@sortius @joannaholman

I had one a decade ago. Liked it, but it was itself approximately as heavy as all my daily photography gear.

@sysop408 @kwayk42

tl;dr The manufacturing process for making layers of things in rolls was already well-established for other things. Now even more so, so there's not any real incentive to retool for something else.

@sysop408 @kwayk42

Apparently this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119163824.ch1

(Says a PBS article I found.)

@sysop408 @kwayk42

Huh. So 9V batteries are _actually_ batteries!

@mstrife @cstross

That was my impulse on seeing just the headline, but... no, it's not that. The cars are leased, which means (apparently) that the public records list the leasing company as the owner. They are simply asking "hey, who is this car leased to", not requesting telemetry to prove the case or anything.