Airplanes don't go to a lot of the places you might want to drive to in the US. You'd have to fly into the nearest airport, rent a car, and then drive to your destination. This would take much longer and cost more than driving there directly. Do I wish that we had a better rail network that went everywhere I would want to go, yes of course, but we don't, and won't in my lifetime.
How do you pay a kid $20 for mowing your lawn if he only has a pre-paid VISA card? I still keep at least $100 in cash in my wallet.
Dude that heat energy has to go somewhere. So even if you have miraculous electricity you're still going to be belching heat into the atmosphere.
The total yearly electrical energy consumption of the entire world converted to heat, is a rounding error compared to the amount of heat trapped by CO2. And as long as we don't have the blanket of CO2 trapping that heat, it quickly gets irradiated out into space. Earth's own internal heat would have long since cooked us if that weren't the case.
The consideration is that you get to use the software. It "licensed, not sold". If you want to keep using the software, you comply with the license, which probably means an audit clause. If the agreement is void, then you have no right to use the software anymore and are in copyright violation. It's not a good deal, but that's enterprise proprietary software for you.
Some of the aluminum likely burned, which is just more fuel on that fire.
I'm pretty sure aluminum fires aren't self sustaining in the the atmosphere.
I bought the Canon MF462Cdw color laser several years ago when I got fed up paying for inkjet cartridges. Works great, toner last a long time as long as you are not constantly printing out full color photos all the time. Biggest inconvenience is that paper tray 1 is the custom media feeder, so if you don't have the Canon drivers installed and just depend on the generic postscript drivers, the print job often gets sent to to tray 1 by default and you will have to manually click a button on the printer to tell it to go ahead and use try 2, which has the standard letter media in it.
But other than that, no paper feed issues, no break downs. A nice automatic scanner feed that rarely jams. No complaints really. Keep in mind if you are buying it for kids that specialty uses like iron on transfers require special laser compatible transfer paper that might not be available at Office Max.
That functionality is basically non-existent in North America outside of Tesla. My car has that capability, but it requires a deal between the charging network owner and the vehicle manufacturer to enable, not to mention a charging station with the capability, and 0 of the charging networks I have access to support it.
The right answer is just put a freaking credit card reader on the charger. It works just fine for gas pumps.
Yup, I've seen an F150 with a camping trailer hitched to it parked horizontally across a full bay of superchargers at a rest stop. The guy could have parked in the back of the lot where there was plenty of room and walked an extra 30 seconds, but he thought he deserved that spot I guess.
That's only true if you only refill your EV at fast chargers, which is a really dumb thing to do. 99% of your refills are going to be at home, on domestic rate electricity. Fast chargers are for road trips and other situations when you are near empty and need to get on the go right away. The savings you get by charging at home should more than make up for the occasional road trip.
AAA website says that the national average gas price for regular is currently $3.22. Average in my state is $3.08. I pay $0.36/kWh for electricity though.
To count a move from 20 to 16% failure rate for charging attempts as a sign of real improvement in the American charging experience just shows how, once again, the US nowadays tends to deliver shittier experiences than other developing markets.
It's a big improvement (20%), it's just that it has improved from abysmal to unacceptable. I think the original sin of EV fast charging is that just because you can put a fast charger anywhere you have sufficient electric supply, doesn't mean you should.
An EV charging station should have an awning over the chargers to protect users from the elements. Machines should take plain old credit cards and not require an elaborate song and dance with an app. There should be an attendant present to help disabled people with refueling and discourage vandalism of the machines. The attendant could also take cash and manually enable machines for customers without credit cards or when the network is down. You know, all the things a petrol station has.
Cramming 4 EA machines in the far corner of a Walmart parking lot behind the dumpsters, 2 of which have had their cables stolen for copper and one of which is broken does not a great experience make.
I have pretty regularly seen single broken pumps at a gas station. I have encountered maybe one station in my life that was "out of gas" (underground tank was empty). So, no, I don't think that station out of fuel is the most likely failure scenario. Mechanical pumps break down pretty regularly, it's just that station owners actually perform maintenance and repairs on them. It probably helps that most refueling stations are franchises owned by an individual or a small LLC that have a vested interest in getting all pumps up and running ASAP vs EV charging networks which are owned and operated by larger national corps that move a lot slower.
Yeah, imagine hating a guy who unironically does a sieg heil on national TV.
You can do the same thing in SF with
Gestures are going to be the most comprehensive, as it allows "real" interaction with the objects overlayed on the scene.
Try pretending to use a virtual keyboard or touch interface floating in front of you for even 2 minutes. Without support or a a task to grasp onto, the large muscles in your arm quickly become fatigued. This is called the "gorilla arm" phenomenon. It looks great in movies and sounds great in SF books, but the reality is different.
That's what's typically used in VR.
In VR, much of the fine interaction is handled by thumbsticks and buttons on the controllers, with only an occasional large physical motion, and people still find it fatiguing. Now imagine if all the thumb/finger swipes you do daily on your phone replaced with pawing at the air in front of you without the benefit of physical controls to supplement. You'd quickly grow frustrated with such an interface.
"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet." -Ambrose Bierce
