Wow, that's like back in the old days when you could bypass a login on a webpage by guessing the URL

Sure, it'd be most fair, but you just know somebody is going to want full time govt tracking of all vehicles and then there'll be a bunch of drama

That was what I was wondering, apart from that it'd be AI assisted script kiddies as easily as a nation state.

Around here they make up for it in registration fees. Although they're a bit tilted right now since it is a flat fee on an average rather than something directly measured against your mileage. So, we pay a little more than we ought to, but I suppose it is better than having the state need to monitor my mileage.

Yes, that and that in a pinch, you can level 1 charge anywhere there is sufficient infrastructure to run a gas pump. To really be too far in the boonies for an EV means you'd be better off with a horse.

If electricity runs ahead of fuel in cost then we'll have bigger problems than personal transportation

It creates a bunch more institutional risk in regards to security clearances, amongst others.

APNews and Reuters already exist, although they will occasionally soften headlines a bit

It can be pretty expensive and the billing can be very opaque, like an itemized bill from your mechanic where half the cost is itemized and the rest is 'trust me bro' because they're building this stuff too fast for their billing methodologies to keep up.

With Anandtech long dead I suppose their competition is more stuff like GamersNexus these days

Why would you think that? They didn't find cuts of meat; if biomolecular chains couldn't persist this long we wouldn't have coal and oil. The conditions required for this sound like a peat bog, which is great for mummification, followed by mineralization, then without the strata later getting compressed enough to destroy the fossil. The interesting part is that we were able to devise techniques to recover and identify the material, that it was there isn't as surprising.

There's still folks bringing up tire dust like my ICE minivan doesn't weigh the same as an EV anyhow, while ignoring that an EV has less the emissions and brake dust. I'm surprised they haven't gone back to riding horses.

It does seem weird that these guys think that anyone will pay for their vibe coded garbage if just anyone with an AI subscription can vibe code their own garbage... don't even need to steal the source code, just the prompt! Or, conversely, the AI companies trying to get their valuation to the total sum of human labor, which... if you're worth all the money you're also worth no money because our society as structured can't work without people selling their labor, and I don't think these guys are clever enough to manage a transition to some post-money utopia.

Shaka when the walls fell

Oh well even easier to charge at a non-primitive campsite or AirBnB