For the record, you should all have a go bag. Not like doomsday prepper go bags with a dozen cross bows and a semi truck full of ammunition and shit, but some clothes, some food. Medication and basic first aid, etc. copies of all your important documents.
Especially in the US with how FEMA is going. Have a plan. Have supplies for the plan.
But… eh…. Prepping for this ? Naw.
You’re not wrong, but like. Imagine, if you will, Hegseth needing to be sober to speak into a microphone or tweet something out. Or otherwise be a SecDef.
Seriously.
Somebody should put a breathalyzer interlock device in that guys mic. And his devices for posting.
It’s missing “idiotic” in the description, somewhere, though.
In Tesla’s case, its because they rushed to beat the competition. You’ll notice they were a “tech company” not a traditional car company. The actual car companies came out with mature, fully baked, offerings rather than trying to be the first.
c’mon, incidental explosions are what make life exciting!
Its really not even all that shocking a thing. Like. Seriously. Anyone whose paying attention can see that AIPAC has congress by the short and curlies.
Again, hanlon razor applies here, so I don’t think you are sponsored by the oil industry, but you repeat their taking points exactly.
While I don’t disagree with the sentiment… the reality is that used evs are a shitty option. What we need to be doing, that would benefit everyone, is building out mass transit, that run 24/7 and at reasonable frequencies.
Yes. Totally the talking points of Big Oil.
Totally.
You’re full of shit.
A quick search, and average EU driving is about 10k km/year.
Being generous here and not using the more-than-double American numbers, you can expect a typical decade-old ev to have lost about 20% of its range, and having had about 200km max range when it was out, for about 160km.
Fine for daily commute, sure. Not fine if the owner ever wants to visit another city, for oh so many reasons. Not like us poors have a life. Nope all we ever do is commute, work, and go home. That’s all life is….
Yeah.
So you’re kinda full of it aren’t you?
15yo ev’s driven normally are going going to be out of warranty, and probably pretty close to EoL, which was my point to start with.
Most used EVs on the market are approaching their end of life. And with batteries, range goes down before it’s technically EoL,
The mileage you dropped is just another way to say that.
So, ev’s age such that the EV’s die with the batteries. Most the EVs on the used market are teslas* or absolutely at their end of life, as far as value goes-most of the cost of an ev is in those batteries.
While I don’t disagree with the sentiment… the reality is that used evs are a shitty option. What we need to be doing, that would benefit everyone, is building out mass transit, that run 24/7 and at reasonable frequencies.
(*which there are oh-so-many reasons to not drive, including that Tesla will still be profiting from you, even if you get it used. Because they track the shit out of you driving to train their FSD.)
A woman with an idea who took funding from bezos.
Her choice.
My choice is to not have anything to do with bezos, as much as I humanly can. And that includes not buying products he will profit from.
My first car was a Toyota Tacoma. I miss that thing. The bed was low so you didn’t have to kill your back, too.
And for all those “I use it for my job” types, they’d have more use out of a freaking transit connect.
When SUVs became “family vehicles”, instead of the dick-compensation-machines, marketing said “ahah! Big trucks!” And now big trucks are the dick compensation machines.
He’s working on producing a “bare bones” ev pick up.
But hey, we should do the right thing, save the environment and buy his ev truck!
They won’t be able to handle a MN winter.
Even the best gps isn’t accurate enough to know what lane you’re in (or on the shoulders,)
Remove lane markings (ie snow coverage) and bad visibility by both the LIDAR and daylight in any serious snowfall, and you have a recipe for cars going “weeee!” Into the ditch.
(Granted that first snow usually has a shocking number of cars going into the ditch anyway. Usually people learn their lesson, though.)
LA is the noob zone for self driving.
They’re technically not being used to do law enforcement or enforce marshal law.
They’re guarding federal buildings. Which then frees up the federal agents that normally guard them, which isn’t all that many- most fed buildings are guarded by private security. You don’t need a special agent to post up at a metal detector.
It’s a bit of a loophole and pretty dubious, but SCOTUS will let him get away with it.
yeah. I saw it the other day when looking for someone dropping a bird with both hands, as a reply to some of this shit. Had to check, because… you know. Mr Rogers would never… (oh he did.)(with a smile!)
here’s the full song, if you were curious about the context.
What’s fun, is that’s not AI. He was singing “where is thumbkin” which then goes down each finger “where is Pointer… where is Tallman….”
I’m the video, that smile comes on as he says “Here is Tallman”, knowing what the gesture was.
Yeah.
So, total societal collapse is rather unlikely. But a storm or earthquake or fire knocking out power, internet, etc for a week or two is…. Extremely likely.
So while the semi full of ammunition would’ve been more helpful in the latter scenario, it’s not so helpful in the far, far more likely scenario.