What sort of future car noise? I want it to make ironic 70s muscle car noises, as if it's running on leaded gasoline at 10 miles/gallon highway.
Anyway I thought it was all the short trips that were the problem, because they get so much less mileage and are much more easily solved by alternate transportation. Long trips, if you're not driving you're either on a plane or a train anyway. And every little bit always helps, especially in a country like this one where scale can mount very quickly. But you're right, just getting the car up to 35 mph would make that actually practical.
That car is definitely creepy, in that way that things that seem cute suddenly want to kill you. But Ali and I had a whole conversation about ventriloquist dummies last night so that might have me oversensitized at the moment.
Do all electric cars have an automatic transition? And would that be just because that's what people want or that's how the car works? Because you know how I feel about stick shifts.
"I want it to make ironic 70s muscle car noises" Hahahaha!
My guess is the longer commuter traffic, especially at high speeds (much higher rpm) is the big polluter. Imo, the only answer is a better work mobile and much more awesome programming on TV for times when ppl aren't at work. Bring back Deadwood, Firefly etc.
Oh, of course, that Atlanta/LA ridiculous long distance commuting to the exo-suburbs or whatever they call them nowadays. I wasn't even thinking of that; good point.
It's funny, now that I don't have regular hours most of the time, I just look at this whole rush hour thing and think how inefficient it is. There's a whole bit at the beginning of The Apartment, which takes place in a very large insurance company in midtown in 1959, where Jack Lemmon says that each floor has slightly staggered work hours so they don't overload the elevators. I look at the capacity that not only the highways but also public transit needs for rush hour, which it pretty much doesn't need at any other hour, and wow, how wasteful
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And I don't think thats just an LA/Atlanta huge city thing. My house in Folsom is 20 miles from where everybody works downtown Sacramento. Cities like Austin, Seattle, and most of the major centers in the midwest are laid out very much the same... with white people moving outward in concentric circles to get away from the darker folk. Ooooh, we could probably market that. The Ford XT Electric Sport - moving at the speed of white flight™
My entire route to and from the kids' school is a 25mph limit zone! I drive that route SO much, I can see how this car could work for me. But yeah, if it went up to 35mph and had room for six bags of groceries in the back, it would be able to handle 85% of my driving routes. What a pity.
Ahhhhhhgh! At least it comes in different colors, but WTF is this all about? "As an accessory to your iPod, the Peapod will be offered in a rainbow of bright colors that complete the statement."
THAT is awesome. Like one of those iPod alarm clocks, but $13,000. I would say it's absurd, but remember those people who decided to buy a BMW because they were first to come along with that iPod integration stuff? Go go Apple Store memories.
I mean the movie. The shape of the windshield looks awfully similar to the shape of the head so now I see the novelty smiley car superimposed over a scary skeleton and glistening teeth...
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Anyway I thought it was all the short trips that were the problem, because they get so much less mileage and are much more easily solved by alternate transportation. Long trips, if you're not driving you're either on a plane or a train anyway. And every little bit always helps, especially in a country like this one where scale can mount very quickly. But you're right, just getting the car up to 35 mph would make that actually practical.
That car is definitely creepy, in that way that things that seem cute suddenly want to kill you. But Ali and I had a whole conversation about ventriloquist dummies last night so that might have me oversensitized at the moment.
Do all electric cars have an automatic transition? And would that be just because that's what people want or that's how the car works? Because you know how I feel about stick shifts.
Man, I need a car icon.
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My guess is the longer commuter traffic, especially at high speeds (much higher rpm) is the big polluter. Imo, the only answer is a better work mobile and much more awesome programming on TV for times when ppl aren't at work. Bring back Deadwood, Firefly etc.
Srsly tho, I'm still loling @ muscle car noises.
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It's funny, now that I don't have regular hours most of the time, I just look at this whole rush hour thing and think how inefficient it is. There's a whole bit at the beginning of The Apartment, which takes place in a very large insurance company in midtown in 1959, where Jack Lemmon says that each floor has slightly staggered work hours so they don't overload the elevators. I look at the capacity that not only the highways but also public transit needs for rush hour, which it pretty much doesn't need at any other hour, and wow, how wasteful ( ... )
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Also, this car is saying: AH MUNNA EAT CHOO!
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I just cant get the Ghostbusters Marshmallow Man out of my head when I look at it now. That smile will destroy us allll.
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