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It’s pretty amazing that the break line was perfectly symmetrical, allowing them to put it back together backwards.

Yes it’s the right long term goal, but the US is nowhere near ready for strong nationalised enterprises, they would just stop getting funding and die. There is a requirement for strong, positive minded government and a shared understanding of the benefits of having nationalised societal services before it can work.

Nah not at all tbh, you can get very smooth deceleration with it and it doesn’t feel floaty or whatever, it does take a tiny adjustment to how you drive, you don’t coast anymore but rather you can finely control your deceleration by how much you lift the accelerator, it’s quite nice to be honest I always drive it in that mode (even if it’s not real one pedal).

I think some cars also turn on the hazards automatically if you really hammer the breaks.

Yeah my electric 208 is kinda like that (if I remember the video well, watched it a while ago) but since it’s Europe there actually is a regulation about how much a car can decelerate before break lights come on, so instead of making the system turn the lights on they throttle how much it can decelerate for recharge and still makes you use the break to use full regen (and eventually the actual brakes, of course). So it’s not a real “one pedal driving”.

This is particularly painful for all these middle-men companies like booking.com, eBay/equivalents, Uber, etc etc. So much wasted resources that is literally only there to extract as much as they can from transactions between two other parties, really all that’s needed from these services is a functioning platform, something 3 motivated engineers could probably maintain (exaggerating for effect).

All this stuff should be either open source or nationalised.

I honestly assumed it meant range as a translation since I often hear people mean that as it’s the number 1 thing everyone asks/talks about. I’m in Europe and km countries say “consumption” or whatever local language equivalent (for the countries I know). The Brits say mileage. Whether it’s electricity or gas shouldn’t matter when talking about mileage though right, just a straight swap?

Edit: Just reading my first comment again I do sound like you can say range instead of mileage (literally), my bad, brain translated idea badly :/ they’re two different concepts, but usually people talk a lot more about range with EVs and I still suspect that might’ve been what op meant.

For EVs you can say range instead of mileage.

At the end of the day it’s all of it. Some of it is built into their existing model, some of it is constant etc but they include it all in the calculations to come up with the prices. New costs like these tariffs get added to the overall margin calculation and a new price is set.

They reap what they sow muahahaha.

Music in particular I would kind of consider an exception, just because of the benefits of giving early musical education can help so much with acquiring the “language” while the brain is still in sponge mode, 4 to 10 years old.

If you’re forcing your teenager to work at it day and night and to go to the conservatory etc, that’s a different story.