Graphene batteries and supercapacitors are being made right now and at least one Spanish company claims they’ll have the first production models ready for cars by 2017. Graphene supercapacitors are made with carbon. That’s it. You know, that stuff that there’s so much of, we have too much in our atmosphere. The stuff…

Oh agreed. I use the term “batteries”, but by that I mean “stored power source”. And I think the media will call super and ultracapacitors “batteries”.

At this point, we know you can get superior torque and amazing amounts of horsepower out of an electric car. By 2030, batteries will likely be 4 times as powerful and half the price of current car batteries and not based on lithium (conclusion based on improvements in capacity, newer technologies and price drops in…

I’d say we already have if people in Philly are saying “The” in front of their highway numbers.

To be fair, Philly style cheesesteaks are pretty popular in LA. Most are inferior, a few are superior (unless you really really like Cheese Wiz or Velveeta) , and none have the right bread.

The longer Maserati waits to develop their electric car, the more battery they get for the money. It’s entirely possible they’ll have batteries other than lithium-ion available for the car by the time they have to contract for their battery supplier.

Fortunately, there was never a practical delivery method for the absolutely immense and massive Tsar Bomba. And it could have been larger but the Soviets didn’t want to kill their delivery pilots or dump a lot of fallout on the downwind cities and villages. So they used metals that absorbed gamma radiation instead of…

You do realize that you are encouraging people to hit bored teens with their cars, don’t you? Pretty sure no one’s going to actually do it, but clowns are just people in costumes. Or idiot people in costumes, but still people.

That ambiguity was an invention of people who like to analyze films and find as much deeper meaning as they can. It wasn’t necessarily the intention of the director or the writers. Even if they said so afterwards.

Also, the narration that extended Rachel’s life was not part of the script or a choice of the director.…

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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. It’s all part of the SoCal agenda.

Are some people just born without survival skills?

Then sadly, nothing is to be gained from this if that was the case. The ones we’ve seen in our neighborhood were the autonomous ones.

Losing $30 million in cars and then have the insurance weasel out of it, is not a straw. That’s a 400 pound dude wearing 350 lbs of armor sitting  on that camel’s back without a saddle.

Early adapters of anything always have crap to deal with. Maybe it’s not true of electronics anymore, but it used to be. Fisker had a…

Or an AWD with four motors.

I want a sub $35K AWD nutso electric hatchback. Sounds like a Tesla Model 3 will probably be your jam.
 

He’s also too self centered to give 100 percent to any company he works for at this point.

Wasn’t Fisker really done in by Hurricane Sandy? As I recall, he was stiffed by the insurance companies. It was bad luck that sunk him.

We never really got to find out how it all would have worked out.

I experienced a little of that in the visual effects industry. Unfortunately when you are a “contractor” as opposed to an “employee”, you’re wasting your time in a California court trying to sue an entertainment industry company for age discrimination.

Go into any VFX studio, look around and count the number of people…

It’s really too bad this is all a private effort, and the companies making autonomous cars don’t share their findings to increase their particular vehicle’s repertoire to all of the learned autonomous data from all autonomous vehicle design efforts.

The rear stays planted, but all that torque being put down makes the front end light and squirrely. But hey, it seems to be able to keep the truck pointed in the right direction. So that’s all the matters.

Hence the push for fully autonomous cars. So you can not pay attention all you want. The more autonomous cars on the road, the safer being in any vehicle gets. Or being a pedestrian. And I would assume (or at least hope) they wouldn’t be approved if they couldn’t deal with bicycles and lane splitting motorcycles (lane…

The idea is valid. After the first year or so. That first year, you’d see a huge spike in deaths.