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Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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Post by giantg2 »

collingreen wrote: post #372
giantg2 wrote: post #363

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That would be pretty ironic if Trump is able to deliver more on his promises than other politicians.

Why would it be ironic? He has less regard for the political group and general stability than a more run of the mill politician and now there is explicit immunity for anything he wants to do, like when he sold classified documents but "declassified them in his mind" right before once he got caught. We watched four years of this already, including a rally with gallows being built in the crowd being told to march on th…

"The weirdest part of this narrative for me is how the supporters say he wont do what he promises and the detractors fear he will. I don't know enough history to know if that is common but it sure feels backwards to me."

That's pretty common on all highly polarized topics. Happens all the time with stuff like democrat candidates and firearms seizures - supporters walking it back and detractors believing ever word.

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Post by Ferret7446 »

thebruce87m wrote: post #391
HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #156

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I heard EVs are very heavy, how can they be faster?

People love to say that EVs are very heavy, or are much, much heavier, massively heavier and so on. This paints the wrong picture in people’s heads. The same people will use the Hummer EV as an example, but most people aren’t driving that. https://thedriven.io/2024/05/03/are-evs-really-much-heavier-... > full electric versions are only around 10% to 15% heavier than their direct ICE equivalent To put it into perspect…

I assume the misconception is because EVs are massively heavier if they had comparable range, as the reason is the poor energy density of batteries. If an EV had the same range as the ICE then it would be massively heavier, but with significantly reduced range it is only slightly heavier.

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Post by mppm »

Most commenters here focus on how fast and heavy Teslas are, while for me the overwhelmingly most likely explanation is Tesla's long-promised and still half-baked autopilot - either by directly getting drivers into sticky situations or just training them not to pay due attention to the road. Except for this one factor, Teslas ought to be better than average due to premium segment, modern construction techniques and a full array of active safety gear.

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Post by bilbo0s »

ipaddr wrote: post #369
bilbo0s wrote: post #338

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I'm not Nielsen Ratings or anything, but that would be consistent with what I would think. Fox viewers being older, and older being consistent with tv viewers. Younger being consistent with TikTok, YouTube, InstaFaceTwit intake.

Fox has the youngest demo (500,000 for Jessie Watters) and most viewers. At night or during the day. Interesting cnbc has the oldest audience and least. Gutfeld crushes all late night shows (Tonight show, Late Show, Kimmel). https://www.newsweek.com/chart-shows-network-ratings-2024-el...

“Young” among tv viewers is different from “young” among social media tiktok’ers. The article you linked actually says that exact thing:

> “suggesting younger voters were either less engaged, or getting their election night information from other sources such as social media and at-home streaming, which are not tracked by Nielsen.”

Young people won’t watch tv unless there’s a game or tv series on they’re interested in. Even then, a lot of them will DVR it on Hulu or something. If you want those eyeballs, you’re going to need to be creative. And tv networks can’t be as creative as instaFaceSnap, Netflix and TikTwitGram.

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Post by ithkuil »

ivewonyoung wrote: post #399
ithkuil wrote: post #285

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The genius would lie in planning that in advance. You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money, use it to influence elections or at least give the impression that you'd been instrumental in influencing the election so that the new president will want to give you a new department with a funny name you made up. I don't know man, my Occam's razor cuts another way.

It is not a department.

Indeed, it's a Presidential advisory commission.

To create a federal executive department you need an act of Congress which is not very efficient.

It's much more efficient to just use the name "department" and bet on the chance that nobody would care about words, meanings, facts and rules.

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Post by thebruce87m »

Ferret7446 wrote: post #402
thebruce87m wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People love to say that EVs are very heavy, or are much, much heavier, massively heavier and so on. This paints the wrong picture in people’s heads. The same people will use the Hummer EV as an example, but most people aren’t driving that. https://thedriven.io/2024/05/03/are-evs-really-much-heavier-... > full electric versions are only around 10% to 15% heavier than their direct ICE equivalent To put it into perspect…

I assume the misconception is because EVs are massively heavier if they had comparable range, as the reason is the poor energy density of batteries. If an EV had the same range as the ICE then it would be massively heavier, but with significantly reduced range it is only slightly heavier.

I don’t think people talk about hypothetical EV weight when they make such claims, the claims tend to revolve around EVs currently on the road.

We should also try to discuss “waiting time” rather than range so that people start to think in these terms.

My overall waiting time is much lower for my EV than my old diesel, despite the range of the EV being lower. Less time waiting to fill up on a weekly basis (0 mins while I sleep vs 5 mins filling up + journey time to the petrol station), less time defrosting in the winter (0 mins remote pre-heat vs 5+ scraping), less time waiting to fill up on long journeys (0 extra mins while I eat vs 5 extra mins filling up).

These are all situation dependent of course, but making people adjust their thinking will help them get a more accurate picture of EV ownership.

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Post by atoav »

EasyMark wrote: post #376
atoav wrote: post #94

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He had been "joking" about a third term already: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/congress-reso... So let's see if a Trump with total immunity will really leave gracefully this time.

A president can't pardon himself. He can still be held responsible for this crimes that he's already done. they'll just be shelved for a time. With any justice we'll come back to his crimes after this presidency proves to be a complete failure. I personally don't believe that Americans will allow anyone to become dictator.

He does not need to pardon himself if he has presidental immunity for offical acts for the rest of his life. That just hinges on the definition of offical acts, which will be made by a partisan and corrupt supreme court.

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Post by tzs »

ivewonyoung wrote: post #397
tzs wrote: post #325

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That's a pretty simplistic analysis. People largely voted on immigration and inflation. You can't infer anything about what they thought on other issues.

Inflation was caused by increased government spending, no?

The last COVID stimulus package added from 1 to 4% to inflation, but that was transitory. The wider rise was largely due to other factors such as supply chain disruptions from the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The latter significantly raised oil prices worldwide which in turn raised costs for all kinds of things.

Here's an article that covers a lot of the factors [1].

[1] https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/joe-biden-kamala-...

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Post by mathgeek »

lostmsu wrote: post #373
yardstick wrote: post #319

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Family car, probably lots of accidents due to kids distracting drivers.

Highlander that I see everywhere is not.

The Highlander rates somewhat higher on crash ratings from what I can find (both are top picks). Also a significantly heavier vehicle (by about 10% depending on model years).

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Post by mathgeek »

duderific wrote: post #283
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #272

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What is "counter depth"?

It's a shallower style refrigerator, that doesn't "stick out" past the depth of the counters next to it.

I assume the issues with counter depth and reliability are due to them not compromising mich on internal volume (thus reducing the heat dissipation ability around the compressor). Most folks are going to buy purely based on volume inside. Compressor failing was what killed our Samsung but at the end of the day these appliances are cheap enough to let folks choose what they value.
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