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Those are completely different marks, from completely different countries, and completely different aims and feel.

And as someone who drove multiple cars, from multiple East Asian and European marks, I suggest you try drive newer cars, because your opinions don’t match 2024-2025 MY cars from those brands (except for maybe MG, and Toyota, but both aren’t designed or sold for the driving experience. Toyota leaves it for their Lexus brand, and Chinese marks don’t even try to compete on that yet).

Same in the US.

And if you take the car into an unapproved body shop, maybe it’ll get remotely disabled.

Not that famous, as they used to (maybe still do? I don’t follow) force customers into an NDA in order to warranty fixes.

Siri, what is selection bias?

We're talking about different numbers: I was discussing build/buy, you have some partial numbers about who you buy from.

But that wasn’t my point. My point is that Tesla buys the parts and assembles them. They don’t build the parts. Just like VAG for example (who also assembles, and doesn’t build. They’re actually pretty interesting because they insist on multiple vendors in multiple regions for each part)

You are conflating the wrong thing. A simple thing isn't necessarily better or easier to quality assure.

This lists country of origin, not manufacturer of said components.

The ability to have devices that are considered unfixable fixed by Chinese tradespeople is amazing.

But you can’t get that ROW, and for Chinese car companies to be successful outside China, that’s a must.

Tesla manufactures/assembles about as much as any other western car company.

The hauling capacity is equivalent to a minivan, even if the footprint is bigger.

Try to get spare parts for teslas. Or fix them at a non-Tesla owned shop. Both are 100x more complex and expensive than any other mass produced car made in the last decade 20 years. And it is like that by design: it was never a priority for them.

What about hardware? If a part breaks, how long do you have to wait for a new one? (Insurance costs for Teslas are extremely high because parts take so long to acquire).

How often does it break? (Tesla notoriously don’t use automotive quality parts, which reduces costs, and increases MTTF).

And who can fix it? Can you get service manuals for it?

Not every car is a Hilux, notorious for being extremely fixable, but every serious car manufacturer had a whole infrastructure for serious after sales support.

Tesla is still not there, and by choice. That was never a priority for them.

Not just US auto makers. Modern car companies don’t manufacture, they assemble (and for a pretty good reason, but I digress).

Minivans are extremely popular in the US, when lifted and with the roof removed from the back.

Some Chinese auto manufactures are pretty good, but a lot are startups in the worst sense of the term: a couple of months from shutting down.

Cars are not disposable, so you kinda want a 15-years of support. Which isn’t just the brand keeping the lights on, it’s a whole service infrastructure.

That’s where Tesla fails, and where a lot of Chinese manufacturers fail: they don’t build one. In that, they aren’t very different than Tesla.

No, this isn't how this all works.

No one cares about the plug itself. The thing people care about is access to charging networks.

Tesla recently decided the moat of having their network available only to their own cars isn't worth it anymore. Some of it to get federal money that can only get on stations that serve multiple vehicle brands, and not just their own.

They could've do the costly things, and made their charging stations with multiple plugs, like other networks do. Or they could've used the same plug as other cars, as they do in Europe (because there the regulator was ahead of them, and forced them to actually be compatible with everyone else). Instead, Tesla did the ingenious thing, and got other manufacturers to bear the cost of making their vehicles compatible with Tesla's chargers.

At various times, Hyundai offered purchasers of their e-gmp models rebates of $7.5k-10k, or 2 years of free charging at Electrify America stations, or level 2 home adapters/chargers, sometimes including some costs towards installation. With a bit of patience and haggling, you could've gotten at least two of the three, if not all.

The Kona EV, like the Niro EV and non-numeric Ioniq models, isn't based on the electric e-GMP platform, but is using the old gas vehicle platform, and incentives on those models are lower, probably because there is less need to increase sales of those.

Your argument is correct, but you're overestimating the actual price of the car by 10%+, and underestimating cost of a level 2 charger by about the same amount (or rather, a level 2 plug or adapter. Unlike DC-DC charging, the AC-DC charger is installed in the car itself: the on-wall device just handles handshake and various safety shut off mechanisms).

The police won’t help you. It’s not their job.

As is often the case, Go's designed anachronism creates more problem than it solves: had Go had a modern, expressive type system, rather than staying with one from the 70s, this problem would never exists.

Apple Photos in iCloud can also be E2E encrypted (though not by default: you have to explicitly enable that), are indexed locally, and Apple's pricing for storage is about half of this service.

Searching is very similar to a common approach for building a naïve spellchecker: given an input, generate all the possible matches it can be part of. You're not searching in a corpus, you're using the input to generate indices into the corpus (list of UUIDs here, list of words in the dictionary in a spellchecker).

At 0.02$/GB, it rarely does.

More than that: the more you use, the more discounts you can get from a major CSP, which would also reduce the TCO for using a managed service.

CSPs aren't your cellular provider. You don't get better pricing by telling them you'd switch, because both the AE and yourself (assuming you ever did the math), know it's not a viable option.

Trying to be multicloud by choice, unless you have a very unique use case, which you probably don't, is simply admitting you are incapable of calculating the cost of being multicloud. This would get you horrible pricing, as you just showed your hand.

There’s a very good implementation of Wireguard with RBAC. It’s called Tailscale.

Peer reviews are (often) also done by people who live and breathe the subject matter.

I too, would like to have what you’re having.

Academic publishing doesn’t make the authors money, it costs them money. To publish is a requirement for academic employment, but there’s no incentive to retract, either than revenge, or one’s academic honesty.

Why not? Current macOS ships code older than that.