I think the feeling of ickyness comes from a large company pushing the risk of development onto the consumer, rather than themselves. By pre-funding a project like this, they’re effectively saying “give us a zero interest loan to fund the production of this thing.” They have access to the capital to take on this risk…

I mean, if you view unions as general labor organizations, promoting workers’ rights, then it makes sense that you might include provisions to incentivize companies to use union labor, because then you are pro workers’ rights.

They already tax fuel inefficient cars at point of sale, it’s called the gas guzzler tax.

Remember that on the low end a “brand new EV” is in the mid-$20k range after the $7,500 if you don’t understand it’s a credit not a reduction in sales price. If you’re making $70k a year and are the single bred winner for a family, sure, depending on the cost of living in your area that’s not enough to swing a $25-30k…

I don’t understand. That would exactly be the system working. The car company is now presumably making the $7,500 they previously were from the subsidy through improved efficiency in manufacturing or reduced R&D costs as they’ve been amortized already by the subsidy.

The issue with this is that it disproportionately harms poor people and rural people, due to the US’s lack of a coherent public transportation infrastructure, relative lack of housing density in urban centers forcing low wage labor to have large commutes, and the general fucking huge-ness of America.

I mean, you have to make ~$70,000/year to have $7,500 in tax liability after taking the current standard deduction. There are probably a decent number of people well under that number that would be looking at the cheaper EVs, especially if they don’t realize the $7,500 is a tax credit and not a straight discount as it…

Gold melts at a relatively low temperature, relative to many structural materials, and the heat of most things that would ignite in a car. Your gold would be coating the asphalt after a vehicle fire.

If only only there was some kind of solution to tracking and enforcing individual work hours, rather than company-wide work hours. Maybe some kind of card each employee has, which in combination with some kind of time-keeping device, could track how many hours that employee worked.

The thing that canceled the race here was visibility, not traction. But yes, it seems like we’ve gotten to the point where modern cars pick up so much water with their ground effects that it’s rare you can have enough water on the track to need wets, yet not so much water that you can’t see.

If that were true, then you wouldn’t be able to “un lap” yourself under a safety car. This is the fundamental difference between a virtual safety car and a physical one. In a virtual safety car there is a theoretical minimum lap time you cannot exceed, meaning relative position cannot change. With a physical safety…

He is still credited with the fastest lap, in terms of record keeping. He just doesn’t get a championchip point for it since he was outside the top ten.

Just imagine, a Chirion in Turkey would cost $7.845 million dollars.

I think you meant to say VAT is applied after the Special Consumption Tax?

In fact you make this mistake for pretty much the rest of the article after this line. You keep calling the Special Consumption Tax the Value Added Tax.

Pretty much. All the cars on that list were ones that deprecated like stones, and thus had terrible leases. Now they’re not depreciating like stones because people need something, anything right now.

1) There isn’t an imagine processing pipeline alive that can keep up with 120Hz.

Rotary engines are actually quite efficient when operating at optimal RPM and tuned to only have to operate at that optimal RPM. They’re just crazy inefficient everywhere else. They’re actually the perfect engine for a range extender, as they only have to operate at one RPM, they’re tiny relative to their power…

It’s not just Kotaku. All the GMG sites have shifted in this direction, especially as more and more writers have turned over post Herb acquisition. I imagine there’s someone in upper management that thinks shock and awe is the only way to get the clicks.

You actually can direct them in very rudimentary ways (hunt enemy armies, siege enemy territory), and also often if you get one of your units close enough they’ll link-follow you so you get indirect control. But yeah, the AI’s terrible allied performance makes them only really useful when they have similar sized…

Sure. But my point (and I think the OP’s point) is that “80% automation” doesn’t mean what you think it means. There are four dimensions when evaluating a particular autonomy capability: