Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Going somewhere to fill up is the opposite of g (Score 3, Insightful) 179

While that's absolutely true, it will also change over time. New builds are starting to include EV chargers, and retrofits are also happening. Even in buildings that will never be retrofitted, it may still be possible for people to go EV as the wider charging network improves. My sister lives in Vancouver, BC and has an EV in a building with no chargers. It works out fine for her because the public charging infrastructure in that city is widespread enough that "filling up" when she gets groceries, etc. is more than enough.

Comment Re:Strange list of companies (Score 1) 222

and an airline?

An airline.

I was originally surprised too, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense. It seems like Air Canada is shifting their view to being a transportation company rather than an air company. They already run coach busses. From their point of view it could mean first dibs at passengers for longer haul flight. E.g. I could see having a booking platform that allowed a single booking that gets you to Toronto on HSR and then onto your Air Canada flight to the Bahamas.

I have a colleague who's German and apparently this has existied for a while. E.g. there are seamless connections from HSR to flights in Frankfurt.

Comment Re:Gray market? (Score 1) 137

And only going to get harder as EVs dominate more of the market. As the number of gas cars declines it's going to become less profitable to keep gas stations open, so more will close, which will make it less attractive to have a gas car, which will further reduce demand for gas stations, creating a downward spiral feedback loop.

With Norway becoming the first country to truly hit mass adoption it'll be interesting to see what the threshold is that really kicks off this feedback loop, and how fast it happens once the tipping point has been reached.

Comment Re:Can't Wrap My Head Around the Stat (Score 1) 171

How can the 64 crashes per million miles make sense? A driver who does 10,000 miles a year would do approximately half a million miles over their driving career. So that means they would average 32 crashes over their driving career?? That can't make sense. What am I missing?

Answering my own question, the first part of the Slashdot summary is misleading: "with fewer than one injury-causing crash per million miles driven, compared to an estimated 64 crashes by human drivers over the same distance", when really it is "Waymo estimates that typical drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix would have caused 64 crashes over those 22 million miles."

However, that's still 3 per million miles, or 1.5 over my estimated driver's career of 500,000 miles. That still seems really high.

Comment Re:Feels like a non-story (Score 2) 155

This feels a bit like a non-story.

Yeah this is an internal NASA engineering "problem" in the sense that they know there's an incompatibility and now it's someone's job to calculate the best solution. Maybe it's flying up new suits, maybe it's developing adapters, maybe it's sticking them in the cargo hold. All approaches have benefits and tradeoffs and NASA wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't investigate and compare them. In other words, all part of literal rocket science. But the media loves to spin things as a capital-P "Problem" and make a story out of a non-story.

Slashdot Top Deals

"My sense of purpose is gone! I have no idea who I AM!" "Oh, my God... You've.. You've turned him into a DEMOCRAT!" -- Doonesbury

Working...