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Comment Re:This is a good thing. (Score 1) 110

The 3 cylinder Geo Metro in the 1990s achieved over 40 miles per gallon. 30 years later you're telling me we lost that ability?

Yes, but only because most Americans are unwilling to drive a Metro-sized car anymore. They've been conditioned to think small/lightweight cars are unsafe or unmanly or etc.

Comment Re:In other words: (Score 1) 110

The fact that the government is mandating fuel efficiency means that most people don't care. If they cared, nobody would buy the inefficient cars so the manufacturers wouldn't make them, no need for government intervention.

The invisible hand of the free market solves a lot of things, but it's never quite figured out how to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Everybody wants to live on a livable planet, but nobody wants to pay for the technology required to keep that way.

Comment Re:CAFE needs reform (Score 1) 110

I traveled to poor countries where traffic is 90% scooters. This is all they can afford. I hope we can do better.

Being inexpensive to purchase and operate is one advantage scooters have over automobiles; the other is that they are small enough to maneuver quickly through heavy traffic and easier to find a parking spot for in congested areas.

Comment Re:Grain of Xalt (Score 1) 48

It might not be a sustainable economic model once engineering employment returns to normal there. They may be tuning the bots to fit the current car model, but changing models later may result in problems similar to Tesla's, when they no longer have low-wage engineers to de-glitch them again. Time will tell...

Comment AI smells like a bubble, quacks like (Score 2) 71

...bubble, and waddles like a bubble.

All this equipment and power hogging just cannot be sustainable. While enough people like using AI, they'd probably cut down on usage if they had to pay the actual costs, which are currently subsidized by investors and big co's trying to gain market share. If given away for free or nearly free, people waste. Thus, current AI consumption stats are misleading.

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