Can't wait until AI makes a security hole and a billion dollars' worth of cryptocurrency disappears overnight.

All of the chargers that I've stopped at in BC (in between cities) have been in big open areas or parks where you can walk your dog. The OnRoute stops also have green areas.

I greatly suspect that the thing you're asking for is actually not any sort of problem at all, you just haven't looked into it so you don't know. I'm not gonna do your homework for you (more than I already have) but you can actually just search for this stuff. Or, frankly, you can just set out and not worry about it, because a) your car isn't going to take 30 minutes to charge; and b) you're likely to end up near some green space anyway. Just pick up after your dog. That's what people walking their dogs in the city do when the dog doesn't wait for a park or a lawn.

Have you? We live in a society, my guy. Just because you lack planning skills doesn't mean that everyone else should have to choke on your exhaust. Electricity (even from coal plants) is cleaner and more efficient than burning petrol in an engine. It's also much cheaper than gasoline. But in all likelihood, your state has SOME mix of renewable power in there, which just makes it better.

Anyway, if you just plug your car in at home, you leave with a full charge every day. It's LESS time spent filling up.

I lived in an apartment in Montreal. I had street parking. The building had an outdoor socket. I would park near my building whenever I could because I actually drove my car so little that I needed to string a power cable to run a battery charger. I got around the sidewalk blocking by throwing it over the branch of a nearby tree, but I could've found a dozen other ways to do it.

But look, you're not wrong that it's stupid that I even had to do that much. People should have better access to charging. But frankly, the amount you need to charge an EV is surprisingly minimal. There are dozens of level 2 chargers in my city (of 30k--I moved away from Montreal) and many of them are even free; a perk of patronizing one of the businesses in town. The ones that aren't free are pretty cheap. Level 2 isn't fast, but it's enough to keep you on the road. Even a level 3 charger in the middle of nowhere (there's long stretches of nowhere in Canada, and in some of those nowheres, the government has built chargers) costs half as much per unit distance as petrol.

Cities should build more infrastructure for people that park on the street, 100%, no argument. But you really just don't need to care very much, it turns out. Small sips of power here and there will keep you going for a long time.

Listen, ding-dongs, the 'explanation' is ALSO just generated pseudo-random text. It's still just telling you what it thinks you want to hear based on some training data and network weights. It can't introspect, it can't tell you why, it has no memory of doing anything, per se. It goes back and looks at the log maybe, or more likely it just reads that you want an explanation for something and just creates it based on that little bit of text.

I bet you could go to any LLM, tell it to pretend that this whole ordeal is that chatbot's backstory, and it would spin you the same yarn.

IT'S HALLUCINATIONS ALL THE WAY DOWN.

Can these things write some pretty okay code sometimes? Sure, yeah. Can you trust any 'reasoning'? NO. STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Just proof that AMERICAN government is bad.

Other governments all over the world manage to build rail systems, it's just here in North America that we're deeply useless.

Side mirrors almost always leave a large blind spot directly behind and close to the vehicle. There's a reason that when firefighters are reversing their appliances they always have at least one of the crew physically get out and watch the area behind the vehicle.

Even a rear window and rear view mirror almost always leave a significant blind spot low and close behind the vehicle, which is why reversing cameras became a thing. When they're done well, they really are significantly safer, as well as sometimes making it a lot more reliable for most people to park the vehicle in difficult spaces.

One of the modern innovations I really would like to have is full AR on my windscreen. I want unexpected hazards highlighted in real time, particularly those that are more easily detectable by non-visual sensors, like big potholes or animals obscured by vegetation near the side of a country road. I want the actual driving line I need to take to follow my planned route through complex junctions overlaid slightly on my view of the road ahead. I want light amplification for night driving, ideally combined with some other technology that can reduce the glare from oncoming headlights to prevent dazzle.

Although I only want all of this if (a) it's implemented well and (b) any additional data it uses is reliably up-to-date and (c) there's an emergency shut-off that instantly clears everything off the windscreen in case anything goes wrong.

Don't worry. You probably have funky modern door handles that don't work when the power goes out anyway. Not that the power in an EV is likely to go out if it's underwater or on fire or anything.

Oh, don't be silly. Next you'll be making even more absurd claims, like that car theft was already a solved problem 20 years ago thanks to immobilisers, or that having separate physical controls for essential functions that you can find and use without taking your eyes off the road for several seconds to mess around with a touchscreen is safer, or that no-one ever hacked 100,000 cars at once from 1,000 miles away back when they didn't have always-on remote connectivity and allow OTA updates to their essential control systems.

Yes, as long as you're the one in the big, heavy car, it's great. Shame if you're the kid it's reversing over though.

Do you ever use reverse gear? What's behind you is pretty important when you're going backwards...

Where is one of the last places you'd expect a rear-view mirror?

The SR-71 had one.

The practical use case was checking the deployment of the landing parachute.

Speaking of forensics, if you're a law-abiding citizen who just wants to keep private information private, iOS lockdown mode will reported halt the Coruna forensics tool in its tracks. Source, Eva Galperin at EFF. It's a royal PITA to use though.

Or, as Robert Morris Sr. said about breaking confidential communications, "Look for plaintext. It comes up in the darnedest place", or words to that effect.