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Apollyon said:
Ive got a diesel X6 but my son (accountant) is insisting for tax purposes I get a Tesla.
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I swapped from a diesel X5 last March, not by choice - car had electric faults at just over 3 year old that BMW couldn't fix & they had it for 7 weeks?

Depreciation in value was scary, BMW said the bottom had fallen out of the diesel market - then tried to flog me another diesel! Had BMW's for years, but left a bad taste.

I did consider the Tesla, but Electric is no good for me, too much travelling & not enough charging stations or range yet.

Back to Petrol, terribly fuel inefficient but fun to drive!
 
mao tse tung said:
The technology that runs Driverless cars is being developed in Europe primarily by Robert Bosch; they are specialists in the front end cameras and the radar systems which control them.

I visit their facility in Budapest quite regularly as they also develop technology for a Company I work with.

They have driverless cars driving around the facility non stop; it does not matter how many times you see a car drive past with no driver, it has the same unnerving effect.

It will have a dramatic effect when they are integrated into conventional traffic on a large scale, and that's just cars; there will be total pandemonium when driverless HGVs hit the road.

There is the potential to have Clifton Bridge levels of congestion on a daily basis.

I am not sure how much grid lock and carnage people will tolerate before there is total uproar.
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We need a Back To The Future Delorean Fusion Powered Vehicle.
 
Pope John XXIII said:
Question about Hydrogen cars. Two actually.

I keep hearing that they produce only water as a by product.

Ok, so with all the millions of cars on the roads, isn't that going to cause some problems?

Also, where is all the Hydrogen coming from? I know it's abundant in the universe but it isn't infinite on Earth
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I wasn't great at Chemistry at school, but surely the hydrogen still exists in the same quantities in the water (and werever else its gone) , just waiting to be separated again? Not watched Feco's video, but my understanding is that hydrogen is pretty difficult to split out, and the splitting out involves the burning of fossil fuels, bringing us back to the initial problem !
 
Feco said:
To be honest, with some of the idiots who drive in this region, driverless cars cannot come quick enough.
Even if the cars haven't been adapted,
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In the UK circa 5 people a day are killed in road accidents per day. Driverless cars though are major headlines when they kill someone. I guess they will be accepted one day, but expectations are they will be 100% safe . Not sure how many miles they clock up per accident, but they seem to get the blame even if someone walks out in front of them
 
mao tse tung said:
There is the potential to have Clifton Bridge levels of congestion on a daily basis.

I am not sure how much grid lock and carnage people will tolerate before there is total uproar.
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Got no stats to prove it, but I would guess Clifton Bridge is pretty clear between 10 at night and six in the morning. Even at other times traffic can be quite light. Driverless vehicles could presumably operate in the dark, and could be used to double or treble useful operating capacity by working at off-peak times.

Could driverless trains be used too, to send more freight by rail? That was the plan before the freightliner rail system failed.
 
Lienking said:
Got no stats to prove it, but I would guess Clifton Bridge is pretty clear between 10 at night and six in the morning. Even at other times traffic can be quite light. Driverless vehicles could presumably operate in the dark, and could be used to double or treble useful operating capacity by working at off-peak times.

Could driverless trains be used too, to send more freight by rail? That was the plan before the freightliner rail system failed.
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Yes they could run them during the night but I doubt that you could double or even treble the amount of freight on the roads during that period.

The demand driven, just in time, delivery model is here to stay, Amazon will see to that.

I have seen the fancy proposals for night time freight come and go; not because there is no appetite for it, mainly because in a lot of instances it is just not practicable.

With regard to driverless cars, Taxi's have been suggested as one possibility; that might work during the night.
 
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