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300-400 miles in an urban environment? Surely that's 8 hours of driving right there - how does he find any time to work?
by steveax 13y ago
300-400 miles in an urban environment? Surely that's 8 hours of driving right there - how does he find any time to work?
- redthrowaway 13y agoThey service the entire GVRD, so it can easily be an hour of highway driving between jobs. Also, 16 hour days aren't unheard of. Bear in mind, too, that he might have an 1600lb boiler in the back of the truck, which isn't friendly from a fuel efficiency standpoint. The 300-400 mile range isn't to cover the average case, but rather the worst case. The vehicle needs to be able to handle the hardest days that'll get thrown at it without recharging. An algo that's O(log n) in the average case but O(2^n) in the worst won't likely find traction.
- stcredzero 13y ago> An algo that's O(log n) in the average case but O(2^n) in the worst won't likely find traction. Yes, that's the case for an algorithm. In the case of a business model, there's a lot of inefficiency that could be turned into profit. (Zipcar) How about O(n log n) average but O(n^2) worst case?