A lot of what you perceive as "electric cars" is really marketing.
The same model that is sold in Canada to comply with their fleet replacement criteria as an "electric" car, is sold in California as a "ecologically friendly dual drive hybrid". It's the same basic car, it primarily uses all electric unless you enable "sport" or "performance" mode, when it uses the gasoline engine to provide extra power, like most modern supercars do. But it will get you to a charging point, or let you drive in areas without them. Most people who buy these find they rarely use the gasoline engines, and the cars have to force burn the gasoline periodically so it doesn't become unstable (generally every 3 to 6 months, with a mandatory full burn every year). People don't live the way they think they do aspirationally when they watch the off road adventures they'll do, but do maybe once every couple of years. You'd be better off buying a car for how you actually live, and renting one for those "let's go to the mountains" trips when you actually go to the mountains.
What makes you think that they care about what powers their cars; as long as it's profitable?
Their many scientific papers on the subject.
Their actual large-scale production of such vehicles.
BMW is more concerned that they were slacking and didn't corral the battery tech and material resource market contracts needed for large-scale implementation, than they are with the profit this year. They are facing hard deadlines in capacity required, and will lose market and mind share if they don't succeed.
Look, BMW just doesn't want to do this, because of profit factors, not because they are not capable of making a profit doing it.
They can convert easily. There are companies in Asia that produce far more all electric vehicles than BMW does, and they converted much more quickly and scaled up.
A lot of commenters seem to not get that, unless you have a handy solar, wind or tidal powered desalination plant lying around and the capital to build one, living on the coast won't help, as the water is not drinkable. Diseases are spread in marshlands too, so being too near the coast can impact your fresh water supply.
Ignored in much of these discussions is that the actions of FB, Twitter, and other social apps are frequently in contravention of Privacy Rights guaranteed by data treaties between the US and those nations, which in Canada at least are Constitutional Rights clearly spelled out in the original Constitution.
This is also causing a tax backlash against such social media platforms, which have used "headquarter" locations to minimize tax exposure, or sited data storage repositories in specific countries to avoid legal implications of data usage that contravenes the national and international legal requirements.
This will continue. The bounties for turning in such actions frequently go as high as treble damages and individual limits in the thousands per person affected, per instance, and those turning them in can get up to 10 percent of the total awards.
Actually, you're not far off. Perfumes and colognes are major contributors to office toxic pollutants, especially in low air exchange modern office environments.
By the way, the earth isn't flat and climate change is caused primarily by humans since more than a century now.
That said, while this might be fun for those writing SF and Fantasy, in thinking about what life might "exist" in underground domains, it's still highly unlikely that it will replace us. That's AI killer robots job.
And being up the hill in Fremont means if I just wait, I'll have waterfront property, instead of having to walk down 3 block to the canal.
Same with San Francisco: they can either do what the Dutch and Vietnamese have done - dikes, floating houses that rise when the floods come with garage patios below (sometimes with showers), or they can learn to swim.
Look, Russia operates on a zero sum shrinking slice of pie model.
So does our current White House.
The problem is that, for most of us, it's far easier to just bake more pies, and accept a certain loss ratio, than to use half our resources defending our pie supply.
We know what we have to do: paper ballots, automatic voter registration, day of vote in person registration, and non-networked optical scan counting with an audit trail.
billg is right about this, but most of the harm is only to Americans and Canadians who have shortened their lifespans due to said pharmaceuticals, and to a lesser extent those who died as the result of oil and coal exploration, extraction, processing, and shipping to provide the electricity to generate them.
On a global scale, these "epidemics" are mostly reduced.
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A lot of what you perceive as "electric cars" is really marketing.
The same model that is sold in Canada to comply with their fleet replacement criteria as an "electric" car, is sold in California as a "ecologically friendly dual drive hybrid". It's the same basic car, it primarily uses all electric unless you enable "sport" or "performance" mode, when it uses the gasoline engine to provide extra power, like most modern supercars do. But it will get you to a charging point, or let you drive in areas without them. Most people who buy these find they rarely use the gasoline engines, and the cars have to force burn the gasoline periodically so it doesn't become unstable (generally every 3 to 6 months, with a mandatory full burn every year). People don't live the way they think they do aspirationally when they watch the off road adventures they'll do, but do maybe once every couple of years. You'd be better off buying a car for how you actually live, and renting one for those "let's go to the mountains" trips when you actually go to the mountains.
