I've sat through numerous Air New Zealand safety videos over the years and whilst every now and then they hit the spot most of the time they're lame and overly long.
It also seems like a waste of money that presumably finds it way onto ticket prices.
The plummet as reported compares the final months of sales that benefited from the clean car discount against 1 month of sales after the discount was scrapped.
Hardly surprising there's a large difference - savvy buyers swooped in and purchased an EV before their price went up overnight.
As others have mentioned, changes to road user charges are another part of the new government's changes.
EVs now pay a road user charge whereas previously they did not. This was a secondary subsidy to further incentivise EV uptake and EV owners understood that it was always going to be a temporary exemption.
(The government plans to standardise road user charges across all vehicle types. Currently ICEs pay no direct road user charges and instead pay taxes on fuel.)
So there's a bit of double whammy here and it's hardly surprising that EV sales are experiencing a dip.
But once road user charges are standardised and more and cheaper EV options become available (as they are all the time) I expect EV sales to bounce back and continue to increase as a percentage of car sales.
> The idea is you get a request, you validate it, maybe you do some computation on it, then you drop it on a queue and forget about it.
> The next stage of request handling is implemented by services that read the queue and either route an answer back to the original requester or passes it on to another service stage.
In this scenario, what are the mechanisms by which a service could route an answer back to the original requester?
> I actually believe that there's a culture war implied in this debate; the question of who deserves to reap the gains of automation is more than just philosophy or ethics. The question "is there inherent nobility in work itself?" seems to be just as much a political divide as any of the current popular hot-button issues.
Agreed, there's a lot of meaty ethics and philosophy tied up in this issue.
For most of my life I've tended to believe in the nobility of work, that it gives my life meaning and purpose.
But as rates of automation increase my children (or more likely their children) may well seek different ways of defining themselves.
Before that can happen though there'll have to be some fraught and difficult changes to our societies.
> Companies are easier to not do business with. Governments only get voted out if enough people agreed to vote with you.
Monopolies are hard to avoid doing business, and some form of proportional representation reduces the number of people who have to agree with you before you change the makeup of a government.