In my area the biggest factor is multiple families purchasing homes together. When you’re splitting the mortgage it’s a lot more affordable.

The overlap between “cares enough about image quality to not be okay with jpeg” and “doesn’t know to install a third party app” is probably too small for most manufacturers to care about.

The perfect middle ground happened for me with my 2001 E46. Modern headlight shape but with easily replaceable lenses. Gluing the damn things together is BS.

• Manual transmission availability
• Being able to easily modify for more power
• Being able to take part in full sessions for a whole track day and be able to get home after
• Much less weight so you aren’t cooking the brakes and chewing up tires on track
• Minimal planning for road trips
• Much better flexibility on stops on road trips

It’s still like that?! That was one of the most irritating things back in 2015 - 18 when I had a Fiat 500e lease. I had to join several different charging networks, each with different options of free membership and paying per kWh, free that paid one rate and paid that was a different rate, paid by time, etc. I had to charge up some accounts while others were just pay as I go. Some I could tap my phone to start a session and others I needed to have a card or keychain tag with me.

Then I needed all their apps, plus a couple of independent ones to find the charging stations because the independent ones never showed everyone’s stations or couldn’t show the status. Even on those I’d have to check the comments about each station because it was so common for it to show as being available and working but every comment would say “doesn’t work even though the app says it does”.

I’d love to get another EV but it sure as hell won’t be anything I take outside of single-charge distance from home until there are big damn changes to charging…

I’ve been on a jury a couple of times myself. The first time was boring and was a frustrating case. The second time was disturbing but very interesting and definitely a satisfying experience.

I understand that not everyone wants to serve if their employer doesn’t pay them; it can be a burden. Luckily mine does so I always look forward to summons in the hopes I get on a jury now.

The base has a length of 230 meters on each side and the largest interior chamber measures roughly 10 x 5 x 6 meters so yeah, loads of dense solid stone there.

Not sure how old the program was OP watched but they found one void in 2017 using cosmic rays. I’m guessing the pyramids are way too solid for ultrasound or x-ray to work.

https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza

The void isn’t like a room we simply haven’t entered, it’s more like the equivalent to an empty space inside the walls of your home. It’s there, but there are no passages leading to it. About 75-80% of the interior volume of the pyramids is solid stone as far as we know so it’s much less like a modern building and more of a huge pile of stones that happens to have a few open spaces with passages leading to them.

Here’s an article that includes an illustration showing just how solid they are as well as the recently discovered void and more info on how they found it using cosmic rays of all things: https://www.science.org/content/article/cosmic-rays-reveal-unknown-void-great-pyramid-giza

My money’s on the chairman not learning from the experience either; he still blamed you even though he was totally unable to find a way to actually blame you.