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Comment Many Vehicles Don't Have Enought Brake Light Area (Score 1) 136

Indeed LED brake lights are bright, but they don't have enough area. Cars would be safer if they all had a similar brake light area. BTW, on most weeks here in the Silicon Valley, I find a motorist with a bad taillight, and tell them. Oddly, the newer LED tail-lights are not more reliable than the old bulbs, perhaps because of added complexity, such as CANBUS.

Comment Recycling might help (Score 2) 125

Are dumps are full of neodymium from old hard drives, and lithium from batteries. You can take the magnets out of an old hard drive by boiling it in water, and using a pair of pliers with a jaw pushing on edge of the magnet, and the other on the edge of steel plate. Industrially, lithium could probably be extracted from old batteries by grinding them and soaking them in water to react the lithium

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