I’ve got a camera in the grill, one on each mirror, and one on the back, and they mesh together to create a top-down view of the car when I’m parking.

My crossover is a “mid-size” and pretty reasonable in dimensions compared to other vehicles on the road, and all those cameras are absolutely fucking necessary to park it.

Fegnit

Yeah. People don’t understand why I’m not anti-datacenter (let me finish before you dog-pile me). Datacenters are very efficient ways to house lots of compute. Power, HVAC, and staffing all benefit from economies of scale. Most of our modern life is highly depent on datacenters, including application specific AI tools (not LLMs, but like medical imaging analysis tools) that will have positive effects on humanity. I do have problems with datacenters that are going up quickly and cheaply, with lax standards for air, water, sound and light pollution, and power subsidized by the surrounding homes, in order to ride the front of this very unstable AI bubble.

Before you ask, I did sign the petition to limit datacenters in my state. I’d sign one to limit new datacenter construction nation-wide. Datacenters are essential to modern life, which is exactly why we should have a higher standard for how they are constructed. I’m not anti-data center, but I am anti-whatever-the-fuck-this-is.

I just asked Claude, and it said you can just use another LLM prompt Claude for you.

I asked CoPilot and it said “PLEASE BUY FROM ME, PLEASE! I NEED TO JUSTIFY THESE EXPENSES AND REPUTATIONAL DAMAGE. HAVE MERCY AND SEND ME MONEY PLEASE”

It’s complicated.

Computers can scale, you can make a computer much larger than a human brain.

Computers really just do binary math. For those who don’t know, it’s basically determining whether or not 1 or 0 should change, or stay the same, based on an algorithm. We don’t know (or at least, I haven’t read that we know) how brains actually store and process information.

Computers are very fast at doing “simple” calculations with definite answers. A pocket calculator can do math faster than you can with 100% accuracy. On the flip side, analyzing and reacting to incomplete information is the forte of the human brain. We still haven’t made a computer than can fit in a car and drive better than some of the dumbest people on the planet manage to do, while fucking around on their phones at the same time.

Whenever people talk about human sentience, I always think back to the opening scene of Shaun of the Dead…

Bench seats have material and padding all across the middle of the whole car…

Can’t adjust the seat properly. Passengers slide more easily when cornering. More material required for upholstery and padding.

As someone who has had both, bucket seats are way better than bench seats.

Ah, so nothing but rhetoric pulled out of your ass is your only defense for being a bigot. You are now blocked for being a disingenuous troll. Go bother someone else.

And we’re going to try re-isntalling it first thing when you finally get back into our computer.

Yeah, I woke up late for a meeting one morning, and figured I’d try ordering a doughnut and coffee from door dash (my wife door-dashed/grubhub’d all the time, so I figured it wouldn’t be too crazy expensive), it was going to cost me 19 dollars to get a 6 dollar doughnut and coffee from a few blocks down the street. And then it suggested a 5 dollar tip for the driver.

Fuck that shit, I just went hungry that morning.

So what? 500,000 is still 250x better than the number you pulled out of your ass instead of actually reading and researching. It’s 250x better than what you thought.

And in case you missed it, there are plenty of other countries that have a higher ratio of EVs to ICEs than the US.

So the fact that there are more EVs to ICEs in other countries, and the fact that it’s possible to buy an EV in the US despite it’s low market penetration, means your statement about buying secondhand EVs…

You can’t really.

Is absolutely fucking wrong.

If you want to argue this point further, show up with some actual data to defend your point in your next post, like maybe an article talking about how there are 0 used EV sales outside the US. Otherwise, you aren’t arguing in good faith, and you can be ignored for being a pissant little ankle-biter picking a fight for the sake of fighting.

Oppish. You’ll sound like an auctioneer with tourettes, but with a little bit of practice, it’s faster to use, easier to understand, and harder for unpracticed people to decipher.

One site. 2 minutes.

And if you’d bothered to actually look, you would have noticed that there were 500,000+ EVs listed.

You were wrong about a non-existent used EV market. It’s not a big deal, just take the L, learn from this to think first, then form an opinion, and then post, and move on with your life.

Just to thoroughly put this to bed… Here is the per-capital EV adoption rates in 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_use_by_country

The US is nowhere close to the leaders on that chart. EV markets are actually better in many other places than they are in the US, and speaking from experience, I had no trouble finding a wide selection of secondhand EVs to purchase when I bought my car about a year and a half ago.

In summary… You’re painfully, obviously wrong, and that is okay. Continuing to defend a point solely “supported” by ignorance and prejudice, is not.

Maybe just try googling it? Nah, you’d probably whine about being told to do that…

https://www.theparking.eu/used-cars/#!%2F%3Fid_energie=2&id_pays=23

Took less than 2 minutes, and there you go, looks like you can view used EV listings in ~60 different countries on that site alone.

What a small world view you must have, to think that used electric cars only exist in the USA…

You know other countries have had EVs for just as long as the US?

Huh, I didn’t realize you can’t buy second hand EVs. Gonna have a tough time explaining the my wife why the Mustang is gone.

You can buy EVs secondhand. You’d be hard pressed to find a sub 10k EV “beater” but there are plenty of used EVs in the 15-25k price range in my area, and are equivalent in features to used cars in the same bracket.

This may come as a shocker to some people, but ICE cars are mined and manufactured in almost the exact same way as an EV. The main difference is EVs tend to weigh a bit more.

Also, once you mine the materials for an EV, you’re done. My car runs on sunlight and wind. Once you mine and manufacture an ICE, you are locked into mining, manufacturing, and transporting resources for it for the rest of it’s existence.

One of the needs was not driving a huge ass truck for the 99% of trips where a smaller, more efficient car works so much better.