What we need is more emphasis on pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, and fixing the zoning codes so that more markets, restaurants and other businesses can be build closer to residential areas, even within them. Like, every cookie cutter residential development should be required to have at least a small grocery…

I’m just the opposite.

I live 200 yds. from a supermarket, but if I wanted to walk there, I would have to walk 1/4 mi. to the nearest intersection (which doesn’t have a “walk/don’t walk” signal) and then walk another 1/4. mi. to the supermarket. I guess I could dash across the road rather than cross at the light, but the speed limit is…

The mine shaft gap, good one :-D

This reminds me of a “reality” show from a while back where they followed this guy who started a business building dooms day bunkers. Must not have been too great of work because on one episode they had to deal with a customer whose new bunker flooded.

Elevator Pitch: Twilight Zone’s “Time Enough at Last”, but instead of breaking his glasses he realizes he forgot to pack a can opener.

Read the AP piece, it’s the sort of low hanging fruit that pretty quickly captures the problem with journalism. At the head of one early paragraph, this stuff wouldn’t even be survivable. At the head of the very next paragraph, you won’t even need a bunker to survive this stuff. Sprinkled throughout, reasons why this…

Money doesn’t buy intelligence.

The thing that escapes these people is that they can’t stockpile 40-50 years of shelf-stable food and water. Also, there’s storage and disposal of human waste to consider.

Sssh! Don’t tell them.

My top issues with EVs:
1) lack of infrastructure outside of metro areas, even in large metro areas current stations see huge backups during the holidays etc
2) over-reliance on software and constant “connectedness.” Car gets bricked by an over-the air-update, Tesla can turn features on/off at will. You never truly…

“but that is more to do with due to political opinions, ignorance, and attack ads than it is price.”

Or maybe we just like being able to drive when/where/however far we want

This is a Tesla thing, not an EV thing. We have a Chevy Bolt, and when we had a touchscreen issue the display went black. When that happened, the car drove just fine, the things we couldn’t operate were the audio system, heated seats and A/C. Ended up needing to have a module replaced under warranty.

Tesla fans seem to have invested their entire identities in these cars.

Early adopters? That was some time ago, the Tesla Model S was released over 10 years ago, Tesla is selling a million cars a year. Other car manufacturers are playing catch-up but I wouldn’t necessarily consider anyone buying an EV today to be an early adopter. Regular cars still have issues and they have been around…

The fact that Tesla has been mainstream since 2012,

To your point, I’ve never had anything that was “computer-like” (eg., actual computers, phones, gaming systems) that didn’t freeze in almost 40 years of buying these things.  

This isn’t an EV thing. It’s an issue with any vehicle that runs almost all the controls through a central screen (which is pretty much everything made in the last couple of years).

The Hyundai Kona EV wouldn’t have this problem because it has an actual dashboard instead of a recycled prop from the J.J. Abrams Star…

This has more to do with Tesla and not EVs in general.

Thanks for the addendum.