Not if you pick a spelling that make pronunciation unclear and therefore the name fails to stick in your head. Without looking up at the text above the best I can come up with is kindle. That makes it a marketing fail in my book. I would agree with OP, a new name is where they should start. Still I guess if their target market is phonics experts with photographic memories then they are a great success...

For me the most annoy thing about AI is the push that is a service you need to subscribe for as that is where they see the income stream. That does not appeal to people like me are from the era of scarcity and are not sold on the "rent everything and own nothing" mind set. I run my own file servers and email servers etc. I see Hugging face as my best path forward for my future AI needs, all running locally. While I can see use cases for AI for some the stuff I want to do none of those have reached the top of my todo list yet.

I'm told it real cost money to use in terms of power consumption etc which is usually restricted unless you subscribe for more tokens. So if they are going to waste resources for every search I do what's the game plan to cover the extra cost they are forcing on a routine search?

- More adverts?
- Warnings you are reaching you 80% search limits and link to pay for more searches?
- Something else I didn't want and didn't sign up for?

I see no good end game for this 'improvement'.

Yes, thank you for making my point. USD $4 a gallon is abnormally cheap. Prices for 95 petrol here have fallen a bit recently and are now down to $7.70 on average country wide. I don't expect prices to stay that low for long.

Are you familiar with consumables vs investments? You make a one off investment in clean generation to offset the constant consumption of fossil fuels. An up front cost to stop an ongoing expense and damage. The real picture is operational life vs the ROI period, for both financial and environmental costs. Smarter people than you have run the numbers, they are the ones you see spending money in greener energy options.

Run those same calculations in almost every country other than the USA and contrast is way bigger. Here in New Zealand, using NZD, you are looking at a Model 3 using 0.15 kWh/km at $0.36/kWh (charging at home, NZ residential rates) versus a similarly-sized sedan getting 16 km/l at $3.39/l. The Tesla's "fuel" cost is $0.05/km; the sedan's is $0.21/km.

Personally the maths is way more complicated for me, because I have solar, so charging looses me $0.15/kWh in grid feed earning making it $0.02/km vs $0.21/km, unless I have too much surplus power for the grid to handle and use the Model 3 charging as a dynamic load to use the power the grid can't handle i.e. increase the charging current until the solar inverters stop de-rating due to over-voltage protection (yea my rural grid connection is 0.6 Ohms, look at the voltage different when you try to push 9kW thru that). When that happens the cost of charging is effectively $0.00/km vs $0.21/km i.e. free charging during summer months.

I brought a BEV 6 years ago and I have come to realise is how much I hated the word "MPG". Hearing it always bring backs memories of "the pain at the pump" from how much gas costs. Hearing people talk about the better MPG figures of hybrids sound like a victim of mugging say how much better the latest mugger was because they didn't push the knife in as deep.

That may have been true until recently. Now in many countries, where vehicle cost are determined by actual vehicle costs and not politics, BEVs are the cheaper option in both up front purchase cost and running costs.

Here let me fix that for you:

Who is rich enough to own an ICEV? Those things are for people with money to burn. Oh yea, I see, people are talking about in the USA with it's abnormally cheap gas. So funny to see them complaining that gas is over $6 a gallon considering that would be consider super cheap in most countries.

I get this a lot, people seem to think I plug in my garage and then sit in my garage until the car is charged before going in to the house. They ask how long it takes to charge at home and I reply "who cares, it is always charged and ready to go the next morning".

I assume these people also avoid electric hot water heating because the wait to have a shower would be too long.

I have found it is quite common at Airbnb stays and holiday camps that it is usually acceptable to throw an extension lead out the window and charge from that. Sure it is slow but if you are spending a couple of days at a location you can usually get a full charge. The key is to ask if it is ok first. With Airbnd stays I have let them know how much the power I will need will cost them and most are fine giving that for free. With the holiday camp they already had a optional modest extra daily fee they charged to cover the power for those wanting to charge.

I recall it was not that many years ago they when searching for a hotel or motel I would determine before booking if Internet access was included and how much it extra it would cost. Now you just assume it is included. Hopefully EV charging will become the norm too for hotel parking in future.

I live rural and find BEVs are really popular now with rural owners as the distance to a gas station is a hassle, where as putting in a large solar array is seldom a problem and allows free charging regardless of the quality of a rural grid.

My initial reaction to you post is who wants the extra cost, weight and points of failure? But your point about pitch control is is valid for people getting air time. The simulated clutch won't get you gyro action of the motor flywheel separated from the rear wheel, but spinning up or down both the motor and the rear wheel would probably give you some pitch control, maybe...

I have to say I don't miss having a clutch on either of my OSET TXP 24 or OSET 24.0R, way more fun to ride than the petrol models they replaced.

For beginners will it also simulate stalling the engine if you dump the clutch at low 'revs'?

Wow, you had a bad day huh?