With 10 years hindsight there's more than 1 thing I need to apologise for.

did you really suggest TSLA could be beneficial? 😂😂

you ever seriously consider giving up the website career to pursue comedy?

I was young and still had brain full of lib-worms.🤷‍♂️ I got most of them out though.

taking fenbendazole before it was cool, I see.

Tesla made electric cars cool, which helped make them popular, so it's not all bad.

I'd much prefer a working public transit system.

lol. im in san francisco, i would much prefer a fucking sewer system.

what you guys don't realize is this part of SF (the mission) district floods when there is heavy rainfall because there is no actual sewer here. the city was built over a creek and the creek bed was used instead of a sewer system being dug out.

so now when it rains, it floods a portion of the mission district, causing structural damage to properties. most of the long time residents here cannot afford to fix it. the city officials have been aware of the problem since the 1960's and have no plans to fix it

Different symptoms, same disease.

The whole charging your car thing is revolutionary, but not ideal. It takes 2-3 hours (best case scenario) to fully charge electrics and now you have long lines of electric cars in some interstate waiting to charge their vehicle.

We already have the technology to swap out batteries for practically every electronic device right now. Almost every car manufacturer now has their own hybrid or all-electric vehicle. Now we just need the right people and lobby groups to actually create infrastructure for battery-swapping stations.

We already have gas stations so why not just use that existing infrastructure to create a battery-swapping terminal or whatever? Taiwan already has battery-swapping stations for their electric scooters. I'm sure that can be scaled up (or have multi-battery cells) for electric cars/SUVs.

Unless, of course, there's politics involved and there's money to be made with lithium. I don't know. All of these could have been made easier.
Battery Swap Technology in Taiwan

As long as we move one traveler with 2 tons of steel on rubber tyres, on top infrastructure to move these subventioned travelers along, in a system that is time and time again shown to clog up no matter how much we scale it, we're not getting far.

It just frankly feels like an excuse NOT to change what we're doing for something better. And now we have cars that weigh, and put wear on the road, an extra 300 kg or so. All for an carbon dioxide emission that is just about the same.

We could build walkable cities, have subways, trams and diesel busses, bike-lanes and parking, let people in rural areas drive the same cars as before, and be better off.

But I guess electric cars are nice to.

Walkable cities is the ideal outcome. But if you can get to any store, like Starbucks, within 15 minutes, and the barista who makes the drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, that’s just Disneyworld.

Electric cars don't take 2-3 hours to charge at fast charging stations, at least not most cars and not in most cases.

I'm shocked I tell you, shocked ...
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