No.

Yep. 'Muricans are famous the world over for inappropriate purchasing decisions!

Who is to judge what is or is not an appropriate purchasing decision?

It's a free country...if you can afford to buy "X", and "X" is a legal to own product, no one has the right to tell you you cannot own "X".

I get the impression that most US homes are very poorly insulated.

Well, NEW houses being built...have really great insulation....as you go back in time with older homes...they often aren't as well insulated, either by lack of it, or just using older less efficient materials of the day back then.....

It's not like most people are going to rip out all the walls of their homes to just redo insulation...that would be very $$$ and horribly inconvenient.

things like LTNs

Can ya'll please explain what a LTN is?

New acronym for me....

Not all of us live in Buttfuck, Wyoming.

Hardly...I live in New Orleans.

I've rarely seen chargers in other cities I've visited either....they're either still somewhat rare or somewhat hidden from plain view when out and about.

That last sentence of yours is utter stupidity, sorry for having to be that blunt.

By that logic, nobody should be able to turn the car on. You should only be allowed to drive as fast as you can push it.

Swiss law is based on "Treu und Glaube" which is in essence that only that is lawful, which can be in good conscience expected of a human being.

Since human beings do not have a sub microsecond reaction time and since we do not have the ability to instantly stop a two tonne object in motion and since none of us has the ability to read the minds of people to predetermine their intentions, it sure as fuck isn't the motorists sole responsibility to make sure no pedestrian gets hurt even if they basically commit suicide.

For liability reasons, we do have a presumption of guilt based on the "strength" of the mode of transportation but that is not the same thing.

If someone walks parallel to the road with no look over the shoulder and then upon reaching the crossing imitates a jack-rabbit an does a 90degree jump two meters in front of my car, I can tell you right now I'm gonna consider my conscience clean.

...is we need to remove all the warning labels for a year and cleanse ourselves of the idiots.

At one point, possibly more than a decade ago, Switzerland changed traffic laws and gave pedestrians right of way at crossings.

I absolutely understand the reasons for this but what it has led to is people imagining themselves to be wearing Iron Man suits or being otherwise invincible. They have no concept of any of Newton's laws and they think the moment the step on the street, traffic does a freeze-frame like in the movies or something.

They don't even look up sometimes and just walk. Assuming that these people depend on their hearing (and hoping very much that they do use at least their hearing), I can see how there would be more pedestrian accidents but seriously, we need to stop trying to make the world idiot proof. I'm getting the feeling the only thing we're doing with that is creating more sophisticated idiots.

Hmm..I guess I'm old, I never thought suspect or suspicious were too long to write/type/speak in the past and needed to be abbreviated....

If major western governments of the world can't meet their climate goals, how could we expect oil companies to do better?

"People in western countries are not in a hurry to voluntarily give up the lifestyles they've enjoyed all their lives to meet new "green" metrics".

General public response: "Well, DUH"

Film at 11......back to you Bob.

If this is all a misunderstanding OpenAI is acting awfully sus.

What is "acting sus"?

New term to me....thanks in advance!

Also way to completely drop the ball when they could have maybe reached out to the Roddenberry estate and got permission to use Majel Barret's voice and then we get our TNG computer interface finally. (half joking, I don't think they'd allow that but it would be neat)

Great idea!!

That would be a really cool idea indeed!!!

Possibly in your case. But I think in general full time telecommuting does lead to lower productivity both in lower engagement, and in worse communication due to the loss of those (sometimes annoying) office interactions, not to mention the weaker bond between co-workers makes retention a bit tougher.

I guess it depends on your line or work, etc.

I've been working full time remote for going on I'm guessing between 12-15 years now.

Contracting...IT work....server admin, dba, some development work thrown in there, specialty software admin....etc.

I've worked a number of years with people I've never met in person...and since we don't use our cameras, I've never even seen what they look like.

This has never seemed to interfere with our work, and this was on worldwide systems with 24/7 uptime requirements....

I'm glad in this environment, WFH was actually actively promoted by the employer....it has been working for a LONG time.

Finally: do you mean 1/3 of *all* households or 1/3 of *households with a car*? Because the former sounds more likely than the latter. And once again -- assuming your number is correct, 2/3 of households have the potential for a *more convenient* option for charging if they get an EV than with an ICE car. For the other 1/3, there's work charging, on-street charging, mall charging, dedicated fast charger charging, etc etc etc. No-one is going to be limited to only one charging option, because electricity is ubiquitous.

I believe the former....but in the US, pretty much every household in an average type city has at least one car.

(average cities across the US are not the mega urban types such as NYC, Chicago, etc.

By the time that half has gone electric, demand will have motivated nearly all apartment complex owners to have installed at least L1 charging and probably L2 in their parking lots.

That *may* happen some day, but realistically I don't see apartment complexes tearing up the huge parking lots and installing individual chargers for each parking spot anytime soon....certainly not by the magic 2030 year...maybe 2050 you'll start to see it?

By the time those are all in use, public charging infrastructure will have been deployed sufficiently to address the rest.

I'm not terribly optimistic about this either...the Biden plans that passed I think a year or so ago...millions of dollars for public charging...and last I hear no more than 5 units had been installed across the US.

Demand here for EVs is dropping currently....on new car sales.

Right now, latest figures are showing hybrids/plug in hybrids have the quickest sales off most car lots.

3. WTF are you doing on a technology site if new technology is "meh" to you? Self-driving cars are well within the forseable horizon now, and a self-driving consumer available car is a societally revolutionary thing.

I don't look forward to anything that restricts my current freedoms to enjoy what I currently enjoy...and I actually LOVE driving my car. I've never owned anything by 2 seater manual transmission sports cars all my life.

I buy cars that are FUN to drive, every time I fire it up to go somewhere.

4. Companies and LEO already have remote control of ICE vehicles, there's nothing inherent in EVs that gives them more control. And by remote control things like heating or cooling the cabin before you get there are pretty nice to haves.

I try to disconnect anything that sends telemetry, and I'm quite happy with manual control of my vehicle....

5. I live in Australia. There's free charging at the airport (well you pay a lot to get in, but that applies to all cars not just EVs). Plenty of our supermarkets have free chargers to try to tempt you to shop there rather than at a competitor. Same for a few malls. Giving you $10 in free electricity (that they probably don't pay for given how many solar panels they have on their roof) so you shop there makes great commercial sense for them.

I just catch an Uber to/from the airport...why bother driving, there, paying for parking and having to drag your luggage all the way from long term parking to the plane and back?

I've seen only a couple of chargers at a Whole Foods and recently I saw maybe 2-4 Tesla chargers at one grocery store near me....new items there, but nothing at shopping malls, or other grocery stores where I live.