Unfortunately, the parental controls are basically "on/off" measures, and schools and other places are increasingly expecting them to use AI tools.

And though parental supervision is THE TOOL, it doesn't apply when they're walking to and from school, on someone else's phone, or even using a laptop in a playground. Trust me. I know.

And then the AI tools are entirely lacking ANY KIND of parental control in themselves.

It's like telling everyone that they have to use 4chan for their homework, and then being shocked that they run into things they shouldn't.

Don't make / allow kids to use unsuitable tools, and AI companies should be offering a "child-safe" AI that simply isn't trained and can't discuss anything it shouldn't be able to discuss with a child unsupervised.

But, no, their solution is "we'll just check if you're 18 using the very tool that's already terrible and determining whether it should discuss ways to kill yourself or not".

Shock, horror.

When everyone has one, the value of having one plummets.

But apparently I'm the one who lives in 1984 because I live in the UK and people misinterpreted a CCTV survey from 15+ years ago that included private CCTV cameras only for Lonond...

DEP will save us all from malware
ASLR will save us all from malware ...
*insert 20 years of the same* ...
MTE will save us all from malware
EMTE will save us all from malware

Even solar LiFePO4 setups come with built-in heaters in the batteries nowadays.

This is a non-issue. Of course you use more power when it's cold and you're trying to heat things up, this isn't rocket science.

So buy a car that has a capacity greater than your maximum range, especially if you're buying for business for becoming reliant on it. They're not hard to find. In fact, when EV shopping for just standard personal models of car, I see Long Range / Extended Battery options on everything, and even the lowest battery is higher than the nonsense cited in this article.

If only, with the announced phase-out of fossil fuel for vehicular use almost worldwide, there were some places we have which won't be used so much anymore which could be used to host electric chargers in the same location so that, in the near future, people won't have to go further than they currently go to refuel / recharge...

Well, yes, but if I lived in such a climate, I'd be parking the car indoors regardless. It might not be 20C inside the garage, but it's a damn sight better than trying to start at -15C.

Where they don't disturb anyone, don't look ugly, generate more power, and don't take up land.

Yet again:

If you couldn't even be bothered to write it, what makes you think I should be bothered to read it?

Tell me when they have a single profitable product tier.

HUGE bubble here, I look forward to the investors demanding a return on their money.

The fad is starting to plateau.

How ironic, and completely, utter unpredictable.........

They'll be a few token attempts to revive it / rename it / pretend we've invented whole-new-AI for a few years, then it'll die and people will mostly forget about it (especially when AI companies start trying to recoup their losses by charging at a rate that actually PROFITS them), normalise the useful parts according to that increased (i.e. real) cost, then we'll move on to some other fad for a decade or so.

In this case, the car belonged to the parents of those kids, and was registered in Italy. I don't know the Italian law for that.

It was clear, however, that those kids never buckled up in their parent's own car, that the child-lock wasn't on by default, and the kids didn't think opening the door while driving was anything wrong.

Because they just charge the original bank for the costs and thus all users can use all banks without fee.

Same way credit cards work.

The bigger question is: Why do you think it's normal to pay a bank to obtain access to your own money?

I can use pretty much any bank I like and the ATM will let me withdraw money from my account for free.

We even have an organisation that banks sign up to to make sure it all works, including things like changing your PIN at any ATM etc.

It's called Link. https://www.link.co.uk/our-mem...

Give way to traffic already on the roundabout and coming from the same side as the steering wheel is in the car.

It's really not difficult.

Drunk-driving is absolutely socially condemned. Nobody lets anyone drive home after they've had more than one drink. Pubs are required to inform police / confiscate keys. I mean, honestly, it's a "lose all your friends" kind of thing in any sensible job / atmosphere / environment.

And seatbelts are mandatory. Seatbelts and airbags are fitted on all cars made for decades now. The culture is that basically everyone wears a seatbelt. People have had cartoons taken off air because they show Peppa Pig getting into a car and not putting on a seatbelt - they actually went back and edited them to show a seatbelt. Watch any British programme in the last 30 years. People wear seatbelts if they're in a car. It's only American movies, tv shows etc. (not even action movies but comedies and dramas) where I see people jumping into and out of cars constantly with no seatbelt even visible at any point.

It's nothing to do with any technology, though. It's to do with the culture. Drink-driving isn't socially tolerated, seatbelt use is ingrained in everyone from school.

Sure, we still have lots of other car-related injuries, deaths and problems, same as anywhere, but it's the culture that means we save lives.

I once was in a car in the front passenger seat while an Italian ex- was driving some family and there were two Italian kids in the back. They were absolutely resistant to the idea of seatbelts, because they'd been not using them all their lives. We made them belt up, and they didn't like it at all.

And I'm glad we did. At one point the little girl dropped her toy down the side of her seat. So she took it upon herself to unbuckle her seatbelt, OPEN THE DOOR while we were at speed, and lean out the door to retrieve her toy from the gap.

The ping-ping-ping of the seatbelt warning was enough to make me look round, and I had to literally dive across the car to hold her door shut, screaming at the driver to pull over, until we could stop and shut her door properly. I'm not exaggerating to say that she was INSIDE the door... between the door and the seat. If we'd hit anything, she'd be dead. If the door had blown open, she'd be on the road, at speed. We were close enough to opposing traffic on that road that the door would have hit the other cars and been smashed into her.

It's the culture, and what's normalised and what's not that determines where the biggest dangers are avoided. Just like US gun culture determines where their biggest dangers are.