Why not? The heavier batteries are still damaging the road and more dangerous at speed. Just apply a weight levy separate from any emissions levy, that way we don’t accidentally encourage huge electric SUVs.

Surely smaller, lighter electric vehicles with max. 100 mile range should be encouraged in cities. I was in a car-free town in Switzerland (Zermatt) over the summer where most of the vehicles were small electric golf carts.

Yes, genuinely frightening how quickly AI was adopted for weapon targeting systems.

When those Iranian schoolgirls were slaughtered by the United States, I couldn’t help but assume that the morons setting the parameters just plugged in a load of photos of military bases to see what would happen.

We could live in a world in which machine learning is used by the military to exercise caution and protect civilians from human error and emotional reasoning, but instead it magnifies that hubris to devastating effect - even sheltering those responsible! “It was the all-knowing computer, how was I supposed to know?”