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nice, there is an overlap with culture war matters here too > TSMC to address talent shortages through new partnership with Japanese university this is how DE

nice, there is an overlap with culture war matters here too > TSMC to address talent shortages through new partnership with Japanese university this is how DEI and “pipeline problems” should be done. Why does it take a foreign company and foreign university to figure that out better than US companies and beyond the imagination of frustrated residents

epistasis 3y ago
For a lot of traditional industry, there's immense rot at the executive level. Compare Hyundai and Kia's approach to EVs to the US car majors, and you'll see similar disparities in capability, vision, and technical ability. The US majors realized they were losing at EVs, and ran a major PR push in the US media that it's the fault of EV technology, as a way to quell investor pullback on their failure to execute well. That sort of strategy will work for a bit, but eventually reality will come back to bite the US car majors. But by then, perhaps they will get Congress to bail them out from foreign competition yet again.
- wakawaka28 3y ago
  EV technology is fundamentally inferior though. People don't want EV's and their slow charging, limited range, high expense, and fire hazards. Even if it did work we don't have nearly enough electricity production to power a majority of people adopting EVs. As for comparing US industry to others, it would be unfair to solely blame executives. No country can be on top in every industry, much less one that outsources too much stuff.
  - tatersolid 3y ago
    > and fire hazards I’m no EV enthusiast, but this is surely anti-EV FUD. I have personally seen hundreds of fires of gas and diesel vehicles on the side of the road, including having a family member’s Audi spontaneously combust while driving on the interstate last year. I’ve never personally witnessed an EV fire despite living in an area where EV/PHEVs are about 20% of the vehicles on the local roads. Are there actual reliable stats on EV vs gas+diesel fires? Carrying tens of gallons of highly flammable liquid around is surely more dangerous than any battery. A battery fire might be difficult to put out with water but the FD didn’t use water on the burning Audi either.
    - wakawaka28 3y ago
      >I have personally seen hundreds of fires of gas and diesel vehicles on the side of the road, including having a family member’s Audi spontaneously combust while driving on the interstate last year. I'm calling bullshit on this. I have been driving for decades basically more than average and haven't even seen hundreds of accidents, much less hundreds of fires. Even if you were a truck driver on the road 8 hours a day, I would doubt this. With petrol vehicles there are no spontaneous combustion incidents. The fuels are stable under all ordinary storage conditions and only one of a handful of well-understood malfunctions can lead to fuel leaking out and catching fire. These fires usually involve an electrical issue, collision, or sabotage. A majority of car accidents involve no fires, even when fuel is somehow leaked. EV fires are dramatically worse than petrol fires. They basically cannot be extinguished. As the EVs on the road now get older and get into more accidents, they will be seen in more fires. The media and search engines are suppressing news of EV fires because it's bad for business and bad for certain politicians. >Carrying tens of gallons of highly flammable liquid around is surely more dangerous than any battery. Not really. These batteries are more stable under some conditions but can easily enter a state of thermal runaway and spew huge clouds of toxic and explosive fumes and/or burst into self-oxidizing chemical fireballs. They are basically impossible to extinguish and can reignite a month or two after the initial burn, potentially setting a whole junkyard on fire. It's far worse than gasoline or diesel, even in cases of arson.
      - tatersolid 3y ago
        My “hundreds” estimate was based on seeing 1+ ICE vehicle fire per quarter for more than 50 years. I live in a major metro and did once drive for a living. And that Audi did just start burning without warning while hurtling down the highway, which I would call “spontaneous combustion”, My point was the ratio between ICE and EV fires in recent years given the ratio of such vehicles on the road. I still see ICE fires a few times per year but no EV fires. I asked for reliable stats but you replied with the same old “EV BAD FIRE!” mantra which does not seem to be supported by my own observations nor any actual statistics. FWIW, an ICE vehicle fire is extremely toxic. It’s the “rest of the car” burning rather than fuel that causes the big black clouds and black paste stuck to the road. But the fuel causes the fire to spread rapidly to the whole vehicle. I grant your assertion that most ICE fires are caused by malfunction and not collision. But I still see them burning every so often.

