Humans drive 3.22 trillion miles a year in the US and have around 5.5 million "crashes". This means they drive around 585K miles per crash. Many people never crash in their lives.
Humans drive 3.22 trillion miles a year in the US, in 2010 there were 5.5 million crashes This includes all claimed fender-benders, in all driving conditions in the US. This means that they are out there driving over 585,000 miles successfully per crash. I think Waymo has maybe achieved 5700 miles per 'interaction' which is the measure the industry has chosen to indicate a 'crash'.
So it sounds efficient to you that we expend energy 'recycling' every EV once the battery is expired... ok. The only material that can be 100% recovered and reused is aluminum. How much recovery can be realistically expected from the materials used to make an EV and how much labor/energy will be expended doing so?
.. So how would you feel about being driven around by a blind quadriplegic? Huh?? How about that?? Autonomous cars are looking pretty good now aren't they!
Everyone understands that they would be great. The problem is how you get them good enough so that millions can be on the road and they are great, without having to worry about sensor failure, bad weather conditions, etc etc.
How does a person even think to buy one of these used? The used price is going to bottom out at the cost of the battery plus some, so you might as well go for a new car? When people start trashing these, EVs will be the worst ecological disaster ever.
Any company that has shitty business practices means other companies will lower their bars further. Companies are not separate entities, they are all in lock step due to a shared quest for profits. Eventually it will affect me.
Because if you put it into perspective the number of people who die in a normal car to the number on the road, it really isn't that interesting. We might as well have news about the few ants out of the ant colony I stepped on the other day.
You are the moron. Put the number of deaths in perspective of the 3.22 TRILLION miles humans drive a year in all conditions. Number of deaths is relatively small. That's why people feel safe driving. Most will never see even witness an accident causing a death in their lifetimes.
I often need to try a few sizes when I go to a store. Often a certain style just doesn't fit properly, period. Personally I wouldn't order clothes off the internet for this reason, but for a company wanting to sell clothes off the internet they should expect this.
Because if you were buying it in a guitar shop, they would never have refused you to try the pedal first, and a large reason why Amazon is so big is that they want to give the experience of a real store. Ergo, Amazon needs to decide whether they want to continue their success by going further than any other internet sales company or not.
I recently read that they suspect this is why Douglas Adams used the number 42 as the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything, since he was a computer geek. Don't know if it is true or not.
If all your friends and family use Facebook, and no other company has a chance of luring your friends and family because of all the other friends and family that are already there, then yes it's a monopoly.
Ok then let me create a new challenge. Of those 50 people who exclusively use facebook, try to convince them all to exclusively use some other social network of your choosing. Then tell me it isn't a monopoly.
And don't cheat by asking technologically literate people. Ask your relatives.
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Humans drive 3.22 trillion miles a year in the US and have around 5.5 million "crashes". This means they drive around 585K miles per crash. Many people never crash in their lives.
Also, cars have gotten much safer.
Humans drive 3.22 trillion miles a year in the US, in 2010 there were 5.5 million crashes This includes all claimed fender-benders, in all driving conditions in the US. This means that they are out there driving over 585,000 miles successfully per crash. I think Waymo has maybe achieved 5700 miles per 'interaction' which is the measure the industry has chosen to indicate a 'crash'.
So it sounds efficient to you that we expend energy 'recycling' every EV once the battery is expired... ok. The only material that can be 100% recovered and reused is aluminum. How much recovery can be realistically expected from the materials used to make an EV and how much labor/energy will be expended doing so?
.. So how would you feel about being driven around by a blind quadriplegic? Huh?? How about that?? Autonomous cars are looking pretty good now aren't they!
Everyone understands that they would be great. The problem is how you get them good enough so that millions can be on the road and they are great, without having to worry about sensor failure, bad weather conditions, etc etc.
How does a person even think to buy one of these used? The used price is going to bottom out at the cost of the battery plus some, so you might as well go for a new car? When people start trashing these, EVs will be the worst ecological disaster ever.
Any company that has shitty business practices means other companies will lower their bars further. Companies are not separate entities, they are all in lock step due to a shared quest for profits. Eventually it will affect me.
But since the chargers are almost always in use it doesn't matter anyway.
My teenager occasionally walks across roads with bicycles you insensitive clod.
Holy crap, I've been talking about the last 20% since these autonomous car articles started.
Ironically, while real people know this, it seems that a lot of technically inclined people can't figure it out.
Gee, maybe this is why many people are saying 1000 samples a second does not necessarily make a good and safe driver.
Because if you put it into perspective the number of people who die in a normal car to the number on the road, it really isn't that interesting. We might as well have news about the few ants out of the ant colony I stepped on the other day.
You are the moron. Put the number of deaths in perspective of the 3.22 TRILLION miles humans drive a year in all conditions. Number of deaths is relatively small. That's why people feel safe driving. Most will never see even witness an accident causing a death in their lifetimes.
I often need to try a few sizes when I go to a store. Often a certain style just doesn't fit properly, period. Personally I wouldn't order clothes off the internet for this reason, but for a company wanting to sell clothes off the internet they should expect this.
Because if you were buying it in a guitar shop, they would never have refused you to try the pedal first, and a large reason why Amazon is so big is that they want to give the experience of a real store. Ergo, Amazon needs to decide whether they want to continue their success by going further than any other internet sales company or not.
I recently read that they suspect this is why Douglas Adams used the number 42 as the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything, since he was a computer geek. Don't know if it is true or not.
When all you have is a hammer...
You could have just said * (which is ASCII 42)
Cutting the grass is far, far more uncomfortable for me.
If all your friends and family use Facebook, and no other company has a chance of luring your friends and family because of all the other friends and family that are already there, then yes it's a monopoly.
Ok then let me create a new challenge. Of those 50 people who exclusively use facebook, try to convince them all to exclusively use some other social network of your choosing. Then tell me it isn't a monopoly.
And don't cheat by asking technologically literate people. Ask your relatives.
Now lets see all the advocates for capitalism argue against breaking up Facebook, while nothing could be better for capitalism.
I challenge you to go out and ask 50 people what social media platform they use and then come back and tell me it isn't a monopoly.