Sure it's nice to integrate with Google's suite of programs, but what about usability?
My point is sure it's nice to check before you leave without a download, but what happens when you've already left and are on-the-go? Does Google have portable info terminals everywhere, so you can check and lookup things once you're already somewhere? You can't use something that you can't access.
You would want to prefer Métro's already fleshed out 300 cities that you can access by web/wap (NO DOWNLOAD), or by PDA, iMode, etc, NOW and wherever you are that can route you point-to-point and by timed schedule.
It would be even nicer if Google integrated Métro's solid foundations and abilities, and scaled from there such as "Google Transit on-the-go".
Looks like Google is duplicating the efforts of Métro which ALREADY covers over 300 cities all over the world using your PDA (Palm, PocketPC, MS Smartphone, Symbian, others), and i-Métro for WEB, WAP, iMode.
Not only is Métro more mature, it's completely portable/finished/polished product with a large and stable support base.
I've personally used it to great effect plotting subway routes in my vacations to Tokyo, Japan and NYC, New York.
A few sites, such as CNN, seriously slimmed down with CSS/HTML tricks, for colored regions instead of image files, after 9/11 when most of these new sites were brought to their knees by the bandwidth overload. Such as sites used to be over > 400K brought themselves down to 300K or so...
Since, then there has been a slight tick back up, but some lessons learned.
Not everyone has bittorrent installed or knows how to use it
Well, the RIAA considers everybody to already have it and even recently struck a deal with Cohen, besides the fact it makes up > 50% of current Internet packet traffic?
Even many OSes now, and OpenOffice release by bittorrent.
You're not using Bittorrent already? You're so 2004!
I'm running Firefox 1.5 release (aka RC3) with all the javascript options turned off except for "change status text". This exploit opens a window, and then chugs at 100% cpu while the parent window is frozen. I didn't bother to wait to see what happens.
Reminds me of some sites that are still able to open a pop-under window on the far-right-bottom even when "blocked" by Firefox, and Fasterfox, and loads of sites black-holed by/etc/hosts, Apache proxy-cache, and Adblock.
I personally have an iPod only because it was shoved onto me as a gift, but the scars of Apple mismanagement such as blatant, forced obolescence never goes away.
Some people don't get enough pain, or just enjoy their RPG lives a lot. I personally rather get away from more pain with the limited time I get to game.
This is why I quit EVE, and play Warcraft (PvE) or Tenkaichi instead.
The problem with central on-demand water heaters (gas & electric) the last time I researched it was the flow rate requirements before they kick in. Either it's good enough for 3gal/s, but then it can't handle higher loads (like running two ishowers, or a shower and laundry machine), or if it's good enough for 5 gals/s, it won't kick in until the water is flowing at that rate.
It would seem the best type would be a hybrid on-demand heater efficient for high flow rates, with a small tank to buffer varied lower flow rates.
Regenerative braking uses no friction. It doesn't matter the weight of the vehicle except for braking distance. Say it with me, "no friction equals no wear". Brake pads only get used at < 8mph (for a Prius), or in emergency braking.
Where do you support that hybrid weighs more than another vehicle in the same class, because a Prius sure weighs less than the similarly sized Camry and Accord.
Load-sharing with a lighter-engine with less mass to accelerate sure sounds like a win-win to me.
I wonder though about the MG2/MG1 always being used thing: I've heard this (what you said) before, but sometimes on the screen I'm sure I've seen power from the engine to the distributor to the wheels, but no flow either direction to the battery/iconified motor.
Dead-banding is when there's no arrowing going to/coming from the battery. The ICE is providing all power to the wheels at that point, BUT any yellow-arrows to the wheels is definitely MG2. This is what some people do for the most efficient acceleration from 0, pulse-and-gliding, and other hypermiler driving techniques.
That distributor you point out should be the combined MG1/MG2, or at least MG2. MG2 takes the energy from the engine and sends it to the wheels for extra torque/boost, and I forget if it's MG1 or 2 that also sends it to the battery.
