How exactly will Fuel Cells/Hybrids make a better car? Even though the technology has the promise of making us Energy Independent, increasing human freedoms, and making a "cool" car it will actually fail to do so don't get too excited.
Shoot for a solar car on 10 year rechargables; the other solutions keep their power structuure and monopolies in place.
GM, Ford, the Federal Transportation Board (or some other monopoly) will control what, where, and how fast you drive (even more so than now), The Governments and Insurance companies will tax you heavily to "register" yearly (as they do now) and insure based upon the auto's dollar cost at some obscene rate (as they do now). They can and will make it illegal to modify or customize (ala DMCA). Their control bureaucracies (and costs) will grow even larger, not get smaller. Even though most of the systems will be solid state and should be quieter and much more reliable, they will make sure their dealerships get PLENTY of service business. And, this actually makes the cars closer to becoming fly-by-wire, so you will have no control of the machine at all including speed at some (near) point in the future.
Wow, now there is something I'll get up every mornin' and spend much of my American Dream, disposable income on. Time to look for a new pasttime.
Don't kid yourself; there will be NO real benefit to consumers, and I am not sure that it will benefit the Enviroment in the least as nature abhors a vacuum. "Hmm, let's see, new cars emit less, so who cares if emits more? (similar to "Credits" as in previous environmental policies) Or, if other countries decide they don't like the rules and decide that fossil fuels are OK! for their masses; too bad Environment.
Yes, you MUST forget those PAST technologies for the sake of consumerism, or call it progress. Analog shortwave must be sacrificed for a variety of economics reasons; the Media giants no longer want analog transmission. Never mind it's inherent simplicity and beauty, it is destined to be all DIGITAL; on a chip and mostly undecipherable except by the handful of chip engineers who make it happen. Capacitors and Inductors, Transistors and Valves, given over to algorithms.
how sad a time to be involved in (Electronics) technology, and I am not normally a Luddite. Send me back to the 40's.
Rhetoric? Of course not, it is blatant Capitalism; buy up competition and BURY them, even if they are small and maybe of no consequence; the consumer must ONLY see your product. In Toy Story, the Dino says that he is from Mattel, but then explains not really, that he was actually part of a small startup bought out in a leveraged buy-out by a mega-conglomerate.... Mattel has been doing this for years.
Hmm, I agree. How many people -know- about other options? Many only know of Napster (I just talked with a 16 year old and did not know there are other options). Another thought; the Industry heavys would NEVER spend money on a "fad"(even one eating their lunch), and for a company what they perceived at a dot-com price; firstly, they are Business and that means "cheap spenders" and will wait until it is pennies on the dollar, and second their big-company egos would get in the way because THEY perceive themselves (as always have been) "representing the music industry and artists" in the Business world. What would their partners and peers think? They could never be seen driving a Ford. Just some thoughts...
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How exactly will Fuel Cells/Hybrids make a better car? Even though the technology has the promise of making us Energy Independent, increasing human freedoms, and making a "cool" car it will actually fail to do so don't get too excited.
Shoot for a solar car on 10 year rechargables; the other solutions keep their power structuure and monopolies in place.
GM, Ford, the Federal Transportation Board (or some other monopoly) will control what, where, and how fast you drive (even more so than now), The Governments and Insurance companies will tax you heavily to "register" yearly (as they do now) and insure based upon the auto's dollar cost at some obscene rate (as they do now). They can and will make it illegal to modify or customize (ala DMCA). Their control bureaucracies (and costs) will grow even larger, not get smaller. Even though most of the systems will be solid state and should be quieter and much more reliable, they will make sure their dealerships get PLENTY of service business. And, this actually makes the cars closer to becoming fly-by-wire, so you will have no control of the machine at all including speed at some (near) point in the future.
Wow, now there is something I'll get up every mornin' and spend much of my American Dream, disposable income on. Time to look for a new pasttime.
Don't kid yourself; there will be NO real benefit to consumers, and I am not sure that it will benefit the Enviroment in the least as nature abhors a vacuum. "Hmm, let's see, new cars emit less, so who cares if emits more? (similar to "Credits" as in previous environmental policies) Or, if other countries decide they don't like the rules and decide that fossil fuels are OK! for their masses; too bad Environment.
Yes, you MUST forget those PAST technologies for the sake of consumerism, or call it progress. Analog shortwave must be sacrificed for a variety of economics reasons; the Media giants no longer want analog transmission. Never mind it's inherent simplicity and beauty, it is destined to be all DIGITAL; on a chip and mostly undecipherable except by the handful of chip engineers who make it happen. Capacitors and Inductors, Transistors and Valves, given over to algorithms.
how sad a time to be involved in (Electronics) technology, and I am not normally a Luddite.
Send me back to the 40's.
Rhetoric?
Of course not, it is blatant Capitalism; buy up competition and BURY them, even if they are small and maybe of no consequence; the consumer must ONLY see your product. In Toy Story, the Dino says that he is from Mattel, but then explains not really, that he was actually part of a small startup bought out in a leveraged buy-out by a mega-conglomerate.... Mattel has been doing this for years.
Hmm, I agree. How many people -know- about other options? Many only know of Napster (I just talked with a 16 year old and did not know there are other options). Another thought; the Industry heavys would NEVER spend money on a "fad"(even one eating their lunch), and for a company what they perceived at a dot-com price; firstly, they are Business and that means "cheap spenders" and will wait until it is pennies on the dollar, and second their big-company egos would get in the way because THEY perceive themselves (as always have been) "representing the music industry and artists" in the Business world. What would their partners and peers think? They could never be seen driving a Ford. Just some thoughts...