XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:26:16 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
      
      
   >There have been news stories about idiotic self-driving cars /    
   >robo-taxis that have caused issues. There was one were lots of them all    
   >seemed to congregate in a particular street, often honking their horns,    
   >etc. which annoyed the people living there.   
      
   This is a phenomenon mention in the film /I, Robot/: the tendency to   
   congregate.   
      
   I see it most weeks at the laundromat: the wheeled clothes baskets   
   tend to end up in the same area. Sometimes there are little ones among   
   the big ones, looking a lot like a family. But of course they are not.   
      
   Personally, I've always felt that a 3" mortar was the obvious solution   
   to such problems, whether from vehicle or house. But that's just me.   
      
   >> Then again, I couldn't find out what vehicles run on in the future    
   >> Mega-City of "Judge Dredd" - they could be powered from the road - but    
   >> with a shortage of apartments (at least perhaps until a series of    
   >> catasrophes reduces the population cumulatively?), they just live in    
   >> their vehicle. And with not enough parking space either - these are    
   >> literal mobile homes.   
      
      
      
   >There are trials in various countries of electric cars that are    
   >continuously charged driving along the road, but such a scheme would be    
   >hideously expensive and distruptive while roads are dug up to bury the    
   >cables and charging pads, so is unlikely to every happen except in    
   >small specific areas.   
   >   
   >Another option being trialled is wireless charging pads in parking spots.   
      
   Our city is installing charging stations along some streets. But I   
   don't think there is any "wireless" about it.   
      
   As you note rather hysterically below, this is stressing the   
   electrical grid. The server farms and "AI" chatbots aren't helping any   
   either.   
      
   One interesting factoid is that studies have apparently shown that   
   grazing animals (sheep, cows) actually do better grazing around   
   power-producing windmills. Which means the landowners can lease the   
   land twice: once for the windmills, and once for the grazing. Well,   
   maybe.   
      
   >The reality is that the silly greeny push towards electric cars creates    
   >far more peoroblems than they "solve", and don't even solve the ones    
   >claimed anyway.   
      
   Careful: your ideology is showing. And that kills worthwhile   
   discussion.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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