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Interesting article on EV's from Driving.ca
The author takes a pragmatic view of EV's, questions some of the fanboys but suggests some practical possibilities. This is a Canadian story but for our friends south of the boarder, the numbers can be multiplied by 10 to give a sense of what's going on in the US market. The one point I'd make is that the number of vehicle sales quoted I think are a bit skewed as here in Ontario I think that municipal and provincial governments likely make up a significant chunk of the EV's being bought, thus they are less popular with consumers.....I think anyway.
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I keep saying the technology for both EV's and self driving is 25 years away, minimum 20.
The last 5% will take as long as the first 95% to get it right. Everyone seems to think i am nuts or a hater but i just don't see it, we are still miles and miles away. |
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Pretty much this is what everyone wants. Look left and right at a traffic light and you'll see most people flipping their eyes up and down, playing with their phones. People's actions are demanding it.
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It's a fucking shame, I love driving and can't imagine sitting in a car and relying on technology to get me where I'm going.....the thought of a nanny state government telling me I can't drive makes me sick....fucking sick!
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It's a shame, but it's the values that parents have instilled in their kids. They have normalized them to this suburbia lifestyle, rather than getting out and doing things outdoors. So many people think the goal is to get married, have kids, have a big house, and get a lot of stuff. There are huge side-effects that this has, but most people care only about themselves.
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Fundamentally, yes -- physically, mentally, ideologically, and spiritually, this is laziness. But it's laziness borne partially through ignorance -- and a self-driving car would empower that ignorance for a class of citizen that largely lives in individually tailored and inflated bubbles. Remember NIMBY? Not In My Back Yard? Today it's NIMB. Not In My Brain. It's scary. And it's why I'll drive my own car until the day I die.
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You realize all the other US auto manufacturers are subsidized, right?
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