Compared to cars planes are perfectly safe. If you look at the km column on this list you can see that they are far safer per km. The problem is just that a planecrash is newsworthy and a carcrash isn't. You would hear of a planecrash across the country, but a carcrash will only be in a local paper unless it's a celebrity. If it was deemed newsworthy the papers would be filled with only crashreports for cars, for there are many each day.
Note: the data on the referenced site may be pulled out of the ass of the author. However there are many such statistics and they all say pretty much the same thing. JFGI.
This metric may be completely counterproductive. If you just put out enough cubic meters of exhaust fumes that means that you can put as many particles as you want. Perfect for a primitive open fireplace that half burns the wood and throws out 60% of the heat with it's exhaust fumes. Decent masonry stoves use far less wood (thus have far less pollution. Especially less tar). However, they do that by keeping the internal temperature high (1200 C/ 2200F). One of the ways they do that is by keeping the airflow under control, usually not to much. This far smaller airflow means there are less cubic meters of exhaust fumes. In that lower flow there are probably more particles/m3, but since the flow is lower this still results in less than half the pollution. They should judge based on particles/kw of heat output the room in. That means the pollution is measured based on a useful metric.
I assume that if the flame is contained in a heat proof glass container and oxygen and fuel is pushed into it from one side while a small hole lets exhaust gasses come out the other side you could simulate the flow heat+gravity causes on earth. Then the flame could continue in a hard vacuum without gravity. That would have been awesome.
Moving the battery means moving the center of gravity. That influences the road behavior massively. Have you even taken a bus? Noticed the barf inducing swaying these things do? Well, that is partly because their center of gravity is extremely high. If you compare that to a kart, which has bigger G forces in normal use, they don't sway a bit, and aren't usually as barf-inducing. This is partly because of the lower center of gravity (and partly because of the different suspension). A quick Google gives me approximately 500 kg of battery in a 2000 kg car. Lowering that massive weight helps a lot with the center of gravity.
Not true. When people smoke on the train station I have to breath their smoke and thus I also get exposed to needles carcinogenics and that godawful stench.
their "darling angel" was pushing others around (as is their right!) when some other kid pushed them back (how dare they! Imma sue the kid, their parents, and the school!)
That is a form of child abuse, although it's not currently classified as such. A child who is allowed to do whatever it wishes will usually have great trouble finding their way through life after they have left their parents.
"Living in the country" is relative. I live in the country in the Netherlands. That means I must bike for approx 30 minutes before I get to the closest train station. Grocery shopping means I have to bike for 10-15 minutes. I can imagine there are places where that would be 10 times as long.
Nope, my company would pick up the check, but I can choose. The train tickets are less than what I get in km based travel compensations so I choose to get the km based travel compensation. The key is in "not having a car". A car is expensive to have and expensive to drive.
Here in the Netherlands trains are a lot cheaper than owning a car. Taking the train to work saves me about E400 ($540) a month. Here it is also quite feasible not to own a car, assuming you have no problems with biking.
That the corporate democracy in the USA isn't as bad as a dictatorship doesn't mean it is the golden solution. No, from all that I can see the USA doesn't have a democracy anymore. It has corporate democracy and that is quite a different beast.
Sometimes an old solution can solve a new problem. Back in the IrDA days there wasn't as much radio interference. With a new implementation (higher speeds, more devices, maybe some beam forming technique) this could help. Once upon a time long distance communication was done with light. When copper became feasible we started using electrons. However; most miles of communication are once again done with light. Sometimes the old solutions solve the new problems.
The next model will have a signed long instead of an unsigned int as happiness indicator. If that fails we'll give it a suicide module that kicks in if the happiness drops low enough, but that's a lot of work so we'd rather not do that right now.
You can almost never use that speed legally and if the gearbox is in your car you have to lug around the weight of it and you always have additional losses in that gearbox. That would lower the action radius, which is a great point in electric cars.
There are ways to prevent that, but you always get people who see the parallels to the second world war.
To prevent a flame war: In the case that I mean they would not be incorrect. It's only a joke. We can not save humanity if we loose our humanity in the process.
It becomes a problem when the literal meaning is the exact reverse of the intended meaning. "Sure as hell" does not have another meaning. For natives that is no problem. Non natives have more trouble with this and I am sure I don't need to remind you that most people do not have English as their mother language.
In a similar case I actually had a supplier put a line on a quote that translates to: "all products are available from stock if another date is mentioned in the line". What they meant was: "all products are available from stock unless another date is mentioned in the line".
Its a risk not to report it. If things are working as they should a manufacturer who does NOT report a problem and gets caught should loose his license to produce any medical grade works. For a single fault. There are lives at stake. The least they should do is give info for accurate statistics.
Light speed delays confuse a lot of people. "The light of the last supernova in our galaxy that we know of reached us several hundred years ago." is to complex for most.
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Compared to cars planes are perfectly safe. If you look at the km column on this list you can see that they are far safer per km.
The problem is just that a planecrash is newsworthy and a carcrash isn't. You would hear of a planecrash across the country, but a carcrash will only be in a local paper unless it's a celebrity. If it was deemed newsworthy the papers would be filled with only crashreports for cars, for there are many each day.
