Fuddyduddy1952
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Before retiring a decade ago I was an electronic repair technician for 42 years and started a business in the 70's with my wife repairing consumer electronics. I saw the transition from black and white CRT vacuum tube to color TVs, then hybrid tube/solid state to 100% solid state, then front CRT projection to rear projection, DLP projection, Plasma, LCD, OLED.
With video first Betamax, VCR, Laserdisc, DVD.
One day I thought "today's new and improved is tomorrow's junk".
With every technology man develops there are problems but there's always this desire to be the first on the block...ego and braggadocio.
In the early 1970's when I first saw VCRs, top loaders with a knob tuner they were over $1,500 or $10,000 in today's money. In the early 1980s we had so many in for repair they were stacked to the ceiling in my shop and lot's of times I'd work through the night.
At the close of VCRs new ones were selling for $20.
Before retiring I saw "The Geek Squad" similar to Tesla's at your home service.
I believe the parallel with electric cars like consumer electronics is the faddish aspect.
What's so negative to me and is the forced mandate and while some embrace the tax credits while others either don't qualify (lower or higher income) but in the end it's funded by ALL taxpayers.
I don't see electric cars as the new future for most people except for metropolitan areas.
It's all or some. For all it would cost $Trillions upgrading power grid, chargers everywhere, improved batteries, fast charging, etc. Again taxpayer funding with higher electric bills. For some it would need to be an inexpensive secondary car for short distance jaunts. Disposable like the $20 VCR.
With video first Betamax, VCR, Laserdisc, DVD.
One day I thought "today's new and improved is tomorrow's junk".
With every technology man develops there are problems but there's always this desire to be the first on the block...ego and braggadocio.
In the early 1970's when I first saw VCRs, top loaders with a knob tuner they were over $1,500 or $10,000 in today's money. In the early 1980s we had so many in for repair they were stacked to the ceiling in my shop and lot's of times I'd work through the night.
At the close of VCRs new ones were selling for $20.
Before retiring I saw "The Geek Squad" similar to Tesla's at your home service.
I believe the parallel with electric cars like consumer electronics is the faddish aspect.
What's so negative to me and is the forced mandate and while some embrace the tax credits while others either don't qualify (lower or higher income) but in the end it's funded by ALL taxpayers.
I don't see electric cars as the new future for most people except for metropolitan areas.
It's all or some. For all it would cost $Trillions upgrading power grid, chargers everywhere, improved batteries, fast charging, etc. Again taxpayer funding with higher electric bills. For some it would need to be an inexpensive secondary car for short distance jaunts. Disposable like the $20 VCR.
allocated 5 billion for charging stations across the US. To date there have been 8 built. Never trust .gov to be the driver of speed and innovation from the depths of central casting.
