There has been zero meaningful shift to Sodium anywhere on the planet. That includes households where Lithium ion is still about the only functioning product on the retail market and Sodium is relegated to a few test products by a couple of start-ups.

Calm your enthusiasm.

You really are living in an alternate reality aren't you. No, there are zero short range vehicles running on sodium batteries. Changan announced one model may get sodium cells, but right now ships with LPF cells.

Tell us, is Superman a good guy on your earth?

Were you asleep the past 6 months? https://www.reuters.com/world/...
That's already happened.

Most road accidents do not fall under those three categories.

Huh? He spoke purely numbers, not some imaginary words written down somewhere, enforced when someone is watching on people who may not give a shit. There's one person here being not objective, and that's you.

I've got a dim view of FSD in general, but the principle is still very much correct. It's not fucking difficult to be a better driver than a human.

What in the ever-loving fuck are you on about? Are you suggesting it's only this generation that does stupid shit and gets into accidents because they don't know how to drive or drive drunk? This is beyond "rose coloured glasses" and into territory that could be described as "outright blind".

Fun fact, teenagers of every generation were immature shits, you too. And many of them across all generations never grew up.

Given how much power USAID has given America globally I don't know what you're trying to compare, so I'm just going to say "yes".

Nope, this is millions spent on enhancing medical breakthroughs and making the lives of everyone potentially better. That a single guy lived as a result is just a lucky coincidence.

Who said they are idiots? Most likely just trolls. Confronting them will do nothing but waste everyone's time.

Why would you? Driving a stick is out of necessity, nothing more. The manual transmission is a workaround for the ICE engine being incapable of providing torque from 0 RPM. Automatic transmissions have outperformed them in all areas to the point where professionals prefer them (including those chasing the highest performance), they are incompatible with hybrids, and transmissions aren't needed at all for EVs. How many people you know these days who can shoe a horse?

This goes double for the USA where stick shifts are a rare beast and people generally have among the lowest will to travel outside of their country in the developed world. It's not a "needed" skill.

Sorry what was that? I couldn't hear you over GM and Ford being too big to fail and getting a huge bail out from the American government.

That much is definitely true. The American companies (save for Tesla) and to a lesser extent the European companies don't have a frigging clue how to make an EV.

Anecdote: We had a friend park an Opel Corsa E (that's General Motors for you Americans) park in front of our house for 12 weeks and when the owner came to collect it we had to call road side assistance because the 12V battery was flat and the car wouldn't start. Comparatively if I park my Chinese EV anywhere for longer than a week it powers up, fires up the inverter, and gives the 12V battery a top up from the traction battery.

To reiterate, Opel produced a car that can get stranded due a flat battery while there's a fully charged 58kWh battery pack next to it.

EV's from American car companies must have been designed by people using crayons and having carers telling them not to eat them.

You know how many "American cars" are not made in America? It's not just China either (Buick, Cadillac, and Lincoln (god damn Abra-fucking-ham Lincoln) have models made in China and then imported to the USA for local sale) (yes nested brackets (we're all programmers here)), but many USA cars are also manufactured in Mexico or other undesirable places beyond Trump's great wall.

The auto industry is seen as sacred in many parts of the world. One of the things about it is just how many people are adjacent to it. Ford doesn't manufacture cars, it's manufactures some components, buys thousands of others, and then assembles cars. Direct employment by car companies in the USA covers some 380,000 people, but the employment of the extended automotive sector including suppliers, some of which would absolutely go under if car companies stopped purchasing form them, is by some estimated at over 10 million people in the USA.

Officer: Why did you rear end the car in front of you?
Me: I had to take my eyes off the road and find the speed somewhere on the crammed infotainment system. I eventually found it just above the Spotify playlist, next to the navigation, but it disappeared underneath a popup that said the airbag has been deployed.

Because this isn't the market, it's one model. My car is new and has an instrument cluster and no option to remove it.

Reprogramming a turntable? Especially an audiophile turntable? My friend there's not an ounce of code in it. It's a motor that spins when you apply power, connected to a belt. You put the record on and drop the tone arm where you want it, either manually or using a mechanical release device.

What you you reprogramming here? The laws of physics? The electron flow? The magnetic flux?