Yeah, for inter-city distances, rail just seems a better solution. But rail definitely cuts into it being ‘dynamic’ with traffic mgmt/lane changes etc.

One issue is that for ‘deliveries’ hauling an shipping container around isn’t going to be at all efficient if you only are dropping off 1/10th of it.

The sign did not say “One TWUE Way” so reverse is not allowed

and the valve’s leak...

Yeah need a real life meme with “Don’t threaten me with a good time”

Excluding the lack of stopping, I can totally see the computer mistaking that for a painted dotted line for a split second. With the whiteout of the lights the deer not being ‘across’ the road but along it really makes it blend into what would look like a white rectangle.

yeah, always wished this was how they made the electric conversions initially. Electric power train and just a generator to operate it.

I’ve known exactly ONE good dealership. Temple Motors in Alexandria VA. Family owned and run. All the sales staff were *salaried*, no pressure for sales at all. FIL was neighbors with the owner and new the Service Manager well enough he’d routinely get the managers personal car as a loaner. They’d bought 30 years of…

If they accidentally installed the microphone in the drivers seat butt region...I could see that being a worthy subscription feature....especially during election season.

“a nice Reliant automobile”

Probably best described as the “cost of being poor”.   You’re paying that rental fee either way.  One is upfront and the other is over time.  The latter is more expensive in the long run.

And after Trump’s tax rewrite, even owning a home doesn’t mean you itemize.

De-orbit is still pollution. It ends up in the atmosphere we need to breath and live in.

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-china-thousand-starlink-latest-mega.html

The problem is as you say, they’re basically disposable. So that requires frequent replacement launches. When you’re talking 40,000+ projected (Bezos and China are going to add in as well), that’s 8,000 new satellites PER YEAR they’ll need to be launching. Almost as much as is up there total right now.

8.  If you have any trips that EVs just aren’t viable for.   Rent an ICE.

People seem to discount renting for trips. Get the EV for everything you do normally and depreciate someone else’s asset for the trips. Had a co-worker with a 10yr old car and only 40k miles.  Rented all the trips they took.

There will be a macro level transition, but that high level smoothness likely masks some pretty have localized negative effects.

I’m sure an MBA somewhere will get a nice bonus every time they figure out how to classify something as ‘not warranty’ so $250/hr.

Also historically, people were cast aside as unneeded chaff. And in the industrial revolution the macro economy was growing so fast on average that new positions would keep opening up.