everything else reliant on it cruise control, lane assist,

That’s stuff’s on buttons in many, many cars.

back up cams are all either unnecessary

They really aren’t. With thicker pillars (for better safety, but also sometimes for design purposes) the more cameras you have - the better.

You can still buy incredibly simple cars, just look at PSA, Dacia/Renault basic models or Fiats that have been in production for years. Hell, Mitsubishi ASX turns 15 and all they did was stick a big screen for a radio. Suzuki S-cross imo is the sweet spot, a small screen for 2 functions (radio/phone audio, camera) and physical controls for the rest.

Or just don’t buy new cars. I think you’d like VW Up, big selling point of it was the lack of a navigation system because they get outdated so quickly, so instead there’s just a nav holder.

I think those old toyota and saab (orange or green is best) screens are nicer to look at than most new ones. Btw have any automakers even tried going above 60hz refresh rates? lol

Oh, there have been attempts. Joystick controls, for example, in Mercedes concepts (F 200, SL R129 Concept, Vario Research car), or in actual farming vehicles. Recently, several automakers tried yokes. For now wheel is the cheapest (and simplest) way to make a car steer, we’ll see some funky shapes probably.

edit: also if steer-by-wire takes off, I imagine physical steering linkage would still be required. In that case it wouldn’t save money.

Piling on the list of negatives - they use leaded fuel, which is bad for you. I still like planes though

tbf most Gamers don’t care. Just look at how often that “delayed game is eventually good” picture gets reposted

Probably used a car with real plates on

people vastly underestimate how much you get from regenerative braking under real world conditions

From what I’ve heard and read, that’s why the original Opel Ampera/Chevy Volt was so beloved.

and pretty much every major manufacturer switched to plug-in hybrids

Nowadays we have new Honda (and Nissan but who cares tbh) hybrids where the engine doesn’t drive the wheels 99% of the time. So we’re intersecting with that timeline a lil bit lol

I’m not a time traveller so I can’t say for sure, but cars lile Chevy Bolt and Renault Zoe wouldn’t be the same, since Leaf showed that there was demand for small BEV hatches and battery cooling systems

We wouldn’t be here without it though. It did a decent job popularizing EVs, much better than i-Miev for example.

Leaf was the first “off the ground”. Tesla were the first to show that production EVs weren’t limited to boring econoboxes.

Anyway, you can filter out early adopters because they didn’t have factory anti-chrome, so if you see a shiny trim around the windows - it’s probably got a pre-public meltdown era owner.

From HL2 RTX post:

So with all that said, I’m disappointed in Valve for allowing Nvidia to butcher this game.

Huh? Firstly, it’s a mod, Valve is famously not opposed to them. And it’s not developed by Nvidia, they simply provided the tools. Opinions are opinions, but it’s completely ignoring the work of the actual dev team, and disregarding other valuable uses Remix has.

edit after reading the part about shadows again: looks like a rushed review, there are way more graphical effects worth talking about, even if you don’t like the art direction.

On the topic of Legion Go S, their triggers are a great idea. Also Z2 lineup is so weird. Z2 Go with Zen 3 cores, RDNA2 CUs, Z2 with Zen 4 cores and RDNA3 CUs, meanwhile Z2 Extreme is out here with Zen 5 and 5c cores and a brand new RDNA3.5-based 880M.

I guess it makes sense to build two lowest tiers out of existing hardware and on the same node, but my monkey brain expects the same generation number. It’s nice that they’re using at least 12 graphics cores now, means they learned from Z1.

I propose enclaves and exclaves everywhere. Pros: forces everyone to cooperate, makes saturation attacks pointless, pleases the spirit of Jacques Fresco. Cons: none I think

arrows/bolts made primarily out of metal? now that i think about it, americans have a lot of handy tools that are quite a bit better at delivering metal, but loud