I mean it’s clearly a mental illness. He could be using safety gear. He’s climbing like this for a rush.

The dawn of LCD’s sucked. They were inferior to CRT in most ways, they were bigger and lighter. They eventually got better and cheaper and that is when they took off.

DVD was a day 1 upgrade over vhs for watching movies.

I’m actually a sane, nice person. I’m unhappy because I am dealing with people who aren’t.

That literally never occurred to me. I thought I was the problem.

I didn’t say comparable. I said good enough.

Ai does work great, at some stuff. The problem is pushing it into places it doesn’t belong.

It’s a good grammar and spell check. It helps me get a lot of English looking more natural.

It’s also great for troubleshooting consumer electronics.

It’s far better at search than google.

Even then it can only help, not replace folks or complete tasks.

If he wanted people to like it then he should have made it do things people want it to do.

It is the new metaverse.

20 years ago is when LCD’s got good enough compared to CRTs and plasma.

Not as good but I still have my $1k 40” Sony tv. It’s good enough I don’t think about how much better my OLED is when watching it.

The over the ear noise cancelling one’s are amazing as well

Sony’s main tech was in manufacturing. TCL will be getting a HUGE upgrade.

So Sony is now the new RCA. This is a new low for the company. I can’t believe that they are gone just like that.

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There are comparable cars in the US and EU market for comparable prices. Is it just that this specific model isn’t available yet?

I’m also seeing from European sites that the price is is Euro and not USD. Even in USD the car is still comparable to the other cars listed up above at 21.5k USD.

You brought up that

"Airbags don’t cost $30000 to add to a car. Seatbelts have been around since the 1960s.

Technology like this gets cheaper as it becomes a commodity. Look at how cheap flat panel tvs have gotten."

So why aren’t these EU cars significantly less expensive relative to their market?

So what is your point here? Was the point you are trying to make specific to VW? To EV’s?

To be clear. I am stating the down market cars are pretty much in line with inflation pricing the the US car market and that much of the lowering in price that would have been achieved with manufacturing improvements went to safety and performance improvements.

So, VW is selling the cars that in the US that you said they don’t.

When I look at used cars I don’t even look for rust the foot-wells anymore.

I want to agree, but I know people that have been doing this for years without being hit.

It cost nearly the same to make a luxury unit as a stripped down one. Most of the cost is labor. Spend 5 k in fancier materials and get 50k for the unit.

From what I’ve seen it wasn’t specifically a global trade weapon. It was more a side effect of central government planning.

There was just a government program to encourage electric car manufacture to boost local manufacturing. They over saturated the domestic market and are now dumping the cars internationally.

Your trying to make a point but just made a bunch of stuff up.

The a low priced car in Europe is the Dacia Spring at 17k euros approximately 20kUSD . It’s max speed is 80 mph and max range is around 110 miles. Its less expensive than a US car but isn’t cheap.

The 2026 Nissan Sentra is 23.5k. It’s $3.5k more than one of the lowest priced EU cars. This would be a general use car that can be use in nearly all markets of the US.

The average US salary is 66k the average EU salary is 46k. The slightly higher salary would make the 2 cars on average equivalent to US and EU citizen.

Cars are expensive. US and EU cars are on parity with each other, even with Chinese imports.

Low end cars are more expensive then they were decade ago because of safety technology, better materials and higher expectations. Frames are made of multi point precision aluminum with crumple zones instead of steel frame construction. A daily driver today out performs a performance car from 25 years ago.

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