and fly cheap.  back of the plane is also far likelier to survive

Autonomous you say? well then I have a deal for you. Autonomous AND requires no fuel during flight.

“One of the most important use cases for the Twitter API has always been public utility,”

People need to recognize the abusive relationship that they’re in here.

The reviews on VinFast cars were not so good

The Inflation Reduction Act is doing just that. Billions for expanded EV charging, both home and public. Up to $100,000 per station for businesses.

and remember GW Bush wanted to shut down the Voyager programs to save a paltry $4 million a year.

Virginia Gov Youngkin being stupid gave away one of those plants.

I’d highly doubt their free. Power is cheap compared to gas but not that cheap.

Yeah it was confusing to me as well. I think he means something sort of like Tesla’s early strategy. Make the roadster to make money to make cheaper cars.

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.