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It is a positive feedback loop, not a negative feedback loop. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback .
It’s negative WRT the chip production rate.
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Please write back when Tesla learns how to correctly apply paint to a car or fit body panels, or well, pretty much everything else that makes an actual car a car instead of a disposable gadget.
The concerns you express aren't noticable or bothersome except to a small percentage of enthusiasts. Teslas are mechanically far more reliable and require less maintenance that other cars.
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>and might be more reliable in general Cars in, say, the 1960s were not "more reliable in general." It's not all semiconductor-related of course--they also rusted out quickly in areas that got snow--but 5 years/50K miles is about what you were looking at for vehicle lifetime. Also much lower fuel efficiency, to say nothing of lack of what we'd consider routine safety features today.
I seem to recall most cars built before the mid-80s just had 5 digit odometers.
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It is a positive feedback loop, not a negative feedback loop. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback .
It’s negative WRT the chip production rate.
It is like saying that I tested positive for COVID-19 WRT my health because I don't have the virus, it is not what a positive test means and it will confuse anyone who knows the correct terminology.
I looked for a simple non-electronic car recently to buy, and found out that the government has mandated numerous safety systems requiring electronics like backup cameras, no seatbelt alarms, blind spot monitoring, lane assist etc, and in the upcoming infrastructure bill there is a rider to add breathalyzers to every new car made in America. (ref below) Is there an officially designated cost/reduced risk ratio that p…
Let’s reduce safety regulations because people want new cars?
Let’s reduce safety regulations to save corporations money?
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Toyota-to-cut-g...
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This is a bit of a confusing take if you're using ag subsidies as evidence to keep the govt out of chip manufacturing but now denying that the subsidies aren't bad. > The nightmarish results of agricultural subsidies in the US is an excellent reason to not involve the government This sure sounds like you think it's a claim of subsidies being bad policy. > The made claim was that the ineptitude and mishandling of agri…
Subsidies in theory can work for some problems. My argument is that the US government is not capable of executing them in a competent manner. The collapse of family-run farms is a "downside of abundance" in the same way drowning is a downside of abundance of water.
Ordered a Yaris Hybrid in June. Still no info on the order, except that the factory in France is on shutdown in August till the 23rd. Except: > Until now, Toyota had managed to avoid doing the same, with the exception of extending summer shutdowns by a week in France Which means it reopens in September... > Toyota is to slash worldwide vehicle production by 40% in September because of the global microchip shortage. O…
Come on, we all know this problem and we all know the solution. It's probably red-circuits that we are talking about here. We've all been there: you have your yellow belts full of green-circuits, but the red ones are just so much more complex. You need to set up the entire oil production chain for that, which is tedious and you probably rushed it just 'get a few red circuits so I can get my electric furnace'... I say…
I'd laugh but then I saw this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28233436 . Yup, Factorio is a nice way to learn about supply chains. Unfortunately, like almost all videogames, it assumes the whole system is run by a benevolent dictator (i.e. the player). In real life, most of the complexity and most of the waste comes from the system being built incrementally and operated by great many parties in a mix of…
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you could drop: wireless key, cruise control, gps easily possibly climate control (not needed for short rides, a fan will do), maybe even radio (can always add later) and electric windows I'd buy that car if it was cheaper... I'd need AWD though, trailer hitch...
I'm not even sure you need to drop all of these. Lots of functionality could be centralized. The Apollo Lunar Module did everything with just one embedded computer. We've probably just traded more chips for shorter wires in many such cases.