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Why Silicon Valley Won't Be the Green Car Detroit
thecarchik writes "NPR boldly pronounced, 'The new automobile of the 21st century is likely to benefit from the culture of Silicon Valley, where people are used to taking a chip, a cell or an idea and working on it until it becomes something big.' We've thought about it for a year, and discussed it with many people. And we don't believe it. Silicon Valley is the wrong place to build an auto industry, for three main reasons."
Too many liberals. And I am not even trolling...
Explains why NPR is so boldly pronouncing it, if they're not even hiding their bias any more (Juan Williams fired for fox appearance).
Detroit knows how to build cars?
They know how to take a huge inefficient crapheap of a petrol engine, throw it into a recycled chassis from the 80's, fill the said chassis with the latest gimmicks such as iPod connectors & OnStar then sell to the gullible public with some clever marketing.
I'll never understand how those fuckers manage to make a car with a 5 or 6 litre petrol engine that handles worse than a bus. And by bus I mean a decent Mercedes or Van Hool bus, I'd really hate to see their own attempt at making a bus
Sorry these days, there is such a dearth of reason coming from conservatives that its too easy to miss the sarcasm.
I did laugh in a sense though, didn't I?