Fair point, but I was talking about claims in overall lifecycle gains in BEV vs. ICE. If you’re moving people from A to B it takes energy.
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Has little to do with profit and much more to do with average American also doesn’t want to give up the freedom of driving. After riding around in NYC’s MTA, I’d never live in a city where I can’t drive my own car so I don’t have to sit next to the mentally ill every day on the way in to work.
You’d be amazed how efficient they are at all that. I’m surprised it’s even 1 gallon to every 4, my guess is the oil companies are more efficient than that in reality.
If you’re going to count the one gallon for every four gallons used on the BMW, where’s the count for getting the fuel to the power plant?!?! They had to throw that little twist in there to make sure the BEV still looked good. I see nothing for charging losses either.
Same for the Tesla, it has seats and plastic trim panels too.
To be fair, you as a Jalopnik commenter might not be the typical car buyer.
Every one of these “Solutions” is going to add cost to already sky high vehicle prices- period. No way around that. Seatbelt interlocks were tried before in America, in the 1974 model year. They were instantly hated and legislation was passed to allow them to be removed for the next model year, which was done. We also…
Ban cell phones because people are more interested in the phone than the cars when crossing the street.
Every so often I wonder why Kinja exists, and then hot take comments like the ones on this article remind me that Kinja exists for the hot takes.
Of course I remember CD players and surely costs will come down. However, I’m not the one who wrote an article with made up numbers about the current costs of things to justify a point of view.
I don’t trust the government any farther than I can throw it, and over the last 20+ years, it hasn’t given me any reason to. The people who run our country are shitty human dumpster fires. They can’t wake pu in the morning without finding something new to politicize and turn into a culture war. They can’t even keep…
I really hate these arguments that some percentage of the population is irresponsible, so the entire population must live under heavy restrictions.
I worked at a DMV sometime ago and remember interlocks being expensive for DUI offenders. Looks like I wasn’t wrong. It is about $100 to install plus other $100/month to monitor plus all the other fun fees to reinstate. Oh and don’t forget the SR-22. For the everyday motorist, I don’t see this going into the millions…
If 45% is attributed to those things, is the other 55% attributed to Distracted Driving, meaning driving while looking at a screen, be it a phone, tablet or laptop......
Agreed. And honestly, while inconvenient, I wouldn’t care about the built-in breathalyzer (I don’t drink). But you know what would be easier to implement? Upping the consequences for drunk driving. You drive over the limit, you lose your license. Period, end of discussion. You get in a wreck while you’re drunk and…
As someone that does wear a seatbelt 100% of the time, “buckle up to start” IMO is absolutely fine in concept. But I’d be very worried about what happens if the sensor fails (and it will fail). Having to get a tow to the dealer because the car thinks you’re not wearing a seatbelt seems incredibly plausible and also…
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You’re downplaying how these devices work here, it’s significantly more complicated than that