Readit NewsThe rest of the world has always called it corruption.
John Deere is already subject to extra regulation in Europe; it's only in America that they're allowed to molest consumers in the aftermarket. And Xbox has had sideloading for decades now, in case you were unaware: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...
Which clearly shows the problem is not John Deer, Apple, etc.
The problem is weak consumer protections in the US from corrupt US lawmakers who were bought by the companies they are supposed to regulate.
If you use a car you are paying for those costs. There is no getting around it. If you uber it is indirect, but part of your costs per ride is going to those things. Renting a car gets someone else to do them - but you are paying them to do that somehow. (self driving make trade parking for gas where parking is expensive, so in the densits areas this can make sense, but only because the car is driving empty out to the suburbs in the morning and empty back into the city in the evening - so it increases traffic)
If you own your car you can choose to not keep it clean. The rental will not allow that choice and so you pay for it.
Yes, but I don’t use my car 24/7.
Soon I won’t have to pay for it when I’m not using it.
Too much sprawl, too severe weather. There are hundreds of cities like that sadly.
I'm sure they could be useful to folks that have the specific use-case for it, but the vast vast majority of trips in a person's day-to-day are better solved by robust multi-modal options and public transit. The benefit there is that less drivers means that traffic is actually better for everyone.
Someone will, I don’t know who. Soon.
Fix those two and personal car ownership will plummet in many places.
Many people don’t want to own a car, pay for insurance, gas, tires, oil changes, parking, washing etc.
Car ownership sucks horribly for most people, it’s just currently the best option. That will change.
A big reason they are pushing this is Cyberbullying....yet a recent death in the news this week, the kid was literally bullied/sextorted via SMS....not social media.
Without banning SMS and possibly calls as well, it debunks this argument
Following your reasoning:
Alcohol is banned for children. How long until they ban all drinks?
Driving is banned for children. How long until they ban all self-directed transport?
Voting is banned for children. How long until they pan all political opinion?
No. Just no.
Approximately 5 hours later, just as I was about to arrive, the car finally managed to figure out my correct location.
Exciting trip, not a huge fan of Teslas, but their charger planning is really nice. It was very unpleasant to suddenly lose it.
I just genuinely wonder how such a bug can actually occur, surely you'd update the GPS fix more often than every couple of hours. Hard to imagine the car just suddenly couldn't get a GPS fix for hours either. But if it did somehow totally lose the ability to use GPS, the car must have a pretty good dead reckoning system given how well it was responding to my changes in direction.
On a vaguely related note, driving 3000 kilometers through Europe in an electric car was surprisingly nice. Certainly didn't affect the length of the trip nearly as much as I'd have expected, but it was certainly super annoying to try and figure out the optimal rate of travel on the Autobahn. Charging at Tesla's supercharges was vastly more expensive than I expected, the "fuel" costs weren't much lower than what you could easily reach with a diesel car.
I always figured it has some code to get a quick location, and it assumes that location is very close to the last time it got a sat lock.
I just ignore it for the first day, then it comes good.