Church is a big thing though, it's weekly and not some hobby or niche. Like I've moved more often than I kinda wanted to, and each time instantly started hanging out with friends I met after church, even though I wasn't going there to meet people.
Yeah, life isn't one of those "old single friends living together" sitcoms. Most interaction is with family, anything else is more of a bonus that can't be relied on.
There are also plenty of cultures with family values not rooted in religion.
Social factors mentioned there can make a big difference. I've seen plenty of C code choose safety over efficiency.
Our team writes a lot of C++ code for high-level stuff you'd normally do in say JS or Python. At the rate we make changes, we can't write very tight code. Strings and other structs end up getting copied needlessly due to ownership, like if something takes vector<string>& and internally copies those strings into a map, we don't bother also making an external-owned version taking vector<string*>&. Or less efficient algorithms are used due to ease of safe implementation. Or there are fewer or less optimized libs available. Or it's a webserver and we have to throw threads at it instead of event loops.
The end result is C++ code that's slower than the equivalent Python code, dev time being equal.
I don't need a pickup truck, but if I ever did, I'd get whatever my landscaper has. Unlike most people with Rivians, Lightnings, Cybertrucks, Ridgelines, and Raptors, he totally relies on that truck for work.
So far it's Tacoma. Maybe some day he'll have an EV instead.
I knew someone who had a Tacoma for construction work; he got it because everyone had one.
Later he had to take it in to the shop and they gave him a loaner cargo van, and from then on he regretted not getting a cargo van instead of a truck.
The vast majority of what he did with the truck was carry tools, which are easier to access in a van; the few times he carried materials he would have to unload the whole truck or get the trailer anyway.
Tesla with lowest range has 430km, highest range 650. Let's average it to 500km.
The average American driver drives 60km per day. In other words you need to charge less than every 8 days.
You can charge to 80% in about 20-30 minutes.
In other words if you find yourself near a charge (easy) for 20-30 minutes a week (easy), then on average there is no range issue.
You're either in a rural area in a single-family home with home charging, or in low-density urban area with single family home charging, or in a dense urban area with lots of public charging. Very few sit outside these three categories that don't enable them home charging or 20-30 minutes a week public charging.
And that's only going one direction. The number of fastchargers 10x'd in ten years, the range of the model S grew by 50% in the last 15 years, the charging speeds roughly tripled. Sufficient charging infrastructure seems like a solved problem, resolving it is a matter of a mere operational roll-out everywhere rather than a political/technical/economical challenge, a matter of when, not if, and a matter of increasingly smaller pockets of the country that are yet to be fully connected. (whether it's 1% or some other small percentage, range shouldn't be a driving factor for tesla sales anymore).
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