I would have to stop once for 10-15 min to cover that 400-mile round trip in my EV (Hyundai Ioniq 5). I've driven 900-mile days, in the winter, through snow, without issue, in the same car. It takes marginally longer.

> It also performs far better than any EVs or ICEs I’ve seen anywhere close to its price point.

My own anecdote is that I vastly prefer driving an EV on road trips. The lack of noise and gear shifts, regen braking, etc., all make it a much less draining experience.

> This “everyone should just have an EV” thing really reads like a modern “let them eat cake.”

This is a very different story for countries that don't have high import tariffs on Chinese vehicles. EVs there are fast becoming the cheaper option.

self-driving is where it's at. BlueCruise, Comma.ai, Telsa FSD. Eventually insurance rates will come down for drivers that use such driver aids.

All of those apply to gasoline

There is nothing this family does not see as an opportunity for corruption. Comically evil.

as an opportunity for profit*

I think it’s important to clarify the incentives at play, people are rarely evil for the sake of being evil

I think the evil part is the [at any cost] part, the incentives are irrelevant. An AI that only wants to make paperclips isn't evil because of the paperclips.

The thing is though, they’re already outrageously rich.

At some point you genuinely are just being dodgy purely for the love of the game

'I don't want to do evil things! But they so well, what choice do I have?!'

“And those are great, great beautiful evil things. They came to me and said how beautiful those great evil things are.”

No clue how people fall for that.

And it is so blatant to everyone except the republicans.

Republicans should be called the anti-Democrats at this point.

Oh it's blatant to them as well, but you see, they get to own the libs, which obviously warrants setting the world on fire