If people wanted to do things quickly, theyâ(TM)d want physical buttons that are always in the same place.
Sure a quick digital interface is better than a slow one, but it will never be more convenient or faster than physical switches or toggles.
I can adjust my AC temp, put it on full blast, toggle the defogger and put on my heated seat in under 2 seconds using physical, tactile buttons. In that time youâ(TM)ve barely turned your head toward the screen to have to look at. Because they will change the interface whenever they like using OTA updates.

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I think the point is that now scientists donâ(TM)t even want to go there anymore, and Spain is hijacking the project as a more palatable location.

They aren't required to favor their competition over themselves. They just aren't allowed to favor themselves over competition.
If they're better, they'll succeed anyway. If their worse, we don't want them to favor a worse offering just because of near-monopolistic market dominance?

Ah, so does that work in all EU-countries? Or just in yours?

You think the government doesnâ(TM)t already have access to all your CC and bank transfers if they care? On top of tour bank and the processor?

Sweet summer child.

The theory is that he's willing to protect the democrats in the files if it helps him and his cronies in getting away too.
But the very obviously selecting redacting of the files still speaks volumes about how the government is trying to shift the focus to anyone but their friends.
Like how Bill Barr, who closed the Epstein "suicide" investigation within days, is starting to pop up in documents at an alarming rate... For every democrat-aligned person in there, there's a dozen Repubs.

Just release it all. Nail everyone who's implicated in wrongdoing. Stop trying to distract from what is a way bigger scandal than Watergate.

I always feel it's the opposite. I'm used to seeing the final price, and anything tacked on will make me cancel the purchase at the basket.
Seeing an 80 dollar product with free shipping is a lot better than a 60 dollar product which then tacks on 20 bucks for shipping. For one thing, a refund will be 80 dollars, not 60.

I think Americans are used to not trusting the listed price because sales taxes are added on top, where's most of the rest of the world requires listing the final price.
Same thing with hotel fees.

Do we know the bit flip happened in memory and not elsewhere?
Either way, these systems should have triple redundancy for these signal corruption cases. Only accept input that two sources agree on.

Why doesn't the office parking lot have charging points? Is the US a third world country?

Why would you have to sit in a station to charge, when grocery stores can build chargers in their parking spaces?
This is already being solved in developed countries. I know people who fuel up their Plug-in hybrids twice a year, because their 30 mile range is enough to get them between work, the store and home, with options to charge at any of these locations.
Putting in a charger is not a big job.

Yeah, the infrastructure argument is such BS. The ICE ban means only sales of new cars, which in combination with the average age of cars in the EU means we'll still have ICE cars on our roads well into the 2040's if not 2050's. An ICE car sold in 2034, 9 years(!) from new will be halfway through its lifespan in 2045.
That means a child born today could buy a reasonable used ICE car for their first car in 20 years. I do not understand the "customer's choice" argument from this perspective at all. Like should we have NOT banned lead in gasoline because "customer's choice"? Sheesh.

For the sake of maintaining the fun, put in a small exception for tiny production runs of sub 1000 cars or something for manufacturers to create something for enthusiasts and hobbyists.

If people like manual gearboxes, why don't they buy them? BMW offers like 3 or 4 models with manual as an option, with the uptake rate between 15-65%, with the rate dropping the higher the performance of the car.

I fully agree that BMW has invested a lot in EVs and they have actually proven all the neysayers who claimed Tesla was going to replace them wrong.
What I don't agree with is this struggle to postpone the inevitable just because it means that their investments in ICE are going to become almost worthless, and thus will hit their balances. A CEO saying something should always be taken within context of who the intended audience is. And here I think the audience is the ICE-or-die crowd, and anyone looking at BMWs financial health from a view of the burden of old investments into what's about to become "legacy tech".

Full disclosure: I drive a manual BMW with a V8. I love it. I don't think they've ever made another as good as that one. So why keep trying? ;)

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Sorry, but your view of Europe is very skewed and NOT data-driven. It's only UK, Ireland, The Netherland and Belgium where that type of housing is the most common.
ALL other countries are dominated by housing types favorable to either public transit, or private parking with charing opportunities. Think detached houses with garage or parking, or multi-family homes with multi-car garages or parking lots.
For multi-family homes in the city centres of big cities, most of their residents probably don't have cars and use public transit.

From Eurostat:
For the European Union in 2020 (27 countries), there were 187 million occupied residential dwellings, of which 100 million were multi-family dwellings of at least 3 apartment. Two-dwelling buildings were 14,4 million, and single-family homes (including those pesky terrassed houses) clock in at 73,2 million.
Detached houses house 35% of the EU population, apartments house 48% and semi-detached (i.e duplexes and terrassed housing) house 16% of the population.

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Yes, because they intend to replace buses and metros with this... *rolleyes* It's more sustainable than people owning their own ICE cars, or renting them, for occasional travel where normal public transit isn't workable. Or for companies to shuttle a small number of employees or guests around town or corporate campus. More sustainable than other autonomous vehicles that only take 2 passengers (Tesla, Waymo). There are use cases for less than 50 seats, and we don't need fuel-burning private vehicles for those cases.

Iâ(TM)m suggesting that in a couple years, whatever you want to see will have charging options at location or on the way, and EVs will have range enough that you wonâ(TM)t have an issue driving a return trip anyway. And even if you did find a place with no electricity, you always have the option of renting an ICE car for that exotic trip. While enjoying the benefits of EVs the other 362 days a year. The main point is, moaning about a 30 minute charge (or two 15 minute charges or three 10 minute charges) over multiple hours worth of driving sounds ridiculous. Iâ(TM)ve done road trips of several thousand miles, and not once have I felt that I needed to drive for longer distances than an EV has range without stopping, especially since I was on vacation. Can we come up with some hugely elaborate itinerary and time plan that technically an EV canâ(TM)t do while an ICE car can? Sure. Are these trips ever realistic or enjoyable as vacation plans? Rarely.