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On the other hand, companies building wholly proprietary infrastructure is just pure e-waste on the back of the citizens of those countries that ALSO limits inn
by agloeregrets 4y ago
On the other hand, companies building wholly proprietary infrastructure is just pure e-waste on the back of the citizens of those countries that ALSO limits innovation.
Imagine a world where Ford cars use a different gas nozzle from a GM product in the US. The average person would have to pick and choose stations and if one were to go out of business, the lesser standard would encounter mass disposal and retrofit, all on the backs of consumers. The intent with these products is generally not innovation...it is lock in and licensing fees. The EU law in case here has a committee that reviews the standard yearly and accepts proposals.
- treis 4y ago>The average person would have to pick and choose stations Stations would just have two nozzles on their pumps.
- isignal 4y agoWhat if Ford operates their own stations? Would they still have two plugs? (see: Tesla superchargers)
- Fernicia 4y agoThis is pure legislation-brain worry about things that markets resolve.
- delecti 4y agoWell, three, because diesel pump nozzles are already a different standard.
- kibwen 4y agoWell, eight, because you'd have two each for diesel and each of the three octanes.
- Dylan16807 4y agoOctanes don't need separate nozzles.
- kibwen 4y agoYou're right, I don't know what I was thinking. You'd just need four. :P
- Dylan16807 4y agoHow'd you get two for diesel?
- skykooler 4y agoDiesel pump nozzles actually have multiple standards - there's one about the same size as a gas nozzle that's used for diesel cars and pickups, and a bigger one that's used for trucks and buses.
- rubatuga 4y agoWe should also mandate the reduction of open source projects, after all there are too many competing standards. We don’t want code to be wasted now do we? Let’s start by banning the use of Tensorflow
- oblio 4y agoThat's just a dumb argument. Open source projects can just be forked with no monetary implications.