/. regular SuperKendall lies about his professional qualifications and that's OK, /. is full of regular posters who lie constantly and promote candidates for President who are daily liars.. In a culture of pathological lying, why isn't this just fine? Lying for me, not for thee?

I suspect you are the liar. I have never lied on a resume and I have interviewed plenty that do not appear to have lied either.

"I don't think auto manufacturers will be moving to encrypted tire sensors anytime soon."

They are more likely to transition cars to clean coal.

No, you are not. I'm within 50 meters of countless cars every day yet I'm not tracking any of them.

However, a better point is to what end? The information itself is worthless, only associating it with a traveling vehicle to track the vehicle could be, yet there are other ways to track vehicles. And is reading tire pressures from remarkably far away and efficient way to implement tracking in volume? Seems like a crappy way to do something that is otherwise not hard, not to mention that while there may be "a unique identifier ... that never changes during the lifetime of the tire", what tire and what car? To get information about you they still need more. Wait until these "researchers" find out about license plates!

"...That's because Meta's large language models (LLMs) often require people to annotate visual data so that the AI can understand it and build its training models..."

Is that true though? It's not even clear for LLM's generally, visual data tends to require the most annotation but that doesn't mean it's "often". And a lot of annotation required is for driving, is Meta doing that? I'd say this is a corporate lie, and excuse that fits with their desire to do whatever they want.

Also, an AI doesn't need to "understand it" to build "its training models". Ignoring the ambiguity of "it" here, annotation tells an AI what data is, data may be annotated as part of training or to build "training data", but there are no "training models", models are the result of training. The person who wrote this is not a technical person, more likely a spokesman paid to tell the corporation's lies.https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/03/1926214/metas-ai-display-glasses-reportedly-share-intimate-videos-with-human-moderators?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed#

"Everyone in America realizes at this point that hiding behind "the government promises to obey the law" was never particularly believable but has become farcical in 2026."

Cannot say it any better. Under the best of circumstances we should be concerned about the government. These are the worst of circumstances, though.

Tesla is the worst, most incompetent car company on the planet, so much so that they claim they aren't even a car company. Tesla is a vehicle for committing fraud and grabbing government subsidies. Just like every other Musk business.

Their death is ensured, only the schedule is in question. Tesla cannot compete in an industry that requires execution, they have none and cannot develop any.

This is not a requirement for EV adoption, nor is it justifiable. Worse yet, ICE vehicles offer no such convenience, yet you ignored that very point in the OP. Talk about dense, truly MAGA.

And many charging needs can be satisfied with L1 charging, the "240V 20A or better" claim is false.

It is true, though, that widespread adoption requires infrastructure investments. It is also true that gas stations and refineries don't maintain themselves.

"EVs basically restrict a person to the superchargers or being rich enough to own a house made recently."

This is not true, cities can, and do, have L2 charging infrastructure. The choice isn't between a house and L3 charging. I know that might be challenging for you to understand.

"So, boomers."

Stupid claims can always be improved with bigotry, right?

"And recoup 90% of the energy at the next red light."

That is false, physics is a bitch. Regenerative braking is NOWHERE near 90% efficient and BEVs typically return about 20% of energy to the battery, far less in freeway use.

"It's obviously completely unnecessary and wasteful to need 1000 hp in a regular car,.."

A trend interestingly caused by Elon Musk, a fraud who's only sales pitch came from the 70's and whose cars exhibit quality from that era.

"...most families have two or three (or more) cars."

I don't believe this to be true, although data exists that support it. That data regards "households" while you have said "families", this is not the same. What is your definition of a family"?
The US census reports that the average family size is a bit over 3, yet it also reports that half of all "householders" are single. See the problem? Single people do not have "two or three or more cars". More important is "cars per person" and usage per person, "families" and "households" just confound. But worse yet...

"...you need that many chargers, because everyone has to full recharge each night."

This is laughably false, both because "everyone" does NOT have to full recharge each night nor do they need to charge at the same time. Given the average number of miles driven per day, a three car family would drive about 120 miles per day, needing perhaps 40kWh of charging per day. With current L2 charge rates, this can be satisfied in 4 hours of total charge time of a single charger, and it can be done by charging a single vehicle each night. More than that, L1 chargers require no special infrastructure at home and can supplement or replace L2 chargers. You could not be more wrong about this.

"Wishing there were chargers all over the place does not make it so."

And campaigning against them ensures it will remain not so. Gasoline requires investment too, it's always interesting that only electric's problems are insurmountable.

"An EV can handle the 100-200 daily miles that most Americans drive."

This is grossly misleading, most Americans drive less than 40 daily miles. This is not an error, it is intentional.

"I have no idea where you're getting that 30 miles number."

Did you try Google?

"Here on the east coast in major cities, it's more like 50 -200 miles a day, all told. 30 miles a day is just going to the grocery store and the doctor, and you do that in ADDITION to your commute. (That that's weekdays. You drive a LOT further on the weekends.) Because everyone lives in the suburbs. That's why the commute to work is typically 45-90 minutes each way."

A testimony to convincing yourself of bullshit.

All good points, but it should also be understood that fewer and fewer people can afford homes and the population is increasingly transitioning to lives where "charging at home" is not viable. That is a huge problem for EV adoption and an issue to exploit for MAGA. BEV is a great solution for the majority but it does require some changes to lifestyle and investment in infrastructure. There is an all-out war to prevent that investment.

"As opposed to depending on lithium produced in China."

If you hate people enough, everyone is an enemy. It's the core fuel that MAGA runs on. If MAGA was gone, neither Iran nor China would be a problem.

"I'm not saying you're wrong, but you're also not right."

No he's right. And what you're saying is don't forget that China is also the enemy.

"EVs are not a sensible option for the majority of Americans..."

Especially if government actions discourage it. We could work to solve those problems, but it's better to hate the Chinese instead. Right.

"Nevermind how bad they are for the environment vs gas powered vehicles."

Yeah, "nevermind" that, whatever it is.

"f we could get an energy source which wasn't so short lived and comparably ecologically less destructive ... but lithium is kinda a bad deal in that regard."

Because MAGA thinks that Lithium is a Chinese "energy source". Says it all, right there.

"...and let the market move on its own."
Government subsidies exist for when this doesn't happen, at least not fast enough. You have subsidies to promote new markets in the interests of the people, BEVs are a perfect example.

"However I recognize that the "free" market hasn't really existed for some years, so maybe that's a silly thought."
It's a silly thought that this is a free market issue. The interests of society are not always satisfied by free markets, not that we have them.

It is cheaper to buy the government, make the rules and steal the wealth than it is to compete for it with merit. That's where we are now, this isn't a BEV issue but a MAGA identify politics issue. No one wants V8's, they just want a car they can afford to buy and operate, hopefully that doesn't destroy the planet in the process. The V8 is just a BS narrative to justify terrible politics, it will disappear as rapidly as it was resurrected. The people can no longer afford to buy homes and new cars, so who is it demanding V8s?