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Face the fact buddy, the ICE cars can not perform as well as BEVs.

The only saving grace for the ICE car is, it can be refueled in 10 minutes for 400 miles of range. There is no other winning point for the gasoline cars.

You can argue that is a show stopper and continue to buy ICE cars and eat the dust of my wake.

> Remember the introduction of seat belts? Yeah, that had to be mandated

Seat belts were a highly advertised feature. Later, it was such a popular feature that gas stations sold them for installation in order cars, much like large stations sell aftermarket cupholders today.
Here's a Chevron ad, only $5.95 for this great seatbelt:

https://www.thrillist.com/vice...

After Ford was putting the belts I all of their cars, and after owners of older cars picked up the new-style seatbelt from the corner gas station, then the government said "oh yeah, that's a good idea. Let's mandate that."

Not only was this car speeding, but it did not recognise a road side hazard and drive by cautiously.

The police said the woman came "out of the shadows", it's likely that the car couldn't see the women before she stepped out, any more than a human could have (or did, since there was a human driver in the car too who said she had no idea anyone was there to step out).

Most self driving cars DO respond to anomalies by the side of the road and slow down or move over... but again, they have to be things that can actually be detected.

Also, 38MPH on a speedometer is within the margin of error of measurement that it was probably going the speed limit. All speedometers are set to read a bit high, in any case 35 vs 38MPH would not have made a difference to the pedestrian or ability to stop (and some people are saying the speed limit is actually 45, which makes way more sense with a divided median)..

https://www.thrillist.com/trav...
7 Countries Where You're Most Likely to Get Kidnapped

Brazil

Around 1,000 kidnappings in 2012.

Where you're getting kidnapped: Mostly in major cities like Sao Paolo and Rio de Janiero.

Whoâ(TM)s getting kidnapped: Wealthy businessmen, their family members, and -- in an odd trend a few years back -- soccer moms. Or at least the mothers of professional soccer players. Tourists, for the most part, are left alone.

Whoâ(TM)s doing the kidnapping: Mostly poor residents of the citiesâ(TM) notorious favelas.

How they're kidnapping you: Unlike drug-motivated kidnappings, almost all abductions in Brazil are financially motivated. Which means if you're âoeexpress kidnappedâ and the abductors realize youâ(TM)re worth more than your ATM card, theyâ(TM)ll keep you until a ransom is paid.

How to avoid it: Kidnappers admit to targeting people who are both well dressed and appear not to speak Portuguese. So instead of dropping $500 on that Gucci shirt, perhaps put it towards Rosetta Stone.

http://articles.latimes.com/19...

DUQUE DE CAXIAS, Brazil â" Cleiton, 12, used to steal from the stores in a shopping gallery near the center of Duque de Caxias, one of the grimy, violent suburbs on the sprawling northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He belonged to the ragged legion of street kids who live by their wits and sometimes die by the gun.

Cleiton's killers caught up with him one night last January as he slept on a sidewalk near the gallery. A boy called A.G., who knew Cleiton, tells the story in a few words.

"He was sleeping," A.G. said, "and they filled his face with bullets."

Cleiton's death was not an isolated incident. Hundreds of deprived and delinquent Brazilian minors are killed every year.

According to people who monitor the situation, an alarming number of youngsters are killed by "extermination groups"--death squads bent on cleaning up crime-plagued areas.

Death squads have been at work for years in Brazil, but concern has risen in the past year because of the number of youngsters being killed, not only in Rio but also in other urban areas, including Sao Paulo and Recife.

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You were saying Mr. Anonymous tough guy?

Extreme poverty and lack of opportunity and social welfare programs means young children crime so common that death squads kill hundreds of them per year. Can you think what you have to be like to walk up to a sleeping homeless 12 year old and shoot them in the head without personal provocation?

Shipping containers are not structurally sound once you drill a hole in one and need to be framed like a regular house if you don't want to die of suffocation.

Both problems are trivially solved with a bit of reinforcing metal and a welding torch. This has been done countless times already. Twenty seconds on Google would have established that this is not a problem. At all.

Or of boredom of being inside a black box.

You mean black boxes like these? Or these? Or these? Yeah, those are terribly boring places to be be... [/sarcasm]

Name one unique plane from WW2 that is still flying.

I hope you don't mind that there is more than one.

Mid-Atlantic Air Museum

Get behind the wings of these authentic WWII warplanes

Oh goodie, a lesson on ABX testing I didn't need. Carbonation is more obvious than the taste differences people often fail to confirm in blind test. Slate even did some coverage on container carbonation differences talking about it. According to that I didn't necessarily describe the cause and effect correctly in my quick comment--it may be from gas escaping rather than a bottling difference--but the effect I was describing is real.

Have you ever noticed the difference between flat soda and fresh? If so, why do you believe carbonation level and bottle specific characteristics are never distinguishable? There's a motion component to it. A major reason flat soda tastes differently is that you expect a different taste from the bubbles, whether or not there even is a taste difference outside of that. Your perception of carbonation turns into a taste even though it's really not a taste, exactly. The same way that knowing the brand alters how you taste--the bit that screws up non-blind taste tests--sensing the carbonation in your mouth changes how you taste too.

Fine, you say that's still me claiming something, not a test result. I looked around for five minutes for a blind test showing some difference between two different Coke product packages that included observations on the "fizziness" of the product impacting preference. Here's a recent blind comparison with untrained testers doing exactly that. I don't think it's studied more because it is too obvious to bother.

Convenience, and brand loyalty. The big soft drink brands make it really easy to buy their products, frequently paying for choice shelf space right by the exit. Moreover in absolute terms you don;t actually save much money if you buy the house brand because the worst price you'll see on a 2-liter is $2.50. Yeah the house brand may only be $0.50, but the $2.00 you save won't get you bus-fare in Cleveland.

Coke brand loyalty has to be seen to believed. Large sections of thew country refer to any carbonated beverage as "Coke." In the early 80s Coke was losing taste-tests (and market-share) to Pepsi left and right so they changed the flavor to eliminate the distinctive bitter after-taste. There was a consumer rebellion, which didn't end until hated New Coke was removed from the store shelves and old Coke (now referred to as "Coke Classic") returned grocery stores throughout the land. And it's almost entirely based on that red label and being the brand you drank when you were kids:

http://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/blind-taste-test-ranking-9-classic-colas-from-mexican-coke-to-zevia
Quotes from this taste's panel of coke-drinkers included "I like that, it's less chemical than the others."; "Sort of RC Cola-esque."; and "That flavor is brown." Again most of these people are Coke-drinkers, in a taste-test that they knew included Coke, were unable to tell which one was Coke. Coke made with cane sugar (aka: Mexican Coke) was referred to as Coke, despite the fact American Coke hasn't used cane sugar for decades.

I suspect THESE burgers may emphasise your point in a less subtle way.