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Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 155

Wish I had mod points today, parent is a highly insightful post summarizing the situation and outlook perfectly.

Think of the enormous service industry as well, there are millions of people employed in the industry of servicing gasoline cars and trucks, but many of those people will be out of a job with the shift to electric vehicles, as they simply do not require the same high level of maintenance (check out the Tesla 5 year service checklist, it's ridiculous how little maintenance these cars require), and many will face challenges adapting to the new required skill set. Very little motivation from the established industry to change to something so unknown and unpredictable.

Comment Can't wait to try this! (Score 1) 84

I live in downtown Copenhagen and own a car, and yet I'm super excited about this!

With 400 cars scattered across the city, you can almost expect and plan for a car to be available in your vicinity. Huge flexibility and so many use cases.

Owning a car in Copenhagen, even a small and highly economical car is easily minimum 400 USD per month, everything included; parking, depreciation, fuel, insurance, service etc. You can drive one of these guys around for many many hours for the same price. So if you live in the city and don't need a car for the daily commute, this is a superb alternative to owning one. Have already signed up and expect to use this on a regular basis.

Comment Re:Ah no (Score 1) 143

Right, if you don't have remote users, then it's less of an issue. But the thing is, I run a lot of meetings where I need to explain some fairly complex technical things to non-tech end users.

Plug a USB Web cam into the laptop connected to the online meeting solution (we use gotomeeting) and point it at the whiteboard. Closes the loop for remote people.

Otherwise agree with your approach.

Comment What about quality? (Score 5, Interesting) 98

This could easily have extended consequences for the quality of the devices that are put in the market over the next 1-6 months. New possibly untested stopgap suppliers, providing technology condensed sensitive parts. This won't just affect Apple, many manufacturers will get hit by this. Would be interesting to see stats for returns from some of these companies over the next few months.
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Submission + - Tesla Sues BBC's Top Gear For Libel (allcarselectric.com) 3

thecarchik writes: About two years ago BBC's Top Gear aired a test drive of the then relatively new Tesla Roadster. In the particular episode, Tesla Roadsters are depicted as suffering several critical “breakdowns” during track driving. Host Jeremy Clarkson concludes the episode by saying that in the real world the Roadster "doesn’t seem to work"

Tesla claims that the breakdowns were staged, making most of Top Gear'(TM)s remarks about the Roadster untrue. Tesla also states that it can prove Top Gear’s tests were falsified due to the recordings of its cars’ onboard data-loggers.

What's Tesla asking for in the lawsuit? Tesla simply wants Top Gear to stop rebroadcasting the particular episode and to correct the record.

Comment Re:They're not (Score 1) 112

The researchers are not trying to save rats. They're trying to save human lives. Unfortunately, it isn't wise to use experimental medical procedures on humans as sometimes the treatment being tested ends up doing more harm than good.

I can't tell if you're just trying to be funny or if you really don't understand this.

Thank you! I was deeply concerned there for a minute. What a waste of resources trying to create artificial rat lungs, when I can go down to my local pizza place, and find freshly dead rats, who are all great candidates for rat-to-rat transplants for example. Thanks for clearing this up. I really think they should have been more clear in the headline.

Comment Fuck. (Score 1) 1671

This is probably one of the worst things I have ever seen. What terrible terrible judgment. These poor people presented NO present danger. Completely slaughtered. Terribly terribly sad. Shit like this is why I've come to hate wars. Mod me down for saying nothing new, but this is so fucking sad.

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