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   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/16/25 09:25, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:26:16 +1300, Your Name    
   > wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
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   >> 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.   
      
   		Also he should use his spell checker.   
      
   		As for the electric vehicles they solve a big problem in California   
     which is the price of the gasoline used in IC vehicles.  If widely enough   
      adopted they may permit a modicum of the civilization we are used to   
      to continue for some time before the rise in Global Temperatures make   
      continuing to waste oxygen on IC engines clearly dangerous.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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