But no one can say that I don’t have ample data-points to make a reasonably certain statement about the virtues of these cars.

SkyDrive isn’t releasing full specs, but it says that it can fly a max speed of about 30 mph and has a flight time of 10 minutes.

The idea that housing non-millionaires will “fuck up” an area where rich people live and shop is a big part of why these projects don’t happen, and you end up with homeless people “fucking up” the area anyway.

Also, pretty sure this would use the godzilla 7.3 V8 not a 7.2L, which doesn’t exist.

Less time than it would take to make diesel fuel I think.

If the problem is empty containers, and the fines are for containers that are headed for rail or truck transport, how is this helping?

How about an Ariel Nomad instead?  Too lazy to check if they were ever imported to the US.

what chance do we have at actually making the changes necessary to let the planet survive?

Years of personal experience is not the same as an anecdote posted by a stranger on the internet.

The question is not where is the best place to launch satellites from, it's what is the best way to launch satellites from Earth? Maybe this will be better than rockets.

Is there a solution at hand to the other 70%? If not, and I’m not aware of one, then the only question is whether we can do something about the 30%, and whether this is a good solution. The other 70% is irrelevant (for the moment).

So you don’t believe anecdotes posted online as an indicator of a vehicle’s reliability - unless it’s your anecdote.

It’s not that the horror stories are contrived, but rather reliability is not determined by sampling a single vehicle.

If I lived up there, or drove up in the winters frequently, I would have snow tires. However I have driven over mountain passes in the snow on all season tires many times. The only time I ever had any trouble was in the middle of a blizzard.

But one day, in addition to topping off fuel tanks, drones like these could even possibly be repaired and made ready for the next mission inside the belly of a cargo plane, without either aircraft actually having to land first.

Oh noooes, where will I get my credit card offers and coupons??

Yeah I would have thought coming the wrong way up the next exit ramp and blocking the road off would have worked, but maybe clearing the jam was a higher priority than apprehending the perpetrators.

You know what, I think I was thinking of cylinder deactivation.

Definitely.  hm......

There are very few electric cars with a gearbox.