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Maybe dumb question, but how is it even noticeable? I listen to music in the car and in $100 earphones and usually just ask phone's assistant to play shit based on my mood. I honestly can't even tell which service it chooses between Amazon Music, Apple Music or Spotify. What's the difference exactly?

I don't know where you live, but in hcol areas mechanics won't even pick up the phone for that much. So you have to get dealer/private seller to agree to take the car to that mechanic for inspection.

In a hot market if the car is priced reasonably there's 5 other people in line to get it without inspection.

And then even if you can get the car inspected, mechanic offers you no guarantees. What do you think will happen if your engine explodes a week after you buy that car? You think that mechanic will replace it for free because he missed a big issue?

Your suggestion is awesome if you have a mechanic in the family or as a close friend you can trust. Otherwise just money down the drain really.

Yup, they don't convert the PHEV because nobody wants the extra hassle for a niche market. I also reached out to Canoo and received no response. VW basically said they'll let other companies take care of conversions - same as the rest of manufacturers.

And these aren't cars people change often so since I don't have any options now that means I'm stuck driving ICE for ~15 years. Sienna with conversion is around $100k.

That's stupid feature on American cars only and they've been doing it forever.

Some cars only exist as ICE versions. Closest I can get in a wheelchair accessible minivan is Toyota Sienna Hybrid.

Why? Cars will go away when cities are redesigned to make them unnecessary/inconvenient. Otherwise electric cars don't care where energy comes from.

I don't think you understood the point I made.

Ambulance could take 30 minutes to get to your house. But even if you imagine a magic ambulance that gets there in 5, that's 5 extra minutes a person is potentially not breathing.

How would these work exactly? Where I live max speed on freeways is 70mph and 25mph on residential streets. You can definitely still kill someone using a car limited to maximum legal speed.

When russia inevitably starts collapsing from the inside and fracturing into smaller city states (or whatever local tsars decide to call their occupied territories) I'm sure that America and the rest of the advanced militaries will have boots on the ground immediately to secure the nukes.

Either way, not worried.

My Lemmy experience became infinitely better after blocking 2 instances where this nonsense is coming from.

I actually made a mistake of trying to have a conversation with them there when I just joined Lemmy. Never again lol.