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Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 1) 100

Trucks, including the light trucks sold to consumers, are a separate category in DAFE. You don't average trucks in with cars.

It literally says in the very first sentence of the government page on CAFE: "NHTSA's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards regulate how far our vehicles must travel on a gallon of fuel. NHTSA sets CAFE standards for passenger cars and for light trucks (collectively, light-duty vehicles), and separately sets fuel consumption standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and engines."

How did this blatant misinformation get marked as "Informative", I'll never know..

Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 1) 100

one of Toyota's executives said that every model would be offered as a hybrid in about a decade. That might happen after three decades.

Really? The only ones available without a hybrid option that I can see are the GR 86 rwd coupe and the GR Supra.

We could include the GR Corolla and Hatchback Corolla if you don't consider them "Corollas."

Comment Re:The old auto makers are fucked. (Score 1) 100

But I was told the opposite:

"We were ahead of them by a mile, by 10 miles, on the internal combustion engine. They went into EVs, and then they convinced the Western world to go into EVs and play their game," the freshman Republican lawmaker from Ohio said during an auto industry conference. "That was just irrational, dumb policy."...

"I pushed back on the premise that EV somehow is about innovation," he said. "Electric vehicles were around in 1910. It's not like this is new technology."

Here's a guy working hard to ensure the US not only loses the global competition for auto production, but becomes the last bastion of tailpipe emissions.

Comment Re:It's a Bold Strategy (Score 0) 64

This is bizarre, not to mention terribly Boomerish.

They could say no. No-one is stopping them.

They won't because they care more about money than their long-term customers.

This is why such people shouldn't be in positions of power. And won't be in the society that arises from the collapse of this one because we'll be damn sure to drum into the survivors that the merchant caste can never, ever be put in control again.

Comment Re:Well yeah.... (Score 1) 101

Yeah, with my old gaming PC I stuck to Windows 7 for years since it was pretty much only used for gaming and not browsing pron sites. But then Steam decided they wouldn't run on Windows 7 any more so I had to buy a new one.

Which wasn't such a bad deal as it would probably cost 50% more to build today. But with the downside that it has Windows 11.

Comment Re:Anti-features (Score 1) 27

A bunch of reasons, but the most obvious is that they want to tie your soon to be mandatory usage of their "AI" cloud to an account so they can store all your stuff on their servers and cut you off if you use those bazillions of GPUs more than they expect.

Also, Bitlocker seems to be tied to a Microsoft account because it appears they store the password there. I set up a new Windows PC recently and it decided to turn Bitlocker on without asking me, but ultimately it didn't seem to encrypt the disk because I'd set up a local account... it just flagged it as an encrypted disk but didn't run the encryption process.

Comment Re:Anomalies are a learning experience (Score 1) 72

I'm sure it must have happened sometime this year, but I don't remember the last time a Falcon 9 booster returned to the launch site. Everything I've seen recently landed on the barge.

New Glenn does have a better launch envelope by being able to hover to land in bad sea conditions, but the extra fuel cuts into the payload more. So there are benefits and costs.

Comment Re:bad headline (Score 4, Informative) 72

According to what I read yesterday, it looks like one engine restarted then something went badly wrong. It would likely have landed or at least hit the landing pad otherwise since it hit the ground not far from the pad.

So they've done the first 80% of the job and now it's a question of how long the remaining 20% takes.

But as you say it did deliver the payload to orbit so the actual launch was a success.

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