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What if it’s not a larger vehicle, but transitioning from a petrol burning vehicle to an electric vehicle?

We don’t want to give people reasons to hold on to old combustion vehicles any longer than they have to, but the roads of course need to be made safe for passengers and pedestrians and wildlife, I agree.

changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and mor

Hmm, I’m an EU citizen but don’t live in the EU, I assume I won’t benefit from this?

How exactly does Lemmy remain in compliance with laws regarding, for example, a user’s right to have all data associated with their account deleted (right to erasure, etc), or ensure that it is only kept for a time period reasonable while the user is actively using your services (data protection retention periods, etc)?

It’s not a big deal for me, just strange to think Lemmy of all places would be built to be so anti user’s data rights. The user is ultimately the one that decides what is done with their information/property, after all.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide has been comforting me since I first discovered it in a charity shop at the age of 12.

People are truly strange, it’s not just you, and the universe is more than we know. I found that comforting, and Adams’ humour opened a whole new world to me :-)

I just want to tell you both good luck.

We’re all counting on you.

Aeroplane mode is incredibly, incredibly useful, I use it a lot and I’m almost never on an aeroplane haha.

Sounds peaceful to me, unless they’re rioting, looting, attacking/murdering people? Have they even shot at anyone yet or taken hostages?

If they have to block a few roads and burn a few bits of rubber to get the attention of their (supposed, I can’t comment) oppressors, that seems quite peaceful.

I know to us it seems a little extreme yes, but on the scale of what’s peaceful and what isn’t, I’d say a bit of minor inconvenience in road travel and some burning tyres is pretty peaceful <3

Exactly. Which is why people who ate on the opposite end of the extreme, insisting that all cars of all kinds must be banished, are so annoying.

There’s no one size fits all system, so stop with the “everyone should just ride the bus or train you don’t need cars” rubbish. Neither extreme are correct. We live in the real world.

Because it had a good conductor *

Well, a company that happens to be located currently within the USA.

They could just as easily have been based in Australia, or France, or Canada. It’s not a public thing at all, just a private business thing.

The hell is social security? We don’t have one of those.

Is this another one of those American terms they’re trying to replace our terminology with? It smells of that.

Also Britain is an island, it doesn’t include Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, and if we’re talking about a nation wide thing I suspect it’ll include more than just Britain, but in fact the entire UK.

Sorry, I’m just tired of Americans trying to force their terminology on us after so many years of putting up with it :-(

Damn, the AI that wrote this is really good!

I always just take a train there, if it’s a place worth visiting they’ll almost always have a train route passing by with a regular service throughout the day and evening.

For example if I want to visit the Peak District I just hop on a train to Edale and bam, I’m a 10 minutes walk from a bunch of different trails and things to see.

All the major national parks I’ve visited have been like this so far, if they didn’t have good transport links how would they expect anybody to visit? And they want people to visit, to spend money in the local towns/villages that house those transport links, etc.

What I love about the AI we have right now is that your comment could have been written by AI and we’d never know. Heck, mine could be too!

Truly we live in the future haha

The device only gives easy access to already extremely weak/non existent security systems. That’s literally it.

It’s just something that’s existed forever, but put into a convenient package and marketed well enough that suddenly normal people are realising how insecure their electronic systems actually are.

Kinda like how they used to make pacemakers hackable because they never thought to add any security at all. I bet many of them still don’t.

Anyway, the issue lies not with this device, which can’t “hack” anything with any actual security, the issue is with manufacturers making devices that literally leave the door wide open to anybody with an extremely basic electronic sniffer/cloner device.

Thankfully we don’t live in the US then, but these same dark times are washing over us in Europe too :-(

gave the entire country a pay cut

Entire country? Which country? We’re talking about our whole western civilisation.

Hmm, why’s that approachin Cybertruck runnin with an unshielded core?

I thought fast food TV adverts were illegal in the UK?

There’s almost no way bare metal gives the same traction as rubber tyres do. They say it does, but I’d need some really solid data to back that up, for all conditions that the average car will face, not just lab controlled perfect conditions. Tarmac, dirt, snow, rain, heat, cold, etc.

Also one thing I don’t see mentioned is noise pollution. As cars go electric, more and more so the main source of noise from cars becomes their tyres. It’s weird but true. Think of a motorway and how loud the sound of all those tyres rolling is. These would have to be quieter than rubber tyres to be viable.

Also there’s no mention of cost or metal fatigue/wear. Rubber tyres are likely much cheaper to produce - even accounting for economies of scale, they use far less exotic materials.

And I’d be curious how long these tyres last vs traditional tyres through use and wear, how their characteristics such as traction change over time, how they handle hitting debris on the road, be it bits of rocks or whatever. The things cars contend with here and there regularly.

So, while this technology is potentially very promising in a hybrid tyre (like the bicycle tyre shown in the article, Vs the full-metal tyre shown), I have my doubts that need quelling before I see it going anywhere in its full metal state for general use. Specialised, maybe.

I’d love to find something that can replace rubber, and importantly be quieter, and maybe this avenue of research can lead to some great results. I just have my doubts that we’re there yet.