Polling from them says about half of Americans have an unfavorable view of ICE, a far better rating than Congress, for example at 80% disapprove.
So you’ve got a swath of people who are fine with what ICE is doing, or don’t care to even make their dissatisfaction known via a survey, much less the ballot box or via a riot.
Ok, so revised: half the population wants ICE abolished and nearly half the population has a favorable view of ICE.
The OP question was why aren’t Americans rising up and resisting ICE, and the answer I gave was because about half the population doesn’t even dislike them enough to answer a survey negatively.
I'm not sure that revision is correct either. What poll shows half the population with a favorable view of ICE? I can't find anything that high. The highest I see from reputable pollsters is 40%, and most show it is decreasing.
I unlocked my phone the other day and had the entire screen taken over with an ad for the Gemini app. There was a big "Get Started" button that I almost accidentally clicked because it was where I was about to tap for something else.
As an Android and Google Workspace user, I definitely feel like Google is "pushing their AI into everything they can", including the Gemini app.
What do you mean? The regenerative braking only kicks in when you engage the brake lever. It's not going to add much range but it's free, I don't see any downside to including regenerative braking.
You're going to have a difficult time pulling a lot of energy out of the back wheel as you're slowing down. The more you decelerate the less weight you've got on your back wheel. Eventually you reach the maximum energy transfer from back wheel contact patch into the motor and lock up the back wheel, and even then you may not have considerably slowed the bike.
Regen on the front wheel would be most effective - but then you've got two motors or a less-than-ideal front motor that adds unsprung weight and has similar traction issues during acceleration as the front unloads.
It's a shame - I think a lot of people want ebikes to work, but they're not as convenient as a pedal bike (especially not in small apartments) and usually they're too heavy to really use in blended pedaling/e-assist mode.
As other commenters noted, rear wheel regenerative braking doesn’t work very well. But there are more problems: most mid-drive e-bikes fundamentally can’t regeneratively brake at all: the rear hub freewheels and cannot drive the motor. Even ignoring that, the chain/belt frequently also can’t drive the motor because that would cause the pedals to drive the motor, and a lot of e-bikes are designed to be pleasant to ride with the motor off, and the rotor has rotational inertia and often has drag as well.
It's not free in a bicycle - it requires significant design compromises in the drivetrain because normally the rear hub has a freewheel to keep it from being back-driven (this may be part of the reason they went for "pedal-by-wire").
On a vehicle like this, which resembles a bicycle but is not one, it's free to implement regenerative braking. It already has all of the necessary components.
3-phase motors are controlled by torque commands into the driver. Give it a value and it generates requisite voltages to fill the gap between current state and desired state. Give it a positive value and the driver spins up the motor, give it a negative and it artificially spins down the motor progressively by commanded amounts. So especially off-throttle regen is completely free. IIUC.
It's the same control system that operates the motor. The motor is just being used as a generator.
I'm not sure which pressure sensor you mean, like in the brake lever? E-bikes with hydraulic brakes already have sensors for power cutoff (and in this case for brake lights).
If you engineer it properly, it doesn't add _any_ weight or complexity. All you need is a bit different arrangement of power transistors and some software.
Why existing bikes don't use it? Because you need software or a more complicated controller, and the amount of regenerated energy is indeed not that large.
In this situation, humans are more accurate, for now, so it's good information to have.
Same as I would like to know if humans self assessed in a study about how well they drive vs the empirical evidence. Humans just aren't that good at that task so it would be good to know coming in.
Just call it Kagi Vibes instead of Kagi News as news has a higher bar (at least for me)
I'm not sure how Wikipedia is distinguishing them but for the most part firearms do not have to be registered in the United States. Some states require firearms to be registered but most do not. Unregistered firearms can nonetheless be counted because they are inventoried and sold legally (firearms dealers must be licensed and regulated), even though the end purchaser is not registered anywhere.
Federally, only specific categories like fully-automatic machine guns and short-barreled rifles have to be registered.
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