Comments for Electronics Weekly

Comment on TSMC’s Slam Dunk by George

George — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:20:10 +0000

Intel 18A chips make classy shirt buttons.

Comment on Fable: The Berkshire Revolutionary by David Manners

David Manners — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:04:19 +0000

In reply to zeitghost. Z is a cool zippy monicker IMHO, zeitghost

Comment on Fable: The Berkshire Revolutionary by zeitghost

zeitghost — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:55:09 +0000

In reply to David Manners.

I wonder why it did that. Odd.

I think there’s a copy of “Heavy Horses” around here somewhere.

Not that it’s ever been played much.

Let’s see if I’m still z: yup. Had to type it all in. Very odd.

Comment on Fable: The Berkshire Revolutionary by David Manners

David Manners — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 17:12:08 +0000

Spot on z -formerly known as zeitghost – Jethro was the guy

Comment on Fable: The Berkshire Revolutionary by z

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:46:02 +0000

Jethro Tull. The seed drill.

Comment on Driverless Cars Not Yet Ready For Mass Adoption by David Manners

David Manners — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:59:18 +0000

In reply to DontAgree. Yes, DontAgree, loads of them. California’s DMV has issued Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permits to 30 companies but only two companies, Waymo and Tesla, are operating robotaxis (and Tesla only has 24 of those) while Waymo uses driverless cars for other things like mapping and data collection, and food delivery

Comment on Driverless Cars Not Yet Ready For Mass Adoption by DontAgree

DontAgree — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 03:21:14 +0000

In reply to David Manners. Are there any 'autonomous vehicles' other than robo-taxis ??? The report in the link mostly shows Waymo and Zoox, which are both robo-taxis.

Comment on Tax The Rich, Say The Rich by Mike Bryant

Mike Bryant — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:41:14 +0000

having a million dollars is hardly that rich nowadays. Would be far better to just ask those who would be paying this wealth tax. I’m sure you’d get a different answer then, as shown by all the people having to leave the communist run UK at the moment. Hopefully Nigel will attract them back in a few years time.

Comment on Driverless Cars Not Yet Ready For Mass Adoption by David Manners

David Manners — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:29:02 +0000

In reply to DontAgree. A journo could point out that nowhere in this post are robotaxis mentioned, DontAgree, these are figures from the Califotnia DMV and US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for all autonomous cars under test whether driven in cities or on freeways.

Comment on Driverless Cars Not Yet Ready For Mass Adoption by DB

DB — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:23:40 +0000

I think you need to compare apples with apples. A lot of miles in the US will be driven on relatively open, traffic-light, freeways, whereas autonomous vehicles in California tend to be deployed in congested urban areas. You’d expect a higher collision rate for autonomous vehicles in that case.

(The comparison may still be bad, but comparing apples with oranges only tells you that apples aren’t oranges 🙂