What makes you think that they care about what powers their cars; as long as it's profitable?
Their many scientific papers on the subject.
Their actual large-scale production of such vehicles.
BMW is more concerned that they were slacking and didn't corral the battery tech and material resource market contracts needed for large-scale implementation, than they are with the profit this year. They are facing hard deadlines in capacity required, and will lose market and mind share if they don't succeed.
Look, BMW just doesn't want to do this, because of profit factors, not because they are not capable of making a profit doing it.
They can convert easily. There are companies in Asia that produce far more all electric vehicles than BMW does, and they converted much more quickly and scaled up.
A lot of commenters seem to not get that, unless you have a handy solar, wind or tidal powered desalination plant lying around and the capital to build one, living on the coast won't help, as the water is not drinkable. Diseases are spread in marshlands too, so being too near the coast can impact your fresh water supply.
Ignored in much of these discussions is that the actions of FB, Twitter, and other social apps are frequently in contravention of Privacy Rights guaranteed by data treaties between the US and those nations, which in Canada at least are Constitutional Rights clearly spelled out in the original Constitution.
This is also causing a tax backlash against such social media platforms, which have used "headquarter" locations to minimize tax exposure, or sited data storage repositories in specific countries to avoid legal implications of data usage that contravenes the national and international legal requirements.
This will continue. The bounties for turning in such actions frequently go as high as treble damages and individual limits in the thousands per person affected, per instance, and those turning them in can get up to 10 percent of the total awards.
Not.
Robot car kills human.
That's the take home for the family.
The only reasonable response to this, in the words of a certain movie, is: "SHUT IT DOWN!"
The only way to win is not to play.
So, you're not joining in the next Raid event? Sad.
If you can't hunt down a few thousand each day, you're low on the leaderboards ...
And then removed his appendage in the process.
Hey, it's like when you forget a payment on your organs, they send out biohackers to hack it out of you.
Because rich people can pay fines.
So making it a ban on fast travel means it really really hurts
Most electrical grids carry signals, some provide internet service over the power lines too.
If it's got a signal and energy and it changes, it can transmit information.
Did you think there were magic gremlins adjusting systems?
Actually, you're not far off. Perfumes and colognes are major contributors to office toxic pollutants, especially in low air exchange modern office environments.
Give a hoot, don't perfume!
Enjoy the revolution, Ajit.
You're no longer in charge.
About time!
By the way, the earth isn't flat and climate change is caused primarily by humans since more than a century now.
That said, while this might be fun for those writing SF and Fantasy, in thinking about what life might "exist" in underground domains, it's still highly unlikely that it will replace us. That's AI killer robots job.
And being up the hill in Fremont means if I just wait, I'll have waterfront property, instead of having to walk down 3 block to the canal.
Same with San Francisco: they can either do what the Dutch and Vietnamese have done - dikes, floating houses that rise when the floods come with garage patios below (sometimes with showers), or they can learn to swim.
other than those Irish songs they forced on me, I've never paid for a danged song.
Does this mean they're going to do away with webcasts too? What will I fill my Rio Clear MP3 player with?
Obviously there's a difference.
And you have to add in the 50 percent skimmed off for Uber execs too.
Well they did send a ride share car outside of the solar system.
Oh, wait, wrong startup.
Bike sharing and skateboard sharing is where urban dwellers are now.
I'll have you know our houses are worth millions. Whereas the car drivers ... aren't.
In a real city, when this happens, we just ignore the all way stop signal and just walk or bike through the intersection, or use our skateboards.
Only old people and suburbanites use cars. They deserve to stew.
Look, Russia operates on a zero sum shrinking slice of pie model.
So does our current White House.
The problem is that, for most of us, it's far easier to just bake more pies, and accept a certain loss ratio, than to use half our resources defending our pie supply.
We know what we have to do: paper ballots, automatic voter registration, day of vote in person registration, and non-networked optical scan counting with an audit trail.
Everything else is a design for failure.
Look, you live in a third world country if you're in the USA.
Adapt.
They are watching you. Everywhere.
And is it ok if I have that choco bar you forgot?
billg is right about this, but most of the harm is only to Americans and Canadians who have shortened their lifespans due to said pharmaceuticals, and to a lesser extent those who died as the result of oil and coal exploration, extraction, processing, and shipping to provide the electricity to generate them.
On a global scale, these "epidemics" are mostly reduced.