Why?
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Why?
So you can drink & drive?
Bit silly if you do that. You need to be able to intervene and take over control at times.Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
I thought they already had non-intervention driverless cars, or is that the next phase?
Probably talking bollocks, but I thought that was a legal requirement? I'd personally not want to be in a vehicle that you can't intervene on - seeing a head on collision imminent, I really wouldn't want to risk it.
I guess you dont travel by bus or train?
You will still be drunk in charge of a vehicle if it crashes and you are over the limit.
A complete and utter waste of time , ditto electric cars until they have the range
to take me to Cardiff and back (150 miles).
Tesla Model S, from memory, can do 300 miles.
Who the ferk are Tesla ?
Who would spend shed loads of money on new untested technology ?
Untested in the real world I mean not on closed roads and labs.
I won't be buying one in the remnants of my lifetime that's for sure.
Not sure if this is serious ? ? ?
have a quick google
If you don't know who Tesla are, then I am completely unsurprised that your view on electric cars is so blinkered.
The technology has been tested - earlier you were on about the range, and this is being addressed. How old are you, by the way? If you are older than 55, then I think it is possible that you will go through life without owning an electric car. If you are younger, then I think you will have little choice in the matter.
I think you may be surprised
This one can do 621 miles and 0-60 in 1.9 seconds.
Nice one - that's the one I was on about.
They are reporting 350 miles on full charge in "ideal driving" conditions.
That means driving very slowly without harsh acceleration or braking.
Well, driving smoothly is the key to energy consumption; electric, diesel, petrol...
Nowhere near an expert of cars but do these electric cars have anything like the KERS systems in F1? Self-recharging would make them more acceptable to most people I'd have thought.
No it doesn't mean that at all. Range will be affected by night time driving, driving in the cold or heat and things like that. In the same way, a diesel or petrol engine becomes less efficient as we turn on the lights in the night, or drive in the cold or heat. The effects may be greater for an electric car, granted, but it's less of a concern if the range is above 250 miles. Especially when you consider that an average car journey in the UK is about 7 miles.
Completely not a waste of time. Roads will be safer, there will be no need for everyone to own a car, and mass transit will become the norm as work moves to the cities. However, this will not become the norm for another 30 years or more in my opinion.
Electric cars will improve on ranges. The new Tesla has a 200kw battery that has a range of 650 miles. At 12p a kwh, that will cost about £24 to charge (650 miles for £24? My weekly commute would be about £11 a week instead of the current £30).
I think my current car has a good 5-6 years left in it, at that point I am fully expecting buying an electric car (the biggest issue for me at the moment is price rather than range).
Me?
Cos we're already gridlocked and need even more vehicles on our roads
why would there be even more?
if all the cars on the roads were driverless they could handle a lot more cars and drive a lot closer than human drivers, and there cold actually be less cars, as most industry experts think that people won't actually own a car in the future, but they will pay per journey from a fleet of cars, so they would pick you up, drop you off then bugger off to the next pick up.
Our clogged up streets would be empty of parked cars again, so kids will be able to play cricket against the lamp posts like I can remember, but which is completely impractical nowadays.
Many traffic jams are caused by human error, accidents etc. Many jams are the result of people driving too fast or too slow. I remember the fuel crisis in 1999/2000. Everybody slowed to 50-60 mph to save fuel and it actually resulted in faster journeys to and from work for me.
What would happen if everybody went dogging up Caerphilly Mountain?
um, im really not sure what your point is
Where I go there are hundreds of cars. Ask Sludge.
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