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  • It is still far from commercially viable yet.

    Solid-state sodium is still in the laboratory stage. People assumed Donut was claiming to have developed a solid-state sodium battery due to their “no lithium” statement, but they never specifically claimed they were using sodium.

    All solid-state lithium is a bit further along. Korea has pilot plants producing full-sized EV batteries that are being used for testing before they do the final scale up to production. Chinese manufacturers are also basically at the same stage. Those will likely be available in production EVs by 2030.


  • I don’t want it to happen, but I don’t see any real scientific reason why machine learning won’t eventually subsume jobs at a faster rate than new jobs for humans are created. That might take 15 or 30 years to really hit, but it’s certainly something that needs to be planned for extensively.





  • If you haven’t already done this: wipe all the apps and run the cache-cleaning or whatever it is in the system menu. That should get it back down to where the memory and storage aren’t at 100% and fixes most of the problems. I’ve kept my 2017 Samsung usable that way. Also, if you have a pi-hole you can set it to use that as the DNS and block the advertising domains, retaining most of the smart functionality without all the crap.




  • As is often the case, the EU has placed appropriate guardrails on driver monitoring systems, which the US and others would do well to follow;

    Driver drowsiness and attention warning and advanced driver distraction warning systems shall be designed in such a way that those systems do not continuously record nor retain any data other than what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed within the closed-loop system. Furthermore, those data shall not be accessible or made available to third parties at any time and shall be immediately deleted after processing. Those systems shall also be designed to avoid overlap and shall not prompt the driver separately and concurrently or in a confusing manner where one action triggers both systems.


  • There’s absolutely nothing in the specifications about contacting police or keeping black-box recordings. The only outside contact functionality was EMS contact when the vehicle had to pull over to the side of the road due to unconsciousness and detected other signs of a health emergency. Even that had loud audible warnings and a countdown timer before dialing.

    If shitty governments take something that would save tens of thousands of lives globally every year and turn it into a surveillance system that’s the fault of those governments. The manufacturers entire focus has been on reducing fatalities and injuries among road users.





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    I’ve been wondering what a hypothetical perfect habitable planet for spacefaring would look like. Could you have one where a plane line the SR-71 Blackbird or an even less capable aircraft could simply “fly” into orbit? Or what about something Earth-like but with a flat plateau at 15,000 m where you could launch rockets from?