It is misremembering to frame their actions as recommendations, when they took action themselves, acted first, and asked for permission later. There were infamous public displays of being given carte blanche on the spot after employees told them they didn't have just that. They put metaphorical "heads on pikes" so that they wouldn't have to face questions again outside of court.
Accessibility is a big issue. The accessibility some of the apps like banking provide are compelling. - not totally unlike the difference between stairs and a ramp.
I think one misstep from a business pov, was targeting the sports car market for their EV shift. I love EVs, and racing. EV racing is a different beast from what Porsche customers in particular expect. They will need a configuration as novel as the boxer engine.
On the one hand ICE sports cars still have the cool reputation, but that reputation is slowly going to get a bit tarnished as more and more get smoked by "mom's shopping car" (as newer EV's come on the market) at the drag race. Ultimately electric motors are the superior technology here.
Oddly, steam had some very interesting properties too, but for motor vehicles was ultimately let down by practicality and possibly power-to-weight ratio if I recall correctly.
ICE of course was always about convenience and a lot of energy in a small tank. As batteries improve, this advantage is being worn down.
Meanwhile, in trains, "hybrid" (diesel-electric) and electric are the two main types left. There's simply a lot to be said for 100% torque at 0 RPM.
EVs often have great acceleration, so I would think it would be a natural fit for the sports car market. Even the ordinary ones are a lot more fun to accelerate on a freeway onramp than an ordinary 4- or 6-cylinder gas engine.
For sure, your average quick-off-the-mark, around-town EV is way more fun to drive than your average four banger.
But, I've been in a Model 3 Performance and a Taycan 4S and experienced the ~3s electric 0-60, and... it's just ghostly, linear motion, nothing like the feeling of the non-linear jerk and jolt-punctuated ride you get with a powerful ICE and manual transmission.
The M3P in particular was so shockingly video game-like it almost felt dangerous, as though I didn't really realise just how fast I was going until it was too fast.
Your "typical" performance car customer wants a monster noise from the engine. A visceral sound. If it sounds like a jet fighter taking off, even better. There's no "authentic" sound to replace it.
As someone who cycles a lot, I can heartily recommend larger wheels and strong legs if you really need to slice through the traffic at 30mph.
But I do agree that personal electric transportation should be able to travel at >15mph on suitable cycle tracks, seeing as it ain’t that hard for pedal bikes to do those speeds.
They will soon be illegal in the EU and, I suppose, the UK. Not in most other regions including North America and Asia.
Porsche's mistake lies in forcing all of their other customers, worldwide, to accept products designed to satisfy EU regulators. Lowest-common-denominator engineering has never been why people buy Porsches, but these days the engineers at Porsche take a bus to work, where they report to people who were chauffeured there.
>Porsche's mistake lies in forcing all of their other customers, worldwide, to accept products designed to satisfy EU regulators.
Porsche can not afford to keep ICE development afloat just for the US market and a few others. There is no economic case for keeping ICE Porsches around when they can capture only a very small amount of the market. It is also preposterous to have engineers build cars in such an environment.
Well, I guess that's pretty much it for Porsche, then.
Meanwhile, there are other companies that don't seem to be voluntarily adopting similar constraints. The age of the "World Car" is over, and Porsche's only chance is for their management to confront that reality.
Blume was the CEO of Porsche and VW up until weeks ago, when he gave up the title of Porsche CEO. VW is extremely invested into making regional cars, something which Blume heavily emphasized.
This is not about management not knowing, it is about the realities of Porsche as a company. Going back to ICE, just to habe Cars American consumers may want more, is not an option.
> how can potential recipients of benefits even know how or why they were denied to bring such lawsuits in the first place? Especially if they are forced into arbitration?
You get a letter in the mail, with a review of the decision they made. There is a section where they have to explain why they denied you. It is a direct, "We don't think you meet this criteria" statement.
It took four years for me to be accepted into TennCare with one denial. That seems average, from what I can tell. This system definitely contributed to some suicides.
With many of those decisions as incorrect as they were, with people as poor as they are here... This is a tragedy that has had people hiding the cause of their suicides for an insurance payout to their families.
I am guessing that the healthcare costs for those denied are generally larger now than they would have been had they been accepted; that the hospital system is still paying the price tag, not the destitute. - A layered tragedy in that the finances are worse for everyone but Deloitte.
