The problem with battery swapping is being able to trust that you’re not trading your almost brand new battery pack for some janky old pack with 50% life left.  I haven’t heard of a plan for making sure that can’t happen.

By that standard, one could say we have always had self-driving cars.

They’re in beta test

Interesting idea, but the capabilities are not linear.  A car could theoretically be able to park itself without anyone in it, but not able to navigate a highway.  Or change lanes by itself but not brake to a stop.  And so on.  So it would need to be more complicated than just a numeric score.

Better than “hideously ugly but at least it’s different”.  And those seem to be the only options most car designers are capable of.

That’s fair, I didn’t look up the price either.

the fines apply to all containers left on the docks after a certain number of days, whether they are empty or not

III. If they were to ever make something like this again, it will be electric.

Camaros, Mustangs, Challengers and Corvettes all day long. ATS-V, the odd Porsche, 370/350Z, FR-S/86/BRZ, M235i.  I just went to page 4 on autotrader.  Now, I don’t know what “of this caliber” means for you.  Certainly none of those cars would really be considered a direct competitor to a Focus RS.

It’s backpedal btw.

Unless “off the grid” means periodically going into town to refill from the electric powered fuel station, none of these suggestions qualify.

Six personal data point (actually more) versus endless iffy heresay online. Yep.

I replied to another comment - hopefully you can see it.

Yeah but did I misunderstand the fines?  It sounds like they’re directed only at containers that are going to be put on a train or truck.  Are people putting empty containers on trains and trucks and shipping them around?  Or do the fines also apply to containers that are just sitting around with no plans to move them?

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?