What helps even more are strict drunk driving laws and advertising that makes drunk driving both socially unacceptable and removes licenses/impounds cars. In fact in the UK you can permanently lose your license and have to requalify again after the exclusion period which is no joke with the UK's driving test. As a result the UK has about half the alcohol accident rate (16%) of the US and Canada (31%) and Germany's rate (9%) is almost half that of the UK's.

As long as the US and Canada treat drunk driving as a minor offence unless someone is actually hurt/killed people will keep on drunk driving until that happens so the law does little to nothing to prevent it.

That casual phrasing stuck out like a sore thumb for me. The idea that everyone who actually creates new material for the web is somehow doing it just to help out Microsoft seems like peak arrogance, except that with most Big Tech companies I'm sure they'll find a new way to be even more arrogant next week.

Unfortunately this is the logical endgame of "information wants to be free". If you contribute new information then you are simply feeding the huge players and may never get any sort of reward or even credit for your contribution. With the ways that IP laws are currently being interpreted, that includes content you put on a personal website even if you don't choose to grant a liberal licence permitting reuse elsewhere.

The answer, of course, is that training on other people's data without consent should be prohibited, certainly for commercial use. Blocking this form of exploitation might be the closest act to the original spirit and purpose of copyright that we've encountered in many years. Failing to do this will just result in a vicious circle of low-quality, mass-produced content designed purely to game the system and probably itself written by AI and then the big players training their huge predictive models on an ever worsening data set. Anyone actually doing anything useful and creative will be systematically deterred from sharing that work.

Since communism is, by definition, classless, you cannot both be classist and communist.

Racism is, again by definition, incompatible with abstraction.

My conclusion is that you're pretty shaky on definitions.

My point is that it is not a news story, it's an opinion piece. News stories generally inform the reader of the news in as neutral and balanced way as possible. This was a badly written opinion piece. Going to the sources is the job of the journalist. The fact that even you are suggesting that this is needed means that clearly the so-called journalist did not do their job.

I don't trust the manufacturer, either. That's what the UL listing and certification is for. UL I trust as much as possible. And installing anything like that will require it to be to State electrical code, which is fairly picky on battery storage.

I'm biased. The house I currently live in had the oil burning furnace explode in 2011. It was located in the basement and the fire gutted the kitchen above it. I'm surprised the whole house didn't burn, but there was significant damage.

Where I live it is common for 120 gallon propane tanks to be strapped to the outside wall of the house. Granted, I'm in West Virginia and this place isn't know for intelligence. Safety regulations are for them liberal hippie communist types.

Sigh...no. From the website:

People have heating oil, propane, and kerosene tanks next to their houses all the time and rely solely on the fire-rated tanks. Batteries aren't special in this regard, unless you consider they aren't a liquid that can spread or a gas that can expand so they're safer.

That really isn't their concern, because they're not marketing to the automotive sector, where weight is an issue. Their focus is for stationary storage like data center, grid scale, etc. Weight is no longer a major concern when you aren't hauling it around.

According to this page, energy density in Wh/l is 1/2 to 1/6 that of Lithium. On the other hand, significantly better maximum sustained power and recharge times.

They do mention EV fast charging, but they aren't talking about the car batteries but rather battery storage at the charger so charging stations can level out their power draws and reduce their utility bills.

The promise to only have nuclear weapons controlled by humans is worthless even if given in writing if those humans are going to end up being controlled by AI. We already have algorithms controlling a lot of what people see and hear online and if that trend continues AI will control a lot of \people's view of the world giving it, if not actual control, then at least incredible influence over humans....and good luck if you think we are going to be able to stop that from happening given the economic interests of huge companies like Meta, Google etc.

Well I doubt whoever passed the law regard it that way so just because you might be unable to see another way to describe it does not mean that others can't. That's the great thing about talking to people you may strongly disagree with: you learn how others see things and have someone challenge your own thinking, helping to make your own opinions far more informed.

Good journalism requires that the jouirnalist report on the facts in an unbiased manner as possible. What would have been far more helpful here is a factual description of what Utah's bathroom bill actually says for all of us who do not follow the laws that Utah passes and so have never heard of it. That way I can form my own opinion instead of just hearing what the author's opinion is about something I have no knowledge of. Indeed, even if you insist on sharing your opinion you at least need to inform the reader what the opinion is about!

Motional worked with Hyundai to create fully autonomous (SAE Level 4) Ioniq 5 robotaxis that are currently operating in Las Vegas.

They'd disclosed it but the first one hadn't finished testifying under oath about it. And that matters. The latter has status as evidence in court.

Batteries are typically rated in units of energy i.e. joules or more typically MWh. While they do have a maximum power drain (and charge) raiting that's generally not a helpful number to quote since there is a huge difference in a battery that provides 500MW for 1s vs. 1 day whereas a 500MWh battery can easily be configured for multiple different power draws.

So either you mean 500MWh or else the company you quote are releasing meaningless numbers either because they do not know any better (and this is high school level physics) or are deliberately trying to mislead and neither option suggests anyone should have any confidence in the number.

Yes, they are, which is the problem. Razer slapped some RGB LEDs on a mask and sold it.