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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-16 16:25:28 +0000, Paul S Person said:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
   Nope. Because the greenies are trying to force farmers to pay fart   
   taxes for their livestock, so most farmers will simply stop bother to   
   have sheep, cows, etc. at all. Of course, the greenies don't care   
   because they're vegetarian / vegan anyway, but they haven't thought   
   through that it would also likely mean the near-extinction of all those   
   domesticated animals.   
      
      
      
   >> 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.   
      
   The greenies have a lot of idiotic ideas that simply haven not been   
   thought through properly ... but then so do all the other morons in   
   government / management.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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