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On 2/17/25 21:54, chrisv wrote:
> -hh wrote:
> 
>> Personally, I've looked at the tech and concluded that it is good enough
>> for early adopters and even some early mainstream, but from a sober
>> lifecycle management perspective, trade spaces need to be resolved still
>> before I'd really be comfortable in giving up on ICE entirely; call it
>> a "check back in 3, 5 years" before the political disruptions are added.
> 
> I will never buy an electric car.  

I'm willing to buy an EV, although I'd consider it to be more of a 
'transportation appliance' than a driver/enthusiast-centric ride.

I thought about it early last year, but found that the infrastructure 
lacked adequate standards, and current iterations are poor from an 
interior UI perspective ... research is documenting the obvious: 
touchscreens are fine when sitting in a showroom, but are inferior to 
buttons in the dynamics of a moving cabin.

> I may never buy another car, period.  My current car is 10 years old but
> has an easy 10 years of life left.  I'll probably drop dead before it does.

YMMV; I'm far more optimistic.  I expect at least another decade of 
independent driving, at which point I'm hoping that FSD will finally be 
technologically mature & reliable enough to enable us to maintain 
suburban independent living well into my 80s.

-hh