This is the reason why Timmy had a child tantrum on twitter when Steam decided it would add an AI tag games containing AI allowing consumers to avoid this goopy turd like the cholera it contains.
Once the EV market share reaches a certain level, it tends to explode.
You can only believe so much FUD and bullshit before you look around you, see everything driving an EV like it's a normal car or something, and start questioning whether you were wrong and an EV is also suitable for you. Either that or you channel your inner Principle Skinner "Am I out of touch? No it's the kids who are wrong."
Combustion engines have already been heavily cost optimized
You can only cost optimise a design which still has thousands of components so far. One of the reasons for China's rise in car companies is that once people looked at how "easy" and EV was to produce they realised any idiot could do it. And they aren't that far from being right. EVs compared to ICE vehicles are orders of magnitude less complex. One of the biggest reasons for the high cost of EVs remains the recouperation of investment costs in new platforms and new factories for their production.
Legacy car companies largely compete on price for their ICE vehicles, so none of them want to jack up the prices of their ICE vehicles to spread the cost of building new facilities, tooling, and supply chains across their existing product line. In China that is easier, the supply chains are massively setup to cater for EVs.
China is dumping.
9 of the 10 most prominent EV markets in the world (outside China) have tariffs applied commensurate to China's "dumping" (actually state subsidised production), and yet the cars are still cheaper than options from the west. I know it's hard to believe that a vehicle with hundreds of components is cheaper than one with thousands, but the western car industry is hell bent on piling the cost of new EV factories into your bill keeping the cost of their EVs artificially high while selling gasoline vehicles and telling you they aren't a good financial option.
As for your link, the funny part about it is, it's entirely driven by perception thanks to people (like you) spreading bullshit FUD about EVs. Also cars aren't an investment, they are a utility. If you're concerned about their resale value then you're car-ing wrong.
We still have too many gaps.
No you don't. Unless you go camping in the wilderness there's virtually no trip you can't do in the USA on an EV. The USA was the first country to have nation wide quick charging infrastructure, and it has only gotten better. There seems to be a complete misinformation campaign that is pushing this idea that the USA simply isn't suitable for EVs, and EV drivers just have no idea what all the other people are talking about and just get about their daily lives.
Your excuse is lame, pick the next one down from the list.
Another reason for the gap between Norway and the rest of the nordics is that chinese EVs are freely available in Norway, whereas the EU (that includes Denmark, Finland and Sweden) regulates their import.
Regulation != Not freely available. Name your Chinese company of choice and you can find them freely available on the market in the EU. Bonus points, even with the additional (tiny) tariff applied due to the EU rules against China sponsoring their own industry, they are still the cheapest and best bang-for buck options on the market.
By the way 9 of the top 10 EV brands for sale in Norway is not Chinese, and the lone standout is Volvo, which many people barely reaslise is Chinese. China is doing fuck all to drive Norway's sales.
Anyone else remember the days where Slashdot's biggest complaint was APK and not bitching about my-side vs your-side, on political disaster du jour?
One legit nuclear operator did a "pilot test" but that shouldn't be taken to imply that it did actual work
I'd be amazed if it didn't. The process industry has been using "AI" on models of their digital twins and historical data of their own plants to make future operational predictions and support decision making for well over a decade now. Hell this was an off the shelf product from Palantir back before OpenAI existed.
Your focus on containment is completely misplaced. Nuclear industry as well as the wider process industry relies on defence in depth. Blaming cheaping out on containment is like blaming your bandaid instead of using a full bandage when your body has broken out with sores due to herpes.
The focus is on preventing incidents, not mitigating them. That's not to say that both didn't fuck up there too, Fukushima's emergency cooling design was just stupid, and Chernobyl actually allowed operators to do something truly fucking dumb at the direction of someone dumb asking them to do the dumb thing (there's a reason safety systems take control away from people, people are fucking dumb).
Containment is a mitigation. If you are relying on a mitigation measure you've already beyond fucked up.
I doubt it. I presume they mean having a trained model of a digital twin and feeding current operational data into it to make future predictions. This isn't new by the way. The process industry has been using "AI" like this for well over a decade, long before the lay person could even spell AI let alone knew what a "prompt" was. These kinds of tools were and still are remarkable, the nuclear industry is just as they always are, 10 years late to the game.
The tools don't make decisions. They formulate decision papers. At no point is a human not the final decider.
AI in this context doesn't make a management decision. It replaces 100s of hours of technical analysis when writing reports. It is trendy to shit on AI in general, but we're not talking about generic level ChatGPT running your reactor here. The wider process industry has been using "AI" for well over a decade to make the kind of decisions that TFS is talking about. It just wasn't trendy or newsworthy to talk about it, and the nuclear industry is well behind the ball game.
Hell we were using AI models to predict compressor seal failure based on current data being fed into a model that had 30 years of historical operating data for our plant back in 2014. It was already a product Palantir offered back before anyone in the media could even spell AI. And the model was amazingly accurate.
If you were tempted to steal a camera in a water proof housing why didn't you just go for one of the countless speed or traffic cameras that existed while you're in college? What were you afraid of? Being charged with theft? Maybe that'll give you an indication of why it played out as long as it did.
I suspect you're all talk just like everyone else here who claims they would have stolen someone else's property, a party known to have contracts with municipal police. Everyone's brave when typing on a keyboard.
a) The authorities are not political, that's a whole several steps above their pay grade. b) The authoritise a "trusted business partners" and direct beneficiaries of Flock's data collection. They will care, even if your senator of the day pretends to be outraged.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke
