You can’t compare indoors and outdoors directly. I think random has its means in an uneven environment. It simply doesn’t matter if the odometry sucks, if the wheels stick in muddy earth or small sticks block on side.

Advanced sensors such as GPS and cam isn’t very precise outdoors. That’s why newer models come with its own positioning sender.

Sorry but this is a primary schools‘ view on money. I know this is how it been taught at school and this is entirely wrong.

I wonder how human societies survived without money, if this is so essential for the crap.

I wonder why people do crappy jobs for money? Is it because they need much money for things such as car, smartphone, playstation? For some food, you do not need much money. Actually you can grow it for yourself if you do not live in a big city.

Sure, if one got in this consumption trap, one needs a constant inflow of fresh money.

It does matter. How much worth is helping a friend? Or how much money for your neighbors for caring your pets while you‘re in holidays?

Don’t you think they will refuse to take money for this favor? Not everything in humankind can be paid for.

Same as ever…was that money wasn’t needed.

Do you need money within your neighborhood or your family? Do you pay people for giving a favor?

This is exactely how most inventions are made: put together two things from different realms that might have a good fit.

Just wait a few years and they will find a way to use the light directly instead transferring it into electricity. There‘re some IC‘s that already use light instead of voltage to compute.

I work with of those shiny tech companies from China. Believe me the shiny part is on the surface only. The more you look under the hood, the more it’s getting poor. With Chinese tech the problems start when you have it. European companies before you have it. US companies when you have no scale.

Regarding Chinese regulations, you simply drill it down to: for the Government a human live is not worth much. Because „we are so many“

That’s a different thing indeed. In your case the AI 🤖 goes wild, will strip dance and tell poor jokes (while flirting with the ventilation machine)

I doubt it. It simply would be enough, if the AI could understand and say when it reaches its limits and hand over to a human. But that is even hard for humans as Dunning & Kruger discovered.

And then you‘re lying on the table. Unfortunately, your case is a little different than the standard surgery. Good luck.

It’s all Marketing. In order to attract users with fancy looking interfaces, many usability rules get overriden.

This started already years ago with the new, sleak looking Windows 10. Internally the usability problems were known. But marketing pushed for the release date. This UX drama was costly. over 5 billion in the air for the launch alone. Ending in a blame.

Even though it’s common to bully on Microsoft, it’s not true in this case. There have been many studies and user tests to find an understandable way for users to reach that massive functionality of the MS office software. The Ribbon interface was the best in those testings.

That sort of competitions exists already for ages. RoboCup is the keyword to search Youtube. Besides other shapes, the Humaoid league is this area.

Proud to say, that Germany is quite advanced in this competition. I once talked with a Prof of the winning team about the challenges. It‘s mainly speed of computing and recognition, coordination with team with close to no network connectivity (think about how crowded networks are at every standard exhibition)

Can you source your statement that fast charging reduces lifetime?

I‘m not sure if fast charging degrades batteries. Just read somewhere an article stating that fast charging initially - first charge - boosts the overall capacity of the batterie due to chemical reactions that do not occur that long at anodes.

The issue with fast charging was the thermal management - it’s getting to hot. This is managed by good battery management and a different packaging of cells nowadays. I think fast charging isn’t an issue anymore. Can’t provide you a link or such, it’s what I gathered through serveral podcasts.

https://www-adac-de.translate.goog/rund-ums-fahrzeug/elektromobilitaet/laden/ladeverluste-elektroauto-studie/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

In recent test of a German auto club they found out that it‘s cheaper/ more effective to charger faster. You loose a lot of energy if you load slow over hours.

This energy is taken by the electricity of the car. So, while charging the car is on and takes some Watts. There are just a few brands that have decoupled the charger circuit from the overall electric circuit of the car.

Can’t find the article now, but I think charging a PHEV through a standard power plug had about 20% energy lost. It was clearly visible that a charger is a good choice.

Edit: link https://www-adac-de.translate.goog/rund-ums-fahrzeug/elektromobilitaet/laden/ladeverluste-elektroauto-studie/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

You‘ll loose

• ~10-30% AC 2.3kw Standard Power Plug
• ~ 5-10% DC 11kw Wallbox
• Internal car electronics are crucial: Is the loading circuit de-coupled or the entire car On?
• Temperature or pre-heating the battery before loading reduces losses at DC charging