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xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles

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Now that I've finally gotten an electric vehicle, I'm never going back to an acoustic one.

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[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's a fallacious argument. It's like saying using a laptop made in 2026 is the exact same as using a laptop made in 2010 for privacy standards. News flash, it ain't.

The killswitches in question wouldn't apply to all new vehicles, or well, they would just be EVs, because they're planning to ban regular vehicles.