I do, indirectly.
And I'm younger than 50, from a much smaller and far warmer and less snowed-over country than Canada.

Further, back a decade or so ago I was commuting for work to a town about an hour away from where I live.
Every single morning there was at least one fresh car accident along the way, with the car usually flipped onto its roof at the side of the road.
Those were most certainly not all deaths, but the chances increase through repetition.

Also, as a Canadian, you're in a below-average group even for the high-income countries - at 5.3 traffic-related deaths per 100k.
Average for high-income countries is 9.2 per 100k.
Global average is 17.4 per 100k.

It involves rapid oxidation of some sort of fuel propelling objects at great speed linearly.

It's why no one's been able to do a proper feudalism anymore.

So? Travel more.

Lots of things influence politics. We should generally think that's a societal good. People are getting involved enough to call their representatives? Neat.

And, like, 'Truth' Social is allowed to exist. So it's not merely about people being involved in politics that they mind, maybe just that there are lots of YOUNG people on TikTok, and young people aren't really super stoked about all the old folks doddering around our institutions.

Are you saying that political representatives don't really like it when people participate in politics? Probably true.

It's a fucking steam engine - i.e. NEEDS FUCKING WATER COOLING.
And guess what's influenced by droughts? And guess what gets shot down when it gets really hot everywhere - because there's no way to cool it? THAT'S RIGHT! YOUR STUPID FAT ASS! CAUSE YOU GET A HEART ATTACK FROM HEAT STROKE!

Also, all you SUCKERS OF THE NUCLEAR COCK keep forgetting - you people are on your way out. Your countries, that is. Dead and decimated in a few decades.
The ONLY, repeat, O-N-L-Y thing that's keeping population levels up is IMMIGRATION. And where is all that immigration coming from?

Countries that can't afford security and stability of running nuclear power - while their neighbors and leaders are busy buying rockets and artillery for the next "conflict".

When, you might have noticed recently in Ukraine - powerplants are a major target. Nuclear, hydro, coal, gas... they all burn.
Aren't you kinda glad, despite how much you like that nuclear cock in your mouth, that places like say... Yemen... don't have nuclear reactors?
How about the rest of Africa? Where energy is really gonna be needed in coming years! That's where the future billions of humans are going to be - and boy, do humans like energy. Also, wars. Humans love them wars.
And then suddenly all the chocolate and electronics in the world are radioactive.

Nuclear is a dead end. Too late. Maybe back in 1920s it could have worked.
2020s... it is dead. Doesn't work anymore unless you can dip it into ocean. Most of the planet can't. And even oceans are getting a bit too hot lately.

Big Bang would still be going on, only a lot bigger and bangier as the amount of energy in the universe would be increasing all the time, for billions of years, literally out of nothing.
Also, we'd not be here.

Physics is not local.
It only seems to be so, while we're playing with elementary school physics. It turns out, that's barely physics and there's a LOT more on the bottom of that - and none of that is local.
Making all of what appears to us to be local - actually not. And we've been beyond "yet" for over a century now.

Thus, no perpetual motion nor time machines.

Oh and... yeah...
Quoting people out of context like that is both appeal to authority (wrongly, cause the quote above contradicts it) AND a thought terminating cliche.
Two fallacies for the price of one.

That would be an incentive for the government to NOT have paved roads - the worse your tires the more taxes you pay.
Hell, it would incentivize the states to sprinkle nails along the roads in irregular intervals, particularly when it rains or snows.

Fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, license plate fees and levies on heavier vehicles distribute the road maintenance costs across all the users, with heavier users paying more.

That's like comparing a death sentence after being found guilty in a trial - and randomly throwing a brick off a skyscraper.

Also, there's no such thing as "a reasonable search".
There's protection from "unreasonable search", as in "without a reason" - said reason being determined as valid (or not) through a process of issuing a warrant for search and seizure, by a court.

In the case of phone records there's no need for warrants as said records are public.
Have to be. That's how phones work.
Both numbers have to be known to the system and be recorded in that system which has to be accessible by the public.
Every time you type/dial/select in menu a number to make a call - you are practicing that public accessibility of the system. Without a warrant, reason or anything. Hell, sometimes your butt might do it all by itself.

Not only that - YOU, personally, can get all the numbers of all people calling you. Without warrant or even a reason. You simply have to ask. It's publicly available information.
And that's not all - if YOU call someone in another state, the phone company HAS TO RECORD THAT as a long distance call - if they want to charge you for it properly.
Again - location of your call must be public information for them to charge you properly.

Phone system has to be publicly accessible simply to work.

MONEYS!!! THEM BE MAH MONEYS!!! I HAS THEM!!! MAH!!!

I think the argument goes something along those lines.

It is different from state to state, but it tends to be public information.
https://www.rcfp.org/open-gove...

You're probably thinking of contents of those calls, which is another ball game entirely.
That WOULD fall under "searches and seizures by the government" part.

But phone records HAVE TO BE public information simply by the nature of how the phones work.
You can't have a "super secret" phone number unknown to anyone, and have people call you on it - both the callers AND the phone system have to know your number.
It HAS to be publicly available for the phone system to work.

