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> People focus too much on edge cases when making life decisions, imo. Not in this situation. If you take a family trip[1] once or twice a year, that's not an

> People focus too much on edge cases when making life decisions, imo. Not in this situation. If you take a family trip[1] once or twice a year, that's not an edge case, that's an annual case. The other thing you are missing is that those routes that are longer than the EV range are busy every day! If you go out, today (non-peak season), and see 2000 cars drive that long route today, that's 2000 car owners today that need that range, or 2000 car owners who would tell you "range anxiety" if you asked them to move to EV. On peak times, popular long routes get over 2000 cars per hour. We're talking 100s of thousands, if not millions, of this need coming up per year, so its hardly an edge case.

Kirby64 3y ago
This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. Assuming you take one trip a day, then you’re literally only hitting that case 2/365 days. Obviously there’s people where this doesn’t apply, but there’s outliers everywhere and they’re free to continue buying gas cars today.
- lelanthran 3y ago
  > This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. I humbly beg to disagree; it's most definitely not an edge-case as the phrase is defined. You're using "edge-case" to mean low-frequency event. How I see the phrase used everywhere I've ever seen it, is "edge case" referring to a low-probability event, i.e. an event that is predicted to so rarely occur that it can be dismissed from consideration. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-case https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-cas... says: >> an extreme or not typical example of something, that should not be considered when forming an opinion about it: An annual trip is an almost guaranteed event, so it's a very high probability event. I get that it is a low-frequency event, but "edge-case" is the incorrect term used to describe the event. Use "rarely" or similar instead.
  - lukas099 3y ago
    Maybe edge case wasn't technically the right term, but I did indeed mean a low-frequency event (as it's used in the article). Sorry for the confusion.
- dagss 3y ago
  If you know something will happen it is not an edge case, at least how the word is commonly used. Doesn't matter how often. System A delivering its event after system B may be an edge case. Daylight saving time computations are not handling an edge case but a normal case that happens twice a year.

Kirby64 3y ago

This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. Assuming you take one trip a day, then you’re literally only hitting that case 2/365 days. Obviously there’s people where this doesn’t apply, but there’s outliers everywhere and they’re free to continue buying gas cars today.

lelanthran 3y ago
> This is purely a semantic difference. If you travel once or twice a year beyond the standard EV range, then by definition it’s an edge case. I humbly beg to disagree; it's most definitely not an edge-case as the phrase is defined. You're using "edge-case" to mean low-frequency event. How I see the phrase used everywhere I've ever seen it, is "edge case" referring to a low-probability event, i.e. an event that is predicted to so rarely occur that it can be dismissed from consideration. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-case https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/edge-cas... says: >> an extreme or not typical example of something, that should not be considered when forming an opinion about it: An annual trip is an almost guaranteed event, so it's a very high probability event. I get that it is a low-frequency event, but "edge-case" is the incorrect term used to describe the event. Use "rarely" or similar instead.
- lukas099 3y ago
  Maybe edge case wasn't technically the right term, but I did indeed mean a low-frequency event (as it's used in the article). Sorry for the confusion.
dagss 3y ago
If you know something will happen it is not an edge case, at least how the word is commonly used. Doesn't matter how often. System A delivering its event after system B may be an edge case. Daylight saving time computations are not handling an edge case but a normal case that happens twice a year.