The problem with all of this has much to do with the ad networks themselves. If the ads weren't intrusive and didn't screw up the page layout (meaning they obeyed the size restrictions and placement of the ad spaces by developers), it wouldn't be as much of a problem. Couple that with the ads sometimes containing some form of malware and the inability to dismiss popups easily, and you have a recipe for disaster: I visit example.com and it pops up an ad that I dismiss, but by sheer coincidence it's got scripting in it and it installs some kind of malware. I get the computer disinfected, and I go blame example.com because that's how I got it. The people who run example.com will come back and say that they buy their ads from GenericAdNetwork, so you need to talk to them. I then contact GenericAdNetwork, and they say that it's not their fault because they're just a distributor. It turns into a finger-pointing and red herring-chasing session, and you never learn who actually created the malicious ad. Someone needs to be responsible for these things... I don't care if it's example.com or GenericAdNetwork... one of them has to do some kind of filtering and/or vetting of the ads. Until then, browsers like Brave and a pi-Hole are my friends.

Can it manage reduce gridlock and improve traffic flow by improving signal coordination during rush hour?

https://ladot.lacity.gov/proje...

City of LA is already equipped with sensors and remote signal synchronization. Next logical step would be to couple it with slightly better adaptive prediction to squeeze a few more percentage points out of the existing traffic patterns...

Why is it so important to you that he gets credit for the vaccine when he was more than happy to disavow his administration's botching of other aspects of the pandemic response like testing. His exact words were "I don't take responsibility at all" and blamed (of course) Obama of all people. He only takes credit for successes and blames anyone but himself for failures. Our country is screwed because millions of people like you cannot acknowledge that, let alone call it a character flaw.

Why would you think the Trump administration's program for developing a COVID vaccine has anything valid to compare with the Biden administration? Were you expecting Biden to make them start over so he could try to do it faster? That's actually the kind of petty, self-sabotaging, ego-driven thing Trump would have done.

That's what battery preconditioning is for. Heats up the batteries on the way to the charger. Makes a big difference.

Do you also starve on vacation because you don't want to 'mess around' with finding a restaurant?

It's so little effort that it's not even worth mentioning, especially compared to all the other planning that goes into a vacation.

About as long as it takes without the car heater running; absolute worst case scenario, the heater is drawing 4 kw; even at 50kw bottom-end L3 charging speeds, that's less than 10% of the power being diverted.

And the data that makes this a "fact" and not your opinion is.... where?

Trust, but verify, my good man.

Gas pumps auto shut off.

Not all gas pumps have this, or are allowed to have this, in all places.

It's also contraindicated to have your car running while pumping gas into it.

Or it means you find a 'cheap' motel with a public charger near by, or charge during rest breaks, or whatever.

Why would you 'pay extra' for a hotel with a charger?

As youâ(TM)ve pointed out many times, the UK is much smaller than Canada, and this means that EV charging is incredibly straightforward for me

In another slashdot post about EVs, a poster was saying that it 'feels like' it would be impossible to drive across Canada in an EV in the middle of winter.

I pointed out that A Better Route Planner exists, and he doesn't need to 'feel' anything about it, he can just go look. And yes, it turns out that with a modern EV, even in the middle of winter, you can drive cross country with zero issues. Charging added something like six hours or so on to the several thousand KM trip, and that assumed all fast-chargers and no overnight charging at a hotel or anything.

The minute you switch from that mentality to âoeIâ(TM)ll charge while I do something elseâ, it all just slots into place. So on road trips, I charge when I eat or while Iâ(TM)m parked up for the day (or overnight).

Yup. You *have* to change your mentality away from 'refueling is an activity/event in and of itself' to 'refueling is something that happens while the car is parked anyway while I'm sleeping/shopping/pissing/eating/whatever.'

treating EVs as thought theyâ(TM)re inconvenient ICE vehicles instead of adapting your modus operandi even the slightest iota will lead to you having a shit experience.

Truth. I see this attitude a lot.

"I don't want to sit around for half an hour while my car charges." Yeah, that's why we don't do that; we plug in the car and wander off to do something.

But even *if* it's a charger in the middle of nowhere and you're stuck sitting there charging, I'd rather half an hour in the car, while the heater's running, than standing outside for a few minutes in -30c plus wind chill pumping gas.

I remember when the space shuttle Enterprise was there. They swapped it out for Discovery and did a whole ceremony around having the two shuttles touch noses. Somewhere in my collection of photos, I have a couple of shots of Discovery on its way in to Dulles riding piggy-back on that 747. Enterprise now resides at the Intrepid Museum in NYC, Atlantis is at the Kennedy Space Center, and Endeavour is at the California Science Center. Leave them where they are... or possibly move Enterprise... one of the shuttles absolutely belongs in the Smithsonian Institute along with other historic aircraft.