Lead-acid is a poor choice, due to low energy density. LIon batteries are about 3X better per kg, enough lighter that you'd actually get off the ground.
If you're talking only about the US, saving half a million live in a decade (50,000/year) means the cars will save lives of people who would otherwise die of causes unrelated to motor vehicles, because the current rate is between 30,000 and 40,000 per year.
Worldwide, of course, you have a point, because that rate is in the 500,000 to 900,000 range per year.
Electronic control of throttle and fuel and transmission is becoming more common, as is single wheel braking for skid control. So think about a partially damaged controller causing maximum acceleration in second gear with the right front brake sporadically applied. Think about crashing through a store window after taking out pedestrians on the sidewalk.
Also realize that all the electronics in a modern car will retail for thousands of dollars, and that the organization responsible for a destructive EMP event will be in for a lot of lawsuits.
States generally only set limits on state roads. Most towns set limits on their own roads, and that's the primary place that local residents apply pressure if there's a perceived problem.
Do you have a problem with big businesses having jobs available, so that people can earn a living?
Do you think when a garage charges you $55/hr for labor, the mechanic is paid $55/hr? No employer charges for an employee's labor what he pays the employee; if he did, he'd be broke in months. The employer has taxes and other overhead, takes risks, and pays his employee even when said employee has no work to do.
When a contractor deals with the government, he faces additional risks and costly regulations. He has to charge for those, and also charge for the risks and expenses involved in dealing with corrupt political organizations.
"We" don't know how to "fix" global warming. There is no computer model that given any appropriate starting point predicts all the warm and cold periods of the last two millenia, including times warmer than we're experiencing now. Furthermore, it's not a "problem".
The "global warming" a.k.a. "climate change" brouhaha is just an effort by leftists to gain more power, destroy those they think of as their enemies, and for many of them to destroy industrial civilization. But I'm sure you won't the vision of universal poverty interfere with your quest for a mindless life in Eden.
The wealthy can't make money if the middle income and lower income stop using credit
Credit is only a delaying factor. If people can't pay their bills, whether now or later, the people to whom those bills are owed lose.
People without paying jobs can't pay. People without productive jobs don't produce. It is production that makes wealth possible, and pay for production that makes exchanges involving production efficient. Credit is nothing but window dressing.
By what standard? The proper goal of any rational person's life is to live the best life he can. That includes working wisely and demanding that he be paid for his work, setting a good example for those around him, acquiring things as a reward for his work, and refusing to reward those who attempt to insult him and steal from him.
Consider the alternative, that he not buy from people who are poor. That's really going to help them, isn't it?
Given your explanation, the solution is to splint QUANTAS into two completely separate companies, QUANTAS (domestic) and QUAiNTernAtionalService. Let the companies run themselves as best they can, but assume that the international version is going to die.
No one deserves to be given that much money. No one
He's not being given it, moron. He's earning it.
If you do something nobody else can do, or you do something nobody else will do, you deserve whatever you can get for it from your voluntary customers.
A factor of 3 in population simply does not make "sheer unfathomable economy of scale". Our biggest disadvantage is that we have a large population of layabouts, lawyers, and losers. Their two biggest advantages are they're smarter than everyone else (except for a small population of Jews [ just fact, not commentary ] ) and being only a generation away from universal government-imposed poverty means they're working quite hard.
Debt is always a drag on the economy, it always gives the people with the borrowed money more power (unless there's a gold standard and the debt is coming due). More power is bad, always, because it's power over you and me, and because the people with the power are usually corrupt and the money increases their corruption.
The problem is that the only debt-shrinkers-by-principle are Republicans, but not all Republicans are debt-shrinkers-by-principle. Bushes were mixed between sound finance and giving away the farm, and moderate helpers like tax cuts were overwhelmed by giveaways like free medicine. When the President and the Congress are the same party, the Congress becomes almost intellectually defenseless.
"Reagan's voodoo economics" is a libel. If Democrats hadn't blocked critical portions of Reagan's plan, we'd be much better off today.
I share your concern on PDF web pages, but at least PDF is unambiguous and (should) be rendered the same on all browsers. 3 years ago I tried to create a resume in html that looked the same on firefox and IE, and gave up after two weeks.
Broadband anti-reflective coating can theoretically be achieved two ways. One is to have a quarter wavelength thickness at all frequencies, which requires a transparent material with a specific and strong negative dispersion (alas, no such material is known). The other is to have a continually variable refractive index from air to glass, which is commonly approximated by multicoating.
Car wax is used to protect the paint, and by extension the underlying metal. When matte paint is waxed, it ceases to be matte, so matte paint on the outside of a car is self-defeating.
Matte coating on screens (as opposed to true anti-reflection coatings) reflects light from everywhere, so it's just a question of whether specular reflections or blurred reflections bothers you more. At least with the shiny screen, you only need to keep light off objects that reflect back to your eyes, whereas with matte screens the whole room has to be darkened.
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Lead-acid is a poor choice, due to low energy density. LIon batteries are about 3X better per kg, enough lighter that you'd actually get off the ground.
Already possible with a 3D printer. Or CNC.
Canada? Colombia? Cameroon? Chile? Chad? Cuba? Cyprus? Congo (Republic of the)? Congo (Democratic Republic of the)? Czech Republic? Croatia? Côte d'Ivoire? Comoros? Cambodia? Cape Verde? Central African Republic?
c'mon, gimme a hint.
