Controlling things is software is so much easier than with hardware.
The ONLY ONLY reason more cars don’t do this is the cost. That’s it.