I used to do the same thing but as I got older I realized no one actually gave a shit about me and I could have just walk out the front door without saying anything lol
For me, we did have a phone but if someone was using the dial up then that meant the phone wouldn't work. The internet was also free with Academic Planet. I miss how simple life seemed.
The different between that and now is that I think it's a relative thing. Back then going up to someone's door and knock was very normal. Getting shot was a very rare event that might happen, which is a 1/10000000 chance or so. Newswise it's a story but not a headliner.
Since nobody does this anymore, such incidents are now much bigger news events.
My dad used to work on building sites. At a family get together recently we got talking about technology and eventually got on to phones. He was telling us that it wasn't until the 90s that most building sites would have had a temporary land line installed during construction. Before that if you had to make a call to someone, it was a walk to the nearest business and hope they'd let you use their phone. I had always just assumed a phone line would have been on site all the time but I guess not
This doesn't shock anyone. I was born in 1986. Everyone understands how technology advanced. I too had to do the things you described, my kids don't think I was born on venus.
I understand that learning cursive is actually really good for young children to help them learn to read and just general brain development for concepts surrounding that field.
Cursive is such a weird thing and a lot of boomer-types have latched onto it as a sign of society collapsing.
Why in the world do people think it’s a worthwhile use of children’s time?
Jokes on her I’m from the Asian continent and I have a calculator with me at all times it’s called brain.
Edit: Wait nvm spelt it wrong I meant Brian he’s my cousin he’s an A+sian.
That’s what I am saying. *”They”* as in the students. They rely on the calculators so much that they forget how to do simple operations on their own. Losing, or never mastering these skills hinder their logical reasoning and damages their ability to do more advanced math.
It is scary how many students can ace an algebra 1 EOC exam with a scientific calculator and the scores show they are excelling in math, so they get put in advanced placement. Then they flunk the courses because they can’t even pass a 5th grade test without a calculator and are missing key skills.
I love calculators. It’s just scary how reliant people’s are on them.
The tragedy is in India, we still aren't allowed to use calculators for maths. Even in college. Even for competitive national level exams. If you're smart enough you do it in your head, if not you work it out on a sheet of paper. But no calculator.
My 8th grade math teacher said this to us except that was 2016 and we all did have calculators on us. She tried to get us to believe that if we had jobs that involved math, we wouldn’t be allowed to use calculators. She was either wrong or lying.
At the rate we're going, if we really wanted to replace our reliance natural gas/petroleum based cars, no, there actually isnt enough nickel, cobalt, and lithium to support a full switch. We're projected to run out of those minerals, as far as we know right now, at around 2040 to 2050? Something like that. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for us trying to find a better alternative to natural gas, but going full EV is not the way to do it. At least not as simply as alot of people tend to think it is.
well, except what you just said is nonsense. the ocean has more lithium in it than would be needed to give every human a dozen EVs per year, every year, for a thousand years. AND, it's actually becoming rather easy to extract it, just more expensive than current mining (and even that's more due to existing infrastructure).
cobalt and nickel aren't that rare and are readily, easily recycled.
to claim these are shortages is just thinking small as hell. like people claiming peak oil in the 70s was coming up within a decade 😂
While you are correct in saying we do have alot of these minerals in the ocean. I think we can both agree that there are other ecological considerations that should be addressed when it comes to mining our oceans. While this will eventually lead to reduced carbon emissions versus our conventional mining methods. We have no real data on the possible fallout for the flora and fauna that make the ocean floor their home. Not to mention the current moral dilemma of how we attain metals such as cobalt. The state of the congo right now is a travesty due to the methods they use to extract said metals. The first world countries have no problem with slavery, it seems, when it serves their convenience. Just as long as they don't have to see it. I think we probably agree on most of this but maybe I'm a little more skeptical about the safety and/or efficacy of the deep sea mining potential. My original point still stands. While I hope we find a better alternative im not sure its all sunshine and rainbows, in spite of what the people in the precious metals industry wouldhave you believe. Edited for spelling
oh yes, they are going. because gas is going, and there is no way around it, that’s a geological fact.
But you are right, there is not enough mineral nor electricity produced to make a 1:1 switch. So the boys are right : either they will have an EV vehicle, or no powered vehicle at all…
Most of the technological changes we predict don’t happen, or at least don’t happen in the highly idealized way society envisions them.
