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SAAB Automotive got killed by GM, resurrected by Spyker, subsequently killed again by debtors, resurrected again by Chinese investors who lost the rights to the brand, turned into NEVS (National Electric Vehicles Sweden), ran out of money again due to COVID, and has since been in “hibernation”/limbo. Most recently Stenhaga bought the remainder of the factory in Trollhättan, and EV Electra were considering to buy what’s left of the production models. That deal fell through and, last I heard of it, whatever is left of the NEVS were like 20 folks who got fired in 2024.

So yeah, to quote McCoy “He’s dead Jim”.

Amazing video, thanks for sharing.

Oh yes. TVR circa 1998 / speed 12 nonsense would be magical if they had the budget and freedom today that they did back then. I feel like a modern TVR would build something like a 4 motor EV with a manual transmission somehow. I’d be there for it honestly.

They were designed to do that on the regular. Especially Volvo’s polar editions were built to withstand just about any condition and kept simple and barebones for that reason.

Duesenberg. They made incredibly stylish and well engineered cars that were ahead of their time. I’d love to see a true competitor to Rolls Royce (Bentley doesn’t really compete with Rolls anymore. Sure they’re expensive luxury cars, but they aren’t anywhere near as bespoke as Rolls Royce cars are).

The Swedish Volvo died the day Ford took over, Geely is just there to trot around the remains.

Although, let’s be honest - Volvo had been on the verge of bankruptcy like three times before Ford bought them so it’s likely they would’ve died on their own too. Turns out making cars that are incredibly reliable is not a sustainable business model.

We are going to see so many new and interesting psychological and subsequent societal impacts from the global adoption of conversational AI…

There is apparently no standard in print journalism anymore. Any opinion piece regardless of its merit will and shall get printed.

This assumes nobody circumvents the software control of you’re microphone and camera hardware, but at least it increases the difficulty barrier to do this without informing the end user.

Everything except for smaller stuff. You know, things like tires, lug nuts, screws, atoms, electrons, etc.

That last quote is so goddamn accurate it could be an actual sales pitch for the concept.

In short order: Some uprisings that get omitted from the history curriculum in most American schools, a world war, an explosion of wealth inequality, a stock market crash and some economic stagnation, another world war, a period of some actually progressive politics, followed by a slow hollowing out and destruction of anything that previous period created, interspersed with some more wars, a couple of stock market crashes, more wars, present day.

This is an idea similar to driverless / autonomous vehicles. Great on paper, but nigh impossible in the real world.

Imagine if you will a road train of several dozen trailers and a lead driver: what happens if wildlife jumps in between the lead driver and the rest of the convoy? Or if the lead vehicle has to make an emergency correction? Or if other traffic merges into the convoy? Or one of the trailers crashes?

There are so many ways this can go wrong and only one perfect scenario in which i all “just works”.

I always found it interesting how we went from garage tinkerers and counter culture aligned free and open software and hardware enthusiasts to big tech strangling democracy. Turns out, money (and by extension power) still corrupts as much as it ever has.

It really isn’t, but it got made to be by parties with vested interest in maintaining the oil and gas status quo.

Also, I realize this is probably a woooosh on my part.

Brave of you to assume it will be used for anything but personal leisure use. This is Doug Ford after all.

I thought this was just a meme. Stores use AI robots for inventory now? What?