olivermarks

@harmmonica I do. we prefer to use Waymos in SF but Uber has been a lot cheaper in the last six months or so regardless of time of day... Also saw some Zoox self driving boxes on the las vegas strip last week but no one seemed to be using them.

Waymo ride costs are getting really expensive in SF.

LI batteries would burn regardless

Would be good to have a formal notification on glass stating 'this window/screen/etc contains a camera that may broadcast your image'

I think anyone with an ounce of common sense is aware that EVs are analogous to the steam era with similar dangers. Coal power is used to create and force tremendous amounts of trapped energy into batteries, which like a steam boiler is highly stressed with the added danger of explosion, thermal runaway and toxic chemical fire that can't be extinguished.

Where EVs - heavy, tire and road shredding devices requiring enormous amounts of largely unrecyclable materials in their batteries etc - have virtually no regulatory burden (why is there not legislation requiring mechanical door locks for example?) ICE vehicles, which are now highly sophisticated and efficient, are subject to endless meddling and restrictions.

An entire airport car park burnt down last week, which is an unprecedented event masked by a compliant media who are obsessed with selling the concept that EVs are our future - all just because a bunch of bungling politicians have tried to legislate change.

It's all a terrible mess compounded by encouraging people to abandon common sense and buy into the hallucinatory idea grids and the planet can support EVs within a few short years

I gave up my subscription to the New Yorker years ago due in large part to this 'sophisticates' problem

Reminds me of the Theranos scam crash - discredit the figure heads when it all goes wrong with increasingly bizarre 'they were nuts' stories. Meanwhile the board members and backers are subjected to zero scrutiny.