You can check out this simulator to see what MG1 and 2 are doing all the time.
After reducing the premium to $2K, don't forget about the tax deduction ($2000)/tax credit ($2000+) incentives, and then long-term maintainence costs, even as unlikely on a Honda Civic.
Makes the "hybrid premium" disappear, and possibly you're ahead already before you add in the gas savings.
The LX manual is missing: 4 wheel anti-lock brakes, side airbags, alloy wheels. You better factor that into the "hybrid premium".
If you removed those from the Hybrid, the difference would probably be reduced to ~$2K or so, and that's not counting the different electronics/displays inside.
Now calculate the gas savings recovery from that..
Serial-hybrids, as they are called, are basically fully electric cars, with a gasoline/electric generator, so that they can use gasoline whenever electricity is not easily available. This is nothing like current hybrids, because current hybrids have a uslessly tiny bank of batteries, do not allow direct electric charging, and do not use their electric motors at highway speeds.
The HSD is a series-parallel hybrid (hybrid-hybrid). It uses gasoline when electricity is not easily available, it allows direct electric charging, and it uses its electric motors at highway speeds.
There seems to be quite a few of the large SUVs that are nearly 3 tons. Close enough to be generalized.
And YES you should count GVWR because people (especially heavyweight Americans) and their dogs matter, like the airlines say. This makes most of the SUVs weight as much as heavy-lifting trucks and illegal on some residential streets.
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What's your source and destination? I want to see what i-Métro comes up with.
You mean your laptop doesn't support Web? Because that's sure one of the supported type of devices.
Sure it's nice to integrate with Google's suite of programs, but what about usability?
My point is sure it's nice to check before you leave without a download, but what happens when you've already left and are on-the-go? Does Google have portable info terminals everywhere, so you can check and lookup things once you're already somewhere?
You can't use something that you can't access.
You would want to prefer Métro's already fleshed out 300 cities that you can access by web/wap (NO DOWNLOAD), or by PDA, iMode, etc, NOW and wherever you are that can route you point-to-point and by timed schedule.
It would be even nicer if Google integrated Métro's solid foundations and abilities, and scaled from there such as "Google Transit on-the-go".
Looks like Google is duplicating the efforts of Métro which ALREADY covers over 300 cities all over the world using your PDA (Palm, PocketPC, MS Smartphone, Symbian, others), and i-Métro for WEB, WAP, iMode.
Not only is Métro more mature, it's completely portable/finished/polished product with a large and stable support base.
I've personally used it to great effect plotting subway routes in my vacations to Tokyo, Japan and NYC, New York.
A few sites, such as CNN, seriously slimmed down with CSS/HTML tricks, for colored regions instead of image files, after 9/11 when most of these new sites were brought to their knees by the bandwidth overload. Such as sites used to be over > 400K brought themselves down to 300K or so...
Since, then there has been a slight tick back up, but some lessons learned.
You are so old-fashioned! I have an IM client connected directly to the temple of my head.
Everytime somebody IMs me I get this throbbing headache, and I hear ringtones.
I thought driving a car was worst than flying. It's some health condition many of us are afflicted with, and has the highest death toll of them all.
Not everyone has bittorrent installed or knows how to use it
Well, the RIAA considers everybody to already have it and even recently struck a deal with Cohen, besides the fact it makes up > 50% of current Internet packet traffic?
Even many OSes now, and OpenOffice release by bittorrent.
You're not using Bittorrent already? You're so 2004!
I'm running Firefox 1.5 release (aka RC3) with all the javascript options turned off except for "change status text". This exploit opens a window, and then chugs at 100% cpu while the parent window is frozen. I didn't bother to wait to see what happens.
/etc/hosts, Apache proxy-cache, and Adblock.
Reminds me of some sites that are still able to open a pop-under window on the far-right-bottom even when "blocked" by Firefox, and Fasterfox, and loads of sites black-holed by
http://www.hybridsynergydrive.com/
7 /11347.html says it's a hybrid serial or parallel drive.
