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- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 6 months ago:
Adaptions are a thing. However paying someone to do it costs a lot of money (even doing it yourself is not cheap) and it's not much more of a stretch to one's budget to get a whole new car built from the ground up as an EV, so commercial conversions tend to be a niche market focused on more interesting vehicles (e.g. what this Melbourne based conversion company converts).
- Comment on If we can use hydrogen to power electric motors, why can’t we use water to run a car? 9 months ago:
Technically speaking, no one outside of college demonstration engines are burning hydrogen
Toyota has made various working prototype hydrogen combustion engines, so it's not impossible these could end up in production in the nearish future (they've done a hydrogen version of at least the GR Yaris/Corolla engine, a V6, and a V8).
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
LMFAO at Apple inventing laptops that don’t have weird keyboards
They weren't saying the keyboards themselves were particularly good, they were saying their keyboard placement was a step forward (and it was). This page has a couple of pictures of early laptops - note where the Powerbook keyboard is compared to the others.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
Say that to start off with then rather than "there's no way to drive safely above the speed limit on a public road", because there clearly are roads where it can be safe to drive above the speed limit.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
Indeed, at least for most modern speed limits. That was intended as more of a rhetorical question to lead the person I was replying to towards noticing speed limits are typically set with a wide safety margin, and not actually at the limit of what can be safe in good conditions.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
If the speed limit is indeed the true safe maximum for all vehicles and all conditions then how can you travel safely at said speed limit in your car, which I would wager cannot corner as well or stop as quickly as a top end sports car?
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
There’s no way to drive safely above the speed limit on a public road.
If you're driving a well maintained regular car in good conditions you absolutely can drive safely above many speed limits. If the speed limit was set at the true limit of safety nothing but the best handling vehicles in the best of conditions could drive at said limit safely, and this is clearly not the case for the vast majority of speed limits. Instead most traffic can travel safely at the set speed limit in less than ideal vehicles and in less than ideal conditions, so logically there are going to be situations where it would be safe to drive above said limit.
Consider too speed limit changes. In my area there have been a few roads recently which have been lowered from 100km/h limits to 80km/h. Nothing changed about these roads except the speed limit signs. Why was it possible to drive safely at the 100km/h limit one day but not possible to drive safely at the same speed on the next day? Another road several years back had its speed limit changed from 80km/h to 90km/h. Again only the signs changed, so why would it be unsafe to drive 90km/h there one day when that would be the speed limit the following day?
- Comment on Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia 11 months ago:
No, it’s thanks to no one else really begin in the tablet market
It's not like other manufacturers haven't tried (and some still are trying), people just tend to buy ipads instead.
- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 11 months ago:
Probably should take into account people with learning disabilities and processing disorders
As an option, definitely. As a default though I too would prefer the standard spoken form if the time is going to be spoken rather than displayed. It's a bit like how simplified wikipedia is a good idea but I prefer regular English to be the default version.
- Comment on PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion 1 year ago:
Can confirm, I found creating a new Microsoft account and doing literally nothing with it for around half an hour is suspicious enough to lock the account and require a phone number.
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
Yep - in the northern hemisphere a sundial shadow will move from west to east in a clockwise fashion; in the southern hemisphere it still goes west to east but does so moving anticlockwise.
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
Cardinal directions as references instead of left/right are often a better option when describing locations, more people should use them. It's not like it's hard to get an idea of where north is - even if you're a bit challenged on the spatial awareness front basically everyone these days has a phone that will easily tell you this.