I suspect it’s mostly EVs that have no dealer network like Tesla.

We own two EVs and a PHEV. I got the first EV (an eGolf) in 2017, and the second (a Model 3) in 2021. In that time, I’ve had two total service appointments. The eGolf needed a warranty repair on a bad satellite radio antenna, and I had a HomeLink transponder installed on the Model 3. Other than the first episode,…

It’d be interesting to see numbers on this as a percentage of total operations and compare it to how many times a day or week a gas station somewhere in the US pumps bad gas.

In the future, I would recommend doing more than 0 seconds of research on a topic before posting about it. You are on the internet, the total sum of human knowledge made manifest. Consider using it.

In Hawaii the gas was ~$5.50 a gallon. In LA it was ~$7.70 a gallon.

So many people don’t understand what democratizing a media means. Democratizing a media means to make it usable by a wider audience. The camcorder democratized film making by making it accessible to the public. The internet democratized publishing by making it cheap & accessible. Flash democratized animation by making…

Overtly defining AI-generated images as “plagiarism” seems like a slippery slope that could lead to any art provably influenced by another person’s art as plagiarism. Yes, I get that the AI systems are literally TAKING- often against the will of the original artist- pieces of work and processing them to make it’s…

Here’s my regular reminder that you people have a problem with capitalism, not a problem with technology. All this pearl clutching over displaced artists completely misses the point that in a just world, the artists could continue to make their art without the threat of poverty and new technology like this wouldn’t…

Agreed. Nuance is lost. “I am right. They are wrong.” Repeated over and over.

This article is unbearable, and might finally be the tipping point for me to leave this site. AI art is a tool. Saying it spits on “real animators” is short-sighted, and reeks of people that refuse to adapt to the times, like anyone saying that Photoshop, filters, or digital animation weren’t doing “real art.”

The article is just drenched in outrage. This is on par with the kind of burn-it-all-down writing you find in response to a tweet about how maybe a 25% tip for take-out is a bit much.

How dare people want to make labour obsolete, obviously work is the only worthwhile endeavour.

I can’t wait for the dealers to go the way of the dinosaurs. There is hardly a worse bunch of useless parasites in the animal world than car dealers.

“and this has also made dealers unlikely allies for buyers”

Not to state the obvious, but wouldn’t it be better to spend that $8M on investing in electrical infrastructure and EV chargers? I mean, I’m unsure how much of an investment $8M would actually get you...but at least consumers would have a likelier chance of getting SOMETHING out of it.

They’re like giving someone a really tall stack of magazines to create a collage with, but not the act of creatingthe collage.

So you think what the 3 year old in your scenario draws will be something other than variations of things they has seen before? As AI is also trained on media and technique, make sure the 3 year also has not been trained and make sure it is their first time coming into contact with a writing utensil.

Transit vans actually have an AMAZING vantage point. It may not look it from the pictures, but I doubt it impacts visibility much.

Instead, the secret point bonuses led people to feel gaslit about how difficult it was to achieve three stars on lighter characters.

That’s nice. The merger still shouldn’t be approved though.