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Integration of regenerative braking with anti-lock cadence braking? Especially with one pedal EVs in urban driving where the vehicle is continually switching between ecceleration and deceleration.

Just throwing up some ideas to consider. Here's another. Generations of drivers have grown up with learning how to drive cars with inherent understeer due, at least in part, for front-engined ICs to have more weight acting on the front wheels than the back, particularly as they decelerate into a turn. Now they have to learn how to handle a vehicle with more neutral steering characteristics and a 'twitchy back end' Google 'motion sickness in rear-engined vehicles' and you'll find a lot of references going back many decades. Again, passenges in the rear seats especially are subject to mismatches between physical motion and visual cues leading to dizziness and nausea. Counter-steering in an oversteering condition is a learnt, somewhat counterintuitive response, so why should we not expect some passengers to have a rough time while inexperienced drivers get the hang of it? Some idea of the driving skills involved (at least in a racing scenario) can be seen on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ5leWLp65I

In addirion EVs are typically ~25% heavier and have a much lower CoG located centrally between the wheels rather than being dominated by the CoG of a combustion engine. In many respects, this is a chassis designer's dream as the vehicle suffers much less body roll during cornering, acceleration and braking, providing improved road-holding and increasing driver confidence when manoeuvring at speed. Everything one might want if you're a racing driver (except for the increased weight) Chief impact on the suspension is a requirement for relatively stiffer spring rates and firmer rebound damping, which is going to transfer more higher frequency vibrations (road surface imperfections etc) into the cabin. From a passenger point of view, the higher sprung weight can offset some of the harshness of the firm suspension particularly on low frequency road undulations. However, the inherent reduced body roll of the cabin does not apply to the passenger, since they are held in place only by a sealt belt (if that). Any change in velocity is likely to result in a greater shift of body position relative to the cabin, and impact their sense of balance. I understand that the link between impaired balance and feelings of nausea is fairly well established. This is where I would look. Not that I'm an expert, but I've dabbled in chassis design a bit at times.

Following what has been widely reported as the most impressive speech made by a British Prime Minister this century, Andy Burnham has seen a positive and immediate response to reopening the Brexit debate by both France and Spain.

Professor Tim Wilson takes the opportunity provided by a recent botched execution to reexamine the morality of state-sanctioned capital punishment.

Lots of interesting work currently going on at the base of crown group Metazoa. The YT channel Life through Time focuses (mainly) on pre-mesozoic palaeontology through the perspective of Joseph Botting, a leading researcher in the field. He presents not just the raw material but also a (usually) highly digestible step-by-step guide through his analytical processes. I find it fascinating.

Not only the French. The 'Historical Inaccuracies' sections of the wikis for the following 'Historical Drama' films are revealing: Argo (2012) U-571 (2000) Obective, Burma! (1945) Naturally, this list could have been much longer, but these give the general gist.

The OP video mentions Grundrisse which contains a well-known section "Fragment on Machines" It's pushing it to suggest that Marx foresaw AI, but his prediction of the main structural effects are very interesting: The Inversion of Living and Objectified Labour - the machine becomes the dominant subject; the worker a mere appendage. The Alienation and Expropriation of Knowledge - the machine becomes the physical embodiment of "General Intellect"; the worker is stripped of intellectual autonomy. Systematic Deskilling and Loss of Autonomy - complex labour skills are broken down into simple repetitive mechanical operation; the worker is deskilled and wages fall. The Paradox of Automation - instead of liberating humanity from drudgery, automation is weaponised to create a surplus of unemployed to drive down wages. Some of this sounds very prescient to today's ear, though at the time Marx was primarily considering the decline in craftsmanship rather than more academic pursuits. However, elsewhere he also predicted the ultimate readsorption of the Professional and Managerial Class (PMC) back into the mass of the Proletariat, and that definitely does now appear to loom on the horizon. Scary. Of course, you'd get a more authoritative response from a fully qualified Marxist rather than the muddled counter-revolutionary revisionism of a mere social democrat like yours truly. Found this on YT. Sounds like the comrades.

Probably totally un-PC of me to have laughed out loud at that

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But it does make sense, doesn't it? I went to Switzerland once, took a wrong turn, and quickly found myself travelling on a ski bob at 40+ mph downhill through a pine forest. If you live somewhere like that, I think you're likely to value life more highly than many.

Thank you for your kind words, and my sympathies for your medical issues. The same could be said for a number of individuals on this site. The issue is more of whether and how one chooses to deal with it. For a number of reasons, I've held Aristotle close to my heart for a long time. His work on general argument and discourse is timeless. I find that reminding myself of its essential elements is sometimes helpful. This is more of a cultural style. In my background there was perhaps more encouragement to keep one's powder dry for both politeness sake and also strategic reasons. In the days that I took these pursuits seriously I found that at both the bridge table and the chess board, a strong opponent who underestimated me put himself at an unnecessary disadvantage. Aristotle has something to say on this too. The rest of your post is personal and I can't comment specifically. For myself, I find it important to be very wary of post hoc rationalisation. The better you are at it, the harder it can bite you on the bum down the line.

Is there any reasonable argument against this framing? Seems a lot more convincing than anything currently coming out of the tech industry.

Damien Walter equates Enclosure, the historic forced appropriation by the wealthy and powerful of traditional rights of access and usage of common lands to the current appropriation by the capitalist tech giants of the rights of access and usage of global knowledge through the proferation of LLMs and associated infrastructure. Her renames AI as 'Collective Intelligence' to emphasise that the product being marketed to us is our own collective knowledge base and that of our predecessors, processed and filtered as if it were industrialised food production. ChatGPT is People echoes Charlton Heston's anguished cry at the end of the 1973 dystopian epic Soylent Green. I found it a powerful statement.