I treat numeric estimates of launchers destroyed very skeptically. The US has a history of double-counting and counting decoys.

I do expect that a lot are being destroyed, but its a very far cry from that to claiming that the Iranians won’t be in a position to have a lot go through in a few days

You can’t register it for on-road use, with an exception for automakers who agree to destroy the car within a year.

While the article doesn’t go into it, I think these are big, with a 10+MW discharge rate

Those have the same problem, but less concentrated ownership

Globally, the Chinese automakers are taking a huge chunk of market share.

They’re effectively banned in the US, which is why you can’t buy a decent new car for $7000

For a lot of people, the main risk with a taxi is being attacked by the driver.

Not exactly; they’ve got a remote worker facility where they’ve got about 1 person per 100 cars, who maps out what to do in situations where the software can’t handle it, but doesn’t do a full-on remote-drive. This enables them to gracefully handle the long tail of situations the software can’t do yet, so long as not every car hits it at once (as with, say, a power outage causing all traffic lights to fail in San Francisco, or flash flooding causing issues all over Phoenix)

Depends on whose. The Waymo ones do remarkably well. Other makers aren’t nearly as good.

10 years sounds shockingly short. My impression is that the average car lasts about 20 years. Lots of older cars still on the road.

Not a chance of that happening. Too many groups in the mideast want to kill their neighbors or impose their version of religion on everybody else. Way more likely to end up with a bunch of places that have flipped oppressor and oppressed but are just as bad as they were

Sorry, but both CBS and CNN are now Republican outlets. So not going to happen. Especially when there is “limited fire and minor material damage” to the US embassy in Saudi Arabia

Its better than a gas car by a lot, if nowhere near as good as a bicycle or mass transit

Electric cars are going to be a piece of what we do to get off fossil fuels

Problem is that even when guilt is crystal-clear, that’s not enough to result in consequences

Yeah, “small” quakes are a very big deal in areas where the construction isn’t designed to handle them.

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Yeah. Varies a lot by state.

Yes. Lots of people. Mostly the not-rich

They tend to spread it onto other platforms though

As I mentioned before, Alito has recused himself over this from some cases in the past, but not so far on this one

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who had recused himself in a prior petition in the Boulder case (possibly because he owned stock in ConocoPhillips) did not indicate that he would be recusing himself from the case. ConocoPhillips, which is not named in the Boulder case, is a defendant in other climate lawsuits.

They’ve got support from Musk and Zuckerberg so that means banning their platforms