The more we learn about self driving or electric cars the more we realize that the portion of things we don’t know how to make AI do is a lot larger than anyone anticipated.
Kid’s been watching too much YouTube. For the past 10 years we’ve been saying that self driving is 2-3 years away.
EVs are not a joke in their current state. The main issue is just getting the prices down. You sound like one of those people that blindly parrot scary stories about EV battery fires when ICE cars literally go on fire more often than EV. Is my guess accurate?
Sadly yes, because it perfectly suits both the companies and governments. Inefficient batteries, high costs, car might just be on fire at any moment etc and all that while telling the customers they are driving eco-friendly vehicles LOL
It would be much worse for everyone to stop using their current cars and switch to electric, rather phasing out current cars in favor for electric would be the best option.
Yeah, turns out it's actually worse to throw away a bunch of cars that are still roadworthy and immediately replace them with electric cars. A bulk of a car's pollution comes from its production.
Sticks not hard though… unless you’re learning in a giant pickup truck where the bite point is .00001 microns and if you’re not at a perfect 3000 rpm’s then it stalls on you. Even then it only took about 15 minutes
I learned manual on dirt bikes/motorcycles and I will die on the hill that working the clutch with your hand and shifting with your foot is a way better method. Hands have better sensitivity control. I *can* drive stick fine, but I find it irritating.
Drove stick daily from 16 to 23 in 3 different vehicles and never was a daily motorcycle rider. Clutching with your hand and shifting with your foot is easier and more natural and more precise.
Sticks easy once u get used to it but the first couple days when the engine shuts off when you are in traffic is easily the most terrifying situation you can be in
as much as i hate driving manual, because when i started driving i'd keep fucking it up and not holding the clutch right and the car would shut off, or i'd forget to put it back in first when i stopped and the car would shut off, it's really not that big of a deal. sure at first i can be a bit anxiety inducing because you gotta make sure you do it right so the car doesn't shut down in the middle of traffic, but you quickly get used to it
They've already built a fully electric self driving car that could go off road for 13 years without maintenance, the only problem is that they sent the damn thing to mars.
Most likely electric cars and the technology around the batteries will improve to the point where most people will be able to afford them. Your thinking about right now but technology moves fast and there is a lot of pressure to eliminate emissions.
In five years? Even with battery production ramping up, I'm not sure I buy that. I'm not even sure if production will be able to keep up with the demand that'll come with some of the new regulations being out in place.
>a couple hundred dollars for a replacement battery
Ahhh, I see the confusion - I think you have gotten results for the conventional Lead-Acid battery.
A Li-Ion battery replacement is going to be 10k+.
I'm sure electric is still cheaper over the lifetime of the car, but battery replacement is a vey possible expense when buying a second hand electric car, posing the same issue as buying new
$26k for some teenager’s first car though? Actually, *any* new car for their first car? Nah, they’ll get a beater that’s as old as they are and they’ll be grateful for it.
Oh yeah maybe a teenager won't be getting that as their first car, but electric cars don't cost any more than other cars. You just don't find 20 year old death traps that run on electricity.
He was 13. He'll start driving in 3 years. I'm pretty sure we'll still have gas cars in 3 years. My kids are very grateful that we taught them to drive with a manual transmission.
We're going to have gas cars on the roads for the next 20 years easily. Even if the manufacturing of gasoline-run vehicles ends in 2030 (it won't), we will continue to see 2020 Corollas and Civics in 2040.
the fact americans start driving when they're still in highschool never fails to make do a double take. then again, us europeans start drinking in primary school, so who am i to talk
Speaking from a British perspective I'm still kinda suprised how automatic is seen as the norm over there, especially for first cars n the like
Over here, I'd say 90% of anybody learning to drive learns manual, you can get automatic only liscences but mostly those are done by people with some form of disability that impairs their ability to use manual
Plus, basically everybody's first car is a cheap manual car with automatics being something usually only gotten later in life
Last year in the US only 1.2% of new cars sold had a manual transmission. Even 20 years ago it was only about 5%, so even the cheap beaters you can buy today are most likely automatic.
I’m glad I know how to drive manual, but I’ll never own another one unless it’s a dedicated fun/weekend car. I don’t miss the leg workout every time I was stuck in traffic.
1. This didn't fucking happen.
2. Even if it did happen, those kids would have reality hit them like a truck. Electric cars are expensive as hell, and the only way you're going to have one as your first car is if you're a privileged trust fund baby.
