Foxxwoof at least realizes a rant about technology is incomplete if he doesn’t sneak in a (negative) reference about millennials.

Either adapt or fall behind. If an organization (such as a department, company, university, government agency of entire government) has an internal structure that does not allow it to compete, you either change or fall behind.

I chose those numbers for that exact reason. Vehicle ownership, deaths per 100,000 km driven and other metrics don’t take into account what I was trying to imply: availability of ground transportation options and correlation to road death rate.

Absolute numbers mean very little. To put it another way, India has 16.6 road fatalities (per 100,000 people) compared to the 10 of the US. That’s a 66% increase.

Oh wow I completely mixed you up with another comment, my apologies.

“it disgusts me”

Had a pickup truck loose a mattress a second after I switched lanes thinking “just in case”.

“Silicon Valley’s usually... but a new study says traditional automakers are ahead”

“therefore it holds some fault”

So you compare Lucid Motors “$52,500—after federal tax “ and after federal incentives with a Tesla Model S that “starts at $71,300 these days” before federal incentives.

1200/500,000,000 is also statistically insignificant.

No, what he described is the current performance of some ICE vehicles. And expectations are different from actual use cases and needs.

You see, I find myself in a similar situation. Until I can buy an ICE for $1, 000 new that has a 1,000 mile range and at least 100mpg efficiency and can fuel in less than 10 seconds, it just doesn’t work for me.

The report is a little more specific than your generalization

See answer to AustinBenji for source and link.

Page 10 section 5.4 of the same report discussed by the same Jalopnik post we are commenting:

No mention about the fact that the NHTSA found a decrease of almost 40% in crashes thanks to autopilot functionality deployment.

Increasing the size of a team (and corresponding budget allocation) does not automatically cause a project to be completed in less time (in this case, decreasing defect rate).

They still have brakes and tires which produce debris

LCA studies that have been available for a long time disprove everything you said: