Siri:   tell me what isn’t in 90% of cars today and won’t be in any measurable percentage of EVs?

“NEVER SEEN WINTER” in a picture with snow on the ground

I’ve always been partial to the more declarative version

This is something, that done correctly, I would *like*. I don’t want to get a DUI. I’d also like to have 1 or 2 drinks while at a restaurant. Having this prevent unintentional over the, really low, limit would be quite handy.

Extinction events aren’t evolution, which is what I believe your post implies.  They don’t ‘have to go extinct’, but we have made them likely to go extinct.  

SC and ‘Tags applied for’ in sharpie on cardboard was just as good as real plates

pshaw, they got nothing on SC. Moved to SC (from NY) back in the 90s. Went to get my car inspected to register.

Evolution takes thousands of years. This is the equivalent of saying they need to ‘evolve’ the ability to survive a house fire.

Or as a friend from New Orleans calls it Missapissy.

Kids outside in darkness during high automobile usage *will* cause some injuries and fatalities across a society. Putting more kids out there in darkness by basic logic will result in an increase of those injuries and fatalities.

Agreed, back when lights were a significant part of energy usage it made some sort of sense. Now not so much.

I would think there would have to be some semi-permanent habitation...drives go bad and need replacement. As do robots who could do the replacements. Etc.

The only thing the Moon provides in terms of benefit would be super dooper off-site cold storage in event of Chixulub v2. The delays in latency would make it seriously old school comms.  Absolute *minimum* 2-3 second latency built in.

Hilarious fact, when I stayed at an Air Force base in Tuscon, AZ, I learned that when choosing housing, they may get to choose a house with either natural (i.e. desert) landscape yard or a grass landscape.

even if it was super safe, earth orbit latency is bad. The friggin MOON?

Yes. Or really anywhere else but here. Please send it away.

Take your star....no need to be picky, lots of ‘em up here

You simply bury it. Most advanced ideas for mars are using old lava tunnels. You have a pre ‘built’ excavation that you put your stuff in. Seal it off and you can even make a walk-able habitat.

I suspect you’d simply use a, ahem, ground/moon-o-thermal setup. Simply transfer heat to the rocks.

Unfortunately scale needed just doesn’t make those viable. They will be useful for niche and edge cases though.