Even http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/1134
The simulator shows you when it can run as a serial-hybrid. Try to understand it.
Yes, the comments are actually more useful than the article. I was actually trying to link the comments.
Same with the Apple II people before you...
I personally have an iPod only because it was shoved onto me as a gift, but the scars of Apple mismanagement such as blatant, forced obolescence never goes away.
Some people don't get enough pain, or just enjoy their RPG lives a lot. I personally rather get away from more pain with the limited time I get to game.
This is why I quit EVE, and play Warcraft (PvE) or Tenkaichi instead.
You notice the machine conveniently avoid heating the water inside all the hu-mans.
The problem with central on-demand water heaters (gas & electric) the last time I researched it was the flow rate requirements before they kick in. Either it's good enough for 3gal/s, but then it can't handle higher loads (like running two ishowers, or a shower and laundry machine), or if it's good enough for 5 gals/s, it won't kick in until the water is flowing at that rate.
It would seem the best type would be a hybrid on-demand heater efficient for high flow rates, with a small tank to buffer varied lower flow rates.
It probably got rejected because it wasn't a dupe.
My previous .bomb crook bosses were graying men in Hawaiian shirts, flew their own planes, and was usually not in the office. Beware of those.
Considering this generation of hybrids has been around for 8 years (1998), I guess we'v only got another 8 years left.
Regenerative braking uses no friction. It doesn't matter the weight of the vehicle except for braking distance. Say it with me, "no friction equals no wear". Brake pads only get used at < 8mph (for a Prius), or in emergency braking.
Where do you support that hybrid weighs more than another vehicle in the same class, because a Prius sure weighs less than the similarly sized Camry and Accord.
Load-sharing with a lighter-engine with less mass to accelerate sure sounds like a win-win to me.
Dead-banding is when there's no arrowing going to/coming from the battery. The ICE is providing all power to the wheels at that point, BUT any yellow-arrows to the wheels is definitely MG2. This is what some people do for the most efficient acceleration from 0, pulse-and-gliding, and other hypermiler driving techniques.
That distributor you point out should be the combined MG1/MG2, or at least MG2. MG2 takes the energy from the engine and sends it to the wheels for extra torque/boost, and I forget if it's MG1 or 2 that also sends it to the battery.
You can check out this simulator to see what MG1 and 2 are doing all the time.
After reducing the premium to $2K, don't forget about the tax deduction ($2000)/tax credit ($2000+) incentives, and then long-term maintainence costs, even as unlikely on a Honda Civic.
Makes the "hybrid premium" disappear, and possibly you're ahead already before you add in the gas savings.
You didn't include trim to remove price bias.
What I can find is a Civic LX manual @ 32/38mpg $15,029
vs
a Civic Hybrid manual @ 46/51 mpg $20,041
The LX manual is missing: 4 wheel anti-lock brakes, side airbags, alloy wheels. You better factor that into the "hybrid premium".
If you removed those from the Hybrid, the difference would probably be reduced to ~$2K or so, and that's not counting the different electronics/displays inside.
Now calculate the gas savings recovery from that..
The HSD is a series-parallel hybrid (hybrid-hybrid). It uses gasoline when electricity is not easily available, it allows direct electric charging, and it uses its electric motors at highway speeds.
Try this simulator and reading this and try again.
Toyota Sequoia 2.6 tons curb
Ford Expedition 2.8 tons curb
Nissan Armada 2.7 tons curb
Chevy Suburban 2.8 tons curb
Hummer 2 3.2 tons
Porche Cayenne 2.3 tons
There seems to be quite a few of the large SUVs that are nearly 3 tons. Close enough to be generalized.
And YES you should count GVWR because people (especially heavyweight Americans) and their dogs matter, like the airlines say. This makes most of the SUVs weight as much as heavy-lifting trucks and illegal on some residential streets.