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I live in Greece. We pay gasoline per liter, like the rest of the world I presume. So after doing all the exchange rates and so on, it would translate into ~9USD/gallon here.
I live in Greece. We pay gasoline per liter, like the rest of the world I presume. So after doing all the exchange rates and so on, it would translate into ~9USD/gallon here.
I do blame the government. My issue is that it seems most people are blaming the wrong one in my opinion.
Citation needed.
Citation needed.
In 2024 BYD (Chinese auto maker) had higher revenues than Tesla (US auto maker).
Chinese EV giant BYD outpaces Tesla with annual sales of more than $100 billion
China's BYD reported annual revenue of 777 billion yuan ($107 billion) for 2024, leapfrogging Tesla as competition between the two EV rivals heats up.www.cnbc.com
There's really no reason to keep it on the back burner. The landscape that it was intended to inhabit vanished almost as soon as the joint agreement was made, Honda would have no benefit from stringing it along, and after a number of high profile dumpster fires Sony seems to have finally lost its taste for throwing money at projects with no obvious use case.
Over-powered ICE cars can achieve this just as much. Driver issue.
They got cars backing themselves into spaces & parallel parking. ICE cars can be designed to be autonomous.
You mean, the one that is currently, ironically, the central cause for high gas prices that an EV could actually take advantage of?
I know we've won, we're negotiating, the strait's open, it's closed, you're as gullible as your vote.
The best thing about you goofs is your own guy has done everything the previous guy did/is accused of, but you're too far attached to the rear to let go now.
That's about automotive workers, not automotive makers.
So you don't even care about turning the ESP off on the Tesla. You 're not convincing me you "lean on it" enough to even learn it. Sure it is quick on a straight line, but I 'm more of a momentum manager than a straight line speeder and I don't like the idea of having to do this on such a heavy car with all that polar inertia. The main masses of an ICE vehicle (if it 's designed properly) are all within the wheelbase and low enough to achieve a good centre of gravity, resulting in much smaller polar inertia than any EV. Now if an EV can achieve a marginally lower centre of gravity, that 's about it. And then there 's the gearing. Regardless how many claims may be made that "EV motors are super precise", the exclusively long gear ratios they 're attached to are a no-go. And, if despite all this the Model 3 is one of the best cars you 've ever driven on corners, well this goes to show what you should expect when most manufacturers focus so much on comfort even at the detriment of safety. Too much comfort is bad for health anyway.
1)Of course, driving style is an issue with most people. A properly engineered car doesn't mean much if it 's driven by someone with inadequate driver's ed and no mechanical empathy. Still, different cars are good at different things. These two facts don't cancel each other.
It was basically for people who wanted to smugface at Tesla owners by having a shinier tech toy, but thought an Apple-branded EV would be too "mainstream".
Sounds like deflection.
That's a good example of why you should look things up before you form an opinion. An uninformed opinion is worthless and could easily lead you to draw the wrong conslusion.
That's something you've made up. I never said that.
Human drivers also rely on sensory inputs (unless you're in the habit of making things up), so those circumstances that you mention does not prove that autonomy is impossible.
Sounds like a problem that can be solved with machine learning. Where did you get the idea that an autonomous car would keep going at all cost, even after hitting a person?
I never said you have to accept it or that autonomous cars is even a good thing. You claimed that cars are only meant to be driven by humans and that some unspecified elites are trying to make autonomous cars mandatory for everyone. Where did you get those ideas from?
Usually you don't directly hear about lobbying, so you have to rely on seeing its results. You know, lobbying tends to happen behind closed doors. In cases such as the EV trend and autonomous vehicles, said results are seen in how the law is changed. There has been an attempt to outright ban ICEs, whereas there has never been an attempt to do that to EVs, even now that questions about them are being asked. I 'm not against EVs being an option on the market, but trying to ban the ICE on false premises is a big nope.
So basically you're a conspiracy theorist?
No, I'm pointing out to you that you can make an ICE car autonomous; a car backing in/parallel parking itself fits the description of autonomous.
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Side Note: It still exists & GM's website lists that it is available on a wide arrange of vehicles, ICE & EV, sedans & full sized trucks.April 2012
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Did you read the rest of my post?
I did. Didn't see anything that supports your claim.
The amount of Waymos driving around San Francisco at any given moment, completely autonomously (often without anyone in the car at all), with the safety record they have, puts a lot of pressure on your argument. I'm not saying they are perfect, but "outright impossible" has already proven to be false.
Seriously? The changes in law making this stuff mandatory, the companies trying to get a guaranteed market for their sensors? This is all stuff you should be able to look up and judge for yourself. And again, I 'm not against manufacturers trying to create the option of autonomous cars. What I am against is making them mandatory.
Do you have any sources?
Where did you hear that autonomous cars are becoming mandatory?
