The team sat Electric Classic Cars are doing that, you can soon buy a skateboard chassis and drivetrain from them, and bolt whatever body you want to it.
With such sweeping statements, it clearly matters to you. However, time matters to me. Others are entitled to have different priorities from you.
My Luba 2 has saved me 3 weeks of manual mowing over the past year and my lawn has never looked better. Frequently complemented by others.
It's just a lawn and a lawnmower. I'm not playing keeping up with the jones, hoa bullshit or whatever other nonsense Americans invent. It's just a Scottish garden for the wildlife to roam in.
My first observation of this calm oasis was watching a Dell Compellent boot around 2010. I was somewhat happy to see a familiar boot process on the display!
UK analogue strowger exchanges did not permit the called party to clear down the line - that was the job of the calling party. A legacy function of being 'patched through'.
"Called Subscriber Held", a feature that was carried into early digital exchanges because people expected it to work in the manner you describe, even though afaik it was designed for the other purpose of keeping the line open whilst operators patched it through, trunk lines picked up the tone, etc.
My grandpa was a something like chief engineer for the West Coast of Scotland phone network. I have so many questions I wish I could ask him these days.
I know mechanics, they have been on EV training courses. The dealerships clearly have trained mechanics working on the EVs they've been selling for years.
I live in the countryside, I see plenty of EVs. Range anxiety is only for people doing long distance 200+ mile journeys every day, as those that commute in the suburbs day to day have the common (and financial) sense to charge at home and leave every morning with a 'full tank'
Judging from your prose, admittedly, I suspect you are North American and as such have a distinctly different worldview from mine.
"Multiple troubleshooting efforts to address the area of the leak by reseating a seal in the quick disconnect where liquid hydrogen is fed into the rocket did not fix the issue"
I've been fiddling away with OWL and OpenDrop for a few months now, trying to get it working on a Raspberry Pi Zero.
The goal was a digital picture frame that accepts Bluetooth and AirDrop pictures. The bluetooth part works fine... but it's the Airdrop part that's dead in the water at the moment.
You are conflating automation with remote control.
Replacing a lightswitch with an app that requires human interaction is indeed ridiculous.
Replacing a lightswitch with a motion sensor has been a staple feature of commercial buildings for decades.
Similar for heating control, occupancy detection, adaptive lighting, energy management, etc. Replacing a physical entity without adding any value to it is pointless, hence the 'automation' part of the phrase
I can't think of anything worse. This is just the extreme right wing pushing the Overton Window even further