Note: the data on the referenced site may be pulled out of the ass of the author. However there are many such statistics and they all say pretty much the same thing. JFGI.
This metric may be completely counterproductive. If you just put out enough cubic meters of exhaust fumes that means that you can put as many particles as you want. Perfect for a primitive open fireplace that half burns the wood and throws out 60% of the heat with it's exhaust fumes. Decent masonry stoves use far less wood (thus have far less pollution. Especially less tar). However, they do that by keeping the internal temperature high (1200 C/ 2200F). One of the ways they do that is by keeping the airflow under control, usually not to much. This far smaller airflow means there are less cubic meters of exhaust fumes. In that lower flow there are probably more particles/m3, but since the flow is lower this still results in less than half the pollution.
They should judge based on particles/kw of heat output the room in. That means the pollution is measured based on a useful metric.
I assume that if the flame is contained in a heat proof glass container and oxygen and fuel is pushed into it from one side while a small hole lets exhaust gasses come out the other side you could simulate the flow heat+gravity causes on earth. Then the flame could continue in a hard vacuum without gravity. That would have been awesome.
Moving the battery means moving the center of gravity. That influences the road behavior massively.
Have you even taken a bus? Noticed the barf inducing swaying these things do? Well, that is partly because their center of gravity is extremely high.
If you compare that to a kart, which has bigger G forces in normal use, they don't sway a bit, and aren't usually as barf-inducing. This is partly because of the lower center of gravity (and partly because of the different suspension).
A quick Google gives me approximately 500 kg of battery in a 2000 kg car. Lowering that massive weight helps a lot with the center of gravity.
Cars are deathtraps. Tesla's not as much as most cars, but cars are deathtraps.
Not true. When people smoke on the train station I have to breath their smoke and thus I also get exposed to needles carcinogenics and that godawful stench.
their "darling angel" was pushing others around (as is their right!) when some other kid pushed them back (how dare they! Imma sue the kid, their parents, and the school!)
That is a form of child abuse, although it's not currently classified as such. A child who is allowed to do whatever it wishes will usually have great trouble finding their way through life after they have left their parents.
Or: Interresting!
"Living in the country" is relative. I live in the country in the Netherlands. That means I must bike for approx 30 minutes before I get to the closest train station. Grocery shopping means I have to bike for 10-15 minutes.
I can imagine there are places where that would be 10 times as long.
Nope, my company would pick up the check, but I can choose. The train tickets are less than what I get in km based travel compensations so I choose to get the km based travel compensation.
The key is in "not having a car". A car is expensive to have and expensive to drive.
Here in the Netherlands trains are a lot cheaper than owning a car. Taking the train to work saves me about E400 ($540) a month.
Here it is also quite feasible not to own a car, assuming you have no problems with biking.
That the corporate democracy in the USA isn't as bad as a dictatorship doesn't mean it is the golden solution.
No, from all that I can see the USA doesn't have a democracy anymore. It has corporate democracy and that is quite a different beast.
That it is part of the /. design doesn't mean it doesn't look like a 3 year old made the "design" decision.
Sometimes an old solution can solve a new problem. Back in the IrDA days there wasn't as much radio interference. With a new implementation (higher speeds, more devices, maybe some beam forming technique) this could help.
Once upon a time long distance communication was done with light. When copper became feasible we started using electrons. However; most miles of communication are once again done with light.
Sometimes the old solutions solve the new problems.
And a lot of unnecessary capital letters.
The next model will have a signed long instead of an unsigned int as happiness indicator. If that fails we'll give it a suicide module that kicks in if the happiness drops low enough, but that's a lot of work so we'd rather not do that right now.
You can almost never use that speed legally and if the gearbox is in your car you have to lug around the weight of it and you always have additional losses in that gearbox. That would lower the action radius, which is a great point in electric cars.
They already both vibrate.
We'll just give stabbing humans a negative happiness modifyer.
Dunno. Our very advanced AI AirWeb told us they needed it.
There are ways to prevent that, but you always get people who see the parallels to the second world war.
To prevent a flame war: In the case that I mean they would not be incorrect. It's only a joke. We can not save humanity if we loose our humanity in the process.
It becomes a problem when the literal meaning is the exact reverse of the intended meaning. "Sure as hell" does not have another meaning. For natives that is no problem. Non natives have more trouble with this and I am sure I don't need to remind you that most people do not have English as their mother language.
In a similar case I actually had a supplier put a line on a quote that translates to: "all products are available from stock if another date is mentioned in the line". What they meant was: "all products are available from stock unless another date is mentioned in the line".
That depends on whether their mass and sex corresponds to your personal preference.
Its a risk not to report it. If things are working as they should a manufacturer who does NOT report a problem and gets caught should loose his license to produce any medical grade works. For a single fault.
There are lives at stake. The least they should do is give info for accurate statistics.
Light speed delays confuse a lot of people. "The light of the last supernova in our galaxy that we know of reached us several hundred years ago." is to complex for most.