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They really aren't, an EREV needs two electric motors and fixed gears connecting to the engine and wheels. Toyota-style hybrids (also Ford, Chrysler, Subaru, Mazda) need... two electric motors and fixed gears connecting to the engine and wheels. Everything else is quite similar, though the hybrid will obviously have much smaller and cheaper batteries, onboard chargers, battery temperature management systems, etc.
> Hybrids, which combine a gas engine, electric motor, and battery, have 15 percent fewer problems on average than gas-only cars.
> EVs and PHEVs have about 80 percent more problems on average than gas-only cars.
A lot of EV/PHEV problems likely come down to them being much newer designs with issues that still need to be to work out, but hybrid vs. ICE is pretty clear. The e-CVTs, HV accessories, and simpler, less-stressed engines (no turbos which are quite common in efficiency focused ICE) enabled by hybrid drive-trains are big boons for reliability.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-s...
Doing that well should inevitably involve challenging your guest's framing of certain issues. As an absurd example, if you ask the guest why they spin around 3 times when they stand up and they say, "better that than doing three somersaults", you would be doing your audience a huge disservice by asking your guest how they assess the relative difficulty of spins versus somersaults.
Why Jensen Huang thinks a fabulously wealthy person not knowing their own address is analogous to a child not learning basic math skills would be, in my opinion, much more interesting and informative of his viewpoint than the actual point he was trying to make.
"You have to have a specific daily drive for them to make much sense" - You'd have to have an extremely specific commute for an ICE car to potentially beat a hybrid (flat highway driving with zero traffic). Even then it's doubtful as hybrid engines can be designed to optimize more for efficiency since the electric torque can augment to make performance acceptable. Try to find an ICE car that gets better EPA ratings than equivalent hybrids.
"You're carrying two engines and to fuel/power sources, so mileage is terrible on gas and battery." - The corolla hybrid LE weighs 100lbs less than the ICE LE, in part because hybrid transmissions are quite simple in comparison to a manual/automatic required in an ICE car. In either case, hybrids have a huge advantage in the types of driving where weight matters (stop-and-go/hills) because they can reclaim that energy rather than losing it as heat.
Sure, I can definitely see that being a pattern, especially for things like modern Diesel emissions systems that are notoriously unreliable. I just haven't seen that pattern materialize for start-stop. You found the same recall I did, which for the mast majority of people was fixed with just a software update. Where are the class actions for these shoddily designed systems?
What evidence is there for this? The Prius was around for 12 years before Toyota brought their first production start-stop ICE to market, surely they (and other mfgs whose hybrids predate start-stop) didn't just throw away all of that knowledge to haphazardly "bolt on" a start-stop system. They didn't, which is why start-stop equipped card have things like low-friction coatings on their crankshaft bearings.
> The prius style dual motor/generator planetary gear arangment avoids concerns about starter motor longevity
Redesigned starter motors with improved longevity also avoid these concerns. In start-stop systems, the starter motor is a safety critical item and they are engineered to a much higher standard. As far as I can find, there's only one start-stop starter related recall in the US (Honda) and it wasn't even a mechanical issue.
> From my experience with a couple rental cars a year, on user experience, start-stop is all over the map from really annoying to noticable but unobtrusive ... I imagine how design challenges around lubrication are met is also all over the map.
I think this captures exactly why people fixate on these systems. They assume that because they can be janky to use (they often can be), that they must be jankily designed. I can't prove a negative, but I just haven't ever seen meaningful evidence that start-stop cars fail faster or fail in the ways critics suggest they should. Surely we would see some evidence of the extra spun bearings, sparkly oil, and premature starter replacements that this almost 20 year old tech has has wrought by now, right? The only evidence I've seen are slightly more expensive batteries needing to be replaced slightly more often.
While I don't doubt that it seems like this is essentially a solved issue. Priuses are some of the most reliable, long-lasting cars out there despite experiencing considerably more start-stop cycles than a traditional ICE with start-stop would.
Almost all concrete english-language info I can find about microdramas is astroturfed to hell by consultants and "independent" industry publications. Wikipedia's citations for 2025 revenue are 'Reel Reel' and 'Duanju News'. Neither cite their source, though they are likely just regurgitating predictions from Omdia, a media consultancy.
> Real Reel™ works with companies across entertainment, technology and the creator economy to build relevant industry conversations around mobile-first storytelling.
Duanju News is published by 'Studio Phocéen', who run their own microdrama production house.
The Omdia revenue estimates, which is where the projected $14 billion comes from, are completely unsubstantiated as far as I can tell. They even go so far as to make "according to new research" a link that when followed sends you to their generic "/advance-your-business/media-and-entertainment" sales pitch.
https://omdia.tech.informa.com/pr/2025/oct/microdramas-to-ge...
I don't have any special insights here, it all just smells a bit like McKinsey's "The metaverse will be worth $5 trillion by 2030, you better not miss out!!! Hire our 22 year old slide deck experts today"
> Its two working days. Around 15-18 hrs i get out, depending on usage and power profile. If you do heavy compilation or so its much shorter :D
> Generally used balanced profile most time with intel lpmd (lpe core task util till threshold).
https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1sstqon/comment/oh...
These aren't all foregone conclusions. For example, Arlington, VA (11th highest density county in the US) most likely has the lowest combined traffic/homicide fatality rate in the country. Traffic peaked in 2000, and by 2015 it had gone down 20% while population rose 20%. This of course required a lot of planning and investment, but that is enabled by the higher property tax revenues that more housing brings.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-18/how-ar...
> Encouraging people just to vote
And "Criminal Conspiracy" is just making plans with friends. Just because you can describe it in vague terms doesn't make it A-Okay.
> It's going to backfire hard for all the ad spend by MTV, Meta, and Google
It will not, because running ads is definitely not election bribery, whereas what Musk did likely is under Wisconsin law.
> The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office, which can choose to bring criminal charges over violating the state law against election bribery. Prosecutors have 40 days to report back to the commission.
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-wisconsin-election-mill...
Would you take a motorcycle safety course where the first thing they do is chuck you into "simulated" traffic? It feels too obvious to say, but just throwing people in the deep-end isn't necessarily the most consistent or effective teaching tool for every situation.
Good to know that this will be an evergreen argument despite an extremely well-supported project to do just that taking place in the last two years with nothing to show for itself other than hundreds of thousands of deaths.
https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/roundabouts#traffic-flow...
Btw your 'classic pattern' of highly unbalanced traffic flows is specifically called out as a non-ideal candidate for a roundabout, maybe the urban planners get cow milk in their lattes after all.
[1] https://biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au/article/2024/04/rise-o...
so far I'm seeing: GradientText, Animated button, EyebrowPill, Aurora background, MockIDE, LogoRow, SlippyWords, StatCounter, CommunityBadge
also: "No DSL, no YAML — just Python functions and decorators."
'It's not X, its Y' but with an added em dash is crazy work.
> I think this is misleading and dishonest, which is why I am being direct.
Good save, everyone reading this totally thinks that's what you were doing and not just showing your whole ass while making my point for me.