Right, the Ford focus I bought for $17k in 2018 goes 350 or so miles on a full tank. I want at least that much range to consider a replacement.
Plus yeah, we’re rural enough chargers aren’t everywhere. Hopefully the range will be better and more chargers in a few years… And probably will keep the focus for the long cross county road trips.
I’m waiting to see regular reviews of those slate trucks and maybe a second model year/iteration. And maybe waiting to see if they eventually get better range. Sure not having a radio or infotainment is overkill, and only hand crank windows is overkill, but for $25k-30k and no big screen, it seems quite reasonable if all I want is a reliable box that moves around.
There’s a certain amount of permitted lost/non-functional products off a manufacturing line. They don’t make the machines as precise and perfect as they can, that costs too much, they make them as fast and cheap as possible and if 5% of the widgets get busted or don’t work it’s likely an acceptable margin of failure to just reject those and move on.
It’d cost more to make the machines better than to just throw those items away or scrap them to some company that could fix or repurpose them.
Why do you think they would have an actual console that they get inserted into?
It’s quite likely they have a programming and/or test system that let’s it get automatically inserted, and then programmed with the software and validated that it wrote correctly, maybe some self-test operation, and then packaged and shipped.
As for line straightness, machines aren’t perfect either, if it doesn’t have to be perfectly straight it likely won’t be, why would they spend time making the machine grab the cartridge exactly the same way every time to make straight lines if it works just fine without being perfectly straight?
I think the move is to start with chickens, then graduate to cows. That’s how my friend taught me many years ago when I started osrs (coming from RS3)
It is very tedious at first, I usually do cycles of playing and not playing because of the amount of grinding involved