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[–] tal@lemmy.today 89 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

One account on X said: "Ferrari just killed their brand just like Jaguar did. This is straight to the junkyard trash."

"What is going on with European Luxury car manufacturers? First Jaguar and now Ferrari", another account posted.

But not all commentators were felt negatively about the new car, with one post saying: "Absolute masterclass in design. Ferrari just unveiled the breathtaking LUCE concept, and it is a total game changer."

Honestly, BBC, if you're going to aggregate statistics about tweets on Twitter, use it as some kind of crude poll, maybe you could get something useful that way.

But reporting on anecdotes about anonymous tweets for opinion seems of almost zero value from a news standpoint. If a tweet mentioned a fact that you could validate, say, that might have some value.

But what you're doing here is on-par with saying "someone on Twitter said that they liked chocolate ice cream, and someone else said that they didn't like chocolate ice cream". That just doesn't really seem newsworthy. I would say that it'd be surprising if you couldn't find posts of both sorts for virtually any topic.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 38 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Twitter is also a Nazi bar full of people that take anything slightly less harmful for humanity as a personal attack.

[–] paulcdb@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Its not hard to see what they’re doing…

First they add negative comments, then follow up with a positive post to seem like they’re being Impartial!

It’d be interesting to see how often the negative comments are put before the positive comments though because i’d guess it’s a lot higher than the reverse!

[–] iLStrix@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

When writing an argument (and your biased) you start with the opinion you don't want to support and end with the opinion you do want to support, because people usually remember the last part of an argument better than the first part. That is at least when assuming people ACTUALLY read (and the classical rhetoric theory)... but so many people have fucked attention spans, so I'm not sure if this is still accurate.

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

User drolex started to read tal's comment on lemmy and responded with

lmao tl;dr

which shows that the range of cerebral capacities of users on the platform is extremely diverse

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

Pretty cool that they have motors on each wheel. It’s most likely the way of the future.

[–] detren@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Hideous on the outside but that interior is slick ngl.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The new model departs from the look of typical

This is why most new EVs fail - they look like EVs rather than just a car.

BYD EVs look just like normal cars.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most European EV's look like real cars too.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

Some are even the same car available as ICE or EV

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I like the look of byd, but why do they keep retracting the fucking door handles?

This is apple removing the aux jack all over again... Nobody wants this.

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody commenting on

The Luce runs with a Ferrari-made electric motor on each wheel

I do not see any scenario where this could go wrong. Oh wait...

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

What's the issue? As I understand it, that's basically how all EVs work. Other than specifically being made by Ferrari.

If it's the Ferrari thing, give them a chance. I haven't heard about them royally screwing up tightly coiled cables yet, but I'm sure they could find a way.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (5 children)

No, I might be behind the times on this but usually you power axles, do you not (really naively asking)?

I would imagines any disruptions only affecting one wheel instead of axle being rather catastrophic. The brakes are also always set up in a way that you don't brake on one wheel only even if it's damaged.

So uncoupling all 4 wheels seems like a really really bad idea. Of course you can compensate this electronically, but that will work about sd well as the Boeing 737 max with its issues. There are physical things you should not mess with.

But maybe as I said I am behind the times and with electric cars that's normal now to power wheels (l/r) separately?

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

When a car turns, one side's wheels have to rotate faster than the other side as it needs to travel further.

Thus, it's advantageous to be able to power wheels independently.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

All the super-fast EVs from the Model S Plaid and Lucid Air Sapphire to the Rimac Nevera have used separate L/R motors in the rear for some time now, and some have been separate motors for all four wheels. I think that includes some Rivians, and definitely the Nevera.

Keep in mind that having an electric motor per wheel would be nothing like having a gasoline engine per wheel. Not only can an electric motor change its thrust thousands of times per second for good traction control, it can also apply regenerative braking or even just let the motor spin freely.

I assume the cars are at least monitoring the current to each motor constantly, so it's just a programming decision when the LR motor fails whether to go into limp mode vs still sending 500hp to the right rear wheel to see what happens.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Is it just me or is this paragraph confusing as fuck with regards to the time form?

Ferrari plans to roll out the electric vehicle (EV) after previously ruling out such a move, opting instead to make hybrid cars that are powered by both petrol and electricity.

My ESL ass would have written it more like this

Ferrari plans to roll out the electric vehicle (EV) after having previously ruled out such a move. At the time they opted instead to make hybrid cars that are powered by both petrol and electricity.

Not sure my version is grammatical, but at least you know what's now and what was then.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 3 points 18 hours ago

As an "EFL" speaker, yours is clearer, more grammatical. If I'd written this, I'd probably have changed the "opting instead" to "when they opted", but yours uses two shorter sentences, which is better style in English.

Having seen native French speakers producing "one sentence covers an entire page" text when studying ESL, I've tried to keep my bad habits under control myself. Can be a bit too easy to produce a runaway sentence sometimes, when you've a lot of thoughts to get on the page.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Carmakers including Ford and Volkswagen have doubled down on petrol cars, especially in the US, due to...regulatory changes under President Donald Trump, who has cut incentives for EV buyers.

I'm pretty confident that if you're buying a $640,000 car, you place little relative value on a $7,500 tax credit. It being present or not is under a 1.2% price difference. That particular factor probably isn't very relevant as regards cars like these.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago

Yep, that's ugly. I wonder if it's because electric cars don't need as many functional components, like eg. air intakes? Don't need so much detail work to harmonise the stuff on the outside, therefore, it ends up looking like a child's toy?

Proportions are still kind of graceless and unweildy, and that colour is nasty. I'd probably have gone the same yellow as the brake shoe, or just classic Ferrari red...

[–] nevetsg@aussie.zone 10 points 23 hours ago

It looks like an AI interpretation of an Electric Ferrari.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

It looks like a fucking soap box on wheels. Color matches too.

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