Many Individual vehicles contribute to traffic jams.

Individual vehicles require insurance, out of pocket.

Individual vehicles require maintenance paid for the the individual, which is growing more difficult with the prevailing direction of wages in this country.

Individual vehicles require individual parking spaces at…

There’s a new battery chemistry that they are working out how to get manufacturing going, at the moment. It uses, essentially, Salt and Sand.

In my home state of Michigan, we have a Salt Mine in Detroit and ample sand across the whole state. Southern California has access to the ocean and plenty of sand too.

We could…

Which battery issue? They are becoming more and more capable all the time, new tech is on the horizon to provide incredible range per pound. Strapping 50 pounds of battery on a Bike based Car today will be a wholly different thing in potentially 5 years time. (Assuming they work out that scaling up manufacturing thing…

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a well built, maintained and more than capable of handling the capacity mass transit system.

When I travel to American cities that have such systems, that is how I get around, EVEN if I drive to those cities. No parking hassle, very short, if at all, wait times and everything is on…

They have an old way of thinking, wrapped up in something like, “Get offa my lawn you damn dirty hippies...” Even when they are dumb, morons in their late teens rolling coal.

That would be an awesome footnote a few hundred years from now, assuming we live...

In the 2030's, with Earth’s greater reliance upon the electric vehicle and the need for batteries and rare to Earth metals for motors, the nations of the world looked to the stars.

Building massive space station sized space vehicles, the…

Electric/Pedal Hybrid bikes would be a solid solution for some of these issues, along with full enclosed three wheel and four wheel bicycles. One could make it work, wearing a suit, while pedaling and battery assisting oneself all the way to the office, with an efficient fan/heater/AC unit keeping things comfortable,…

We will see better public transit options. People are already starting to gravitate into cities and living closer to workplaces or closer to good transportation to get out and about to various points of employment without needing to use a car.

I agree, it is atrocious. We need to do something to lift up those workers and ensure protections and education for children as well as eliminate the slavery involved.

As for electric vehicles in general...

I feel that, as a society, we will end up moving towards more grid based systems, like electric trams, trains,…

Yes. I even played it a few times. I didn’t like how difficult it was to see the characters.

Like what? Being more prone to cancer? Having a slower reaction time because of the extra distance between the brain and the ends of extremities?

They also raise the center of gravity of a car, because they weight more than a traditional steel skin roof, due to the glass, motors, rails and other BS like water runoff tubing.

I completely agree.

That period at GM was when all the accounting people took over and they slashed things because they thought it hurt the bottom line.

IN a heavily anti-union state where the people are continually fed a line about how terrible and horrific Unions are?

Why would anyone be surprised that they would vote a Union down?

Not only that, but not one of those firms will ever catch up with or surpass the USPS either. The USPS, in one month of time, still processes and correctly delivers more packages and mail than DHL, UPS and FedEx does in a full year, combined, with an even lesser rate of package/mail loss than any of those companies.

It…

I would like it, if when I am entering a freeway, that when I am already up to speed to enter the freeway and nearly a full car length ahead of someone already on the freeway... that they just let me merge, instead of gunning it like an a-hole, because that extra few seconds that puts them right on the bumper of the…

Hell, they won’t ever, EVER even be able to compete with local expediting services NOR with a corporations own, “built-in” staffed Shipping and Receiving Department.

The idea that they are going to disrupt an industry that is so extreme in how they cut costs that drivers RARELY ever have to make anything aside from…

How is Uber going to disrupt the USPS? (Let alone the other delivery businesses.)

Uber isn’t going to be using pack mules to delivery mail to places that nobody, other than the USPS will go. Uber, like DHL, UPS and FedEx do not have a literal constitutional mandate to operate and provide service to every single address…

100 mile range? I could ride this to and from work for most of a week in the summer and not have any problems with running out of a charge.

This could change things.

That would be a HUGE departure, design wise, from what makes a MINI a... call back to the Mini.

Not that the new F5x series of the design isn’t a departure... it still has some elements that show a transition from the R5x line.

Seems like it was designed and then they tossed a MINI Badge on it and came up with ways to…