Look how many supposed supporters of unbridled capitalism, opt to impose state rules making entry nearly impossible via compliant state legislative acts. Could, just by chance, your state allow sales only through dealerships? If so that might partially explain your not seeing them, I know it took a very long time before hybrids were common in this area.

Also could the implicit antipathy be due to its association with belief that climate change is both real and mostly due to human sources?

You seem to have a better grasp on what makes business sense for a company that has been floundering, albeit with scads of cash.

So have your resume handy, if they do not call the Ballmer back.

If it's not the latter, Good Luck with your new endeavor.

1. • I am astounded of your ignorance of Americans, when I know you should be saying U.S.A.(ians).
   • However, you are to be excused, because we know we really are the only Americans that count.
   • Furthermore, we know the Earth is the Center of the Universe and the U.S. of A. acts as its bull's eye.
   • Moreover, we know that scientists are feeding us phony facts. Who cares if some third world contiries are flooded out - it's God's will or it would not happen.
   • Another fact, unlike the ignorance shown by all those not living in this World leading bastion of Freedom we knell to no one. We might bow a little to finance another war, but we are doing it for you and a bit of oil to lubricate our economy.
   • Finally, where else would you find the honesty of our political parties? We once had a party called the Know Nothings and we are proud of it and its a principle we stick to.
   • Now that should correct your ignorance.of us and the U.S. of A.

Agreed, the number I heard on CNBC was Tesla saying they would deliver 60K while the production rate would reach 100K* at the end of the year.

* Slightly below 100K, since the number quoted was 1,900 per week, which for the 52 weeks comes to 98.8K. This presumes no down time (weeks) or other unexpected production delays / stoppage due to unexpected causes.

I would have used different words expressing essentially the same sentiment.

>> [...] U.S. Secret Service arrests E.T. on his home planet for an unpaid long-distance call.

Pipe dream.

We lack the budget to get there, otherwise we would. Be realistic, please.

NYC system has a 24 hour schedule, the last I heard.

I think even the London may operate more hours than does the Hong Kong system (the link I found on service hours for H.K. was imprecise, i.e. [approx.] early morning to late at night every day of the year], which at worse comes close to the London hours of service.

Both NYC and London systems are both near one hundred or more years older, which means they are more maintenance intensive. Moreover, the former (and presumably the latter) are comprised of an amalgam of irrationally constructed competing systems that have been only partially made a more rational whole by closures, by new construction and by attempts to connect lines.

I know this does not address the supposed A.I. aspect, but a system built much later has advantages in the tools they employ.

Would you care to show your numbers supporting your estimate?

Using 1,863 miles per charge and an average yearly milage of 15,000 I get only a fraction over 8 changes per year. That number is still to many if done at a dealership given the expense in time and currency.

To cite a Fox News site as you hurl the acusation that the other party is ignorant and needs to be educated implies you are the one with deficiencies that will not be remedied by any call to reason or logic. Only a true true believer can give Fox News as a source that delivers unvarished truth . Thus, cease with the name calling unless and until you are willing tol stand behind your words with a real identity, even then do not expect rapture to follow.

is it when these are impossible to retrieve by a site user?

It has been my experience that several science postings are invisible despite my knowing they existed whether using slashdot's miserable search or external tools, e.g. Google or even DuckDuckGo. Nothing near relevant is brought up for one article and the other only obtained derivate, later citings. [The first pertained to a periodic intensity from a star (did not read original article a the time) and the second the then new observation of micro bubble formation along the axis of the bursting of a larger bubble. The latter was discovered with high speed photography and was an unexpected phenomena. At the time I read the original article. It is the former that has eluded me on multiple tries.]

I have been extremely frustrated trying to go back to several old postings that would have been useful, but now are as good as being non-existent.