Yeah well, technically all EVs before the invention of lithium batteries were without lithium batteries, but are there currently any worth mentioning in this context?
Assuming these numbers aren’t massaged like Tesla’s, 252 km (157 miles) isn’t a terrible range. Not something you’ll want to road trip across the country with, but suitable for most city commuting.
For EVs, these batteries are better for the environment to produce and to dispose of, and if you’re able to replace them every time you go to a recharge station you’ll never have a battery die because it won’t be in your car long enough. The batteries keep rotating until they die and then they get taken out of rotation and disposed of.
if batteries are kept in rotation until they die… you’ll most likely experience one dying on you. probably multiple times during your life.
the rest holds up just…how would you avoid a battery dying on you, if you’re still using the same system? you’re not getting a new battery every time you swap, you get an old battery that’s been sitting in the station recharging.
it’s gonna die on someone, might as well happen to you…
There are ways to calculate a batteries remaining life, usually you’d have a chip dedicated to tracking all of that. They can tell you a battery’s history, health, estimated charge capacity etc. So if the station detects a batteries life is low or it’s marked as chaged but it’s charged significantly below it’s initial capacity it can be taken out of rotation and inspected and fixed/disposed of if need be.
Personally I wonder, once we have interchangeable batteries, if it will be more common to have several smaller, shorter life span batteries that add up to a certain range. That way the recharge station only has to change out the batteries with a lower charge, and even if the battery system trips up and you get a borked battery your range would be slightly reduced not completely gone or halved
I drove a leaf for 3 years and it had 80 to start with and ended around 67. At the end, it was a pain, but didn’t notice until around 70mi range. Somehow, 75 would get me from home, to the airport, to work, and back home again with room to breathe. At 67, it was nail biting.
To the point, 150 is probably good for quite a lot of people.
Assuming this company is not filled with dumbasses thinking air cooling the battery is a good idea like in the Leaf, the range will likely hold up much better.
For me that would be pushing it. That is about as far as I drive to my dentist. A little traffic, or battery degradation. That said any charging station a long the way would fix that.
No. They would rather effective age verification that doesn’t negatively impact the privacy and liberties of their users. They want a solution, not just a ham fisted excuse to start building the foundations of a social credit system
While care is required, designing a system that only proves that someone is over a specific age is possible without leaking much additional information.
For example a request for age verification can be generated and signed by the porn site. All it needs is a unique ID and the signature. It should expire quickly and can only be used once.
The person identifying themself can send this request to a certifying party (the government in the EU where we trust governments, or I guess some terrible for profit company in the USA because they privatize everyday). The certifying party can sign the request, since they know how old the person is.
The person then returns this verification to the porn site.
In this scenario the porn site never learns anything about the user other than that they are above a given age. The certifying party only knows that the person has gotten an age verification, but not why or where.
There is still possible collusion between the porn site and the verifying party, but in that case the system is not really needed at all. Also metadata tracking is possible (like when a person gets a request and has network traffic to a porn site), but can be mitigated if a user is concerned.
I’m just not an authoritarian. I don’t like the government spying on us as it is. Why would I volunteer to give up even more privacy? Consider installing cameras in your home and give the government access to them if you want. Totes just to make sure the kids aren’t doing anything wrong. I’ll skip.
There’s got to be another way to describe this than as a “recall”. New buyers seeing the term “recall” could shake their confidence in the EV industry as a whole and needlessly perpetuate the sale of ICE vehicles.
People said the same thing recently when Tesla was required to do an OTA update in the US. The thing is that while they don’t have to physically work on each vehicle, it’s labeled a recall because it’s a regulatory action that compelled them to do it. Tesla didn’t decide to do these updates on their own - they were directed to do so by the government, first in the US and now in China.
Could be cool if it tracked the players and overlayed their names, stats, or something like that. Could also be used to show replays and obviously ads.
Ad displays, guaranteed. Airports, shopping malls, offices, hotels… all those windows? glass doors? room partitions? wasted ad space.
Imagine walking down the frozen section of your grocery store… every door, a display… no longer just looking at the products and deciding what to buy, but now endlessly bombarded with bright flashing animations… Imagine the future.
Reacting to the video, not gonna lie, I kinda dig gamifying life. The street warnings are a nice touch, the “get off” bus feature is nice, making the mall nicer is also welcomed (why spend resources on a nice mall when you can have it virtual?).
But yeah, ads, loyalty point, buying shit just to “feed” a virtual dog. I am getting both good and bad vibes. But knowing humans and greedy corporations, this wouldn’t end well.
It all feels bad to me. What feels oppressive to me is the implication that it’s obligatory, not optional. It’s not your choice. In the reality of that video, you can’t function in society and escape the lights, ads, signs, loyalty points, warnings, suggestions, and on and on. It’s like pop up ads on a dodgy website. People who don’t have your best interest in mind have constructed the environment for you.
I agree with your view, but I’d say it does not feel obligatory, but rather that when not using it, you are at a disadvantage. Like WeChat. Sure, it is not required, but you won’t be able to text your friends, you won’t be able to send money, you won’t be able to pay. But guess what, the platform makes enough money to pay the companies to require it, which makes them more money, which brings more people to the platform - and enshittifycation begins.
If you don’t mind jail, physical injury, lack of employment, inability to pay for shopping, or, as you mention, online social exclusion, sure many things are not “obligatory”. Almost nothing is “obligatory” in the sense that you can’t physically move your body to do otherwise. “Obligatory” usually means that, if you don’t do the thing, you’ll face unsavory consequences. The person in the video clearly did not like the life they were living.
Technically, you could live in the modern world without a computer, smartphone or regular access to the internet.
