Gingko biloba: Google's Self-Driving Car ... great! ... and a blind man is 'driving,' NYT's "The Electric Car, Unplugged," Payoff for Efficient Cars

Google's Self-Driving Car ... great! ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cdgQpa1pUUE ...

will look to add this video to World University and School's Electric and Hybrid Vehicles', wiki, subject page -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles ...

(WUaS is like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware).

... and a blind man is 'driving' ... will open worlds for people ...

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The Electric Car, Unplugged ...

NYTs - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/sunday-review/the-electric-car-unplugged.html ...

will look to add to ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Electric_and_Hybrid_Vehicles ...

and ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Battery_Technologies ...

A friend writes "This is a frustrating piece. We've had our Nissan Leaf for 3 months now and it is great. The range is fine for our everyday commuting needs. Very powerful zippy car, completely quiet, no tailpipe emissions, no gas tank to explode. And once we get our solar panels on the house, it will in effect be a solar-powered car. Imagine if everyone in LA had that setup..."

agreed, TB ... also check out ...

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/april/cars/nissan-leaf/overview/index.htm ...

19 miles on cold mornings in the eastern US and 9 hours to charge ... but looks like this will be great in California ...

(it looks, too, like I'll be able sleep in the Leaf, for ethnographic field work for my actual / virtual Harbin book (in the 6th of 12 chapters) ... )

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SM:
As gas prices go up, which hybrid cars pay for themselves and pollute less? NYTs ...

"Payoff for Efficient Cars Takes Years"
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=934851 ...

will look to add to WUaS's 'Electric and Hybrid Vehicles' -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects ...


RJ:
Unfortunately this misses other important variables in the equation: 0 tailpipe emissions for electric cards, reduced dependency on foreign oil, cutting the oil companies' stranglehold on our economy and the environment, etc.


SM:
I'd like for people / citizens to situate such technologies as electric / hybrid cars

within an emergent 'Ocean and Climate Management Plan,' such as these beginnings at World University & School -

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Ocean_%26_Climate_Management_Plan -

while the worlds' economies seem significantly to run, in part, on oil ...

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