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So Big Oil will have Elon Musk killed?
Just drove up to Los Angeles and back yesterday (getting my Italian passport in order because who knows what'll happen in November) and can now state: self-driving electric cars or GTFO. Six hours on I-5/405, even in the middle of the day, is not happy motoring. Accidents and dead cars everywhere causing epic backups. We sail all alone in the HOV-2 lanes while the SUVs with only the driver in them sit spewintg oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide and soot endlessly, pointlessly.
My little Prius has a thing called "Lane Keep Assist" that purportedly is to warn you if you wander out of your own lane while the radar-adaptive speed control is maintaining a constant distance between you and the vehicle ahead of you. But the LKA actually steers the car a bit (using the electric motor that turns the steering rack) to help you keep it in your lane. Pretty sure that the only thing keeping it from doing all the steering is fear of lawsuits. It also will park itself pretty nicely.
Shocking, but it seems we're heavy to electric here. GP has a Prius with a gazillion miles that he just replaced the battery. Mrs. weejee and I have a new plug-in hybrid.
2016 plug-in? They've scraped some of the ugly off the 2016 models, but I didn't see a plug-in one.
Just checked: discontinued!
http://www.toyota.com/prius-plug-in-hybrid/
The charger requires a 220v circuit, right? (And we all know that 220VAC is part of Agenda XXI, like bikepaths)
[ 2016 ] Can charge with 110, but I'm running 220 over to where the car will live, as with the higher voltage a full charge takes just two hours.
The Audi? Awesome!
Agenda XXI will change the frequency to 50Hz.
Goddammit, now my turntable won't run right. It is a plot to destroy civilization. Thanks, Obama!
What does a battery replacement run?
GP said $1300 and was surprised how easy it was. You could blow through that doing a full gasoline engine rebuild if you didn't have access to a machine shop.
/ Full disclosure: 239,000 miles, not a gazillion.
And leave Gene Chandler alone!
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My RW friend says that hybrids are crock because what do they do with the core battery. So, what does Toyota or its agent do with them? Landfill? Artificial reef?
One powerful idea of self-driving cars (although not necessarily limited to them) is that you or I, if we lived in tightly-packed, Agenda-XXI-type cities, wouldn't need to own cars; we'd just grab one down on the street corner, like people do with bike rentals in San Diego and NYC, and probably a lot of other cities.
Of course if you need a vehicle to stand in for your Hitlerian micro-penis, you'd be against this as much as the ammosexuals are agin' any kind of gun control.
Batteries don't grow on trees?