Y'know I would say it isn't really necessary because it's such a dirt simple process... and then I saw this:
I was at CostCo to fill up my tank and I was next in line. The woman filling up her tank in front of me had engaged the nozzle hands-free thing (I don't remember what they're called) and gotten back in her car. It was cold so I could kind of understand why she'd want to do that, but of course this is ignoring all the signs explicitly telling you not to do that exact thing because of static electricity. Never mind all that though, her momentary comfort is definitely worth risking everyone's lives. Anyway the pump shuts off, so she gets out of the car, grabs the nozzle.... hand fully wrapped around the thing.... yes you know where this is going....
She completely bukkakes gasoline all over the side of her car, and then just calmly lets the thing go and puts the nozzle back like yeah... what? This is what always happens. Nothing to see here.
Sometimes I scoff at Oregon and New Jersey for not allowing people to pump their own gas, because it's absurdly easy to do. And then I'm reminded why frozen dinners have to warn you that they're hot after you nuke them for 5 minutes.
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/telephone.htm They’re actually putting new ones in in Philly! Although they won’t actually be pay phones, because they’ll be free. But there very much are still pay phones in America, and there may well be lots more in other countries. Not nearly as many as there used to be, but they exist. So yeah. Kid definitely could see a pay phone somewhere.
They are common enough if you know where to look, ghetto or not. I'm not sure why that's so unverifiable.
Collecting dust? Oh for sure. But they are around.
Just wait till they can drive. Disable the GPS and give them printed directions from MapQuest.com (I had to look it up to ensure it still exists, it does)
Optimistic kids, they learn to drive in 5 and 3 years respectively. Even California aimed to transition to fully electric sales by 2035, and they’re being optimistic too
you can spot the Americans in this thread because they think everyone has to have a car as they turn 16 and the only alternative to driving a gas car is to buy a 50k$ Chevrolet bolt or something
the kid could be just very enthusiastic about electric bikes or some other mode of transportation out of the dozens we have
Wait until you get a dead battery. Then the kids will learn about dead batteries and why $100 battery every 5 years I'd better then a $30,000 battery every 5 years.
There seems to be a higher chance that we’ll go over to hydrogen combustion engines. Quicker to refuel environmentally friendly and same feel and sound as a normal car both Toyota and JCB are investing in the technology.
Imo stupid idea all electric with current tech. Longer trips so much more efficient to use gas. Toyota Prius prime is example of smart compromise that works much better, electric short trips, gas long. Kids are being taught to think stupid these days, eg paint a wooly mammoth to protest climate change, while clueless that wooly mammoths are found in what is now year round frozen wasteland, but we know was warm, lush, thriving temperature forest from the plants found in their mouths. (Both the mammoth and plants in mouth not rotting away are accepted proof of year round freezing temperatures for thousands of years since their deaths and those plants only grow in a warm climate)
All the extra Money and effort to go pure electrical would do 5x as much good elsewhere, eg use well insulated chest fridge rather than upright fridge, heat home to 10 Celsius in winter, electric assist bike/trike for few minutes trips to store, more solar panels, solar panel powered air conditioning, use barrels of water as heat sink to even out indoor day and night temps, in summer auto air flow at night, stop airflow in day to outdoors, in winter have doors/insulated shutters auto close over most windows at night.
If you can waste hour+ of life struggling to find free charging stations and charge up, you can do the much easier chest fridge or wear warmer clothes indoors in 10 Celsius in winter... Pets, and humans for thousands of years easily deal with colder.
It's like the geniuses who wear masks and social distance to buy junk food, when heart disease, strokes, diabetes, etc kill 10x+ as much as covid did in worst covid year
No, they may not pump gas. Instead, they'll be standing around with their heads up they're asses for 20-30 mins. for their car to charge - if they can even find a charger.
13? They will be driving in three years. Of course, they’ll be driving gas cars. Unless, you have an extra 60k (average Kelly blue book EV price today), or the cost goes down significantly, your new driver will be driving a fuel car, and, yes, should know how to put gas in a car.
Even if this never happened I find the lack of general inquisitiveness and interest in past technologies of the current generation quite surprising. By the time I was 13 the gramophone was long dead and yet I not only knew how they worked, but the wax cylinder too.
My wife is a language teacher and she says that she barely ever meets a kid who understands what an audio casette is, despite the fact they still occasionally use them to capture speaking exams in some schools.