epistasis 3y ago

For a lot of traditional industry, there's immense rot at the executive level. Compare Hyundai and Kia's approach to EVs to the US car majors, and you'll see similar disparities in capability, vision, and technical ability. The US majors realized they were losing at EVs, and ran a major PR push in the US media that it's the fault of EV technology, as a way to quell investor pullback on their failure to execute well. That sort of strategy will work for a bit, but eventually reality will come back to bite the US car majors. But by then, perhaps they will get Congress to bail them out from foreign competition yet again.

wakawaka28 3y ago
EV technology is fundamentally inferior though. People don't want EV's and their slow charging, limited range, high expense, and fire hazards. Even if it did work we don't have nearly enough electricity production to power a majority of people adopting EVs. As for comparing US industry to others, it would be unfair to solely blame executives. No country can be on top in every industry, much less one that outsources too much stuff.
- tatersolid 3y ago
  > and fire hazards I’m no EV enthusiast, but this is surely anti-EV FUD. I have personally seen hundreds of fires of gas and diesel vehicles on the side of the road, including having a family member’s Audi spontaneously combust while driving on the interstate last year. I’ve never personally witnessed an EV fire despite living in an area where EV/PHEVs are about 20% of the vehicles on the local roads. Are there actual reliable stats on EV vs gas+diesel fires? Carrying tens of gallons of highly flammable liquid around is surely more dangerous than any battery. A battery fire might be difficult to put out with water but the FD didn’t use water on the burning Audi either.
  - wakawaka28 3y ago
    >I have personally seen hundreds of fires of gas and diesel vehicles on the side of the road, including having a family member’s Audi spontaneously combust while driving on the interstate last year. I'm calling bullshit on this. I have been driving for decades basically more than average and haven't even seen hundreds of accidents, much less hundreds of fires. Even if you were a truck driver on the road 8 hours a day, I would doubt this. With petrol vehicles there are no spontaneous combustion incidents. The fuels are stable under all ordinary storage conditions and only one of a handful of well-understood malfunctions can lead to fuel leaking out and catching fire. These fires usually involve an electrical issue, collision, or sabotage. A majority of car accidents involve no fires, even when fuel is somehow leaked. EV fires are dramatically worse than petrol fires. They basically cannot be extinguished. As the EVs on the road now get older and get into more accidents, they will be seen in more fires. The media and search engines are suppressing news of EV fires because it's bad for business and bad for certain politicians. >Carrying tens of gallons of highly flammable liquid around is surely more dangerous than any battery. Not really. These batteries are more stable under some conditions but can easily enter a state of thermal runaway and spew huge clouds of toxic and explosive fumes and/or burst into self-oxidizing chemical fireballs. They are basically impossible to extinguish and can reignite a month or two after the initial burn, potentially setting a whole junkyard on fire. It's far worse than gasoline or diesel, even in cases of arson.
    - tatersolid 3y ago
      My “hundreds” estimate was based on seeing 1+ ICE vehicle fire per quarter for more than 50 years. I live in a major metro and did once drive for a living. And that Audi did just start burning without warning while hurtling down the highway, which I would call “spontaneous combustion”, My point was the ratio between ICE and EV fires in recent years given the ratio of such vehicles on the road. I still see ICE fires a few times per year but no EV fires. I asked for reliable stats but you replied with the same old “EV BAD FIRE!” mantra which does not seem to be supported by my own observations nor any actual statistics. FWIW, an ICE vehicle fire is extremely toxic. It’s the “rest of the car” burning rather than fuel that causes the big black clouds and black paste stuck to the road. But the fuel causes the fire to spread rapidly to the whole vehicle. I grant your assertion that most ICE fires are caused by malfunction and not collision. But I still see them burning every so often.