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The national roadmap is absolutely massive amount of R&D going into self driving cars for example or solar batteries
by vasilipupkin 9y ago
The national roadmap is absolutely massive amount of R&D going into self driving cars for example or solar batteries
- vkou 9y agoWhat exactly do self-driving cars have to do with reducing our carbon footprint? Hell, self-driving cars are the absolutely wrong solution to this problem. Personal automobiles - a 4,000lb steel and rubber box that drives a single 160lb human around, are incredibly wasteful, energy-inefficient luxuries. Trains, buses, bicycles, and better urban planning are the real solution to low-carbon personal transportation. There's no roadmap in America for any of those things.
- dane-pgp 9y agoSelf-driving cars might make using taxis cheaper than owning a car, which will mean car users don't have to worry about how long it takes to recharge an electric car's batteries any more, or what their range is. Electric cars (when their batteries are plugged into the grid) could also potentially make a good distributed battery, making renewable energy sources seem more reliable. There is a good recent article about the battery system Tesla set up in Australia: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/26/teslas-enormous-battery-in-australia-just-weeks-old-is-already-responding-to-outages-in-record-time/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/26...