Some, even most, were cooperating, and some others from other countries, like USA, too.

USA violated Venezuelan sovereignty. USA is a terrorist state.

Yes, but tv allow a coactivity. Most people absorted in their device cannot do anything else.

Yes, but uses software, so you have another level of added complexity that may be or may be not desirable.

The chips themselves add a bunch of new failure states to consider beyond software bugs, too. Maybe a bad wire or component puts too much load on the microcontroller's wee internal pin drivers and they melt into a permanent "on" state. Or a voltage fluctuation browns out the chip on boot, partially randomizing its RAM or registers. Or the chip manufacturer fixes some errata or discontinues a particular part number and now a pin you've left floating has become a hardware heisenbug. Or the wrong bit flips in your EEPROM after being in a hot machine for a few years. Suddenly a boring 555 looks pretty good. (Keep in mind, we're talking about "turn off heater after pulses stop", not "abort launch sequence if tank 3 pressure low". The latter is way above my pay grade.)

For every task you could also use a 555 timer for (with dedicated analog support complexity,) you are talking about tens of lines of user code at most.

Even if you had to do everything directly with registers, the amount of C or Rust here is minuscule.

Cool idea.

Agree

Tesla and musk were living off of monstrous subsidies to the tune of 20B or more

Sure. And selling the most popular car on the planet is a failure?

Didn't the US government put ~$80b into rescuing GM etc, years ago?

Subsidies bootstrapped the EV industry. Stupid policies mean walking away from the investment, ceding the market to foreign competitors, and doubling down on legacy ICE crap the rest of the world no longer wants...and Americans will be less and less able to afford.

>the most popular car on the planet

That's the Toyota Corolla. I find this inaccurate glazing of musk to be relatively common but it always strikes me as profoundly weird.

To be charitable, according to at least some reports, the Model Y was the best selling car of 2024.

I was googling the data for 2025 and it seems that it’s number 2 now (behind the RAV4 to my surprise) with the Corolla at 3.

No idea how accurate these are, finding global numbers was harder than I thought.

Also, if you compare the entire model line up sales, Tesla isn't even in the top ten in sales. Tesla could disappear entirely and the car industry wouldn't even notice.

But the metric is good since it incentivizes car companies to make 1 good model instead of many different with the intent to confuse buyers

Car buyers are not confused. The market is naturally highly segmented. My needs "every day low distance compact car that can cope with city centre narrow streets with once a month motorway driving" is not met by the same car as "family of 5 with big dog living in a village"

I think you are being severely oblivious about the amount of labor that's done every our on this world of us.

People who hate idiots that put the verb before the noun.

I really don't get how most comments don't get that "wd" stands for "water displacement". I buy and use it not for lubrication but for eliminating moisture and cleaning. What would you use in a distributor? Motor oil or penetrit?

Do cars even still have distributors? My last 3 cars have been coil-on-plug...

They do have a separate dry lubricant product that seems to work well.