Been to the beach recently? Looks like a mass marine mammal stranding event. Women, if you won't lose the flab, at least cover it up. Men, that goes for you, too.
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"Run it like a for profit business"
Before 9-11, it was a for-profit business, and it was manned mostly by minimum-wage, no-job-security drones who let the box cutters on the planes, and partly by control freaks who enjoyed harassing people from behind a badge.
"where the customer is the focus" Not gonna work. The people receiving the service (passengers) are not paying for the service directly enough for that feedback loop to function. Even when it was a for profit business, consumers didn't have a choice between paying more for shorter lines and polite screeners and paying less for delays and surly personnel.
But consumers do have a choice. Accept poor service at a low price (scheduled airlines) or pay more and bypass the security hassle entirely: fractional jet ownership. Nod to the fellow behind the counter at the FBO, (Fixed Base Operator; the bizjet terminal) open the door to the ramp and walk out and up the steps of your own airplane. If you just fueled up at $4.50 a gallon, he'll probably carry your bags. You get what you pay for.
..I thought the point of HOV lanes was to have fewer cars on the road....
Not really. The point of carpool lanes is to reduce oil imports and air pollution by reducing the number of cars on the road. Hybrids accomplish the same overall objective.
So, why can't a 50+ MPG diesel use the HOV lane? Beats me...
Do not charge this at home. TFA indicates a 250 kw charger for the 10 minute charge. Most people have 220v service to their homes. I=P/E . In other words, this charger draws over a thousand amps. I don't know about your house, but the cable feeding my meter isn't that big by a factor of >5.
The 220v charger takes 6-8 hours. That's why people don't drive electric cars. They spend more time on the charger than on the road.
2002 C5 Convertible: 28 highway, 20 city. (If I am prudent with the throttle. Exuberant = 17 city.) The things that make it fast also make it efficient: light weight, low drag. My biggest complaint with the Corvette is that Chevy won't put the Z-06 package on the convertible. It was a tough choice, ragtop or 405 hp.
Moore's law for software maturity and reliability is at least an order of magnitude slower than for hardware. Given AI's glacial progress (decades so far) toward, for example, language recognition, it'll be a century or more before a computer can exercise the judgement of a rational adult human. At that point, the accident rate will be no better than it is now; that is, barely acceptable.
Apparently, the teen(s) cited in the NYT article never thought to just turn the phone off or leave it at home when they didn't want their parents tracking them. They must subscribe to the Paris Hilton school of Personal Priorities.
Does this system require an active signal to allow the truck to keep moving? (Probably not.) How stupid do we think the terrorists are? Will possession of aluminium foil be prosecuted under the DMCA or the USA PATRIOT act?
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Eat enough corn and... Roundup Ready people!! Mmmm Yummy Roundup.
Been to the beach recently? Looks like a mass marine mammal stranding event. Women, if you won't lose the flab, at least cover it up. Men, that goes for you, too. --
It'll grow anywhere. It don't need no stinkin' air. The Moon will be completely covered in 3 to 5 years.
Between carbon nanotubes and Viagra, everything's covered!
"Run it like a for profit business" Before 9-11, it was a for-profit business, and it was manned mostly by minimum-wage, no-job-security drones who let the box cutters on the planes, and partly by control freaks who enjoyed harassing people from behind a badge. "where the customer is the focus" Not gonna work. The people receiving the service (passengers) are not paying for the service directly enough for that feedback loop to function. Even when it was a for profit business, consumers didn't have a choice between paying more for shorter lines and polite screeners and paying less for delays and surly personnel. But consumers do have a choice. Accept poor service at a low price (scheduled airlines) or pay more and bypass the security hassle entirely: fractional jet ownership. Nod to the fellow behind the counter at the FBO, (Fixed Base Operator; the bizjet terminal) open the door to the ramp and walk out and up the steps of your own airplane. If you just fueled up at $4.50 a gallon, he'll probably carry your bags. You get what you pay for.
Actually, they do already. The crew seat assembly is on shock absorbers and compresses (IIRC) almost a foot.
Greater numbers do not indicate a higher lifeform.
..I thought the point of HOV lanes was to have fewer cars on the road....
Not really. The point of carpool lanes is to reduce oil imports and air pollution by reducing the number of cars on the road. Hybrids accomplish the same overall objective.
So, why can't a 50+ MPG diesel use the HOV lane? Beats me...
Do not charge this at home. TFA indicates a 250 kw charger for the 10 minute charge. Most people have 220v service to their homes. I=P/E . In other words, this charger draws over a thousand amps. I don't know about your house, but the cable feeding my meter isn't that big by a factor of >5.
The 220v charger takes 6-8 hours. That's why people don't drive electric cars. They spend more time on the charger than on the road.
Speaking as a fellow hominid, I never found that chimpanzee rump thing at all attractive.
Are you dating Paris Hilton?
2002 C5 Convertible: 28 highway, 20 city. (If I am prudent with the throttle. Exuberant = 17 city.) The things that make it fast also make it efficient: light weight, low drag. My biggest complaint with the Corvette is that Chevy won't put the Z-06 package on the convertible. It was a tough choice, ragtop or 405 hp.
And I'll be cheaper, too!
Moore's law for software maturity and reliability is at least an order of magnitude slower than for hardware. Given AI's glacial progress (decades so far) toward, for example, language recognition, it'll be a century or more before a computer can exercise the judgement of a rational adult human. At that point, the accident rate will be no better than it is now; that is, barely acceptable.
Apparently, the teen(s) cited in the NYT article never thought to just turn the phone off or leave it at home when they didn't want their parents tracking them. They must subscribe to the Paris Hilton school of Personal Priorities.
Does this system require an active signal to allow the truck to keep moving? (Probably not.) How stupid do we think the terrorists are? Will possession of aluminium foil be prosecuted under the DMCA or the USA PATRIOT act?