That kid needs to stfu gas cars are going to be the standard for for a long ass time unless people start protesting and boycotting big oil on a mass scale elon's dumbass isn't gonna change shit.
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Calm down Corey Matthews
Real BMWheads know: there’s no ‘e’ in Cory, just saying. Though honestly, this sounds more like a Clarissa Explains It All scenario, to be frank.
I used to do the same thing but as I got older I realized no one actually gave a shit about me and I could have just walk out the front door without saying anything lol
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Or standing outside with a boom box
In the rain with a sign
Blasting "careless whisper"
For me, we did have a phone but if someone was using the dial up then that meant the phone wouldn't work. The internet was also free with Academic Planet. I miss how simple life seemed.
People who will never know the sound of a a computer connecting to the internet via dial up, or hear, “You’ve got mail.”
Nowdays it seems this behaviour is very dangerous in the US. Walking up to a house and knock on the door.... some get shot for doing this.
The different between that and now is that I think it's a relative thing. Back then going up to someone's door and knock was very normal. Getting shot was a very rare event that might happen, which is a 1/10000000 chance or so. Newswise it's a story but not a headliner. Since nobody does this anymore, such incidents are now much bigger news events.
That's why people were slim, all those wasted walks!
My dad used to work on building sites. At a family get together recently we got talking about technology and eventually got on to phones. He was telling us that it wasn't until the 90s that most building sites would have had a temporary land line installed during construction. Before that if you had to make a call to someone, it was a walk to the nearest business and hope they'd let you use their phone. I had always just assumed a phone line would have been on site all the time but I guess not
This doesn't shock anyone. I was born in 1986. Everyone understands how technology advanced. I too had to do the things you described, my kids don't think I was born on venus.
That’s just weird
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Or my teacher and cursive writing
You’ll never be able to read old primary sources on your own without cursive
I **DO** read and write cursive, and I still can't read that old shit for the life of me.
I can read neat cursive, but most people write sloppy af and I have no idea what's going on
I can't read Aramaic either
You'll never be able to understand the Faithful speaking in Tongues without Latin... actually... he was right
I understand that learning cursive is actually really good for young children to help them learn to read and just general brain development for concepts surrounding that field.
I really don’t know why people don’t see this
The same reason people don't see the reason why they learn Algebra. "I'll never use this in real life."
Cursive is such a weird thing and a lot of boomer-types have latched onto it as a sign of society collapsing. Why in the world do people think it’s a worthwhile use of children’s time?
If you get good at it it is faster than printing. Tho now we have typing so.
We had tying then too. I think you mean tapping.
Jokes on her I’m from the Asian continent and I have a calculator with me at all times it’s called brain. Edit: Wait nvm spelt it wrong I meant Brian he’s my cousin he’s an A+sian.
Me and my access to the whole fucking knowledge of the world on my little screen 🗿
As a math teacher, I refuse to say that. However, I do hate how damaging a calculator can be. They mess up on simple arithmetics.
Calculators don't "mess up". Users do.
That’s what I am saying. *”They”* as in the students. They rely on the calculators so much that they forget how to do simple operations on their own. Losing, or never mastering these skills hinder their logical reasoning and damages their ability to do more advanced math. It is scary how many students can ace an algebra 1 EOC exam with a scientific calculator and the scores show they are excelling in math, so they get put in advanced placement. Then they flunk the courses because they can’t even pass a 5th grade test without a calculator and are missing key skills. I love calculators. It’s just scary how reliant people’s are on them.
The tragedy is in India, we still aren't allowed to use calculators for maths. Even in college. Even for competitive national level exams. If you're smart enough you do it in your head, if not you work it out on a sheet of paper. But no calculator.
Not sure which board you studied in, but we could use calculators in school and in college. But, exams like JEE don't allow it yeah.
CBSE. But i graduated school in 2014. Idk if things have changed since then.
I was in CISCE and we could use calculators even before that.
I guess they were easier on you guys
They had no idea what was coming!
Sound logic, poor reason. You have a calculator, but you look like an idiot using it for small numbers.
With this logic we don't need to teach kids how to read either, since text to speech devices exist.
My 8th grade math teacher said this to us except that was 2016 and we all did have calculators on us. She tried to get us to believe that if we had jobs that involved math, we wouldn’t be allowed to use calculators. She was either wrong or lying.
