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People that don't tend to work out need around 0.8g / kg; but, people that do work out tend to need 1.2-1.4g / kg a day.[1]
1) "I can't work on it, myself"
2) "It'll have terrible resale value" considering the life of batteries
3) It's definitely going to have a computer in it, and probably be phoning home all the time and that data could be siphoned to find out where I've been and how fast I've gone.
4) Cars with modern computers are scary easy to hack
5) I just don't drive
6) I haven't driven an electric car and so I have biases
7) I do very long road trips with very short pit-stops. Electric cars will never be able to do that (for some size of 'ever')
8) I'm over 60, and the technology won't be where I want it by the time I'm likely to leave this earth.
9) (added) I don't think we'll need to own electric cars. I think Uber or some other company will send out electric cars to us that will drive autonomously to their destination, and I think this will happen before I need to buy a new car.
There's several potential reasons.
I think the BMW 3-series will hold it's buyers pretty well, though. There's just something, especially in the tech community, about owning a BMW 3-series. They might as well be the Toyota Corolla of some parking lots I've seen.
I would say this is a big "it depends". I think I'm in that low-end luxury market. I paid 36k for my car, when all is said and done. I absolutely did not consider minivans or SUVs, and for one really big reason: I don't have kids. Kids aren't even on the horizon. When I look at minivans and SUVs, I think of mobiles that, while great people movers are, generally, not very fun cars to drive (there are some amazing Mazdas and Acuras in this collection, though).
I bought a Subaru WRX, because I like the way it feels; but, I am VERY excited about this new Tesla, and I completely believe that the next car I purchase, bar getting a huge amount of money that I can choose to not be practical with, is going to be an electric card, and is also probably going to be a Tesla.
I have a friend who owns a 90k Infiniti. He prefers luxury more than I do; but, he's 100% on the Tesla bandwagon and is very excited at the prospect of owning one. He'll be one of the first in line when they announce the price.
I have another friend, similar market. He owns an Audi ... A5? S5?
Barring my infiniti-owning friend, we are people that like cars and want a little extra. We definitely do exist, and I suspect many of us will be looking very intently at that Tesla.
Not the answer you wanted, not the answer that seems fair, but probably the technically right answer right now, until this situation changes.
and, for a long time, I worked on side software projects; but, when I get home, I'm often so tired from coding all day that I don't program as much at home anymore. Lately, I've been learning to play a midi-controller and maybe make some music :)
Much of the danger in driving occurs when there's a substantial difference in speed between cars. (I imagine the second most common time there's an accident is when cars are going almost exactly the same speed[1]). Driving 10 under can be very dangerous.
[1] my thinking here is that if you have 2 cars going almost exactly the same speed, but one is sitting in the other's blindspot, then one of them can attempt to change lanes and the other might miss it and suddenly accident.
As much as I love driving, there will be many improvements when we don't have to drive to get to our jobs and things anymore. I'll get to go and play on a race-track, sure; but I won't have to be all hands on deck at 8 or 9 in the morning with everyone else who woke up 30 minutes to an hour ago.
When a bike is all lit up, I have no trouble seeing and reacting appropriately to them.
I'm probably not a typical driver, though.
This may be my perception of that particular coming out of an old generation of looks, and catching up to the current one, though.
I didn't. I imagine my mom probably didn't, though she would say "that makes sense". My uncle most likely doesn't. I imagine my tech friends don't know, either.
Please tell me that's a typo. PLEASE tell me that's a typo. 82 hours a week is insanity. Driving any vehicle requires a lot of attention, driving a large one requires a LOT more attention. And I just have a strong certainty that, if it's anything like every other industry, it'll be 82 hours a week, every week, no breaks.
You want accidents and injuries? Make people drive more than 16 hours a day (5 days a week). Or maybe 13.67 hours a day (6 days a week), or even still 11.71 hours a day (7 days a week). Every week.
Wow.
I like to go on drives into the middle of nowhere, usually deciding what turn to take when I take the turn. Some other person would just be sitting in the car blinking as I thought that one dirt road with no one on it was /the best/ turn to make at this second.
Or, I'll go to the zoo, and take photographs; but, that's not something that's very fun to do with other people. I fear they'll get bored as I decide to sit by a single animal enclosure for the next two hours, just waiting for the creature there to do something photo-worthy.
I also often go out to eat alone. I have weird feeding schedules, and sometimes I want to eat somewhere nice, so ... bleh. I actually don't feel too bad about eating alone, but sometimes it could be quite a bit more fun to do it in a group.
I do prefer to see movies with friends, though. There's the discussion about the movie immediately after seeing it that I quite enjoy.
I also prefer to participate in extreme sports with others. Maybe not going with them the whole time the extreme sport is happening; but, there is safety in numbers in an activity that you could literally die from.
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Long story short, for people that haven't done things alone for the awkwardness reasons. I encourage you to try it. It can be quite a lot of fun, depending on the activity.
Chapter IV, titled, "In Which Our Protagonist Meets A Dashing Strange." is how I imagine many read that, especially when Chapter IV is in big letters, or even without the word "Chapter", like a title, with the rest of it in what would be recognized as a subtitle.
DoSomething(func() { ... })
DoSomething(new Runnable() {
public void run() { ... }
});
class MyAction implements Runnable {
public void run() { ... }
}
DoSomething(new MyAction());Imagine you have a closure with a function that takes in a string and a list and returns a list. Depending on implementation of the function, you could have the string be the operation you wish to perform. The method name, and the list be the parameters. The returned list is the output.
Getters could pass an empty list and return a list with one entry
Setters could pass a list with a value and return an empty list
And so on :)
Like this:
func NewClosure() func(string, ...float64) []float64 {
x := float64(0)
return func(method string, args ...float64) []float64 {
if method == "setX" && len(args) > 0 {
x = args[0]
return nil
} else if (method == "getX") {
return []float64 { x }
} else {
panic("invalid method")
}
}
}
a := NewClosure()
b := NewClosure()
a("setX", 50)
b("setX", 12)
fmt.Printf("a.X = %v, b.X = %v", a("getX")[0], b("getX")[0])
I like it.
[edit: added working example .. and realized I'm adding to what my parent poster was saying]
* pointless process,
* extraneous fields,
* improperly labeled things,
* poor ordering,
* sloppy UX flow,
* excessively accurate controls,
* super-tiny buttons,
* things when you're like that.
I think it's a lovely idea and more systems should be designed with that in mind.
Drunk, I might be able to operate a computer as well as my grandmother; so, if it can support me drunk, it can support my grandmother.
Medicine is evolving, and growing; and, it's that desire to keep living and to keep those around you living, and to improve their well-being that has, in part, grown our medical abilities to the point they are now.
It feels like some of those improvements that, right now only provide a '15% chance of survival, and include pain', will be the stepping stones for 20, 30, 80 or 90% chance of survival, with varying levels of pain, including 0.
The article seemed to suggest that the doctors didn't approve of those intermediate steps, but ... those are the steps medicine takes, aren't they?
I dunno. I respected the rest of the article. That part of it bothered me.
e.g:
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as well known as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads. - Harry Bruno, aviation publicist, 1943.
Furthermore, I notice that's by an aviation publicist; and that just happens to lend to my other comment / question:
How many of these people were paid to have the stance that they had?
... this makes me sad.