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 Mapletree  Croydon 02 Jul 19 9.23am |
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Originally posted by becky
Can be difficult if you live on the 9th floor...... Nothing a little daisy chain can’t resolve
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| masonic_palace Gatport Airwick 02 Jul 19 12.24pm |
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Originally posted by Pete53
Perhaps in time you'll be able to download your car noise of choice Or just get a passenger who can play the trombone....
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| Mr Palaceman 02 Jul 19 12.25pm |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
On average more efficiently than using a small petrol or Diesel engine. The infrastructure will come quickly now the cars are improving. In any case town dwellers can use their domestic supply. They just need access to an ICE car if doing longer runs. And there in lies the problem. There is not enough power to go around. They know this, which is why they want you out of your car and into self driving cars that you don't own but even then, there simply isn't going to be enough power. Also imagine when 5G rolls out properly and even your dustbin is connected to the web, Everything will need to be plugged in or charged. Then there are the cars themselves. The batteries are a real future problem. In a few years time your going to have a lot of dead electric cars as it will be make more sense to buy a new car than change the batteries, so the cars will be scrapped or sold for parts. There is no doutb in my mind that there is a role for electric vehicles to play but they are not the solution to the transport problems we face. Imagine, a future workplace.. 'Why are you late?' "Sorry guv, charge ran low on the way in. Only just made it to the charge point. You know how it is".
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| Mapletree Croydon 02 Jul 19 12.52pm |
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Originally posted by Mr Palaceman
And there in lies the problem. There is not enough power to go around. They know this, which is why they want you out of your car and into self driving cars that you don't own but even then, there simply isn't going to be enough power. Also imagine when 5G rolls out properly and even your dustbin is connected to the web, Everything will need to be plugged in or charged. Then there are the cars themselves. The batteries are a real future problem. In a few years time your going to have a lot of dead electric cars as it will be make more sense to buy a new car than change the batteries, so the cars will be scrapped or sold for parts. There is no doutb in my mind that there is a role for electric vehicles to play but they are not the solution to the transport problems we face. Imagine, a future workplace.. 'Why are you late?' "Sorry guv, charge ran low on the way in. Only just made it to the charge point. You know how it is". I assume car ownership will diminish and autonomous vehicles slowly take over, hopefully thoroughly integrated with public transport. The idea of being picked up, taken to a station and then picked up at the other end is attractive.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 02 Jul 19 1.07pm |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
I assume car ownership will diminish and autonomous vehicles slowly take over, hopefully thoroughly integrated with public transport. The idea of being picked up, taken to a station and then picked up at the other end is attractive.
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jeeagles  02 Jul 19 3.32pm |
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Originally posted by Mr Palaceman
And there in lies the problem. There is not enough power to go around. They know this, which is why they want you out of your car and into self driving cars that you don't own but even then, there simply isn't going to be enough power. Also imagine when 5G rolls out properly and even your dustbin is connected to the web, Everything will need to be plugged in or charged. Then there are the cars themselves. The batteries are a real future problem. In a few years time your going to have a lot of dead electric cars as it will be make more sense to buy a new car than change the batteries, so the cars will be scrapped or sold for parts. There is no doutb in my mind that there is a role for electric vehicles to play but they are not the solution to the transport problems we face. Imagine, a future workplace.. 'Why are you late?' "Sorry guv, charge ran low on the way in. Only just made it to the charge point. You know how it is". There was a suggestion that batteries could be standardised, therefore, on a long journey, you could pull into a service station. Take the old one out, and drop a new one in. The service station would then recharge the battery and sell it on. Pessimistic people would point out that getting car manufacturers to come together and do something like this would be difficult. Additional demand on the national grid is an interesting problem. Electricity can be generated domestically, using nuclear or renewable energy. There are lots of opponents to this, but Britain is excellently placed to generate this type of energy, and it would remove the reliance on Russian gas and Middle Eastern oil.
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| Invalid user 2019 02 Jul 19 3.56pm |
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The motion sickness stomper
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. Steady as she goes.| Invalid user 2019 02 Jul 19 10.11pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
The younger generation will accept autonomous cars more easily than we will. Owning a car is a rite of passage and a symbol of having made it however over time I think that will change and it will become as disposal as the rest of the stuff we buy. There will probably even come a time where it's not even an option to drive your own car anymore. Automation across the board. An exciting yet unnerving future lies ahead. We need types like Elon Musk for all of his faults to propel us forward. At the same time we need to appreciate the negatives that AI advancements can also help come into being. Get those old sci-fi comics out and witness the future!
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| ChrisGC Wantage 02 Jul 19 11.19pm |
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Originally posted by dollardays
The motion sickness stomper
I prefer the car sickness shoer Edited by ChrisGC (02 Jul 2019 11.22pm)
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| Mr Palaceman 03 Jul 19 2.06am |
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Originally posted by jeeagles
There was a suggestion that batteries could be standardised, therefore, on a long journey, you could pull into a service station. Take the old one out, and drop a new one in. The service station would then recharge the battery and sell it on. Pessimistic people would point out that getting car manufacturers to come together and do something like this would be difficult. Additional demand on the national grid is an interesting problem. Electricity can be generated domestically, using nuclear or renewable energy. There are lots of opponents to this, but Britain is excellently placed to generate this type of energy, and it would remove the reliance on Russian gas and Middle Eastern oil. Your right, we are excellently placed to take advantage but there is no way we can generate enough electricity for the kind of vehicle use we have now. When 5G is rolled out, energy consumption will explode and imagine 10 million people coming home from work and charging their cars of a evening. Also, although swapping batteries at a stn would be a good idea if it could be standardised, again what do you do with the 100's of millions of dead/end of life batteries that will have to be made. There is a very good alternative to the problem and that is Hydrogen cells. The tech is there now and you would go to the "Petrol stn" to fill up as now. people could drive as now and there are zero "ish" emissions. However, I can't see this happening as they want us all out of our own cars and paying subscription prices to travel and that means electric cars, so that's what policy makers push. We are constantly being told that we are causing a problem with all the cars we have and it is a problem, no doutb but cars, aircraft, etc, while polluting, are not the worst offenders. That would be agriculture and oil/plastic production but to tackle that you would need to sanction big business and that will never happen while the ordinary Joe can be blamed, controlled and made to pay hard earned guilt money on an electric car. I can see this being like a VHS vs Betamax type thing. The best solution may not be what we end up with.
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