It's strange for me for a few reasons: 1) i'm a human susceptible to human desires, e.g. perception of luxury and comfort; 2) Strongly drawn to cost optimization, obviously; 3) Consider data privacy to be a nightmare; 4) Am good enough at heel-n-toe shifting + fast enough to poke fun at my 'manual transmission only friends' whose brains can't comprehend how good 'autotragics' have become; 5) Kind of want to see "Government Motors" punished, but...

This whole BYD thing is weird, cuz as far as i can read, it's not just one particular auto maker that's threatened. It's all of them. Necessary to work through this as a broader systemic industrial risk rather than simply a comparo of which bloated ipad-telemetric-couch-battery-motorcar I'd rather have