Up until the late '80s-early '90s cars and rules were rather similar, and drivers like Andretti or Mansell were able to move between categories with relative ease.
I'd say that the rift become apparent in '94, after the safety changes introduced due to Senna's Death and the massive shift in pilot training brought by Michael Schumacher.
The Indy 500 was actually part of the official Formula 1 calendar from 1950 to 1960, though the two series diverged after that.
Some Indy features (refueling, changing tires even if they didn't have a puncture, safety cars) got adopted by F1 through the 1980s, specially as F1 started to lose audience to the American series in the early 1990s.
All the cities you listed end up using the common EU standards for deciding emissions requirements, they just draw a different line as to what is allowed and from when. So maybe in one European city you need at least Euro 4 Petrol since 2024 and in another it was Euro 3 by 2025, but all you need to know as an owner or driver is that you're driving say a Euro 6 Petrol car or that the second hand car you just bought your teenage daughter is only Euro 4.
France has a layer where they translate from the Euro standards to their own system, but that's no different from having to mentally translate temperature units or distances.
Do you? Can you list say, three European countries for which you need a different sticker?
There are 27 EU countries, so if it's "a different sticker for each country" that seems easy enough, except, all the ones I thought of do not require stickers so...
It doesn't violate any rules as far as I can tell. Why do certain topics get predictably flagged when they don't breach any rules? I don't know, that's a good question for the admins
I believe the more technologically advanced we live the more energy we will use. Travel requires energy, ai models require energy, healthy food requires energy
The cheaper and more abundant we can make electricity, the faster we can reap the benefits of new technology
imo nuclear is an important part to have abundant energy at all times
50 or 100 years from now we may run out of solar and wind resources to tap. We may consume a couple order of magnitudes more energy than now. Materials science may have unforeseen advances that make nuclear development safer and cheaper.
Nuclear will find its place in the sun - so to speak - at that time. But not now I think. The numbers don't work.
Surely in this magical future sci-fi land we also have new ways to create and store energy. Of all the issues with renewables this (space/land) is currently not even worth worrying about.
> As a reminder, this applies not just to devices that exclusively use the Google Play Store: this is for every Android Certified device everywhere in the world, which encompasses over 95% of all Android devices outside of China.
So what happens in China? Should we buy Chinese Android phones?
Not sure if true given that it’s fiction, but they do seem to be based on reality