>Lot of vehicles designed and produced in Europe — ICE, PHEV, and EV — have effectively become a missleading ECO exercise. Vehicles marketed as “CO₂-friendly” end up producing massive CO₂ footprints through forced services, throw-away components, high failure rates and unnecessary parts manufacturing cycles, overcomplicated service procedures, far larger than what the public is told. If we are destroying our ICE automotive industry based on EURO norms, who is calculating real ECO footprint of replacement part manucfacturing, unecessary servicing and real waste cost?
>We saw this years ago on diesel and petrol cars:
DPF failures, EGR valves, high-pressure pumps, timing belts running in oil, low quality automatic transmissions, and lubrication system defects. Everyone calculates the CO₂ footprint of a moving vehicle — nobody calculates the CO₂ footprint of a vehicle that is constantly broken and creating waste.
More like a weird rant that reduces EVs to only existing due to the environment. But they’re just better cars lol. And the poor reliability of european cars applies regardless of propulsion type
High end ICE cars have long been treated as disposable items. 3 year lease and then resell for 1/2 of its initial price so suddenly it’s cheaper than new midrange models for good reasons.
Lower end cars on the other hand can be worth 3/4th of their initial value 5 years out, that’s a durable good.
I demand some degree of freedom as an end-user. If all of the possible alternatives strip that basic freedom from me, I will simply fall back to the option which has the most features, which means moving to Apple.
(Also, losing to competition seems to be the only way companies nowadays can perceive loss of users' trust)
Wait. Is the same freedom available on iOS at all? Don't you need a developer license there as well? Forget the fact that side loading and alternate stores are not possible at all.
Antibiotics are related to bacteria, which have different mutation mechanisms than viruses. I'm also a tech guy, so someone may correct me.
Also, this seems to influence the human end to make protective material, not act on the viruses directly.
OT: Just replying to myself to ramble a little bit more.
The Crick, Brenner et al. paper that I cited above
* studied mutations in a viral gene called "rIIB"
* the authors used those rIIB mutations to determine that the genetic code was a non-overlapping triplet (now called codons) -- a pretty fundamental discovery.
* What's amazing to me is that they still have NO IDEA what the rIIB gene actually _does_, mechanistically.
It's like learning a little bit about God using an enigma machine (sorry, shitty simile).
I'm honestly confused about what the OP could be getting out of a drive by comment so obviously and verifiably wrong. Seems like a poor use for even cheap AI inference tokens. It doesn't even have trolling value.
Is it so wrong of me to demand competence of my spammers?
EU has a huge revolving door problem, especially in automotive, which is a major industry in its (now declining) economic champions.
They might have people with credentials working for it, but the implementation described falls into the category of "some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe it." To an external observer, incompetence and malice are hardly distinguishable, especially when there is a huge economic incentive for both the automakers and legislators to be evil.
It's safety profiteering, squeezing millions in the name of saving lives.
This is staggeringly naive, holy moly. The idea that it's bad enough already, so might as well share DNA with a private company to put the proverbial cherry on top is... idk, nihilistic?
Impressive results, I remember reading about AI-generated microstrip RF filters not too long ago, and someone already mentioned evolved antenna systems. We are suffering from a severe case of calling gradient descent AI at the moment, but if it gets more money into actual research instead of LLM slop, I'm all for it.
>We saw this years ago on diesel and petrol cars: DPF failures, EGR valves, high-pressure pumps, timing belts running in oil, low quality automatic transmissions, and lubrication system defects. Everyone calculates the CO₂ footprint of a moving vehicle — nobody calculates the CO₂ footprint of a vehicle that is constantly broken and creating waste.
Extremely well put.
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