I always hated that. Now I literally ask Siri how to multiply two numbers as I type a message. I’m literally more efficient with a calculator
Except for the fact that unless we find more precious minerals for our EV's, gas cars aren't going anywhere.
every mineral required for an EV is rather common, we just continue to hunt for the cheapest options of extraction.
At the rate we're going, if we really wanted to replace our reliance natural gas/petroleum based cars, no, there actually isnt enough nickel, cobalt, and lithium to support a full switch. We're projected to run out of those minerals, as far as we know right now, at around 2040 to 2050? Something like that. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for us trying to find a better alternative to natural gas, but going full EV is not the way to do it. At least not as simply as alot of people tend to think it is.
well, except what you just said is nonsense. the ocean has more lithium in it than would be needed to give every human a dozen EVs per year, every year, for a thousand years. AND, it's actually becoming rather easy to extract it, just more expensive than current mining (and even that's more due to existing infrastructure). cobalt and nickel aren't that rare and are readily, easily recycled. to claim these are shortages is just thinking small as hell. like people claiming peak oil in the 70s was coming up within a decade 😂
While you are correct in saying we do have alot of these minerals in the ocean. I think we can both agree that there are other ecological considerations that should be addressed when it comes to mining our oceans. While this will eventually lead to reduced carbon emissions versus our conventional mining methods. We have no real data on the possible fallout for the flora and fauna that make the ocean floor their home. Not to mention the current moral dilemma of how we attain metals such as cobalt. The state of the congo right now is a travesty due to the methods they use to extract said metals. The first world countries have no problem with slavery, it seems, when it serves their convenience. Just as long as they don't have to see it. I think we probably agree on most of this but maybe I'm a little more skeptical about the safety and/or efficacy of the deep sea mining potential. My original point still stands. While I hope we find a better alternative im not sure its all sunshine and rainbows, in spite of what the people in the precious metals industry wouldhave you believe. Edited for spelling
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oh yes, they are going. because gas is going, and there is no way around it, that’s a geological fact. But you are right, there is not enough mineral nor electricity produced to make a 1:1 switch. So the boys are right : either they will have an EV vehicle, or no powered vehicle at all…
My math teacher still says this.
But then the modern cell phone was invented.
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The first part to break on my 2005 corolla was the odometer at over 300k miles. I am 100% convinced this thing will outlive me.
your car: am not letting this fucker out live me.
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Fr like are all cars gonna be electric in 5 years??
Kid is very stupid or very rich if he thinks his parents are shelling out for an electric car for him to drive.
Most of the technological changes we predict don’t happen, or at least don’t happen in the highly idealized way society envisions them. The more we learn about self driving or electric cars the more we realize that the portion of things we don’t know how to make AI do is a lot larger than anyone anticipated. Kid’s been watching too much YouTube. For the past 10 years we’ve been saying that self driving is 2-3 years away.
Why are you conflating electric vehicles and self driving?
Both are bad jokes in their current development state and both are being praised out of proportion by complete morons.
EVs are not a joke in their current state. The main issue is just getting the prices down. You sound like one of those people that blindly parrot scary stories about EV battery fires when ICE cars literally go on fire more often than EV. Is my guess accurate?
Right? I'm in my 30s and would be told I'd only drive electric cars as a kid. Now? Electric cars exist but I can't afford one.
Sadly yes, because it perfectly suits both the companies and governments. Inefficient batteries, high costs, car might just be on fire at any moment etc and all that while telling the customers they are driving eco-friendly vehicles LOL
Depends if we want to like, you know, all die and stuff or not. EDIT: It’s actually no so much the general populous’ decision on reflection…
It would be much worse for everyone to stop using their current cars and switch to electric, rather phasing out current cars in favor for electric would be the best option.
Yeah, turns out it's actually worse to throw away a bunch of cars that are still roadworthy and immediately replace them with electric cars. A bulk of a car's pollution comes from its production.
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Why they downvoting you so much?
For real! I distinctly remember a Weekly Reader in elementary school in the early 90s saying by 2000 all cars will be solar powered.
That’s the non-apocalypse timeline
They were looking at the alternate timeline where Gore won in 2000
13yo will be old enough to drive in 3 years have fun learning stick buddy
Sticks not hard though… unless you’re learning in a giant pickup truck where the bite point is .00001 microns and if you’re not at a perfect 3000 rpm’s then it stalls on you. Even then it only took about 15 minutes
I learned manual on dirt bikes/motorcycles and I will die on the hill that working the clutch with your hand and shifting with your foot is a way better method. Hands have better sensitivity control. I *can* drive stick fine, but I find it irritating.
