I would very much like a manner to manually adjust how hard the regenerative coasting works, which would sort of be a replacement for gears. If I'm going down a steep hill I'd like to be able to adjust the regen to maximize energy recovery while also managing vehicle speed.
I'm never going to buy a fridge with a tablet embedded in it, but I don't really think they are making that much money from that. You can buy cheaper equivalent versions of appliances that don't have the ability to display ads or collect/send data anywhere.
Some of these products already exist. They are expensive. If you go back and look at the long-lasting appliances of the past, they were also expensive.
One example is Speed Queen washers/dryers. Also Bosch dishwashers.
The flip side is when your state mandates allowing 4-6 homes on regular SFH plots and then your property value goes up because you can now build more housing
The alternative is that nothing gets built and people compete for the existing stock which drives up prices anyway
New construction is always more expensive. We should keep building anyway. The new construction of today becomes more affordable over time.
If you build enough housing it gets back into being economically competitive for the average person to own their home. Speculators can speculate until it doesn't make sense any more.
We got into the current situation because we slowed way down on building homes.
I really don't see how building more houses/units is not the solution, at least in some cases. I live in a VHCOL area and we straight up have a housing shortage for a variety of reasons.
It really isn't, the area I grew up in has a ton of empty houses because people do not want to live there due to a lack of jobs and opportunity in general. The area I live in now has tons of NIMBYs blocking new housing development despite there being tons of jobs and opportunity.
Its often some combination of racism, corruption, and hating poor people yet relying on them for all sorts of things.
the yaed apple
In this economy I think we can survive without the balls.