While the article doesn’t go into it, I think these are big, with a 10+MW discharge rate
Yeah. It imposes a huge set of risks for leadership if that surveillance system is compromised.
Those have the same problem, but less concentrated ownership
Globally, the Chinese automakers are taking a huge chunk of market share.
They're effectively banned in the US, which is why you can't buy a decent car for $7000
For a lot of people, the main risk with a taxi is being attacked by the driver.
Not exactly; they've got a remote worker facility where they've got about 1 person per 100 cars, who maps out what to do in situations where the software can't handle it, but doesn't do a full-on remote-drive. This enables them to gracefully handle the long tail of situations the software can't do yet, so long as not every car hits it at once (as with, say, a power outage causing all traffic lights to fail in San Francisco, or flash flooding causing issues all over Phoenix)
Depends on whose. The Waymo ones do remarkably well. Other makers aren't nearly as good.
10 years sounds shockingly short. My impression is that the average car lasts about 20 years. Lots of older cars still on the road.
Not a chance of that happening. Too many groups in the mideast want to kill their neighbors or impose their version of religion on everybody else. Way more likely to end up with a bunch of places that have flipped oppressor and oppressed but are just as bad as they were
Maybe. Depends very much on how long-duration storage costs drop and what you actually pay for the nuclear power plant.
Per the article, they have a ton of investigations going. It's not just him
You can't register it for on-road use, with an exception for automakers who agree to destroy the car within a year.