I worked for a HMO from 2000s to 2010s. During my time there, we consolidated to a single building and were issued new badges that contained a RDIF that could be read remotely.
Every couple of minutes security would 'ping' the building and see where everyone was in the name of safety and security.
One day I had a gastro-issue and spent a lot of time in the restroom, and to my horror, there was a knock on my stall's door from security to see if I was okay.
After that, I would leave my badge at my desk while in the office.

So, basically not new technology, just using WiFi to do the checks vs RF.

No, it's well ascertained that EVs are fine for almost every civilian use case these days, but lets also remember that this probably doesn't apply for you specifically, because so much as having an app on your phone for your car (EV or not) is too much for you to handle.

Well, yes, you do, because the BMS keeps track of that.

A gas car, on the other hand....

And I'm never 'caught' with low charge in the first place, because I start every day with a full charge, so....?

Gas cars lose comparable range in cold weather, so...?

https://www.energy.gov/energys...

And when you mix in 'you can preheat your cabin while still connnected to your charger,' EVs lose *less* range than gas cars.

Not really. If social media causes stupidity, kids should stop using social media, cuz it'll make them stupid.

If stupid people use social media, kids should stop using social media, because it obviously isn't making them smarter, while other activities just might.

Well, back when I was a kid, 'autistic' meant, 'screaming and flapping your arms when somebody turned on the light wrong.'

"Rain Man" was a movie about what was, at the time, considered a high-functioning autistic.

Most of what we would nowadays call 'ASD' was just 'quirky' or 'weird' or 'shy.'

Go find a copy of the 1980s nuclear war film Testament. Watch the scenes with the sons. One son, the youngest, has several scenes with things like 'running the TV, a radio, and a record player at the same time,' 'being told that he can't only eat bananas,' 'wearing ear muffs at the dinner table' and so on.

Nowadays, that's clearly stimming, sensory restrictions and ARFID, and probably ADHD, and he's be labelled 'AuDHD'.

Back then? He was just being a kid.

But nowadays, 'doesn't look people in the eye "enough"' means you're ASD, and 'looks people in the eye *too much"' means you're ASD.

Given that we don't even know what 'Autism' is, we ascribe way too much to it.

The difference between a 'personal' charger and a 'commercial' charger is 'is this being used by a person, or by the public.'

It's not different hardware. It might not even be a different firmware, depending on the manufacturer; I know that for my charger, all it takes to make it 'commercial' is to point it's configuration at a payment portal.

Nope. You're conflating 'the car' with 'the driver.'

You, and your car, spend about ten minutes a week at a gas pump to pump 500 miles of range into your box on wheels.

Your neighbour spends about twenty seconds per week to put 500 miles of range into his box on wheels, which takes his car 12 hours.

The only EV trip that can't be made would be the cannonball run.

Well, ackshually, it's been done.

Don't bother arguing with Fluffernutter; he's tried to argue in the past that 'clicking climate start in the car's app' is somehow too complicated for the average person to do, and too much hassle, where as climbing into an ice cold ICE car and waiting for the cabin to warm up while you sit there in the driveway is faster, easier, more efficient, and better.

I might have a huge cultural bias here, but if you're idea of politeness consists of lying to people, and then expecting them to argue with you, then your culture sucks.

So, to be clear, 'after you/no, after you, I insist' means 'your culture sucks?'

The thing is that places that historically didn't have to worry about this, now have to worry about this.

If they want it preconditioned? Yes, welcome to 2025, they can install the app on their phone. Or they use the 'remote climate start' option on the keyfob. Or they shoot you a quick text asking you to hit the button in your app.

You keep trying to paint these advancements in convenience and comfort as terrible burdens, and it's weird.

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