We have to switch to electric cars. Can the grid handle it? From a video on Engineering Explained channel. https://youtu.be/7dfyG6FXsUU EVs – electric vehicles – get about 100 miles per gallon equivalent. One gallon of gasoline is equivalent to 33.7 kWh. We do some math and come up with about 1 trillion kWh used by
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This research from U. California Irvine says they can trick autonomous vehicles into erratic behavior. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/29/uci-researchers-autonomous-vehicles-can-be-tricked-into-dangerous-driving-behavior/
From Tesla small shareholders Dylan McGill Said, “In 10 years Tesla will sell 20X as many cars.” Not likely. If level 5 autonomy is available to all vehicles, those vehicles will no longer need to be sitting in garages and parking lots for 95% of the time like they do now. Instead those vehicles will
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From FB group TSLA… I think that level 5 autonomy is going to need the roads to have some role in driving the vehicle. There are a lot of transitory and emergency events that take place that will best be handled by the roads than by vehicles. Seems to me that a huge amount of
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From FB reply. Jeff Perry I call BS on your specious assertions. The electric grid will not have to be upgraded more than a third because the energy used by EVs is less than 1/3 of the energy of a fossil fuels car. There will no longer be drilling, refining, transporting and dispensing fossil fuels,
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Dojo whitepaper released by Tesla. Most people have little concept of what AI is; the myths that surround it are masking its abilities. The ironic thing is that we see huge amounts of money go into making a computer that will emulate a human, yet there billions of humans around who could do the same
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California makes zero emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030. Signed into law today. https://www.engadget.com/california-zero-emissions-autonomous-vehicles-2030-162009922.html
This ad popped up and I had to watch this little workhorse do its jobs. It gave me several thoughts of what it could be used for. It even can work in the dark and in the rain. It said that it’s 64 HP and $14,800.00. When I was a kid, I remember seeing articles
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I think that after the technology for autonomous EVs advances to a plateau and independent scientists analyze the failures (accidents) then there will be changes made to the road infrastructure, such as traffic signals that have their LEDs modulated with data about the location, etc. The vehicles will be more controlled by the traffic system
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