Tesla is a massive stock pumping Ponzi scheme that just happens to have a poorly ran car company attached to it. People need to realize what the goal of Tesla marketing is really about. It will be remembered as one of the great investment scams of our time.

The solution is to eliminate self-driving cars and instead invest more in mass transit and walkable neighborhoods.

Developer feedback is usually about answering questions that the players have, or finding bugs that were missed in QA. What Bethesda is doing is quite a bit more ridiculous.

There’s an old adage in programming that you should almost never rewrite everything: https://www.onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/2596/Why-You-Should-Almost-Never-Rewrite-Your-Software.aspx

Going from their existing RED engine to Unreal is basically the same idea. Almost nothing from the original Cyberpunk game is going to be easily translated to the new platform. I think CDPR just set their development timeline back by at least 3 years.

There will come a day when people will realize that even tech companies aren’t worth that much.

I suspect there is something more to this than just that. After all, the car in question did this:

Earlier this month, a Cruise robotaxi notably ran over a pedestrian who had been hit by another vehicle driven by a human. The pedestrian became pinned under a tire of the Cruise vehicle after it came to a stop — and then was pulled for about 20 feet (six meters) as the car attempted to move off the road.

It seems like there are unsolvable safety problems going on.

Ernest, the main developer of Kbin, has given an explanation of what has happened: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/544021/So-what-s-the-status-on-the-update-edit-ernest-responded#entry-comment-3006120

Everyone with a brain has left Xitter.

I’ve come to realize that many a tech company are ran by morons.

Tech has become a scam in many areas. It’s just doing the same thing as it always has been, just with an abusive corporate master. The goal is to scam the investor into funding bad ideas, or use that funding to undercut the competition. It is rarely about innovation anymore.

Are you talking about FCEVs? You can also include directly electrified vehicles, but that is mostly mass transit.

And yes, electrification as a whole will succeed. But BEVs probably are not. I call them fads because they are just toys for the rich and they are unlikely to be affordable for most people.

It’s wrong because li-ion batteries at the time were way better than what it claims:

https://news.panasonic.com/global/press/en091218-2

This is from 2009, and already we reached 675 Wh/L. So there’s no way the DoE link is true.

Except those fundamental limits are far higher. The fact is that hydrogen stores energy at 120 MJ/kg. Even at 5% weight efficiency, that’s 6 MJ/kg. Or 1,666 Wh/kg. At 10%, it is 3,333 Wh/kg. Far beyond any battery.

Your link is seriously lying. 8x is the gap between lead-acid and li-ion batteries. The claims are simply impossible. The author must be unknowingly comparing lead-acid battery powered cars to li-ion battery powered cars. I cannot see any other way his claim is true.

A lithium-air battery is literally a fuel cell. In fact, what did you think hydrogen fuel cells were this entire time?

I would say that’s pretty unlikely there will be a 10x improvement in battery chemistry. At some point, we will have to deal with the fundamental limitations of the technology. That will likely imply a different kind of EV. Other conversations in this thread have brought up the FCEV, which is honestly the mostly likely guess for what comes after the BEV. In other words, the solution is to move beyond batteries, not pretend we can just improve batteries ad absurdum.

Also, this is basically the point of the book The Innovator’s Dilemma. Technology does not improve linearly exclusively. At some point, major shifts in the market will have to happen. If you think about this problem honestly, you probably have to conclude that the limitations of the BEV must be solved by a big leap forward, not incremental improvements in batteries. And if you can reach that conclusion, then you must realize that the BEV has to be a transitional technology. Perhaps, even a fad.

For one thing, this is sad because even more of the Internet is no longer reachable. The Internet shrinks, and will continue to get smaller as enshittification continues.

But on the other hand, this is really starting to look like the death knell of Twitter. It’s quickly becoming extremely inconvenient to see any tweets on Twitter now.

Again, we can all see your votes!

So basically downvote = disagree again.

Again, acting like you’re on Reddit just makes you a loser.

Are you going to reduce this post too? Is this post just another example of bad faith posting? Are you really that shallow?

LOL, proven to not just be a loser, but a dishonest loser too.

PS: You do know all favorites/boosts/reduces are public right? Like I can see that you are reducing all my posts. I’d prefer it if you don’t carry over this bit of Redditism.

LOL you’re such a loser.

Unlike you, I actually know something about the subject. BEVs are never going to be particular cheap cars. The only exceptions are things like neighborhood cars. Basically, the only make a BEV cheap is by not giving it any range.

In reality, it will be something else like FCEVs. And you should be more open to this possibility, not closemindedly think that it can only be the BEV.

Of course, many of his acolytes—especially those in Silicon Valley—have tended to believe that he has everything in hand.

One thing I’ve learned recently is how braindead much of the Silicon Valley venture capital community actually is. It wasn’t just that they all put their money in one bank that collapsed when they all pulled out. A major act of stupidity in itself. It is that they consistently have very little idea how business works in general. They seem to be living in an insulated bubble, and only survive because other people dump billions of dollars into their laps. No one checks up on them nor verify whether any of their startups are actually viable. It’s just more and more money dumped into their laps with most of it wasted.

Eventually, the cash spigot will end, and my bet is nearly all of them will forced out of the industry. Collectively, they have done nothing but waste hundreds of billions of other people’s money. Even their few “success” stories are examples like companies that got bought out with few of them ever making money, or companies that could only survive if the venture capital market was crazy strong. So even those are flops if we’re honest. So the whole thing seems destined to fail in a spectacular way.