@sol_hsa I suspect the main reason for this is technical - generally, electric stoves have them in the back panel which would make wiring easier, and gas stoves have them at the front which makes piping easier.
Personally, I don't find them at the back to be dangerous at all. First, as others have identified, they are harder to accidentally bump. And much harder for small children to get to. Second, the outer knobs almost always control the front burners. You reach around for them, not over.
@sol_hsa but most importantly, with an electric stove, if you've found yourself with an emergency like a grease fire, shutting off the burner isn't going to help you. You have more pressing needs, and the dangers of not shutting the gas valve off immediately (i.e. open flames below or gas leaks if they go out) just aren't there.
@lienrag No, I'm saying that some facts which are important to one person's understanding of a situation may not actually be that important in the broader context. They're fixating on issues they know sometimes come up and not questioning whether those issues are pertinent to the discussion at hand.
Oftentimes these folks have specific knowledge which they don't understand is irrelevant in the moment. So they're arguing things which don't matter and they don't realize it.
@craigtheguru I won't go so far as to call it bonkers but because J1772->NACS adapters exist (and vice versa) I didn't see that as important.
This will be charging my folks' Bolt until it dies and if/when they replace it with a car with a NACS port, then sticking on the adapter is all that's needed and that's effectively permanent. It would only be annoying (and even then only slightly) if they got a second EV but I don't think that's in the cards for them.
What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.
When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.
It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.
But second, the reasons these thoughts are intensifying for me come from many places. An acute one right now is what media is popular and how much of it doesn't seem to have any spirit behind it.
Watching older television (I'm on a Perry Mason kick atm) and being able to see that there were overt principles being demonstrated and the writers were true to their morals makes it feel like we once had a healthier understanding of our duties of care.
@franktaber@glyph The trouble, as I see it, is that two things were shattered: the illusion of our moral superiority (a good thing to have shattered) and the idea that we need to care for one another (the terrible thing I'm lamenting).
There's some combination of fatalism, nihilism, and narcissism which seems disturbing popular at the moment. If I have a guiding light, it's that things can change and we can learn from each other. I hope my work speaks clearly enough to that.
@TechConnectify would you consider doing a video in J3068? More V2X opportunities plus North America joining the type 2 AC standard (with some tweaks). Will it catch on or remain niche to commercial?
@stephen In a world where J3400 also exists, I suspect it will remain very much commercial.
However, part of the J3400 standard includes moving to a more European-like system for public charging where you are expected to carry your own whip - with the Type 2 connector on one end and whatever your car takes on the other. That might fix the compatibility problem between various EVs and various connectors in a really elegant way.