The Insane Cost of Cars

August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 ~ cafebedouin

Fantastic Ice Scraper

February 5, 2019January 28, 2019 ~ cafebedouin

“Brass is soft enough to not damage the glass. The blade is thin and not really sharp to the touch, but is great on ice.
—https://kk.org/cooltools/fantastic-ice-s/

If you live in a place where you need an ice scraper, use this one. The only caveats are to be careful around the rubber around the window and don’t try to use it edge on.

Tin Foil Hats for Keys

January 16, 2019January 11, 2019 ~ cafebedouin

This is How Big Oil Will Die

June 12, 2017June 13, 2017 ~ cafebedouin

“And here is what is disruptive for Big Oil: Self-driving vehicles get to combine the capital savings from the improved lifetime of EVs, with the savings from eliminating the driver…The costs of electric self-driving cars will be so low, it will be cheaper to hail a ride than to drive the car you already own.”

—Miller, Seth. “This is how Big Oil will die.” Medium.com. May 24, 2017.

Pretty straight-forward conclusion, but this essay contains a lot of interesting detail, such as the number of parts in an internal combustion engine versus an electric engine (2,000 and 20, respectively).