When you say NA, you mean USA?

Why is everybody talking about the USA?

The USA does not matter one bit in the transition to EV. It is completely irrelevant. The USA has decoupled themselves from the global automotive markets.

The innovation and the transition are happening in Europe and in China. Those are the regions driving EV technology forward.

The USA will have to decide whether they forever want expensive polluting American vehicles, or whether they will consider cheap, climate friendly imports. And you know what - that could go either way.

Exactly. This is inflationary policy, not deflationary. The depression in prices is just temporary.

But the US seem to really struggle to understand it.

Exactly. I would expect better from the Atlantic, but here we are.

This is part of the plan. China has built up a huge EV industry in 18 years, a vast, diverse, vibrant, and innovate ecosystem and supply chain.

Now it needs to be trimmed down. The government has said repeatedly that there are too many EV companies, and they want only the best to survive.

So there will be a market concentration. Mergers, acquisitions, and bankruptcies are to be expected. The result will be a stronger industry with better quality.

Far from the death nail in the industry, this will establish it as one of the leading EV producing regions.

While there are mechanical airbags, they would not pass a modern crash test.

And mechanical antilock brakes existed for the railway, but I don't think they were ever popular on cars.

ESP is now a requirement, which would really stretch the capability of a mechanical gyro.

And then there is eCall - surely that needs electronics?

This is quite common nowadays, that services are not working, and people are acting stupid.

She should not have assumed that this just gets sorted.

The court should have forced the ex to disband the family group.

The police should come down on him for unauthorised computer espionage.

Apple can help, but they just don't want to.

And obviously the ex is being an ass, but for once, he is not alone in that.

> But using reasonable models or competent risk management and acting on the results would have prevented it.

This. The risk is well understood and usually well managed. This is pure incompetence of the Spanish grid operator.

The report tried very hard to spin it otherwise, calling it "unprecedented". Yes, it is unprecedented, because nobody else was that stupid.

It might be relative to where they came from.

I always thought it was weird that Chromebooks have more capable hardware than mobile phones, but much less capable software. They only had the browser, and Chrome Apps, while Android has a lot more capabilities.

Chrome Apps are already sunset, so it is very clear that Android is coming to Chromebooks. And yes, it will be nice, but still short of what the hardware is capable of.

So, we will shut them down, right? Like any criminal organisation?

Yep. And you can sum that up in three points:

1. Immigration (and migration in general)
2. Democrats trying to be everything to everybody.
3. Voters acting in bad faith

This is where we are. What is not clear is how we get to some place productive. 1 is an impossible dilemma. 2 could be solved, but it is hard, and it will lose some votes. 3 is the big obstacle.

> I may have some (limited) compassion for people doing that, but that completely vanished when they start to call for violence against others, regard others as inferior and dehumanize them.

This. I was very concerned that politicians are acting in bad faith, until I realised that voters are also acting in bad faith.

We have a representative democracy, and these things do not happen with support from the bottom.

Exactly.

Half the reason for user based security is to protect users from each other. That is the reason we have accounts in the first place.

So attacks from your own user base should always be on the radar.

The same applies across Europe, the regulations are grounded in EU and very similar across countries.

The outrage in the article is synthetic. I call to make something illegal that is already illegal. (Electric motorcycles that have no type approval, no insurance, and no business in public.)

> I see e-bikes from across the pond that absolutely I think should be outright fucking banned. Able to drive 40+km/h, able to do so without pedal assist (not an e-bike despite being sold as one, actually a moped), excessively heavy, shit breaks, and lights that are worse than a car with high-beams. This shit should be regulated, and I say that as an e-bike owner.

These illegal electric motorcycles are common, but illegal on the road.

There is no regulation necessary, because motor vehicle are illegal on the road unless regulated.

The article is shit.

It confuses pedelecs, which are tightly regulated and limited to 15mph, with illegal electric motorcycles.

While pedelecs have some risk for injury, it is really not much different from a bicycle.

Illegal electric motorcycles, on the other hand, are more dangerous than motorcycles. Which should not be surprising.

Obviously, banning pedelecs is not going to solve the problem of illegal electric motorcycles.

> Car manufacturers are terrible at IT.

Absolutely,

Recently, the EU has increased regulation, and they now require a basic IT security concept for every vehicle sold. Not a certification, not a specific approach, just a basic definition.

And did the manufacturers do? Withdraw a whole bunch of models from sale. Because they did not even have a basic IT security concept, and they did not think they could create one.

So yes, IT security in automotive is certainly an issue.