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Comment It is getting hard to find vehicles with a manual (Score 1) 238

I drove vehicles with manual transmissions for nearly 50 years. The last truck I had with a manual transmission I had to special order because that was the only way to get it. No dealer within 100 miles had anything available with a manual transmission unless it was a sports car or a sub-compact.

Comment Re:Taller hoods? (Score 2) 330

I agree with the camera helping when pulling in backwards into parking slots. The style of mirrors helps too. Trucks are equipped to make it easy to position them accurately when backing up. You need accurate positioning to hook up a trailer.

Another part of the problem with parking is the longer wheelbase and larger turning radius. If you are facing forward in a parking slot then when you leave you cannot start turning significantly until you've backed about half way out of the parking slot. When backed into a parking slot you can start turning almost immediately as you leave.

I suspect the difficulties when parking is part of the reason why most trucks you see in the city are the shorter wheelbase variants.

Comment Re:An interesting, but unavoidable issue (Score 2) 54

At least for me there are other factors too.
I skimmed the paper and didn't see what questions they wanted to ask in the survey. For only $5 or the 1 in 20 chance of $100 I'd want to know what the questions are up front and what they will do with the answers and if they collect any personally identifiable information.

Comment Re:I hope it passes (Score 1) 27

The categories of data that would be impacted by APRA include certain categories of "information that identifies or is linked or reasonably linkable to an individual or device,"

If simple 'anonymization' of the data can avoid these restrictions it won't really help much as cross-comparing with other databases can often allow the data to be de-anonymized.

Comment Re:Capture & release (Score 1) 119

Creating hydrocarbons during high production periods using the spare energy and then using them in some of the old gas power plants when there's a reduction or when there's a peak in demand could actually supplement the UK's energy resources.

Using the resulting fuel to generate power would be a lot like liquid battery that works in a traditional power plant with few to no modifications. This wouldn't permanently remove the carbon from the atmosphere but it might make a transition to fully renewables easier.

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