If you're talking only about the US, saving half a million live in a decade (50,000/year) means the cars will save lives of people who would otherwise die of causes unrelated to motor vehicles, because the current rate is between 30,000 and 40,000 per year.
Worldwide, of course, you have a point, because that rate is in the 500,000 to 900,000 range per year.
There's something I'd like to see. What's it like being "phased"?
Perhaps you meant "faze".
Electronic control of throttle and fuel and transmission is becoming more common, as is single wheel braking for skid control. So think about a partially damaged controller causing maximum acceleration in second gear with the right front brake sporadically applied. Think about crashing through a store window after taking out pedestrians on the sidewalk.
Also realize that all the electronics in a modern car will retail for thousands of dollars, and that the organization responsible for a destructive EMP event will be in for a lot of lawsuits.
States generally only set limits on state roads. Most towns set limits on their own roads, and that's the primary place that local residents apply pressure if there's a perceived problem.
Do you have a problem with big businesses having jobs available, so that people can earn a living?
Doesn't the TSA offer this service for free?
Do you think when a garage charges you $55/hr for labor, the mechanic is paid $55/hr? No employer charges for an employee's labor what he pays the employee; if he did, he'd be broke in months. The employer has taxes and other overhead, takes risks, and pays his employee even when said employee has no work to do.
When a contractor deals with the government, he faces additional risks and costly regulations. He has to charge for those, and also charge for the risks and expenses involved in dealing with corrupt political organizations.
Oh absolutely. Nobody has claimed a change in solar radiation.
"We" don't know how to "fix" global warming. There is no computer model that given any appropriate starting point predicts all the warm and cold periods of the last two millenia, including times warmer than we're experiencing now. Furthermore, it's not a "problem".
The "global warming" a.k.a. "climate change" brouhaha is just an effort by leftists to gain more power, destroy those they think of as their enemies, and for many of them to destroy industrial civilization. But I'm sure you won't the vision of universal poverty interfere with your quest for a mindless life in Eden.
Credit is only a delaying factor. If people can't pay their bills, whether now or later, the people to whom those bills are owed lose.
People without paying jobs can't pay. People without productive jobs don't produce. It is production that makes wealth possible, and pay for production that makes exchanges involving production efficient. Credit is nothing but window dressing.
By what standard? The proper goal of any rational person's life is to live the best life he can. That includes working wisely and demanding that he be paid for his work, setting a good example for those around him, acquiring things as a reward for his work, and refusing to reward those who attempt to insult him and steal from him.
Consider the alternative, that he not buy from people who are poor. That's really going to help them, isn't it?
So they didn't read the terms of their loan and see that it was callable?
Spoken like a true Democrat/union member.
Given your explanation, the solution is to splint QUANTAS into two completely separate companies, QUANTAS (domestic) and QUAiNTernAtionalService. Let the companies run themselves as best they can, but assume that the international version is going to die.
He's not being given it, moron. He's earning it.
If you do something nobody else can do, or you do something nobody else will do, you deserve whatever you can get for it from your voluntary customers.
A factor of 3 in population simply does not make "sheer unfathomable economy of scale". Our biggest disadvantage is that we have a large population of layabouts, lawyers, and losers. Their two biggest advantages are they're smarter than everyone else (except for a small population of Jews [ just fact, not commentary ] ) and being only a generation away from universal government-imposed poverty means they're working quite hard.
They're assuming that debt is like arsenic, which in low doses can be somewhat tolerated, and sudden withdrawal causes death.
Debt is more like alcohol, which defeats good judgement and gradually destroys the liver, leading to death.
Debt is always a drag on the economy, it always gives the people with the borrowed money more power (unless there's a gold standard and the debt is coming due). More power is bad, always, because it's power over you and me, and because the people with the power are usually corrupt and the money increases their corruption.
The problem is that the only debt-shrinkers-by-principle are Republicans, but not all Republicans are debt-shrinkers-by-principle. Bushes were mixed between sound finance and giving away the farm, and moderate helpers like tax cuts were overwhelmed by giveaways like free medicine. When the President and the Congress are the same party, the Congress becomes almost intellectually defenseless.
"Reagan's voodoo economics" is a libel. If Democrats hadn't blocked critical portions of Reagan's plan, we'd be much better off today.
I'm looking for a phone I can control by running over it with a truck.
I share your concern on PDF web pages, but at least PDF is unambiguous and (should) be rendered the same on all browsers. 3 years ago I tried to create a resume in html that looked the same on firefox and IE, and gave up after two weeks.
Broadband anti-reflective coating can theoretically be achieved two ways. One is to have a quarter wavelength thickness at all frequencies, which requires a transparent material with a specific and strong negative dispersion (alas, no such material is known). The other is to have a continually variable refractive index from air to glass, which is commonly approximated by multicoating.
Car wax is used to protect the paint, and by extension the underlying metal. When matte paint is waxed, it ceases to be matte, so matte paint on the outside of a car is self-defeating.
Matte coating on screens (as opposed to true anti-reflection coatings) reflects light from everywhere, so it's just a question of whether specular reflections or blurred reflections bothers you more. At least with the shiny screen, you only need to keep light off objects that reflect back to your eyes, whereas with matte screens the whole room has to be darkened.