The technology to make cheap flying cars has been around since the 70s. It's just that... well... you know how bad drivers are on the ground, imagine how much worse it could get if you added the Y-axis
we have flying cars. They've been mass produced since the 1940s. They're called "helicopters". The training to operate one is slightly higher than that required to operate a car. Because of that Y axis lol.
Helicopters are WAY harder to operate than to drive a car. It's not because of Y axis, helicopters are much harder to pilot than planes as well. It's sort of like performers trying to balance spinning plates on a stick while someone pushes them on office chair.
Is he? I just see a lot of misinformed people. In this age where there is so much data and so little time to understand it, it is to be expected.
Good news is those people can learn :)
Edit : I saw the comment you are referring to. I think it is meant to say "one is in widespread use, the other two are party tricks". Which they are when installed on street legal cars. You should try and make more neutral interpretations.
Tethered bottle caps suck. They get in the way of drinking and if you rip them off they leave sharp edges sometimes. Are ppl really so scatterbrained they're losing their bottle caps? This has never been a problem I've ever thought about until I went to Europe.
Just turn them around? huge skill issue honestly also they are there because the trash on Beaches have been analysed and it has been found that Bottlecaps are a common enough Trash Piece to Warrant this rule its not about them being lost
It's not about peopleosing them, it's less litter and better recycling. Also if they get in the way, just rotate the bottle a few degrees. It's not that difficult. I'm probably the clumsiest sob you'll never meet and I can do it.
A study of beach trash found discarded bottle caps second only to cigarette butts in total numbers. So yes, keeping them attached to the bottle actually addresses a real world trash problem.
As for your problems with drinking out of a bottle with an attached cap, I really don't know what to say. I live in Spain and so encounter these bottles all the time and have not struggled with them.
What exactly do you define as "legally innovative"? It's just a new rule addressing an issue. That's sounds like just boring ass regular government stuff that gets done every day.
It's innovative in that the EU is the only jurisdiction that has required it to date. It's an innovation then. It's not technologically complicated, but it requires the legal frameworks to actually get it done. Most of the world does a very poor job controlling littler. The EU does better. Good job, EU.
It's innovative in that the EU is the only jurisdiction that has required it to date. It's an innovation then.
Again, that's not what innovation mean. They just passed a law to solve an issue. That's called basic governance.
It's not technologically complicated, but it requires the legal frameworks to actually get it done.
Legal frameworks? You mean like, a legislature? And laws?
My guy, I think you're trying to sound a little smart here, but you're just describing basic law making. We've had that for thousands of years my dude.
Most of the world does a very poor job controlling littler. The EU does better. Good job, EU.
Doing a good job at something is not synonymous with innovation, it's just doing a good job.
I don't think you're very clear on what innovation actually means.
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u/HolaDrNick 6h ago
Tethered bottle caps have been a thing since the 1980s, the EU is just mandating them. That's not particularly innovative.