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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Or as a friend from New Orleans calls it Missapissy.

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.

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

If Honda was intelligent they’d simply slap a battery in a Civic with 100 miles range. Absolutely would sell far better than most EVs.

The problem is we *have* to get off fossil fuels. The only palatable option in the US is EVs. We’d be farther along if we’d started this in the 80s but we didn’t.

Let me call up my 3 consultants, 2 UX engineers and this guy George from SpaceX and we’ll have a 3 hour ppt that could have been an email.

f’n kinja

Sorry, this always wins

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