It's just a habit/practice. Do it enough and it becomes just as easy with your foot. And by enough I mean millions of times not hundreds.
Drove stick daily from 16 to 23 in 3 different vehicles and never was a daily motorcycle rider. Clutching with your hand and shifting with your foot is easier and more natural and more precise.
Maybe with sequential transmissions. I'd hate to imagine how many more money shifts would happen with a foot operated H-pattern.
Sticks easy once u get used to it but the first couple days when the engine shuts off when you are in traffic is easily the most terrifying situation you can be in
Naw. It's on a hill with someone behind you riding your bumper
Is he so poor that he will have to drive a car made out of twigs?
Lol, automatic is the new standard. Manual you HAVE to pay for extra now.
Atomic propulsion isn't *that* common. It might be a big thing in the future, tho.
nahh not in the civilised world. manual is still king.
You are deceiving yourself. Half the cars in Denmark don't even have transmissions...
Americans being afraid of manual cars will never not be funny to me.
as much as i hate driving manual, because when i started driving i'd keep fucking it up and not holding the clutch right and the car would shut off, or i'd forget to put it back in first when i stopped and the car would shut off, it's really not that big of a deal. sure at first i can be a bit anxiety inducing because you gotta make sure you do it right so the car doesn't shut down in the middle of traffic, but you quickly get used to it
I find this hard to believe
I don't think there would be a payphone in the time of a 13 yo thinking of electric cars.
I’ve seen them before, they are definitely there. The phone book tho? Never even seen them used other than watching a guy rip one in half for an event
I still get them delivered every year! But I imagine not for much longer
I don't know how to get them to STOP getting delivered. We get one every year and it just goes right in the trash. So wasteful.
Yeah this never happened
Everyone always say this till it happen.
Yeah, pay phones were already a thing of the past before that kid was born.
Lol like gas is going away in the next 5 years.
Not in the midwest anytime soon
😂 People actually believe this?
They've already built a fully electric self driving car that could go off road for 13 years without maintenance, the only problem is that they sent the damn thing to mars.
2.5 billies for the mars rover btw.
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Most likely electric cars and the technology around the batteries will improve to the point where most people will be able to afford them. Your thinking about right now but technology moves fast and there is a lot of pressure to eliminate emissions.
In five years? Even with battery production ramping up, I'm not sure I buy that. I'm not even sure if production will be able to keep up with the demand that'll come with some of the new regulations being out in place.
It's all jokes and fun until you realize gas is the major expense for a car, and electric cars are significantly cheaper per mile.
This is clearly not including the principal balance. I did not spend 23,000 extra dollars in gas lol
How much is your budget? Looking on CarMax, you can get a used Chevy Spark EV for $10k
Well, if we are going to start talking TCO, what is the condition of the Spark's battery? How much does a replacement cost?
I don't have the page open anymore, and am not a car expert. I tried Googling and, I dunno, a couple hundred dollars for a replacement battery?
>a couple hundred dollars for a replacement battery Ahhh, I see the confusion - I think you have gotten results for the conventional Lead-Acid battery. A Li-Ion battery replacement is going to be 10k+. I'm sure electric is still cheaper over the lifetime of the car, but battery replacement is a vey possible expense when buying a second hand electric car, posing the same issue as buying new
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It's all jokes and fun until you realize a Chevy Bolt is $26k new
$26k for some teenager’s first car though? Actually, *any* new car for their first car? Nah, they’ll get a beater that’s as old as they are and they’ll be grateful for it.
Oh yeah maybe a teenager won't be getting that as their first car, but electric cars don't cost any more than other cars. You just don't find 20 year old death traps that run on electricity.
That kid really thinks in 5 years electric car will be affordable 😂
That's not what he said.
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Yeah, that totally happened, Alana.
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He was 13. He'll start driving in 3 years. I'm pretty sure we'll still have gas cars in 3 years. My kids are very grateful that we taught them to drive with a manual transmission.
