On one hand yes, but loads of modern aircraft rely on fly-by-wire (literally) technology.
I too get a bit nervous about “just a bit of wire” between me and the steering rack or between my foot and the brakes, but it has been working better than the purely mechanical equivalents in other transport areas for years.
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Yeah, true. I still haven’t been on an aeroplane or a ship or even held a passport 
I don’t think owts going to change now 
Jobs in the auto industry in Europe are getting cut YOY, Audi just announced 7500 job cuts & Škoda plans to let go of 20% of its workforce to address the transition to EV costs. Even Mercedes says it will have AI humanoid robots on production lines before the end of the decade.
Aeroplanes have about seven redundancies. 'Planes in the first world are not made in China, the country where covid has lasted longer than anything else manufactured there.
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Arnold Clarke are getting in on the charging game with 240 bookable ultra-rapid chargers, A lower price/kWh than the scalpers like BP, ionity, Osprey etc.
On BBC News this morning:
There used to be two EV chargers on the Lidl / public car park on our high street but the boys are getting wise to them and now there is just one !!
wonder how much that cable is worth for scrap 
Considerably more than a second hand EV I’d imagine
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I don’t have. Am eletric car ..but Tesco near me has 4 points Lidl next door has 2 and can guarantee there always full mostly by taxi’s./Ubers
One in lidl always seems have a black cab on charge
Always wondered you say the knicked /robbed the cables. And they used knick Trainline cables etc. how on earth do they mange to cut it without getting an eletric shock as surely it must be live
Never seen a cable at any car charger that’s build in
You have a home one at home and a mobile one in your car
Membury services have
Until you have paid by the app or card reader, it’s not giving out any power, there are a couple of data lines for comms put the juice won’t go on until someone has paid. (Like the US heathcare system?)
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The DC (rapid) chargers have cables static to the charger, are quite heavy duty and charge up to 200+Kw (car permitting) I think.
The AC chargers top out at 22kw on 3 phase ac, so only need a cable 6mm2 for each phase plus data, which you carry with you and matches that you have for home charging.
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