Not well, sadly. Trying to stay distracted but all that’s happened to me feels like the perfect storm.
Signed a new contract in January and was supposed to start in April, moving countries. Now my flight is canceled and even if it weren’t I’d be unable to enter the country since all visas have been voided. Moving company canceled on me (no money back also, claiming force majeure). Have to leave my apartment by the end of the month and have absolutely no idea what to do. My family is in another different country as well but it currently seems impossible to get me and my belongings there. Have little savings and after a month in a motel I’d be broke :(
I have, but there is a new tenant moving in right after me so there's not much she can do. She offered to store my stuff in the garage for as long as needed thankfully.
Export is not "only possible" due to the Bretton Woods system, and the rest of your thoughts on exports are just pure unfounded speculation. Germany makes sought-after goods and will continue to do so for all of our lifetimes. They will export and sell them one way or another. Of course there will be ups and downs, but really drastic changes? I highly doubt it, even if the Euro(zone) were to implode, which is looking increasingly unlikely.
Post war Germany has never had significant youth unemployment, and worries about "riots and social upheaval" because of that unemployment? That's a pretty outrageous claim.
Not sure why the overall population matters here. Bicycle trips typically do not cover large distances in cities, that's what public transport is for.
And when it comes to density, Paris has twice the density of NYC and still has cycling infrastructure that is in a whole different league than that of NYC. NYC could in fact do much much better.
Population size matters as does density because there are more people that need to fit in a smaller footprint. The original post states that other cities should employ Copenhagen like solutions but the room simply does not exist in NYC no matter how much we would wish it so.
But the population of Manhattan is within a stone's throw of Paris overall and the density is significantly greater in Manhattan. Overall population and density matter as the equate to more diverse needs in the population and more users in any transit space.
Useless for Germany, since it apparently doesn't have data for states, counties or cities, all of which can (and do) have different public holidays in Germany.
I'm sure there's more countries where this means the data is incorrect.
From personal experience I can say that I am certain that both Dieter Zetsche and Harald Krüger know more about basically every aspect of producing cars than Elon Musk ever will. Both are very much hands-on people and have 3-4 decades of experience.
Even if they have lots of experience, they failed to see how that the market was going to have to seriously build evs. It took an 'idiot outsider' like Musk to push it as far as it can go. and now we know that separately from the business success of tesla that it's possible to make successful and interesting electric cars like teslas, but also other companies have interesting cars.
"Zetsche joined Daimler-Benz in 1976, working in the research department. In 1981, he became Assistant Development Manager at the Vehicles business unit. He became a member of DaimlerChrysler's Board of Management in 1998 and served as the President/CEO of Chrysler Group from mid-2000 to 31 December 2005, where he was credited with a turnaround of DCX's American operations. Since 1 January 2006 he succeeded Jürgen Schrempp as Chairman of DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler AG), being succeeded in the position of Chrysler Group CEO by Thomas W. LaSorda."
and
"Mr. Krüger joined BMW in April 1992 and served as Director of its Production Strategy, Control and Planning Division. He managed BMW Group's engine plant at Hams Hall in the UK and served a number of positions within the Human Resources division. He served as the Chairman and Director of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd. from May 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. Mr. Krüger serves as a Director of BMW Manufacturing Co. LLC."
Yep, quite a fair bet that any of those two know far more about auto-making than Musk ever will.
It’s not publicly known who owns how much of FlixBus. It has been reported that General Atlantic holds 35%, but Daimler, Holtzbrinck and the founders most likely hold a significant amount as well.
Pretty much anything in the US is easy. Try Indian cities, Italian villages or the Russian countryside. I’m absolutely certain that not a single one of the so called “self-driving” cars could handle even the most simple challenges in these environments.
I bet self driving cars are first adopted enmasse in Asian cities (primarily Chinese ones) given need. Even though the driving (and pedestrian) habits seem to imply otherwise, the chance to optimize limited road infrastructure will just be too juicy for the politicians to pass up. In fact, lots of companies are working on self driving cars in china right now for this reason (also, it’s much more likely given china’s autocratic government).
The US is pretty big. I have neighbors that ATV and snowmobile the last few miles to their house, except during the very few months that they can wrestle an old Jeep up there. Google Maps isn't very helpful.
Not even close. BMW runs electric trucks between production facilities and our 169kWh trucks (Terberg YT202-EV) which haul up to 34,000kg get at most 100km out of that, often less. So you're looking at about 0.6km/kWh or 0.37mi/kWh.
It will be more with less stopping (although there isn't a lot of stopping on our routes) but nowhere near your estimate.
I appreciate your data! However I wasn't trying to say that trucks will get 3.3 mi/kWh, this was apparently quite confusingly phrased, as I meant passenger vehicles.
My spitball of 1.1 mi/kWh was clearly way too high still.
The Fraunhofer Society is not and never was a "patent troll". They do actual research and one of their income sources is licensing the resulting patents.
Fraunhofer put the source online without a license at the ISO site, let the community convince itself that MP3 was a standard and therefore unpatented, let the community write all the encoders and decoders and surrounding tools for years, then turned around and asked everyone who made their file format popular for 10K USD.
Troll is a gentle word, the author of ffmpeg describe patents of software as "gangsters asking for protection money". All software patents are bad see my reply above
Signed a new contract in January and was supposed to start in April, moving countries. Now my flight is canceled and even if it weren’t I’d be unable to enter the country since all visas have been voided. Moving company canceled on me (no money back also, claiming force majeure). Have to leave my apartment by the end of the month and have absolutely no idea what to do. My family is in another different country as well but it currently seems impossible to get me and my belongings there. Have little savings and after a month in a motel I’d be broke :(