Thank you

What is the difference between type 1 & 2 please ?

Lol. Yeah that was my reaction to the headline as well. “You did what ?”

Https://1ft.io also seems to work and by the branding seems unrelated to 12ft

Hmm, any connection to the “lucky rabbit’s foot” thing, or is tgat a modern invention ?

Or to take it a step further back, try getting someone without context before the modrrn era to understand how groundbreaking Casablanca is. So many tropes were invented in that movie, but watched without that understanding many would say “what’s the big deal ?”

It’s a good movie even now. But it’s a great movie with context

It is indeed a very US perspective but I think the analysis applies broadly to all the western/developed countries.

Article dated may 25th 2023…

Thanks for the blast from the past I guess ?

Easy.

Inherently unstable vehicles that can crash on minor surface imperfections or naturally occurring phenomena (leaves, ice) causing injury or death. There is no comprehensive licencing regimes or safety inspections so any child can be on one of these deathtraps risking injury or death at any moment.

It’s a big step forward IF it enters production.

As thevenin links elsewhere in the thread they’ve been promising this is “any day now” since 2010

https://beehaw.org/comment/1469658

The size of the company making the claim has no correlation to the veracity of the claim.

BP, Exxon, Shell spent decades claiming global warming wasn’t real.

Philip Morris & British American Tobacco spent decades telling us smoking didnt cause cancer.

All of whom are or were as large as Toyota.

Look at their track record and judge their words against their actions.

Toyota has spent considerable sums over many years campaigning against Electric Vehicles.

https://electrek.co/2021/09/22/toyota-facing-boycotts-over-fight-slow-electric-vehicle-progress/

So should you believe a company that says it’s about to table the next huge EV breakthrough when it fouht tooth and nail to slow that transition ?

Your choice, but I won’t until I see something more substantial than press releases