To me, the goofy lighting is like buying a ring-tone for your phone.  I’ve personally never paid for one as I can find one download that I like, but there is a market for it.

All I can see are technical snafus. My Mazda has traffic sign recognition. It works maybe 70% of the time. That is a relatively easy tech to program against something that literally has a manual describing exactly how it should look, what fonts are to be used, and how big the text needs to be. Now you need something…

I find most of them granny the accelerator pedal, just hoping that they can get from 12mpg to 13mpg.  But only if they are really slow coming off the line.

Big concern in the article about the loss of range in the EV delivery vehicle due to running heat or A/C.

How would you verify that it is an e-fuel?  I thought the entire point of the e-fuel movement was to make something identical to gasoline by extracting carbon from the air and working some magic on it.

The speed limit and the design speed of the road are not necessarily the same thing.

Even better would be plug-in and have the vehicle recognized and the payment taken care of.  One less failure point in the system.

You missed the reason why Tesla doesn’t need you to jump through those hoops. When you plug in, the car communicates with the charger and sets up the account to allow the charger to turn on. Why should you have to touch extra buttons, tap your phone, swipe a card, etc. to do something that can operate automatically?

Don’t forget that most people haven’t run their electric car down to nothing each day. It will need some electricity. Not a lot.

My guess is if they didn’t produce fake shipping labels, they never would have been caught.

I’ve never had auto dimming mirrors that were satisfactory.  They never dim enough or fast enough.

Based on experience, a Dodge Omni.  The front passenger seat would fold almost flat and there was a surprising amount of room.

This would have been around 1990. I drove my car about 45 minutes on the highway. I stop for the red light and the the car was still at high idle.  It was so cold that the carb just didn’t want to warm up.

But if you don’t build it, they will not come.  They have to be built at somepoint.  It becomes a whole chicken and egg thing.

hexavalent chromium was the stuff that the Erin Brockovich movie was about.

But you have a home to charge at. What if you rent or don’t have a driveway? This is what the change is supposed to address.

Sounds like you have a problem there. $0.62/kWh is way more than most areas.

What I think you will see is people just going to buy a futzmobile and after purchase being told where the plug goes. Look at the vast majority of people who are barely aware that they need to put gas in their vehicle, much less maintain it.

COTD

I once had to show someone how to use a seatbelt on an airplane.  It was 2015.  He had never used one before.