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  1. Re:Sorry, the future is bicycle, not flying cars by HuguesT · · Score: 1 · on Where Are the Flying Cars?

    No, people will travel by bus/train/whatever up to their nearest stop, then rent a bicycle for the last leg of the trip.

    This is starting to work very well in some major European capitals.

  2. Overkill solution by ElGanzoLoco · · Score: 4, Informative · on MIT Offers City Car for the Masses
    The article presents this car as a complement to public transportation (I quote TFA):

    "The problem with mass transit is it kind of takes you to where you want to go and at the approximate time you want to get there, but not exactly. Sometimes you have to walk up to a mile from the last train or subway stop," said Franco Vairani, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT's school of architecture. OK, now, I understand the appeal of light-weight, stackable, "community" cars in some cases (such as sprawling suburban environments) but seriously - in most cities there are simpler, more effective means to do that "last mile". Bicycles come to mind as a pretty simple, cheap, and reliable solution. The Paris municipality recently introduced a close-to-free (29 euros per year, first 30 minutes free, then price increases each half-hour so prevent you from keeping the bike all day long) community rent-a-bike service called Vélib, which consists of over 10,000 bikes located in hundreds of stations scattered around the city. It works well now that the first glitches have been ironed out. A mile on a bike takes about 10 minutes, is good for you, consumes no energy, and is manageable in all but the most extreme weather conditions.

    Also, any decent public transportation system should have much less than a mile between two metro/bus/tramway stations - leaving the maximum walking distance to half a mile. That is the case of many European cities.

    On a related note, the ever-awesome Dutchs invented the Bike Dispenser, which I have yet to see in real life but which looks absolutely wicked. In my opinion this looks much more manageable than 1,200-pounds electric stackable cars.
  3. Re:Refill? by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 1 · on Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes


    Do you think cities are going to put outputs in front of every parking spot in a city?

    Why not? There's already electricity all over. Just pull a wire and bolt an ATM with a current meter instead of a cash dispenser.

    Who is going to pay to install them?

    Who is paying for electricity used to recharge the cars?

    Look, there are places where you can rent a bike for 1 a day with a credit card; thousands of stations installed throughout a major city in a few months time. The project is financed by a billboard operator in exchange for advertising space in the city.

    Frankly, a plug-in car can really only be charged at your house. And until they can go 200 miles (100 mile each way) before a recharge, I don't believe they are feasible.

    Well I agree with you that it probably can't get done in the US where corruption is so rampant that oil companies and gasoline car makers will probably a few senators to prevent this from happening, but in the developped world, governments actually have some modicus of record for actually doing what's right.

  4. Indie never dies ! by straybullets · · Score: 1 · on Death of the Indie Game Store
    Ah, the sadness of the american model ...

    Here in my underdevelopped european city, right down my door i've got thee oldskool game shop with a SEGA neon ... I can rent all the games i want (including dreamcast), buy them and trade them back for other ones, test them inside the shop, which is family owned and includes a LAN room for the youngsters to play ...

    It also sells manga videos ( great deals on VHS nown a chance to see all these bad mangas you never got to buy and that are waaay too expensive in DVD) .

    I pray it wont get replaced by one of those megachains, operated by burnt out teens on smacks with only the newest games and with bad techno music blasting from morning to night. Long Live the Independants !

  5. Re:Deus Ex anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on UK to lnstall Wireless Mics on London Streets

    More links:

    Paris Noise Level Map

    Decibel noise levels

  6. Re:link to the Noise Level map for Paris by wwwillem · · Score: 3, Informative · on Europe Begins Noise Mapping Effort

    And for those not mastering French, click here to get to the maps. Especially the 3D modeling part is pretty cool.

  7. link to the Noise Level map for Paris by wwwillem · · Score: 1 · on Europe Begins Noise Mapping Effort

    This is the Paris web-site, mentioned in the article:

    http://www.paris.fr/FR/Environnement/bruit/carto_b ruit/default.ASP

  8. Paris Noise by lovebyte · · Score: 4, Informative · on Europe Begins Noise Mapping Effort

    For those living in Paris or wanting to move there, there is a noise map available here.
    I live in the noisiest part! Time to move to the country.