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Comment just get rid of EV charging altogether (Score 4, Interesting) 162

I don't understand why EVs need to be charged. Eliminate the charging process entirely and just swap in an empty battery with a pre-charged one. A robot can do it in less than a minute. For this, all batteries need to be standardized. We do this with electronics batteries, so it should be a no-brainer.

Comment I am skeptical (Score 2) 280

Consider the ATM. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of these machines that days of bank tellers would have been numbered? Yet as I walk my around my neighborhood, I can find a dozen banks all with a full complement of tellers. There are way MORE teller jobs now decades after ATMs became ubiquitous than there were before the machines.

Consider tolls. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of EZ-Pass that the days of toll clerks would have been numbered? Yet when do you ever not see a long line of cars in toll clerk lanes? These workers are super busy.

Consider the self-checkout lanes at supermarkets. Wouldn't one think at the introduction of these lanes that days of checkout clerks would have been numbered? I have this feeling the same thing is happening to bank tellers and toll clerks will happen to them, too. There will be more opportunity, not less.

For reasons unclear, our predictions are turning out be wrong.

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