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Comment Re:only use less gasoline if you actually charge t (Score 1) 82

The progress needs to be made in apartment building parking slots. Yes there would need to be as many charge cords as there are tenants with electric cars / PHEV's, but they don't need to be "superchargers." California at least is making it happen.

It's really one-car households that need a hybrid the most. Out in the suburbs households have multiple cars which can be an EV for daily driving and a gas car for long trips. (Or I guess one day an EV for practically everything once the infrastructure is ubiquitous and the tech is good enough.)

Comment Re: So (Score 1) 135

Then you should love instant. It's the purest concentration of coffe out there, and you can put as little - or as much - in your cup as you like.

I admit it, I drink Tasters Choice. It's good, I'm telling you! At a restaurant of cafe I sometimes get coffee I like more, but just as often I like it less!

Comment Re:only use less gasoline if you actually charge t (Score 1) 82

I suppose people are more likely to charge the easier and more affordable it is. Assuming that is the case, it would follow that the existing plugin-hybrid cars will be charged more often in the future than they are today, because charging infrastructure will improve during the lifetime of the car.

Comment Re:Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest! (Score 2) 53

I wouldn't say this research depends strictly on the amyloid hypothesis. From the story: "We think it works like a cascade: when toxic species such as amyloid-beta accumulate, disease progresses. But once the vasculature is able to function again, it starts clearing amyloid-beta and other harmful molecules, allowing the whole system to recover its balance."

So the hypothesis is the underlying cause is circulatory malfunction, which could cause lots of issues. Amyloid-beta accumulation is one of them, but it doesn't matter whether that turns out to be the key one.

Comment Re:...arrival of a "fairground ride" (Score 1) 20

Actually, this is also why I stopped using Waze. Coming back from Heathrow once, I could have just taken the M4 and South Circular, but Waze claimed it would save me more than seven minutes on 25-35 minute journey, so I thought I'd give it a go. It took me through Hounslow and the back streets of Isleworth before crossing the A316 bridge in to Richmond. It ended up taking at least 15 minutes longer than the easy route and a vast amount more effort, in the dark. Much of that extra time was either reversing in to a gap between parked cars to let somebody by, or waiting for an oncoming car to do the same for me.

This has been one of my biggest frustrations with Waze for years - it has no understanding of how difficult a road is to drive. It'll happily send you off an easy, fast, well-lit motorway onto a difficult, narrow, unlit B road if it thinks it can save two minutes on a two-hour trip.

The stupid thing is that in the UK, road types already hint at how easy or hard they are to drive. Motorways (M roads) are the easiest, then A roads, then B roads. You could even go further by looking at the number of digits - single-digit routes tend to be simpler than three-digit ones. Sure, there would be exceptions (like the M25 compared to the M6), but overall it would make routing far more sensible than what Waze does now.

Comment Re:Capitalism (Score 2) 233

I don't believe luddism was ever a tenet of communism. The Soviets certainly didn't think so when they were winning the space race, neither did China when it totally committed to the Great Leap Forward. The classic commies always envisioned a glorious shining high-tech future in which nature was subdued in the name of economic output.

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