This actually seems a bit late. Around 2018 I was working on a small software house here in europe and we had to remove everything related to kaspersky, maybe because we did a lot of government stuff.

If I remember correctly there was already very strong evidence that there was data sharing with the FSB.

In that case I would say the driver, and to be honest I don't see why it would be anyone else. If for whatever reason my ABS fails and I crash into someone in a situation that system would avoid it, it would still be my fault for driving in a way that put me in that position.

When you look at systems like Volvo's city safety there are plenty of disclaimers to warn you this is not a flawless system, it's just there lurking in the background so that under certain conditions when people get distracted and mess up, it will try to avoid or minimize the consequences.

Not where I live, as I told you, using the manufacturer's simulators the electric was simply not an option for me.

Yeah, tell that to the Asians, we mess the environment up while boosting our economies with low cost, highly polluting fuels, but no, you can't do that, have fun buying a new clean car with your monthly 100 dollars.

Not stretching at all, if we make the lifetime ownership cost a car the resale value is relevant. If I were a betting man I would take that bet, 10 years go by very fast. A 2012 Nissan Leaf is worth around 12.000 euros. In 10 years a 30.000 euro diesel bought now will be worth 4 or 5.000 euros, in 10 years a 30.000 euro Nissan Leaf will be worth 6 or 7.000 euros maximum and the guy that buys it will need to spend 6.000 euros on a new battery, good luck.

Yeah, look at the UK, plenty of cities with diesel banned, look at how many natural gas vehicles there are, oh wait... they bought motorcycles (again, very cheap to run, like diesel), guess what vehicle emmits a shitload of NOx, yeah, motorcicles, especially old ones or cheap new ones that most people prefer because they are, well, cheap.

But it is a global problem, and pretty much one of the biggest ones we've faced. Regarding the nasty old diesels, have fun in 5 years with the smell of badly burnt fuel and the same NOx from cheap motorcycles.

Oh, and just a last remark, look at the emission charts for modern diesel trucks vs natural gas trucks, yeah, not as different as people say they are, are they?

You keep pushing for electric and natural gas on this thread, do you own an electric car? Do you know how much it costs just to rent the battery?

Most people don't care about the emissions, if they cared most people would ride bicycles, what most people do is look at how much the car costs, how much it costs to run and how much it costs to keep it running properly. If people want drivers to look at electric cars seriously make them cheaper to buy and to run than their internal combustion variants.

I drive a 9 year old turbocharged diesel (it has a DPF, mandatory in Europe), I did look at how much it would cost me to replace it with an electric, and the cost of the battery rent is the first show-stopper, then comes the resale value of the car that, because there is still no demand, is very low. Looking at LPG and natural gas, the emissions figures are not as low as you think, they ignore the emissions of distribution, compressing and cooling the fuel and ignore the way drivers use the cars, running at higher RPMs to get power, given the lower torque.

The only way to make cars clean is to make eco-friendly batteries, build the infrastructure to charge them all at the same time and make them cheap, all ICE alternatives are sweeping the problem under the rug while trying to make a penny "saving the environment". Instead of trying to ban certain cars in certain places, spend the time and money to make electric cars better and cheaper than ICE and making sure there are cheap, well maintained and convenient public transportation, then the problem will go away by itself.

That is far from the truth. Python is used quite a lot in embedded systems.

People who sneer when we use anything other than C in embedded must be the same ones that sneer when we use C instead of assembler on microcontrollers. These people probably still think we are in the early 1990s regarding prices/performance/compilers. It's funny when someones claims assembly is 20% faster or smaller when the application doesn't need it, or the extra development time is significantly more expensive than using a bigger part that has more resources for 0.10 cents more, or the price the other guy will have to pay to fix your cryptic assembly code in the future. But guess what, most people are not virtuosos, code generated by a compiler is likely faster than most things they could write in assembly.

So yes, Python code, like most languages, can be clean, reliable and made testable and if the performance is more than adequate for a given application, why do people keep bashing what others do?

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Are you claiming the iPhone flash can arite 500MB+ at small random writes?

Fast microSD cards in phones are good enough to record and playback pretty much all mobile content availabe, with write speeds passing 100MB/s (yes, capital B). That is plenty fast for auxiliary storage. Small random writes are slow, of course, but they are also slower in the internal storage, in the iPhone they will probably not be much higher than 2MB/s, just like everyone else.

I do know how my house is setup and it's Phase+Neutral+Ground. It sounds like you are talking about split-phase, with Phase1+Neutral+Phase2, which I have never seen in person in Europe (talking about the electric grid, not generators and DC-AC inverters). Where do you live?

I won't take it from your "experience", because I know 120VDC can kill you, unless you are an automaton that can control skin moisture or tearproof skin.

How is your point, that 120VDC "doesn't hurt", makes an argument for "a 375VDC system is not dangerous when the power supply might have been damaged and can catch fire without prior notice"?

Are you sure? Voltage here in Europe is usually a single 230V phase pretty much everywhere, unless you are running a small factory or have huge power requirements at home, then you will use 3 phases. Maybe you were talking about the 315V peak to peak, but it will still be less than 375V, anyway, the problem is not just the voltage, it's that the voltage is encased in a metal shell, and if that shell looks broken and poking everywhere, you either proceed very carefully or you are ignorant. The same firefighters would also be very careful about a fuel spill, but there are decades of experience dealing with those, electric cars not so much.

Oh, and it doesn't matter how dry my hands are, I would not touch 120VDC.

I agree, but our cruise controllers don't hold our steering wheels so we can check our phones, like many people are doing. It's also not just Tesla, BMW and Mercedes also have their own system, Citroen had enough sensors in their cars to do this since before 2010, that's why I think there should be no steering wheel control features unless the car was actually self-driving and didn't expect the user to be alert and take control, no level 2 vehicles, using the NHTSA classification. We are already easily distracted, if we add more automation they will relax even more, that's why I think there should be no middle ground, either the car actually drives itself or it needs your input at all times.