I don’t think judging the industry by the lowest tech level is fair. It’s pretty obvious from the general progression of tech that in the near future, the Tesla supercharger times are more reasonable. A lot of objections throughout this comments section seem to be based on the idea that electric vehicles won’t get any…

Oh yes I definitely believe that electrical vehicles will get there, but they don’t need to get there before they become much more widespread.

You seem to be under the impression that current engineering problems will not be solved in the future that is never a good bet. And the idea that there is not enough renewables to power the world’s energy needs is laughable. The problem isn’t capacity, it is, as you also pointed out, is unevenness in generation. And…

close, but not quite there. Of course those requirements are pretty absurd. Some people need that, but the vast majority of people do not.

8 hours is an absurd straw man of a figure.

While there are definitely gas vehicles that fit that description, they are a pretty small minority. I have a compact sedan that gets about 300 miles to the tank and fits four people and a little bit of cargo. Most people don’t drive vehicles that fit the description you outlined, and while electric vehicles will get…

You seem to be assuming constant supply. As demand increases, more generation capacity will be built, so that supply will increase with demand. It is HIGHLY HIGHLY unlikely that electric vehicle sales will increase so dramatically that electricity generation won’t be able to keep up with the increasing demand. And for…

Why? If every car is announcing what it’s doing, it just makes the job of your car easier. It’s already trying to figure out with lasers etc. what every car is doing on the road. If those cars are all telling it what they are doing (and maybe even telling it what they are about to do) then the computer in your car can…

Firstly, Obama-Romney was actually a pretty close race, but even though it was closer than the current race is right now, there was greater certainty in Obama’s chance of victory because there were FAR fewer undecided and 3rd party voters. Current polling is putting those two groups at double the numbers of the 2012…

I mean, if you don’t like Turn based tactics games than it probably isn’t for you, but there is nothing better than when you get to the late game with a Colonel ranked sniper wielding a plasma rifle headshotting an enemy from across the map. Sooooooo satisfying. Plus the base building and research aspects of it are…

We aren’t fat enough to be worth eating. Orcas are very picky about what they eat to ensure they get the most calories that they can get. For example, often when orcas kill a whale, they will eat only a very small portion of it, such as the tongue, and leave the rest. They specifically target very fatty animals and…

Soooo...it sounds like in none of the accidents was the self driving car at fault. I fail to see how this is a problem. If anything, having lots of accidents where human drivers caused an accident with a self driving car is just convincing me even more that we need to get human drivers out of the driver seat...

How difficult/feasible would it be to completey replace the ECU with an aftermarket open source version? If their main issue is tinking with code that you are just “licensing” than can we just completely replace the code? Also, theoretically, since it’s the code that you technically don’t own, not the ECU it’self,…

So my question is, if they were able to do this in the 90s, what exactly have we achieved since then? I have to imagine that even if the current stuff being done isn’t the first, that it has improved in some way.

You must spend a lot of time on 4chan to know it so well....

I'm going to plug the Noom weight loss coach (for android and I assume iOS as well). It has a free trial and then a paid subscription after that (but it's like less than 30 bucks a year I think, they are pretty liberal with discounts). It has a calorie logger where you enter what you eat, and it has tips, excercises,…

Ding ding ding! Mosquitos kill about 1 million people a year. Of course you have to decide if it really counts as the mosquito killing since what actually does it is the malaria parasite that many mosquitos carry. An uninfected mosquito bite is pretty harmless.

You clearly haven't had beer in the US recently. Our craft beer industry makes the best beer in the world and is growing by double digits every year. Plus Coors. Miller, and Budweiser are all owned by European companies now.

I wonder how many of those kids parents have any idea what they are allowing their offspring to do. If, as a parent, you have made a reasoned decision to let your kids play FPS games online at what (from the voices) is clearly a young age, that's fine. But if you are doing it because you are too lazy/uninformed and…

I agree it will have challenges and probably won't happen anytime soon. But I honestly think that that will be safer than any of the current solutions for turn by turn nav, including having a mount above the dash (which is the best/closest alternative currently available). Needing to look down for directions takes…