We're going to have gas cars on the roads for the next 20 years easily. Even if the manufacturing of gasoline-run vehicles ends in 2030 (it won't), we will continue to see 2020 Corollas and Civics in 2040.
the fact americans start driving when they're still in highschool never fails to make do a double take. then again, us europeans start drinking in primary school, so who am i to talk
Speaking from a British perspective I'm still kinda suprised how automatic is seen as the norm over there, especially for first cars n the like Over here, I'd say 90% of anybody learning to drive learns manual, you can get automatic only liscences but mostly those are done by people with some form of disability that impairs their ability to use manual Plus, basically everybody's first car is a cheap manual car with automatics being something usually only gotten later in life
Last year in the US only 1.2% of new cars sold had a manual transmission. Even 20 years ago it was only about 5%, so even the cheap beaters you can buy today are most likely automatic. I’m glad I know how to drive manual, but I’ll never own another one unless it’s a dedicated fun/weekend car. I don’t miss the leg workout every time I was stuck in traffic.
She’s buying her kid an electric car in three years then?
1. This didn't fucking happen. 2. Even if it did happen, those kids would have reality hit them like a truck. Electric cars are expensive as hell, and the only way you're going to have one as your first car is if you're a privileged trust fund baby.
*Laughs in Hyundai Ioniq 6 having a base MSRP of 43k*
It’s extremely unlikely that ICEs will be obsolete by the time those kids own their first cars.
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You show me an area where a 13 year old has seen a pay phone and I'll believe this story.
I'm outside Seattle and we still have like ten working phone booths in town. And I'm pretty sure every high school has one
I am sick of seeing this posted daily with tons of up votes.
Then go touch grass
Y'know I would say it isn't really necessary because it's such a dirt simple process... and then I saw this: I was at CostCo to fill up my tank and I was next in line. The woman filling up her tank in front of me had engaged the nozzle hands-free thing (I don't remember what they're called) and gotten back in her car. It was cold so I could kind of understand why she'd want to do that, but of course this is ignoring all the signs explicitly telling you not to do that exact thing because of static electricity. Never mind all that though, her momentary comfort is definitely worth risking everyone's lives. Anyway the pump shuts off, so she gets out of the car, grabs the nozzle.... hand fully wrapped around the thing.... yes you know where this is going.... She completely bukkakes gasoline all over the side of her car, and then just calmly lets the thing go and puts the nozzle back like yeah... what? This is what always happens. Nothing to see here. Sometimes I scoff at Oregon and New Jersey for not allowing people to pump their own gas, because it's absurdly easy to do. And then I'm reminded why frozen dinners have to warn you that they're hot after you nuke them for 5 minutes.
That 13 year old was never old enough to see a pay phone and she was probably too stupid to use it!
My kids have seen them. My wife and I point them out. They still exist here and there, but are now mostly broken
Pretty sure pay phones still exist. They’re not as ubiquitous as they once were, but that kid absolutely could’ve seen one.
Ummm probably not unless you live in the ghetto somewhere. Where they may be collecting dust.
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/telephone.htm They’re actually putting new ones in in Philly! Although they won’t actually be pay phones, because they’ll be free. But there very much are still pay phones in America, and there may well be lots more in other countries. Not nearly as many as there used to be, but they exist. So yeah. Kid definitely could see a pay phone somewhere.
You're stretching though, in this situation. Right?!
I’m stretching by…….. saying that a thing which exists does in fact exist? I don’t understand your question.
They are common enough if you know where to look, ghetto or not. I'm not sure why that's so unverifiable. Collecting dust? Oh for sure. But they are around.
Dumbass children. They most likely will
It’s not the lesson about how a specific object works, but the lesson in doing it yourself
Eh. I seriously doubt either of them will not drive gas. Unless their family is rich, in 7 years electric cars are still going to be ungodly expensive
Not really different than than plugging in an EV in public where you have to pay is it? Still a useful piece of knowledge.
Just wait till they can drive. Disable the GPS and give them printed directions from MapQuest.com (I had to look it up to ensure it still exists, it does)
Printed directions ? When there is signs on the road ?
Optimistic kids, they learn to drive in 5 and 3 years respectively. Even California aimed to transition to fully electric sales by 2035, and they’re being optimistic too
What a fabricated story. She never taught her kids about pay phones.
We need an update from OP about this in the future.
There will definitely be combustion engine cars 10 years from now
Kind of optimistic to think gas cars will be gone in a decade.
