No, not unless you would like your Internet access technologies refreshed and upgraded about as often as your water pipes or electric lines are. Which is to say approximately never.
Verizon hasn't seen fit to upgrade the maximum speed of the DSL in my old neighborhood from the 3Mbps that it installed sometime in the last century. How can it be any worse than that?
Except that the Prius costs more energy to make than many vehicles with a higher fuel consumption.
I'm willing to bet that it doesn't take much more energy than other cars its weight.
Your vehicle registration fee doesn't even remotely cover the cost of maintaining roads.
Yup. In California, vehicle registration is a form of use tax and is based mostly on the value of the vehicle. Thus, a 2014 Smart ForTwo has a much higher registration renewal cost than a 1984 Ford F-250.
Also, I think a lot of my opinion springs from the gal I hit last summer who slowed for a stop sign and decided (in her words to the cop) "I thought I could make it." Fortunately I slammed my brakes and the impact was at a relatively slow speed, so no injuries.
Somebody with such poor judgment would have pulled out in front of you whether they stopped first or not.
No, instead you have the end of support for even LTS releases, and then you're hooped if the upgrade doesn't work.
As opposed to Windows 8 where upgrading isn't even an option?
1) Put the phone in airplane mode while driving.
2) Turn the sound AND vibration off. Put the phone face down so you can't see it.
3) Install a cigarette lighter plug in the trunk. Before getting in the car, turn the phone off and plug it in in the trunk. When you get to work, you're alive and as a bonus, your phone is fully charged.
A country the size of the US should not have any shortage of highly talented, skilled and educated people. Yet it has.
No it hasn't. Employers just aren't willing to pay market rates for talent and not work them into the ground, so they found a loophole in the system that allows them to hire foreign workers for less than market rate and work them into the ground.
Let's eliminate the various loopholes in overtime laws and H1-B laws and put some teeth into enforcement and see how many jobs open up overnight.
In 15 to 20 years time when "worn out" Model S battery packs start to become available I expect one of the main applications will be storage for domestic solar installations that can tolerate having only 70% capacity remaining.
Or even just regular UPS systems. A battery pack that a Tesla owner throws away because it's down to 15kWh will power my server room for 90 minutes.
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
