One of my favorite features of my Nissan Leaf is that I can turn the air conditioning or heater on from a phone app. I can also check the state of the batteries and the time remaining until it fully charges. So even in standby, electric cars are doing a decent amount of stuff.
You seriously looked at that list and described the prices as "in the $1-$2 range"? There's 8 cars under $1 and 4 cars between $1 and $1.32. Of those 4 listed over a dollar, only the Model S is still for sale.
Plugging and unplugging my car is faster and far less of a hassle than plugging in my phone.
That's not really a transaction that you set up on one day's notice.
"Hey. I heard that you were a terrorist and I just wanted to give you a call and offer you some radioactive material that I happened to get my hands on. So is that something you would be interested in?"
That's true, but this topic has nothing to do with antitrust rules.
The government is the only thing enforcing net neutrality. In a truly free market, these private companies could enact any rules they wanted. This situation is complicated by extraordinarily high barriers to entry. It's not a monopoly, but there are few enough players that there is little consumer choice between those players.
That's not a particularly difficult problem. An autonomous electric car could drop you off at the front door of your destination, then drive to a relatively distant parking lot where it can recharge using an automatic (robotic) charging station. Shortly before you're ready to leave, your would alert the car using your phone and it would pick you up at the front door.
Kim Jong Il was born in the Soviet Union, where Kim Il Sung commanded a Soviet military unit. Those two countries had a very strong relationship for many decades.
You missed the point of i kan reed's post and my response to it. By "Ohio", I assume you mean "the people of Ohio". State legislators are usually *less* accountable to their constituents than federal legislators. A handful of wealthy business owners can have massive influence on a state legislator. And unless they murder someone, their shady dealings are not going to make the news.
Self-driving cars are point-to-point trains for wealthy people
And cars used to be loud, dirty, playthings of the rich and were widely criticized by the horse-riding public. Fortunately not everyone is as short-sighted as you.
I recall how some researchers showed how a car (a Nissan, I think) could be hacked through the wireless connection between the air pressure sensors in the wheels and the computer.
Yeah. It allowed evil hackers to access the OBD-II system and read any error codes your car is sending. Because car engineers are not complete idiots, you can't do anything dangerous with it.
The generals using 00000000 was not dumb at all. The civilian leadership demanded that they create a launch code to take control away from the generals and make sure that nobody could go rogue (Jack D. Ripper style). The generals were terrified that a Soviet sneak attack could kill all of those civilians and leave the Air Force unable to retaliate against the dirty Reds. Using a non-secret code complied with the letter of the order while still keeping the control that they wanted. I'm actually impressed that they managed to hide it from the civilian leadership for so many years.
One reason is that numbers which are special to you have a high probability of being special to someone else. The expected result of playing those numbers in a lottery is therefore lower than for other numbers.
My old roommate would pick all numbers above 31. Most people that do manual picks use birthdays, so the chances of splitting would decrease. I never play the lottery, but I like that system.
Several years ago on September 11th, the New York daily pick 3 drawing was 9-1-1. A huge number of people won, but luckily for them the pick 3 payout is a flat prize and not a pool that gets divided.
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The only situation where it matters at all is if the car is sitting unplugged for weeks on end. That doesn't happen very often.
One of my favorite features of my Nissan Leaf is that I can turn the air conditioning or heater on from a phone app. I can also check the state of the batteries and the time remaining until it fully charges. So even in standby, electric cars are doing a decent amount of stuff.
Only some rooted android phones (or custom ROMs) allow fine-grained access to allow/deny explicit permissions for applications
Not true. Stock Android 4.3 has that functionality. It's just buried under a lot of menu choices.
You seriously looked at that list and described the prices as "in the $1-$2 range"? There's 8 cars under $1 and 4 cars between $1 and $1.32. Of those 4 listed over a dollar, only the Model S is still for sale.
Plugging and unplugging my car is faster and far less of a hassle than plugging in my phone.
That's not really a transaction that you set up on one day's notice.
"Hey. I heard that you were a terrorist and I just wanted to give you a call and offer you some radioactive material that I happened to get my hands on. So is that something you would be interested in?"
That's true, but this topic has nothing to do with antitrust rules.
The government is the only thing enforcing net neutrality. In a truly free market, these private companies could enact any rules they wanted. This situation is complicated by extraordinarily high barriers to entry. It's not a monopoly, but there are few enough players that there is little consumer choice between those players.
That's not a particularly difficult problem. An autonomous electric car could drop you off at the front door of your destination, then drive to a relatively distant parking lot where it can recharge using an automatic (robotic) charging station. Shortly before you're ready to leave, your would alert the car using your phone and it would pick you up at the front door.
Google.
Where are these official rules that determine what's allowed and what's cheating?
The colloquialism is "Even a blind hog finds an *acorn* once in a while", which actually makes sense.
evseupgrade.com will upgrade your stock Leaf charger to 220V for $290. I have had zero problems with my upgraded unit.
Pigs smell out truffles that are hidden underground. A blind sow would be excellent at finding truffles.
Kim Jong Il was born in the Soviet Union, where Kim Il Sung commanded a Soviet military unit. Those two countries had a very strong relationship for many decades.
OK. What does Ron Paul want the federal government go handle? A 20 person military?
You missed the point of i kan reed's post and my response to it. By "Ohio", I assume you mean "the people of Ohio". State legislators are usually *less* accountable to their constituents than federal legislators. A handful of wealthy business owners can have massive influence on a state legislator. And unless they murder someone, their shady dealings are not going to make the news.
So Ron Paul is a "wacko" now? He has sure seemed like the standard bearer of the libertarian movement for the past decade.
Which is why the libertarian "move everything to the state level" concept is a bad idea.
Citation please.
Self-driving cars are point-to-point trains for wealthy people
And cars used to be loud, dirty, playthings of the rich and were widely criticized by the horse-riding public. Fortunately not everyone is as short-sighted as you.
I propose that we break all of the steal powered looms so that the textile mills have to hire back the unemployed weavers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
I recall how some researchers showed how a car (a Nissan, I think) could be hacked through the wireless connection between the air pressure sensors in the wheels and the computer.
Yeah. It allowed evil hackers to access the OBD-II system and read any error codes your car is sending. Because car engineers are not complete idiots, you can't do anything dangerous with it.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/11/cars-hacked-by-researchers-through-wireless-tire-pressire-monito/
It makes zero sense for the vehicle control system to have any connection to anything you mentioned.
But if you want to live in a Hollywood fantasy world where hackers can set off fire sprinklers, that's fine.
Why would you think that these cars would accept remote commands?
The generals using 00000000 was not dumb at all. The civilian leadership demanded that they create a launch code to take control away from the generals and make sure that nobody could go rogue (Jack D. Ripper style). The generals were terrified that a Soviet sneak attack could kill all of those civilians and leave the Air Force unable to retaliate against the dirty Reds. Using a non-secret code complied with the letter of the order while still keeping the control that they wanted. I'm actually impressed that they managed to hide it from the civilian leadership for so many years.
One reason is that numbers which are special to you have a high probability of being special to someone else. The expected result of playing those numbers in a lottery is therefore lower than for other numbers.
My old roommate would pick all numbers above 31. Most people that do manual picks use birthdays, so the chances of splitting would decrease. I never play the lottery, but I like that system.
Several years ago on September 11th, the New York daily pick 3 drawing was 9-1-1. A huge number of people won, but luckily for them the pick 3 payout is a flat prize and not a pool that gets divided.