Realistically, you will be essentially unbanked, have trouble filing job applications or even searching for jobs, be basically unable to check your credit report or freeze your credit or otherwise protect yourself from identity fraud, struggle to file your taxes manually and otherwise have poor access to government services, and have a very difficult time searching for an apartment/home to rent/buy, or filing a mortgage application. If you aren’t a property owner already and/or have a good family support structure, lack of regular internet access makes you more than disadvantaged. I’d say it puts you one bad day away from crippling debt and homelessness.
Yeah, I can’t really think of a compelling use case for the home.
Displays on all your windows? But you know they’d be smart devices that want to connect to the internet so they can throw ads at you… imagine wanting to look out your window and having to watch a 5s ad clip first. Pay a subscription fee for ad-free windows, coming soon to an apartment building near you.
Imagine walking down the frozen section of your grocery store… every door, a display… no longer just looking at the products and deciding what to buy, but now endlessly bombarded with bright flashing animations
Walgreens started rolling that out 3 or 4 years ago
My friend sent me a video of exactly that in a store by him. Full displays and you can’t see what’s behind the glass since they aren’t transparent displays, absolutely ridiculous
Something to think about, how much of the videos you watch have a transparent background? None. Unless it’s content explicitly has been made for transparent tvs. It’s just a gimmick and one that’s like 3d tvs, where the quality of the picture suffers for a mildly interesting experience
I wouldn’t expect this to take off in homes, but for digital signage it could be very useful. Its still a gimmick, but an eye catching one, which is useful when advertising.
Also potentially useful in HUD (heads-up display) tech, like in planes and cars. Currently they’re projected onto treated glass but this could yield better contrast?
No super obvious “mainstream” applications that I can think of, but markets find a way…
Eventually it will be thin enough to have multilayered screens which will add additional depth to images which will create a 3D display. Similar to Looking Glass tech. Parallax will be a feature, not an issue for multiple perspectives as with typical glasses free 3D. The effect will be like looking through a window as they stack multiple 4k or greater resolution screens to provide depth/volume.
For automotive use they can put a layer of display on the windscreen to provide an overlay that can be used for AR navigation, displaying road warnings like speed limits, low-light vision enhancements, oncomming headlight dimming, among other capabilities. A layer of per-pixel dimming zones will enhance contrast and address the issue of wash-out without obstructing view.
For a phone with front-facing stereo cameras the display will allow for 3D video calls. I expect there to be phones released that have a see-through display, mostly gimmick early stuff that are basically nothing but an empty bezel ring.
The most immediate and apparent use case is a flex on the poors where your TV just “disappears” when you don’t want the looming presence of the nightmare/fantasy rectangle obstructing your view of the accent wall or art behind it.
I expect there to be phones released that have a see-through display, mostly gimmick early stuff that are basically nothing but an empty bezel ring.
Probably not anywhere in the near future, unless we’re talking a huuuuge bezel. You’re phone isn’t exactly empty space inside so you’d either need those to be transparent as well, or you’d need to fit them all one the bezel… so either you’ve got a big bezel or terrible battery life, probably :P. This is all speculation of course. Frankly, I could only really see a company doing it as a publicity stunt because I can’t imagine such a phone would be… good? Cool, yes… But having a transparent display sounds horrible!
Technically there are phones that utilize “transparent” screens right now, for things like under display cameras. So, there’s definitely use cases for the technology, and cool stuff you could do with it, but I’m not convinced you’d want a fully transparent display in a phone. Maybe headsets or glasses or something.
It’s definitely a gimmick as a traditional display. It can’t even make proper use of transparent videos: it’s just transparent when the microLED is off, so the darker the pixel colour is, the more transparent.
You can make the transparent channel of a transparent video display as black, but any black parts of the video that aren’t meant to be transparent will end up being transparent anyway.
Is not completely a gimmick though: it could be very useful for a HUD(heads up display) such as in vehicles or in augmented reality HMDs(head mounted displays(AR goggles such as Microsoft hololens and google glass))
in concept yes has the per pixel control like oled without the burn in problems of oled, and the brightness of regular leds, and the response rate of oleds.
if it were to still possibly have a flaw, it can still give pwm dizziness if the rate isnt high enough to drive thr display.
Cool but I definitely don’t see the purpose of a transparent screen. I use a screen to see what’s on it, not what’s behind it. I guess it could maybe make some cool signs or billboards
It drives me insane when science fiction movies and shows use transparent screens and phones, because like… that’s just a worse product for no reason? Why would you want a transparent phone?
My other pet peeve is holograms that are worse than just like… looking at a screen, or using a projector for a large room of people. Holograms could be cool for certain visualizations, but like… Maybe record a normal video instead of a blurry and pixelated hologram?
Haven't had a ton of free time today to look over everything yet, but the Samsung display stuff I saw was pretty neat. Especially the transparent display. Lenovo also announced a neat 2-in-1 PC/tablet that runs both Windows and Android in their respective modes.
Lots of new laptops, nvidia with some incrementally better cards (still obscenely expensive), Samsung has a robot with a projector in it. Nothing mind blowing so far
I thought the prices were fine (4070 Ti Super around 699$). The issue is availability and black market prices will be the issie. Here in EU, you can’t find a 3090 with less than 1.2k.
Looks like it’s always a little bit transparent even when it should be a solid color. And that means it’s not going to stand toe to toe with a regular TV for regular TV stuff. So… It’s hard to imagine a super solid application for this other than maybe decorative pieces in airports or hotel lobbies or something.
I could see it being useful for dynamic, informative signs like you said in airports. Having transparency could be actually useful, maybe not just a total gimmick, in some areas I’m sure.
Or maybe it’s just another useless, overpriced concept piece that we won’t see for another 20 years
It’ll be used for ads. Really intrusive ads… They could put it anywhere (stadiums, sight seeing places etc) since it is transparent but like once every minute, display an ad.
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