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It is not a free market.

As I predicted a couple of months ago, every single failure to a Boeing will now be headline material.
It's just the way the media works.

My understanding from studies in aviation is that it takes more attention to monitor an autopilot in a complex manoeuvring environment than it does to control the vehicle directly. This is not surprising; humans have not evolved to monitor, but to do. And Tesla comparisons with the average can't be ...

Git while the gitting's good!

Boeings are not completely unairworthy...


..some bits are missing

Gusty north wind, sunny spells here.
No wind and sun, feels like +12, working in t-shirt.
30 seconds later, sun goes behind clouds and big gusts, feels like -12. Almost freeze to death before getting fleece and toque on.

Spring in Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvnYOvZPIdU

The easy way to get them to ignore you is to bug them. I am still waiting a response, promised "Shortly" in a letter dated Apr 2013. They have ignored my complaint letters. However, it does mean they daren't contact me again as I could reasonably bring up their incompetence. Pools Panel: Goalless Dr...

The Russians have left their worst troops on the Left Bank of the Dnipro. Yesterday they decided to send some ordinary troops out to move some anti-tank mines the Ukrainians had left. That the Ukes might have left grenades under some of the anti-tank mines, with the lever of the grenade held down on...

Brakes, wheels, suspension, etc will require more maintenance due to the increased mass, and also be more expensive. One of the major problems with EVs appears to be battery pack damage from minor collisions, which also results in higher insurance costs, sometimes much higher. https://www.ctvnews.ca...

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Interesting, but my apologies. I meant to say EV mechanics.
There are none here. None of the dealerships sell EVs either. I understand it may be the cost of the EV-specific equipment and training vs the number of EV sales.

Great.
Anecdotal data is all we really have now.
Arizona is as close to ideal as it gets for EV use/charging, rural Canada about the worst.
I'd be interested in sales, and his business model too.
What's the local situation like for mechanics?

Only the $10,000 Chinese EV will actually make a difference. Selling one for a bit less than current new vehicles is just window dressing. Most people drive used vehicles, and indeed have never owned a new vehicle. There is no significant used EV market. The used EV dealers here went from 3 to 1 to ...

Today's US GDP data was not only lower than the consensus, but lower than any of the estimates. Today's US Core inflation data was not only higher than the consensus, but higher than any of the estimates. For at least 9 months, the central banks and governments have been saying they are data-depende...

I have noticed on a few videos that Russian citizens do start heading to cover if their side starts firing at the drones. There has been some evidence that the missiles and shells fired by their own side DO end up in civilian areas, including Russian SAMs sticking out of house walls, plus of course ...

Thanks for the translation, it was pretty much what the tone and graphics had already told me. I am curious, since the Ukrainians having been hitting places up to 1,500 km into Russia already, why this should be a big thing. Is it because ATACMS is more accurate, or because the Russians have been pr...

How to look good in politics after failing as Leader...

..anoint a successor who's even worse!

Hamas Yousufa, Joe Biden, John Major, etc.

Yes, I see that as the trade-off also. They will keep hitting Russian domestic/military storage, but not refineries. And with ATACMS now available, more than 100 already according to a US official today, I think the Ukes did the right thing in attacking the refineries when they did. There are a coup...

I believe that Dante would have had a Platform/Level 9-3/4 for scrotes who steal copper from railways