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The Mercedes-Benz 'Cloaking Device'
cold fjord writes "As part of its marketing campaign for the new hydrogen fuel cell powered F-Cell, Mercedes-Benz has equipped one with a cloaking device. They covered one side of an F-Cell with LEDs and used cameras on the other side to capture the view, which is then displayed on the LEDs to effectively remove the vehicle from the line of sight."
The insurance must be very high.
Luxury cars are cloaked too - which is why it looks like I drive an old minivan
If I had one I would hack it to make it look like a running Alien.
If my comment didn't sound as good in your head as it did in mine, then I guess we all know who's to blame
A proper cloaking device isn't just a flat image of the surroundings; it would need to be holographic so it would look right from any angle.
I would call this "adaptive camouflage", and it's doing a damned good job at that.
Until our electricity comes from renewable sources hydrogen power is worse than fossil fuels.
I don't think it is quite that simple. Hydrogen moves the pollution from many mobile sources, cars, to a very small number of non-mobile sources, power generation stations. With all pollution coming from these stations there is the opportunity for remediation, capturing the pollution to prevent its entry into the environment. Doing so is expensive and technically challenging but plausible.
Ok, yeah, that's cool, but what you really need is an airship covered with light emitting diodes across one side because then you could have...
...wait for it...
...a LED Zeppelin!
MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
I'm just going to leave this right here...
With Labour improved MI6 being all in for diversity, the new James bond is deaf and will sign "hear", you insensitive clod!
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I don't think it is quite that simple. Hydrogen moves the pollution from many mobile sources, cars, to a very small number of non-mobile sources, power generation stations.
You know what also does that? Electric cars. And without the extra, extremely inefficient electrolysis step.
Again, it is not that simple. You forgot about the batteries. Import lithium from distant lands, manufacture batteries, use batteries, recycle/dispose of batteries in the proper manner, by expensive new batteries, ...
Now ad downtime for charging.
All electric is not a panacea. It has its own set of issues and requires some technical advances.
Hydrogen has an advantage in that it reuses existing internal combustion technology. Minor modifications plus greater power output. Its issues are more infrastructure related. Of course all electric will need new infrastructure as well, chargers in parking lots, etc
1) Attach one tablet to your stomach and one to your back.
2) Open up a camera chat between them.
3) Put on a T-shirt with one bloody hole on the front, and one on the back, directly over the tablets.
4) It looks like someone shot a hole through you!
5) No profit, but plenty of laughs.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
the point is to get eyeballs on the car, it's an advertisement device.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
yeah, well my posts
No Mr. Bond. I expect you to drive.