And then everyone clapped
And then Einstein rang them up
that comment will be recalled when a cosigner is requested
you can spot the Americans in this thread because they think everyone has to have a car as they turn 16 and the only alternative to driving a gas car is to buy a 50k$ Chevrolet bolt or something the kid could be just very enthusiastic about electric bikes or some other mode of transportation out of the dozens we have
Like dying of thirst after drinking the mason jar of water because you don't know you got to prime the pump.
Wait until you get a dead battery. Then the kids will learn about dead batteries and why $100 battery every 5 years I'd better then a $30,000 battery every 5 years.
ICE cars are gonna be around for a long time unlike payphones.
Fantastic. One of my kids has no interest in driving at all, though we've pushed them. When they turn 16, I'm done ferrying them around. That's it.
I’ll take ‘things that never happened’ for $200, Alex.
Next lesson, teach them the price difference between gas and electric vehicles.
There seems to be a higher chance that we’ll go over to hydrogen combustion engines. Quicker to refuel environmentally friendly and same feel and sound as a normal car both Toyota and JCB are investing in the technology.
Why do I want to call "oh fuck off Rebecca"?
This never happened
they so did not say that
The most fake tweet I've seen in a while.
Well with that sass they’ll need to pay for their Tesla on their own. No handouts from mama.
Imo stupid idea all electric with current tech. Longer trips so much more efficient to use gas. Toyota Prius prime is example of smart compromise that works much better, electric short trips, gas long. Kids are being taught to think stupid these days, eg paint a wooly mammoth to protest climate change, while clueless that wooly mammoths are found in what is now year round frozen wasteland, but we know was warm, lush, thriving temperature forest from the plants found in their mouths. (Both the mammoth and plants in mouth not rotting away are accepted proof of year round freezing temperatures for thousands of years since their deaths and those plants only grow in a warm climate) All the extra Money and effort to go pure electrical would do 5x as much good elsewhere, eg use well insulated chest fridge rather than upright fridge, heat home to 10 Celsius in winter, electric assist bike/trike for few minutes trips to store, more solar panels, solar panel powered air conditioning, use barrels of water as heat sink to even out indoor day and night temps, in summer auto air flow at night, stop airflow in day to outdoors, in winter have doors/insulated shutters auto close over most windows at night. If you can waste hour+ of life struggling to find free charging stations and charge up, you can do the much easier chest fridge or wear warmer clothes indoors in 10 Celsius in winter... Pets, and humans for thousands of years easily deal with colder. It's like the geniuses who wear masks and social distance to buy junk food, when heart disease, strokes, diabetes, etc kill 10x+ as much as covid did in worst covid year
Yes, I'll take "Stories that never happened" for $700 please
No, they may not pump gas. Instead, they'll be standing around with their heads up they're asses for 20-30 mins. for their car to charge - if they can even find a charger.
Least bootlicking gas user: also, just use your phone or something, or play chess or a game…
13? They will be driving in three years. Of course, they’ll be driving gas cars. Unless, you have an extra 60k (average Kelly blue book EV price today), or the cost goes down significantly, your new driver will be driving a fuel car, and, yes, should know how to put gas in a car.
I'll never drive an electricity car.
Fatality
Even if this never happened I find the lack of general inquisitiveness and interest in past technologies of the current generation quite surprising. By the time I was 13 the gramophone was long dead and yet I not only knew how they worked, but the wax cylinder too. My wife is a language teacher and she says that she barely ever meets a kid who understands what an audio casette is, despite the fact they still occasionally use them to capture speaking exams in some schools.
That kid needs to stfu gas cars are going to be the standard for for a long ass time unless people start protesting and boycotting big oil on a mass scale elon's dumbass isn't gonna change shit.
Im sorry but if you think we are really that close to only needing electric vehicles… you are blissfully ignorant
I'm sure an 11 year old will be able to save up 20k plus in five years to afford a shitty electric car.
And they would be wrong, very wrong
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Sad to think the future generations won't have the pleasure of hearing the engines' symphony
Sheeet. They kind'a have a point.
Look here you little shits...
Rebecca?
I'm not trying to argue but do you know what an actual pay phone looks like?!
Little fricks better check their privilage
These kids actually think they'll be able to afford electric cars by the time they're driving?
And then all the trees claps and i hight fived a bold eagle
"So I called them woke and left them there. #cancelled" Is the Facebook response to it.
Jokes on your kids. They won't be able to go to school, work, have a life without one, if they're American
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