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More on GM's New Fuel Cell Cars
Whispers_in_the_dark writes "Scientific American has an article about GM's approach to fuel cell based vehicles of the future. It appears that GM wants to build a common fuel cell based drive-by-wire chassis that it will mount the body panels, control systems, and passenger compartments. This would provide a great deal of flexibility and upgradability to the cars of the future. GM has even more details."
now we come here to verify that what we have read is the cutting-edge, and old news! There must be a big red "rejection" button next to the computers at slashdot central! Hey i have 3,638,429 rejections!
Gives new meaning to Blue Screen Of Death...
You get into the car for the first time. You feel a little nauseous when the car asks, "Where do you want to go today?" You know this ain't gonna be good...
You're driving down the road, and you encounter a rare bug that tries to divide by zero when you try to change the MP3 file you are listening to, when suddenly what to your wondering eyes should appear but an opaque blue windshield that asks if you would like to report this bug to Microsoft...
But don't worry! A) They'll fix it in the next "hot-patch" and B) the fact that you can no longer see the road doesn't really matter, because you have lost the ability to steer or brake!
Your last thought in this world is the regret for your decision to sit directly over the bumper in the "helicopter pilot" configuration, instead of the back seat in the "passengers die first" configuration.
The money and oil keep flowing as usual. And the public is buying it. :(
And we're about to blow up a few tens of thousands of people to get Free oil for the oil companies, as well. They'll make trillions of dollars in "renegociated" oil leases with our new puppet dictatorship in Iraq. And I read that France, along with some other Western nations, are being told that if they don't back this "war", they are getting their Iraqi oil lease prices "renegociated" by us as punishment.
As Mark Twain said:
"The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit
will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of
the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be
a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and
dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will
shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason
against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and
be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them,
and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity.
Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the
platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their
secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier--but
do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all--will take
up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who
ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open.
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the
nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse
to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince
himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he
enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger"