He just seems to consistently and vastly underestimate the difficulty of engineering these things. He seems to have thought that Starship was just a case of making a bigger rocket, a few years tops, and then unlimited tankers to orbit so Mars is "easy".

AI is another massive blind spot for him. The original 6 months for full self driving seems to have been based on a misunderstanding of how AI works and how difficult image recognition it. Many of the fatalities caused by Tesla Autopilot are due to it simply not seeing a massive obstacle in the road until it is a fraction of a second away from slamming into it at 130 KPH. Turns out radar is a good idea after all, because it's a failsafe for vision - a fundamentally different mode of operation, covering areas where vision fails. I can imagine him thinking that removing radar would "focus minds" in the vision team, as if that's the reason why it was killing people.

I don't think Pooh and the CCP believe that. They folded over COVID lockdowns, and that's not the only example.

They say no performance impact, presumably meaning compute performance. But what about power efficiency performance?

Well first of all, I hate shopping and I see it as.a waste of time. If I need clothes I go to Costco or Walmart and grab a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and then they are warn for 10 years until they have holes in them. Grocery shopping is a necessary evil but as long as the time can be minimized by going to one place and getting it all done then it is workable. I will buy 100 lbs of Kitty litter at once because it won't go bad and I don't want to do it again.. that's why it comes in 50 lb boxes.

For some reason we are failing to meet in the middle here, let me ask my question one more time that you still have not answered. If you have kids that are in swimming class, it is very unlikely that there will be an Olympic sized swimming pool in your neighborhood. They can very easily have swim 3 evenings and 1 weekend day every week. If that pool is 30 minutes away, three evenings and a quarter of the weekend are already shot for doing your walk to the store. Add music lessons and pretty much half the weekend is shot. Add a technology job that requires working during maintenance windows and there goes maybe another weeknight and Sunday afternoon. So what do you do? Just fill the scraps of remaining time you have to walking to the store, which now you only have time a couple days a week to do?

We crapped our pants and we're gonna KEEP crapping our pants until it becomes fashionable! THHHHHPPPPPPPPPPT

You actually raised the real concern without realizing it. If over 10% of people don't trust EVs than that will make the 10% of ICEs available for only the wealthiest of people who want them. Also, gas stations are not going away. There are still lawn mowers, snow blowers, leaf blowers, chainsaws, generators, dirt bikes, snowmobiles, etc etc. And the economy will still rely on gas.

The things I do for money, I'll never understand
I used to be quite critical but now I find I'm cynical
A lady with a starving baby miles away from me
No problems there, just life and death
What the hell is wrong with me
And everybody else

No questions asked
Just get receipts and write them off
Expenses - taxes are a bitch these days
Yet the lady and the baby starve
Waiting for a contribution in a UNICEF box
In a drugstore in this ugly little town

The things I do for money
I'll never understand
The world is just a marble
In the palm of my hand
The palm of my hand
The palm of my hand
The things I do for money
I'll never understand
The world is just a marble
In the palm of my hand

The things I waste my time on, I'll never understand
I used to be quite practical but now I find I'm tactical
I scrape and scheme and struggle hard
To get myself ahead
Have no concern for anyone but me

The things I do for money
I'll never understand
The world is just a marble
In the palm of my hand
The palm of my hand
The palm of my hand
The palm of my hand
The palm of my hand

The real problem flew right over your head (pun intended). Vehicles are at full peak use so what you see today is what you you get. Maybe one accident per billion packages delivered or whatever. The drones on the other hand are a growing technology. If there are hundreds in the air now there will be thousands one day. So it causes one to think.. if it happens today than it will happen at least ten times more once it gets fully ramped up. Perhaps people were lucky in escaping injury and damage this time but will they stay as lucky as this happens more and more?

You miss the point... We must also evaluate the importance of that danger. A package without a plane or a truck isn't getting delivered at all. A package in a drone is getting delivered in one hour instead of four hours.

The Chinese government changed the way that energy is managed by devolving it to be the responsibility of provincial governments. Those governments approved more coal, often to replace older plants, but a lot of it ended up getting mothballed or running at low capacity because there were cheaper sources coming online (renewables and storage).

That lead to a shift towards coal plants designed for demand following, so as well as being a bit cleaner than the old ones, they don't run at constant output. It's still not great, but it's also still far more than almost any other country in the world is doing about reducing emissions and pollution.

It's likely that most of these plants will have a fairly short lifespan. The rate at which renewables are going in is staggering. Batteries too.

Just become a billionaire and people will give you drones to crash into buildings for free!

Came here to say pretty much the same thing. They want to make billions of dollars from having 300+ lb men not only crashing into each other but learning to crash into each other the HARDEST! How cute that they try to pretend they care about the health of those men.

Cargo aircraft crash regularly, killing people in the aircraft and on the ground. Delivery vans get involved in accidents, sometimes fatal.

When evaluating drones, we need to compare them to other options. Are they more or less dangerous?

You can expect the quality of these cars to drop rapidly as tested, debugged software is replaced by hastily lashed together vibe coded crap.

Maybe that's the point. Easier for the US government to hack it.

The original Nissan Leaf had connectivity for driving stats, charge monitoring, and remotely turning on the AC before you set off so that the car is defrosted and warm using AC power. It was free and was supposed to become a paid service, but they never got around to charging for it.

The driving stats were of limited use. The charge monitoring was useful. The remote AC/defrost is one of the best features of EVs.

What killed it in a lot of Leafs is that the originals had 2G modems, which are no longer supported by the networks. You can replace them with an open source module with a more modern modem and your own SIM.