Located 4117 results from search term 'Cars'
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Commented in The “death of self-driving cars” has been greatly exaggerated
The initial hype around self-driving cars, fueled by figures like Elon Musk and companies like Ford and Lyft, set ambitious goals for the technology. However, the reality has been more complex and progress has been slower than anticipated. While significant advancements have been made, fully autonomous vehicles are not yet widely available or dominating the market as predicted. It's important to understand that developing reliable self-driving technology involves numerous challenges and requires more time and refinement.
Read more at https://nerdycar.com
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Commented in Mercedes Benz wants 20% of its cars in 2023 to be electric
Agree about space for all forms of vehicles for awhile - especially when and where the electricity grid isn't yet decarbonized. Where I live, a good portion of the household electricity comes from coal power plants, so I wouldn't get an electric vehicle because it basically becomes a coal-powered car over here. I think the key is, as you said, to allow the market to test out the electric car industry in general, while still letting all forms of vehicles coexist for awhile. Frankly, I'd like to see a) the grid decarbonized and b) better public transportation as a much higher priority than electric cars.
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Commented in Australian bank will end loans for new gas and diesel cars in shift to electric vehicles
I really think,if we can't recycle said cars,especially the batteries,there will be yet more serious ecological problems down the road. But when it comes to money,humans never think about the consequences of their behavior.
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Commented in Robot fish could solve the ocean's microplastic pollution problem
Everytime I read about solutions like this, it doesn't give an incentive for the plastics & petrochemicals industries to stop overproducing their filth. A bit like electric cars that seem to exist to save the automobile industry or hydrogen to save the fossil fuel industry. I'm starting to have the feeling that it doesn't give a damn what happens to this planet, because shareholders need their goddamn profits. Ah, yes, and growth because of growth. The very definition of a cancercell.
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Commented in Summer Could Bring Rolling Blackouts as Power Grids Get More Unstable
Let's everyone get electric cars. That'll help the grid.
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Commented in Where Are All the Hydrogen Cars We Were Promised?
Same place where all the flying cars we were promised are at.
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Commented in Fossil Fuel Companies Want Governments To Pay $18 Billion For Bringing In Laws Tackling The Climate Crisis Largely Caused By Fossil Fuel Companies
It shows at least how destructive corporate and political greed are and I hope, for once, that more and more people will get the insight it is, quite easy, to walk away from the old technologies and ways of thinking and handling. In stead of waiting for politicians and companies to come up with solutions, which they comfortably do not, us people should do that with the technologies at hand, which are a lot, actually. You can see it also happen more and more, when neighbourhoods share their solar energy, less people using their cars or even owning one (in cities at least). Less people are voting, too.
To me it all looks like a waning and fading of a certain era and, just like with the old style banks, these are some last cramps. They are quickly losing their grip on society and like with politics, they try to hold on to it with extremeties.
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Commented in What Is a Flying Car?
While it sounds like a lot of fun,noting the nature of humans,I envision a lot of very unfortunate accidents in the sky,cars falling on houses,pedestrians,into bodies of water,and so on.
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Commented in Village on partly terraformed Mars by Nuno Fontarra
They also said we'd have flying cars by now. Funny how that worked out.
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Commented in Electric cars ‘will be cheaper to produce than fossil fuel vehicles by 2027’
Driving around in a car with a tank of very flammable petrol or diesel or pressurised LPG gas is considerably more dangerous actually.
Ultimately, driving cars and covering large areas of our planet with sealed roads is not so great for our environment.
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Commented in Battery Costs Down So Much, EVs Could Soon Cost Same as Gas Cars
I am also concerned with the lack of charging stations and the amount of time the cars take to charge. In the city it's not a problem, but some of us travel and there just aren't enough stations to go from Charlotte to Atlanta and back.
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Commented in Battery Costs Down So Much, EVs Could Soon Cost Same as Gas Cars
Competitive pricing will make electric cars much more appealing to consumers. Improving battery life is the next hurdle, although I know this has improved quite a bit since rollouts began.
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Commented in New device puts music in your head — no headphones required
We sure will. I can envision the psychological torture they would be gleefully be willing to inflict on the masses in order to strong arm,or in this case,strong ear us into buying their crap. Cars going along the highway would be bombarded with noise from each and every billboard,in addition to the ugly visual vomit they already induce. It's not going to be a fun time,not by a long shot.
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Commented in California skies glow orange as wildfires continue – in pictures
was crazy yesterday, today it's gray and ash on cars
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Commented in Buckle Up, Japan Just Successfully Tested A Flying Car
There are lots of people lousy drivers with a driver's license, so my guess is it will not be all too different with flying cars.
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Commented in Plastic waste entering oceans expected to triple in 20 years
Am I the only one who thinks that the plastics-industry is just another petrochemical outlet (like gasoline and diesel are) and we are in the midst of a "compensational crisis", meaning: less and less cars with combustion engines are driven/sold and the amount of drilled oil is so high, with extreme low prices, followed by lowered profits, that overproducing plastics is a viable solution to said losses? With all the, damn well visible and destructive, consequences?
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Commented in Google Maps Predicts Traffics Even Better Using DeepMind's AI Tools
Can we all just get automated cars and let traffic die forever?
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Commented in BMW wants to sell you subscriptions to your car’s featuresnch
This is basically what all cars, tech, houses are now. You buy a new house but have to unlock features of the house. What a weird subscription based era we live in.
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Commented in This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream
The New York Times seems a bit behind. Driverless cars are so last decade. Flying cars are the bomb.
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Commented in IT HAS BEGUN: Mississippi Church Sues Police Over 1st Amendment Rights
in accordance with social distancing rules, where attendees are required to remain in their cars in the church parking lot at all times with their windows rolled up and spaced consistent with CDC guidelines.
But, but, if your car windows are wound up, how does Jesus get in?
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Commented in Pets 'go hungry' after smart feeder fails
I wouldn't necessarily call it lazy, we use so much technology these days that could be considered lazy, cars when you could walk, microwaves when you could use the stove, a washing machine when you could use a tub and wash board, a dryer when you could use a clothesline... I think it's just the natural progression of technology taking over menial tasks, technology creep. We are so busy thinking of if we can do it and not asking why are we doing it and that's how we get this.
Personally this type of technology is great for somebody that can't get home at the pets feeding time because traffic is bad or the boss mandated overtime. Some people pay for people to come feed their pets while they are out of town, now you just buy a device and skip paying a person. That works better for cats than dogs though thanks to automated self cleaning litter boxes also being a thing. But, still there is a place for this type of technology.
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Commented in Brilliant Mumbai Police Test New Traffic Lights That Stay Red Longer When Drivers Honk
Won't work. They're better off just removing all horns from all cars as they are basically useless there, just noise makers.
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Commented in Could this extra squishy new material mean safer bike helmets?
Perhaps this could have some future applicability in cars. The higher impact absorption could mean fewer severe injuries during a crash.
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Commented in Bernie Sanders Promises to Tell Us About Aliens if He's Elected President
Finally someone that will share the sweet sweet alien tech with the rest of us. I want my god damn flying cars already! :D
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Commented in Invasion of the electric scooter: can our cities cope?
I agree. The bigger issue is car accidents with other cars and with pedestrians. That said, I can see the issue raised in the article, which is that scooters are a) a hazard to pedestrians when used on a sidewalk and b) at risk of being hit by cars when used in a road.
I think a solution here would be something along the lines of bike lanes. Could scooters and bikes share a bike lane? Basically, whatever bicycles do should apply to scooters.