You have to apply for the social benefits here, like you would apply for a job. It is when the state government says no, you don't get to benefit from social welfare programs. In this case, TennCare, a health insurance system for the poor and disabled.
This government denies those applications at around a 50% rate, iirc. With that decision taking around 4 months to a year Then an appeal is launched, with that decision generally taking 2+ years. A judge rules on that appeal eventually.
A panel is convened with a couple of lawyers, the judge, a vocational expert (job fitness person), a health care professional, and yourself. Who you are and what you are capable of is summed up and deliberated upon. If you are deemed indigent, you are given an insurance policy with TennCare.
This is well explained but its missing a key ingredient.
You are dealing with government. Its not a business like Instagram or a grocer like Costco. If IG crashes consistently or if Costco has long lines at chekout, you take your business elsewhere.
With Medicaid you dont have an option, and the govt program, unlike IG or Costco, will never go out of business due to poor business services
> You are dealing with government. Its not a business like Instagram or a grocer like Costco. If IG crashes consistently or if Costco has long lines at chekout, you take your business elsewhere.
In a democracy, when the government fails, you can vote it out and get a new one... and you get as many votes as a person with 100x your spending power. In the free market, a business that effectively serves a specific market can thrive despite absolutely abysmal performance for the rest of the market. It's not unusual for a business to be better off if they can get rid of certain customers, because they're a net cost to the business. So they have every incentive to be as hostile as possible to those "customers".
> With Medicaid you dont have an option, and the govt program, unlike IG or Costco, will never go out of business due to poor business services
It's not like the poor and indigent have a lot of influence over IG & Costco either. ;-)
You'll notice that Medicaid and Medicare have different levels of service. There's a reason for that (not a very pleasant one). There are different levels of service between Medicaid to discount private health insurance (particularly pre-ACA private health insurance), and the comparison makes Medicaid look pretty good. Go compare this case to the cases against private health insurers, and then tell me that private health insurance works out better.
That's a fine point. If you can't vote for each individual position in the government, then really you don't have the same influence you have over a multinational conglomerate's insurance division.
If this is supposed to be some argument for how the free market actually provides accountability, I would love if you could cite the last health insurance company that died because of their poor business service.
And some people want everyone to have to use this system. Our private insurance system in the USA is far from perfect but it's a lot better than the government system. I have never once had an issue with my employer provided insurance covering any care that a doctor feels is necessary.
The application process parent is talking about is Medicaid, not Medicare.
Medicare is pretty ironclad, because the recipients are elderly and vote. Medicaid recipients tend to be marginalized and high need, so they’re used as a punching bag by local governments in states where that’s a good way to score political points.
This particular system wasn't nationwide, it was a system that the state of Tennesee paid 400 million dollars to Deloitte for. Conveniently, Tennesee is one of those states filled with people who think "Government bad" and gets tons of tax dollars from states like California and New York at the end of the day.
You don't have to move to Medicare if you do not want to - you can continue with all the private insurance your employer offers or you can afford, or you can 'self insure'.
Not everyone qualifies for government assistance. The software Deloitte built was supposed to automatically determine if someone was eligible. It is now being alleged that the software did not function correctly and was denying people because of bugs and issues with the software, not because the person was ineligible.
> He thinks it's a false concept, because again most people risking jail time transporting 5lbs of weed also do other bad things
That isn't the case IME, most people in the black market dealing with weed are pretty non-violent up until you are talking millions of dollars, which 5lbs will never be. They tend to only deal in weed or weed derivatives at those levels as well. It just doesn't make economic sense to do otherwise. What little bloods and crips style stuff of favela fame is a lot less common now too from what I can tell.
My point was people commiting crimes are overall bad people. Trafficking and selling weed isn't like speeding. You have a massive mental issue if you're doing things that can send you to real prison. Most people don't do these things.
Regular ol' white market stores getting robbed is like any other smash and grab robbery, but you're not associating weed with violence rn any more than you are jewelry stores with violence.
It is misremembering to frame their actions as recommendations, when they took action themselves, acted first, and asked for permission later. There were infamous public displays of being given carte blanche on the spot after employees told them they didn't have just that. They put metaphorical "heads on pikes" so that they wouldn't have to face questions again outside of court.