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Tim Scott deleted a video because a TERF was in it
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If I was in every Tom Scott video then he'd have to delete every video.
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I wonder if meek nerds like Tom actually enjoy bending the knee like that or if they're waiting for stuff to blow over.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Electric car manufacturers shot themselves in the feet by not doing this from the start. Who wants to wait and charge when you could just get a brand new full battery?
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Ikr its perfect and it solves the battery lonjevity problem too
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There's all sorts of annoyance connected with it.
First of all, engineering the heaviest and largest component of your vehicle so that it can both be swapped out easily but is still mounted securely enough to not rattle around, detach or just burst into flames at the first opportunity, that's a bit of an headache.
Second, what are you, the driver, getting with the swap? Some run-down old pack that's only got 70% of its original capacity left even at full charge? Are you going to accept that? Else, if you roll up to a battery swap station with an older and degraded battery, is it just going to refuse service?
Third, are you going to design and build different swapping stations for every model you offer or are you going to use the same battery specs for every model? Will you ever be able to upgrade your battery tech or will you need to spend a ton of money to supply all your swapping stations with the new battery model before you sell your first new generation car?
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Good to know thanks. I would have hoped that they'd all agree on one battery, one standardised replacement chassis etc, then there would be standards about what kind of quality of battery you get from a charging station (not that you'd care because you'd just get a new one in 300 miles anyway).
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It took them ages to even agree on a universal standard for charging connectors (varies by continent) (and Tesla is doing their own separate thing), imagine how painful the process would be to get manufacturers to agree to a standard form factor + other specs for battery packs, the one thing that not only has massive impact on the design of the rest of the car, but also the one area where everybody is trying to compete in and set themselves apart
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Tesla won i believe
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So far
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That idea has been deboonked like a million times
He just wants to act all excited about mah robots changing batteries when it's a small mechanical system that goes up and down and then sideways. The only advanced tech in the video is an auto parking system and maybe the electricity hook up to charge 40 batteries (not shown for some reason)
All that matters is does it make sense as a bidness for after their millions of VC dollars and CCPbux dries up
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It doesn't need to be a complicated robot r-slur
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He's not as frickable as veritasium
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Meatsack eagerly reports on robot s*x. What a timeline!
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Yet another subscription they want us to pay. Awesome! I love technology AND science.
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Snapshots:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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