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Wonder if there will be a market for gasoline-powdered, or at least non-network connected, cars in the future. This sort of scenario makes me want to never buy

Wonder if there will be a market for gasoline-powdered, or at least non-network connected, cars in the future. This sort of scenario makes me want to never buy an electric car, ever.

jakemal 6y ago
What does this have to do with a car being electric?
- r00fus 6y ago
  Some nonsense due to commenter not having actually read the article - since the Ferrari in question has a gas engine.
pwinnski 6y ago
This is a gasoline-powered car we're talking about, so you've made quite a leap. I drive an all-electric car with no remote connections at all, unlike this gas-powered Ferrari.
- ceilingcorner 6y ago
  Good point, I didn’t realize that. My assumption was that most electric cars going forward will have some unavoidable remote connections. Is there some reason why this is downvoted? Most electric cars seem to have remote connections...
mprovost 6y ago
There is still a market for horses.
- jessaustin 6y ago
  Just barely. The slaughter ban enacted over a decade ago has emptied out horses from the American heartland. Lots of them starved to death. Many of them ended up slaughtered anyway, only in much poorer conditions in Mexico. Large livestock used to have inherent value in this country. Not anymore. We're the India of horses. When poor rural families are doing fine, spending thirty bucks a month on feeding and caring for a horse is no problem. But poor families know they won't be doing fine forever. They can't afford to spend $800 on a horse they don't know they'll be able to sell at all if they need to do so suddenly. So, lots of kids who would have spent time around horses absent the ban, haven't. Rich morons and the charities they support don't care about that. There are still markets in place for horses with economic value such as Thoroughbred race horses. Although, since they don't race their entire natural lives, Thoroughbreds have also been harmed by the slaughter ban.
  - mprovost 6y ago
    You're right, but the market isn't the same as when horses were the primary means of transportation and (literal) horsepower. Horses are a hobby for rich people. My comment was kind of a throwaway but I have seen articles that of course there will still be gasoline cars once EVs (and possible AVs) have taken over. But you won't commute in one, the same way you don't commute by horse anymore. They'll be expensive toys that you take out on weekends to enjoy. And everyone that has one will also have an EV for everyday use - the same way everyone (in the first world) with a horse also has a car.
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChwFoCxVC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChwFoCxVC8 The margin's thin On treating large animals Unless it's a purebred Or more understandable A racehorse of some kind Even TB's only race, what, maybe 20% of their lives? Just like people, horses in the modern world have an ascending scale of career options: - being decorative - being kind (to people, not necessarily to equids) - being ornery, but better than one's peers at a competitive skill Where I am, any horse in the second category is already worth far more than its price per kilogram. (Actually, where I am, one declares if one's equids are to be legally treated as livestock or as companion animals. In the latter case, the vet can prescribe a much wider range of treatments, but one also incurs a duty to rescue[1], and can't put down purely for economic reason.) [1] as in the human case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue#Civil_law_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue#Civil_law_syste...

Wonder if there will be a market for gasoline-powdered, or at least non-network connected, cars in the future. This sort of scenario makes me want to never buy an electric car, ever.

jakemal 6y ago

What does this have to do with a car being electric?

r00fus 6y ago
Some nonsense due to commenter not having actually read the article - since the Ferrari in question has a gas engine.

pwinnski 6y ago

This is a gasoline-powered car we're talking about, so you've made quite a leap. I drive an all-electric car with no remote connections at all, unlike this gas-powered Ferrari.

ceilingcorner 6y ago
Good point, I didn’t realize that. My assumption was that most electric cars going forward will have some unavoidable remote connections. Is there some reason why this is downvoted? Most electric cars seem to have remote connections...

mprovost 6y ago

There is still a market for horses.

jessaustin 6y ago
Just barely. The slaughter ban enacted over a decade ago has emptied out horses from the American heartland. Lots of them starved to death. Many of them ended up slaughtered anyway, only in much poorer conditions in Mexico. Large livestock used to have inherent value in this country. Not anymore. We're the India of horses. When poor rural families are doing fine, spending thirty bucks a month on feeding and caring for a horse is no problem. But poor families know they won't be doing fine forever. They can't afford to spend $800 on a horse they don't know they'll be able to sell at all if they need to do so suddenly. So, lots of kids who would have spent time around horses absent the ban, haven't. Rich morons and the charities they support don't care about that. There are still markets in place for horses with economic value such as Thoroughbred race horses. Although, since they don't race their entire natural lives, Thoroughbreds have also been harmed by the slaughter ban.
- mprovost 6y ago
  You're right, but the market isn't the same as when horses were the primary means of transportation and (literal) horsepower. Horses are a hobby for rich people. My comment was kind of a throwaway but I have seen articles that of course there will still be gasoline cars once EVs (and possible AVs) have taken over. But you won't commute in one, the same way you don't commute by horse anymore. They'll be expensive toys that you take out on weekends to enjoy. And everyone that has one will also have an EV for everyday use - the same way everyone (in the first world) with a horse also has a car.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChwFoCxVC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChwFoCxVC8 The margin's thin On treating large animals Unless it's a purebred Or more understandable A racehorse of some kind Even TB's only race, what, maybe 20% of their lives? Just like people, horses in the modern world have an ascending scale of career options: - being decorative - being kind (to people, not necessarily to equids) - being ornery, but better than one's peers at a competitive skill Where I am, any horse in the second category is already worth far more than its price per kilogram. (Actually, where I am, one declares if one's equids are to be legally treated as livestock or as companion animals. In the latter case, the vet can prescribe a much wider range of treatments, but one also incurs a duty to rescue[1], and can't put down purely for economic reason.) [1] as in the human case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue#Civil_law_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_to_rescue#Civil_law_syste...