just hold onto a book for 5 decades to avoid late fees, got it

I thought they’d already banned the military from using this, you’d think secret service would be included in that ban too

do you think you have to kill chickens to collect their eggs?

Even then we still don’t use the same control scheme as the model T then, the model T had a separate forward and reverse pedal and no clutch.

But fly by wire isn’t a matter of difficulty it’s a matter of redundancy and safety, like I pointed out before, people aren’t going to maintain the system properly and if there isn’t a back up it’s going to lead to accidents.

Fly by wire would be a terrible design for a car, I’ve seen people driving on space saver tires or with taped up windows for months. If people already just ignore warning lights until something physically stops them from driving then at least having a physical steering column means there’s still control after the power steering fails so that they don’t go straight on into oncoming traffic.

On your other point about still using the same control systems as a model T, modern cars don’t. Hydraulic steering came around in the 50s and almost all modern cars have electric power steering, the model T had completely unassisted rack and pinion steering. I can’t find any definite answer on what the last car without any hydraulic steering was but I’d definitely like to find out if anyone knows.

Wait they actually released that thing? I thought they dropped the semi truck design?

Tbf other countries were starting to build up prior to the start of ww2, it’s not like they suddenly started the war effort in 1939. Afaik the only reason the war didn’t start when other countries were annexed is because Britain and France wanted to build up their armies first and Poland just became the breaking point.

I thought they’d confirmed that almost a year ago when it was spreading through sea mammals?

Oh fun, I just got my airbag module replaced in my 2012 Kia and now I might need to get the airbag itself replaced

At least Stingrays look good, I don’t think anyone’s gonna be crowding around a cybertruck asking about it’s specs

Sounds like Skippy from cyberpunk2077

Not only did they decide to do it in the middle of a religious festival, they did it in the middle of a festival that’s part of a religion that worships nature.

Oh no! Anyway

Houses are required to have heating so why shouldn’t we just change it to include cooling as well? Or maybe in your mind we should go the other way and stop requiring heating so we can all suffer in the winter too?

Btw plenty of people in Europe do have AC, it’s just that they usually tend to be portable units that can only cool one room at a time.

I’m in Europe and I still get blinded by modern SUVs with LED headlights constantly, having auto levelling headlights is nice and all but when the headlights themselves are at eye level for drivers in anything lower than a landrover it doesn’t change much

“She says she’s not dead”

“She will be soon she’s very ill”

Wow I didn’t expect the US to be so progressive with it, I was thinking of the EU ban that mostly got rid of the F1 tobacco sponsorships.

TIL: 1998 was over 50 years ago. Unless there was some place that banned it in the 70s?

Assuming you need a new battery every 10 years or so considering that’s their usual lifespan you’re looking at spending $70,000-$140,000 at 10,000 - 20,000 per battery according to a quick Google search. Do you really think that someone is spending $2,000 a year just making sure a tiny roadster that was designed to be repaired with a spanner on a driveway can run?

Bringing down the dealership price means fuck all if they’re worthless on the second hand market, unless there’s some miracle tech that prevents the battery capacity from dropping like a lead balloon internal combustion engines are never going away. A car from the 50s can still travel the same distance on a full tank but an electric car from the early 2010s can barely get around a car park on a full charge.

Hydrogen is the way to go, it can be created using clean energy and it’s exhaust tends to be cleaner than the air it took in.

Toyota managed to run an engine from the 80s on high pressure hydrogen with barely any alterations and there have been trials where mains gas in the uk has been replaced with hydrogen. We’re so close to having the access required to transition to hydrogen but there’s only one or two models that can use it rn.