Not necessarily. Packages and kernels can be 6 months to 2 years out of date (LTS), which can matter a lot for some people

I’m more concerned about the failure mode than the failure rates. Mechanical and hydraulic brakes can experience gradual failure, giving the driver a chance to pull over get the car repaired.

EVs usually have a single motor and a single inverter , both of which can fail suddenly. Electronics usually work perfectly fine until they suddenly don’t work at all (blown fuse, bad connection, blown capacitor etc)

How are they gonna build redundancy so that no single component failure means youre freewheeling downhill on the highway

Well that sounds terrifying. There’s a reason why the brake hydraulicsystem is actually two separate hydraulic systems, for diagonally opposite wheels. The only single-point-of-failure is the brake pedal.

Their leaving out the critical details on how this will electric system will be fail safe, or even legal.

The announcement was light on details about both the system itself and how its fail-safes are implemented.

Maybe they’ll return to spring actuated mechanical brakes that are released when everything is working. (More common in heavy industry, and I believe also truck brakes)

In Scandinavia we celebrate “jul” (Scandinavian word for Christmas). “Jul” sounds a lot like Yule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule :)

I chuckled a bit when seeing this headline. “Really? 4usd per usg? So cheap. That’s what all this fuel crisis is about?”

Sometimes that hoop is simply pressing regular - followed by <space>, and autocorrect does the rest. At least in the Microsoft office suite with English language setting