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by jrsj 5y ago
Lack of device drivers mainly, I would assume. Could be something else, I know there were projects attempting to do things with Darwin in the past and none were successful.
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by jrsj 5y ago
Honestly the whole app could probably use a UI overhaul. The button looking different than other social logins isn’t the problem; the app looking completely alien to any version of iOS released in the last 10 years is the problem.
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Damn if I’d known about that I would have bought one instead of getting a Camry last month
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Is this including some kind of tax credit or subsidy or did you actually manage to get them to come down like $8k below MSRP??
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It’s partly bc it would be much easier for Japan to become fully independent w/ hydrogen whereas with batteries they would be reliant on other countries to produce them. So the Japanese government prefers hydrogen.
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by jrsj 5y ago
They’ve already been struggling with this too because everyone knows they pay like shit and work people to death
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by jrsj 5y ago
Still, even at an $8k difference you’re looking at $150/mo at a lower interest rate than most would get for 60 mo. Most car buyers don’t want a $600/mo payment. Yes, average new car price is something like 38k but a lot of that is
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by jrsj 5y ago
8k is a massive difference. You can also negotiate on price, you’re looking at MSRP or a dealer price and they will almost always go lower. There’s also always the option of ordering a vehicle instead of buying one already in dealer invento
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by jrsj 5y ago
That is a bad position for Toyota to be in then; this aggressive shift in consumer preference to SUVs and crossovers has been incredibly stupid and bad for just about everything. The way this stuff is regulated and taxed probably doesn’t en
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by jrsj 5y ago
Subsidizing hybrids and PHEVs in addition to EVs absolutely makes sense and would make a bigger impact in short term emission reductions. Other companies aren’t lobbying for this because they sell very few hybrids (and often don’t even have
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So the issue is mainly that it’s a quick/cheap conversion of the existing Lexus UX to an EV? That doesn’t sound like a good user experience but it’s not necessarily a bad vehicle from a mechanical standpoint either. I assume it’s more
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To an extent yes but American companies have cut costs more aggressively in assembly (Toyota and Honda are more American made in parts & labor than Ford & GM these days) which has caused issues & their approach to fuel efficienc
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In a way being able to engineer and produce something simpler at a large scale very consistently with few defects is more advanced than having more advanced but unreliable technology you sell at a lower volume
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I think the idea that they’re struggling isn’t exactly accurate. It’s mostly a matter of scaling up manufacturing capacity and they don’t want to do it for a market that’s the size that it currently is. They also know demand for ICE & h
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by jrsj 5y ago
They sell very few Tundras & Sequoias, I’m not so sure about the other vehicles. Hybridized trucks and body on frame SUVs are coming within this year though. They simply invest less into vehicles they sell fewer of. The Corolla and Camr
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This only works for people in cities. IMO the pandemic proved that pressuring people into moving to cities isn’t a great idea either — a more distributed system is a good thing for a variety of reasons. We can have both EVs and improved pub
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This is a bit hyperbolic, I still see Prius & Camry hybrids way more often than rav4 hybrids
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I mean they could, because they’re known for producing reliable vehicles. It’s not like this is just made up; the stuff they sell is just better than most of the competition in that regard. Being conservative in some aspects can be good. Wh
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by jrsj 5y ago
Eh. Many EVs on the market are shitty. It’s not much more expensive than a Chevy Bolt and those are catching fire often enough Chevy has told everyone not to charge unattended or overnight and to park them outside. That being said I don’t k
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by jrsj 5y ago
If you only provide incentives as tax credits for buying new EVs, you’re really only getting a small % of a wealthier segment of the population to buy them. And in many cases there are problems; look at GMs current predicament with the Bolt
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by jrsj 5y ago
I dunno probably because they can have you fired if you disagree with them, and worse since they often know each other across different companies cause problems for you getting jobs in the future too
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Almost no one in this industry is actually making the world better. Just take the money and use that to make the world better if you can. Especially since all things considered your role at Google probably doesn’t make things better or wors
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Food/water/land can all be solved via war. Which is probably more concerning than rising costs of those things alone.
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From my own personal experience living on minimum wage, the biggest benefit would actually be the removal of mandatory overtime pay past 40 hours. I wanted to work more, but had to juggle schedules of multiple part time jobs. I effectively
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Well when I worked at McDonald’s my coworkers that had kids arguably had a higher standard of living than I did because of the government benefits, so maybe not
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That’s before government benefits though, of course. And it’s assuming that anyone is still paying minimum wage, when $13-$15 an hour has become practically the de facto minimum even here in small towns in Ohio
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Doesn’t that sort of increase your own value to the organization though as well? It would vary based on the situation but it seems like this could sort of work to your advantage if you’re the only person who can reasonably work on something
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Also China would probably prefer American kids stay up all night playing games and fucking up in school etc
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I could quite easily do 2 full time jobs simultaneously except that it would be impossible to get them not to schedule overlapping meetings. Wish I had a reliable way around that because I’d love to get paid twice as much for working maybe
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Papadopoulos fucked up and lied to the FBI which by itself is a felony. That’s all he got caught up in, because nothing else he did was illegal. Manafort was arrested for unrelated financial crimes in an attempt to get him to cooperate in t

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