As long as they sign a lease in excess of 30 days, yes. In Florida it's 6 months due to the massive numbers of snowbirds that come down for 3-4 months a year.

And they just consider the occasional resident being hit with the tax a cost of doing business. So long as the resident doesn't get hit with them too often...

It's the usual for tourist areas: You want to soak the tourists, who don't vote in your area, for as much tax money as you can. Thus the double-digit tax percentages on things that only tourists normally use, such as hotels.

Also restaurant taxes specifically aimed at sit-down places that 'tourists' normally visit more often, etc...

I'm not sure why you posted this, I didn't make any mention of size, weight, or efficiency. Still, to expand -

Grid storage is indeed not very concerned with size(volume, weight), but are interested in overall cost and efficiency. Everything I've read has LiIon being not just top of the line for energy density, but also comes out high for energy efficiency - this is where lead-acid tends to fall down. It's energy efficiency tends to be about equal to the Nickel chemistries - NiCad and NiMH.

I mentioned the price because LiIon has been becoming cheaper per joule per years, when the nickel in NiCad batteries has been increasing in price, driving up the cost of battery chemistries that use it. NiCad is still cheaper, but for how long? Musk is planning on chopping the cost of LiIon in half again with this factory.

The BESS ended up being $5 per watt-hour, but it's a complete UPS system. We don't know how much the batteries/chargers were specifically and how much was the facility and AC generation equipment.

Anybody interested in Grid-tie utility level battery energy storage systems should look at Fairbank's BESS, a 6.75 MWh battery system that's to cover any outages until alternate power can be spun up.

Of course, they're NiCad batteries right now, but given enough time, I can see LiIon being cheaper. Still, at $35M it's not cheap.

All I know is that there are a number of tricks, and the car industry will have to put it through their standard 'testing from hell' before they actually do it.

A standard car wash should also clean it.

While they're busily fixing it, an old problem was matching a low-resolution image of a face to an actual individual with enough certainty that you can't find a half-dozen other individuals that also match without much problem.

It's tough even with witnesses and books of known criminal gangs.

Terrorism, theft of services, impersonation of a law enforcement officer, impersonation of a federal official, I figure they can find a few more.

Man, after reading all that all I can say is that I really hope that they come out with consumer level self-driving cars in a short period of time. We're getting close.

Part of the reson actually ties into drone operations - they've found that drone operators often don't perform their best because flying a drone is normally too easy - the 'pilot' doesn't have enough to do to keep his attention up, slowing any reactions. So they've been shutting off some of the automations.

Much past 'adaptive cruise control' I'm thinking that I might as well be in a fully automatic car so I can read a book or something after telling the car where I want to go.

I've experienced that myself. In addition I've found that the time I spent manually moving my steam games to the HD when I was done actively playing them(even mostly automated with a script) was taking enough time & effort that I ended up just installing them all to the HD by default, leaving the OS as the main SSD use. I really need to find some sort of smart caching system like the hybrid SSD/HD.

You mean robot, right?

Turns out the law on turn signals is somewhat complicated, but I'm not seeing anything that requires turn signal markers on the mirrors/side, simply that they have to be visible on the side. Wrapping the head/brake lights around so the turn is visible from the side should be sufficient to meet the law's requirements.

The cameras I'd probably mount just behind the wheel well. It'd be a snap-in component. Puddle light? Never had a vehicle that luxurious, but I thing you could do it with LED lighting from the door handle.

Can you provide a link about them putting radar units in the side mirrors? Never heard of that, thought they generally mounted it on the grill/bumper.

The display units would probably be integrated into the dashboard and assembled mostly by robots.

Keep in mind that any implimentation of this would involve several years work in test cars which involves thousands of miles of driving and complete environmental testing.

That's the RCA connection. Composite is the standard, RCA is the connector. Component is technically RCA as well, but I consider it a bit different because you need 3 of them.

I've found that my winter coats aren't thick enough to significantly impact mirror orientation, and I live in Alaska.

Really, you just need to know whether a vehicle is there or not.

It's a que that I've never missed. As nabsltd mentioned, I simply remember where my mirrors are set. It's obvious enough if they end up moved that I simply reset them. I'm the only one that drives my truck, so they 'never' move anyways.

If I'm driving a different vehicle I adjust them the same way.

Besides, remember 'sitting in a natural driving position'? If I really need to I can see the side of my vehicle by shifting my head. By the same token I can see just a bit further the other way as well if I shift the other way than you(theoretically; individual vehicles have more variation) can.

c. Marketed to those not affected by the downturn, as there always are.

I'd probably have an easier time replacing a camera than may side mirrors.

Besides, I had the driver side mirror taken out by a deer, and it was over a hundred to replace! Now consider how many vehicles on the road today have those fancy turn signals on their side mirrors, that's gotta raise the price a bit.

1. Reducing the drag would probably save more fuel than reducing battery weight(unless you REALLY reduce that weight).
2. The views replacing the side mirrors would probably be on dedicated panels that are active at all times while driving.