I.e. Simply having reception requires your phone to keep checking in with local cell towers and letting them know where you are.
Anyone asking for that record, be it a private person or the government, only gets a bunch of phone numbers from that geographic area - it is essentially all encoded, as far as identities of phone owners are concerned. I.e. The private info is still private.
Unless they know it is your number - i.e. it is not secret to them AND it is very public information, out in the open, sitting on top that cell tower.
Just because you don't see that part of the electromagnetic spectrum doesn't mean you're not practically hauling a Bat-Signal wherever you go, projecting "I AM HERE NOW!" across the sky.

And even should there be some kind of legal magic allowing you to protect your phone number from being out in the public record - all IRS has to do is call you, then check THEIR OWN phone record.
You can't hide your phone number or location and have it work.

Not even without a SIM and using encrypted apps and VPNs - your phone can still make emergency calls, cause it has its unique MEID and/or IMEI.
The cell tower knows where you are. It has to. That's how the whole thing works.

TLDR: Unless you're using fresh burner phones for every call you make when you move (1 phone per 1 call) - you're trackable and your location is a matter of public record, available to anyone who knows your phone number.

That seems crazy to me--electricity is so much cheaper these days. Where are you getting that stat? If it's true, it's FASCINATING. Like, why even BUY a PHEV if you're not going to plug it in?

There need to be more PHEVs for the transition. After researching cars for the last year, I've decided that my next one will be a PHEV of some kind, because none of the errands I run will ever take me more than the 60km-ish range of the battery, and then when I do actually have to drive somewhere far away (my Mother lives 1000km away), I don't have to worry about fuelling. I'm also planning to lease it, because the landscape will be completely different in 3 years.

FWIW, when the power goes out, a lot of modern EVs can power your house for a few days. And solar could basically make you fully independent. But honestly, I don't think you should have to bear that cost.

(And, as usual, keeping something that's already working is nearly always better than getting something new from a carbon standpoint. Why replace anything if your shit works? I'm only planning to buy a car because I haven't had one for 10 years, but I've moved to a city where I could use one more often.)

Yeah, it's worse and stupider because we could be building rail to those places and making PHEVs more available, but we're not. But besides that, we DO have urban Vancouver (2.9 million people), urban Toronto (9.7 million people in the region), urban Montreal (4.6 million people), plus Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and a few others close to 1 million each. EIGHTY PERCENT of Canadians live in urban centres.

We love to make excuses for our inaction here in Canada. "Oh, the country is SO BIG. This problem is intractable! Let's just give our money to oil companies and hope they voluntarily lower emissions so we meet our global obligations! Wah!"

We do nothing and demand that the government does nothing either.

Carbon tax? Forget it! Promote EVs! No way! What we want is the good ol' status quo, planet be damned.

I hear a lot about "made in Canada" solutions, and frankly, so far, they all suck. Why don't we just do what other countries have learned have worked: build more bike lanes, make better public transit, build high-speed rail lines. And yeah, phase out SELLING petrol cars in the next 11 years. Just do it. Stop complaining unless you have an actual solution that isn't some BS slogan like "axe the tax".

Honest to god, we're a nation of absolute defeatists sometimes. We want to outsource the building of everything to corporations and do nothing ourselves. It's absurd.

It strongly depends on where you live. I'm in Penticton, BC, and there are times of the year where renting is easy. That is, any time that isn't the summer, because we're a big tourist destination in the summer. Between May and October, forget about short-timeline rentals. You need to book MONTHS in advance.

As to the proposal that EVs be made compatible with small generators: that's a lovely idea on paper, but I think you're deeply underestimating how much design that would take. A generator is heavy and hot. It needs ventilation and a way to fuel it. You can't just throw it in the trunk or the frunk. The generator itself would have to be okay with being in a confined space and not be a fire hazard or a fuel spill hazard. Like, little generators that you plop in your yard aren't being used at highway speeds and don't have to be built to be safe in the event of a collision. Nothing about that idea is practical, and to make it practical would take an insane amount of design.

Honestly, for people in North America that take long road trips sometimes, but need very little range most of the time, a PHEV like the plug-in Prius or similar is absolutely the answer. You get from 50-75km on battery alone, more than enough for errands around town. The Prius has something like a 1000km range when fully charged and fuelled up. It's an incredible solution, and it's not even that much more expensive. I honestly don't even know why mild hybrids exist anymore, the PHEV is far superior and has all the advantages of what you're talking about with a generator.

AI is only a part of the problem here.
Product is simply a VERY STUPID solution, inspired by too much Star Trek back in the day - looking for a problem no one has and most people will never have.

Hardware is bad by design. It forces non-intuitive and non-ergonomic use while giving nothing in return - a monochromatic low-power laser projection onto your palm will never be as interactive or readable as presenting the same info on a screen.
Like on a phone or a watch.
UI is bad by design. It forces use of voice for logins and passwords. OR a "GUI" that is simply unusable, on the level with Apple Wheel - because there are no buttons anywhere.

Even without all the hardware and software issues related to a bonkers design foregoing screens for projection lasers - so the whole thing overheats and literally burns you while you can't use the interface as it has limited interactivity and is hard to read - it is at best a $7 toy IF it would work with all your hardware and all of the internet, as advertised.
It doesn't.
And it costs $700 + $288 per year.

It is not just buggy - it is BAD. Even without AI.