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by gydfi 10y ago
Note: article doesn't actually say why he thinks this, only that he said it, so the comment is really just "next big thing is big".
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by gydfi 10y ago
It does, the term is "until you comply".
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by gydfi 10y ago
Yep, rolling resistance is the big factor in favour of the train. The big factors for the car-train are much smaller cross sectional area and the fact that it's always exactly as long as it needs to be, unlike the train which needs to
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by gydfi 10y ago
Maybe they're not. Maybe one team is totally right and the other one is totally wrong. But we will never agree on which is which. We all have our own political biases and prejudices which prevent any of us from making a sensible judgme
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by gydfi 10y ago
Once autonomous driving works well, I see no reason why cars can't scream along I-5 at twice the current speed, too. So five hours could become three and a bit, door to door. They could even autonomously draft behind each other for max
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by gydfi 10y ago
US cotton farmers worrying that Republican policies threaten their livelihood by robbing them of their cheap labour. Everything old is new again...
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by gydfi 10y ago
Interesting question. Partially it's that the global car market is huge so there's enough profit to go around even with a lot of companies. I think the more important reason is historical, though. The car companies of today were a
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by gydfi 10y ago
It seems like voodoo when you have high-school mathematics, because you've been taught about "to the power of" in terms of multiplying something by itself a certain number of times, and multiplying something by itself an imag
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by gydfi 10y ago
Even if the airports are near max capacity (and I think that's probably only LAX) there could be a lot more passenger-miles. Right now most SFO-LAX flights are on nothing larger than a 737 or A320, and on LAX-SJC I seem to wind up on s