China has repeatedly been caught using slave labor. We have a domestic Auto industry we do not need China's cars and we cannot possibly compete with a country making widespread use of slave labor.

Now America has its own problem with slave labor because we brought it back with prisoners. It's so bad that we literally have people who have been refused parole so that they can continue to work as slaves. Google it is not hard to find.

But just because we're fucking up doesn't mean we let somebody else also fuck up. The correct solution is we stop fucking up and then we don't tolerate other people fucking up. Slave labor is non-negotiable.

Or it used to be. A lot changed in 2016.

Because we're not giving them cars. Cars are too expensive and insurance is too expensive for most families now so the teenager doesn't bother going to drive because they don't have any money or resources to go anywhere. They don't have their own car and their parents sell them can give them access to the family car because it's being used to drive Uber to make rent that month.

You see this over and over again. We fuck up the economy and ruin the lives of young people and take away their future. Then they get bitter and angry and depressed because they have no future. They don't try to do things that are literally impossible. They don't try to pull themselves up by their bootstraps because that was a phrase to describe doing something stupid that we somehow turned into a good thing. Because we are dumb.

Then when the kids won't play along and make us feel good about all the fucking dumb shit we did to them we get angry at them. And we blame them like good old Seymour Skinner.

This is why your kids stopped calling you and why they don't invite you to Thanksgiving dinner anymore. You're insufferable. And when this is pointed out instead of saying yeah you're right I'm sorry I'll change you double down and get angry. And that's what makes you insufferable.

kids aren't growing up because we coddle them they're not growing up because we destroyed the economy and there's nothing left for them. We took it all and we didn't even keep it for ourselves we gave it to the Epstein class to keep it out of the hands of an imaginary enemy.

They might be remote control cars like the waymos are piloted it from the Philippines. But muskrat typically just doesn't even give a rat's ass enough to do something like that. I would not be surprised if these things aren't just running with the same broken software that the rest of the Teslas run on and if that turns out to be the case several people are going to get killed before these are removed from the market.

It will however pump the stock and muskrat is completely untouchable. The law just doesn't apply to him.

If you can't even separate the concept of zero emissions from the concept of end of life *inert* waste then I'm sorry man not amount of education can correct whatever accident happened upon your brain as a baby.

Who is we? We have evidence that mammals migrated all throughout the world as their needs develop. One interesting thing they didn't have is imaginary lines that separate one part of land as "mine" and the other part of land as "yours".

The species may survive, but I expect doing so will be the process of recovering from another war. God knows Republicans collectively shit themselves when a few people on foot are seen walking in a 3rd world country towards their piece of "mine", imagine when entire populations attempt to get up and migrate.

You're going for sarcasm, but it really is. Keeping the perfectly liveable one liveable requires a concerted effort of billions. Changing an environment on the behest of a few billionaires is just business as usual. Case in point: Epstein island.

If they did that, there would be exclusives to cloud gaming. If they did that, the games on xbox cloud gaming couldn't be downloaded and run locally. The slippery slope fallacy is still a logical fallacy.

You have that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also thanks for the fond trip down memory lane. It's been ages since I watched a Mr Bean episode :-)

And Tesla's also exist. Just because some cars make stupid design decisions doesn't mean everyone needs to copy them.

I would be. Systems like that often require realtime monitoring from far more than one place. They probably have careful routing infrastructure ensuring data is designed to flow one way, but air-gapped systems (even highly critical ones) are vanishingly rare due to the incredible loss of functionality that provides.

I'm sure comparing a new car to getting someone's second hand handmedowns nowadays to make the math work is reaaaaaaalllllllly making your point that the previous generation didn't have it better off /s

Actually there's only 4 cars ever put in production with drive by wire steering. Cybertruck, the top trim of Mercedes EQS, Lexus RZ, and the Infinity Q50 (this one has a clutch override).

Every car on the road not one of these has a direct mechanical connection between the wheel and the road. It includes power steering assist, and in cars which self drive the computer can apply force to the wheel, notable not a single one of those 4 cars can apply enough torque on the wheel to overpower even a small woman yanking on the steering wheel.

The same kind of system applies to the brakes. You have a mechanical connection between breaks and wheels. ABS can apply a secondary force reduction that is limited in duration. But it's not braking by wire. The computer can also apply a separate breaking action not linked to the brake pedal.

The only truly drive by wire system you have is the accelerator, and that's been true since the days of fuel injection.

There's nothing small and useless about it. The traditional dash is sized based on the need to get a physical dial display to fit. Comparatively this display will show all the usual icons at the same size you're used to, and display the speed larger than you are used to.

Why EVs? HMI design. Dials are a horrible interface for adding speed as the rate is change is not important to the driver. On the flip side tacho is important for rate of change to time gear changes so it functions better as a dial (and digital replicas give increasing led staged indicators for that reason).

There's no need for dials on EVs.
There's no need for every light to be it's own place on an LCD
As such there's no need for a physically large display.

How has anyone here been screwed? It's audacity, not windows 11. Precisely zero people are forced to upgrade and the software still works the way it always does.

Is that every time someone experiences Joy they pay that corporation for it. There is nothing no matter how small or how Petty or how nasty a modern corporation won't monetize to the full extent that they can under the law or over the law if the fines are less than the profits.

I bring it up because they've been trying to turn video games into a pay per moment of gameplay service for quite some time. Forget microtransactions and forget renting games it absolutely infuriates them that you might purchase a game and play it for dozens or even hundreds of hours and not constantly pay for every moment of that Joy. Years ago Activision's CEO said exactly that.