Perhaps because XBox dropped below 3 million units sold last year, the lowest number in their history.

I like Waymo, they're the ones getting it done. I know they've partnered with Uber, but I hope it's not exclusive. Waymo's technology is about a million times more sophisticated than Uber. It will save many lives. I would like to see it be used more widely.

This is why we can't have nice things. I'd like to not carry a wallet, but I refuse to have my credit card arguing with me about what to buy.

if the energy they produce more than pays for themselves many homeowners lack the capital to install them or have other uses for that capital. If government created the means for people to finance them, then they could install them.

This was already done, but without the government. Many companies would offer to install panels on your roof and guarantee an immediate decline in your electricity expenses. Basically they extended you a loan for the panels and you paid them back monthly with part of your electricity costs. Or the company owned them and you leased them.

I think these companies have mostly died off. Not sure if the numbers didn't work, or customers just couldn't be bothered, or what.

Looks like they still are. Doesn't seem to be taking over though.

https://www.posigen.com/blog/s...

I still don't get how batteries could see Germany through the winter, for example? You have low PV production for months.

https://gemenergyanalytics.sub...

Dude are you a flat earther or something?

Rinsing soap off is a physics problem not chemistry. Taking aerators off your faucets wouldn't help you wash more efficiently either for example, try it. Try doing dishes like that with the sink stopped up, no aerator vs the sprayer. The volume of water doesn't get shit done. Most people figure this out the first time they wash a car with a garden hose. They stick their thumb in the stream to fan out faster moving water.

It's summer, get off here and go wash dad's car kid, stop bitching about shower heads. The second hand embarrassment is getting too much. If you're an adult go outside and play with a garden hose for a few minutes if the assisted care place will let you. I don't know what else to say.

Our strategy is working. In the third quarter of 2024, we achieved another GM record for EV sales, delivering more than 32,000 all-electric vehicles in the U.S. - an increase of 46% quarter-over-quarter and a 60% improvement year-over-year.

https://news.gm.com/home.detai...

What's at risk of dying off is not EV's as a whole, but Tesla's first-mover advantage.

Musk placed all their chips on Robotaxi. I am very skeptical since "full self driving" is so short of solving that "last 5%" and they are so far behind Waymo in demonstrated capability and deployment. But, we shall see.

Statistically, Uber/Lyft get into far fewer accidents than all the other drivers. And that's the only thing we should be comparing driverless taxis too... taxis.

You're comparing driverless taxis to teenagers in overpowered cars or assholes in oversized trucks instead of to taxis... Ubers, etc.

The experience won't be better or safer than an Uber/Lyft, and the assholes won't be trading in their fast cards and huge trucks to use taxis.

Least favorite? Not the spontaneous emergence of graffiti or flames when you're not looking? :)

Just a lighthearted poke. I actually have some real empathy for people who bought in the before times... not their fault.

Synthetic fuels? They have two primary use cases: 1. When an oil-poor nation is at war. 2. When the fossil fuel industry wants to keep ass-fucking the world.

How about airplanes?

I would be happy to have pure EVs for my family's around-town vehicles, then a PHEV for the SUV which would make it affordable around-town (currently we avoid it) but still useful for longer trips, often with towing, to very out-of-the-way places.

How is that conservatism? It makes perfect sense.

My 2019 Camry hit it nearly perfectly. Touch screen is for entertainment only, and big presets are right there, easily configured. All controls including climate are physical. My only complaint is that CarPlay isn't wireless. Well... I have other complaints, but they are nitpicks...

I've even got it set up so I can arm/disarm my home security with Siri voice commands, and the button to engage voice control is on the steering wheel. And the garage door is controlled from the mirror.

I agree with the premise here. Touchscreens are inherently a safety problem. Especially if what you want is nested. I really hate this direction. A car is not a smartphone, and shoving everything into incorrect interfaces sucks donkey balls.

You made that up. Every social media service has tons of impersonator accounts being created, and you act like they can just pick up a red phone to the VPOTUS or whoever to verify each one. Far, far less damage is done by proactively blocking impersonators of VIPs, and in the rare one-time event they are actually intending to create an account either themselves or through a spokesperson they can have their account confirmed.

The name of the ship was Bayesian, surely there are many nerd jokes to be had about a ship named Bayesian that sunk in a freak accident - or was it? Time to update our priors...