Better trick: move to California. Arizona, even, if you're willing to put up with stereotypical cranky old people.
If you think my argument is invalid, try to sue a kitchen appliance manufacturer because you used an egg beater on your genitalia.
I was disputing the statistic, not the reasons behind our current lack of commercially-available self-driving cars.
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The problem isn't that electric cars don't work, the problem is that you're misapplying the technology, now stop trying to derail technology.
If you ever thought Consumer Reports was simply a horde of refrigerator test magnates and microwave obsessives, you were wrong. Their peopel can drive like hell, and they know exactly what they're talking about.
My dad once offhandedly mentioned that the physics equation for wind resistance includes x^4.
Why, why hasn't this happened yet?
If you want something that's scary on the freeway AND legal in the U.S., just look around on Craigslist.
Wind resistance starts to ramp up around 60 or 65 MPH, IIRC.
Because some lady backed over her kid in her Audi in the early '90s.
It's too much of a mess to ask upwards of $10k. CP.
They could also call it the Chevrolet Tesl...Oh.
Arguing that electric cars won't work because truckers can't use them is like arguing that a parachute is useless because it won't save your knees from a two-story fall.
Expected this when I saw that pic, was not disappointed.
"most PEOPLE dont, but guess what all those trucks do to the average distance traveled by a VEHICLE in a day in the US?"
The "most PEOPLE dont" bit.