Future Disruption

[Akzle]

Brace yourself, I recently happened across how the neo liberal greenie socialist dictators reckon its going to work.

You WILL ALWAYS have your vehicle plugged into a charging dock when not in use at home, work or town. This will be LAW and you will be an infrastructure terrorist outlaw if you refuse to comply.
While your vehicle is plugged into the charging dock, once fully charged or deemed by authorities to have 'enough' power it will bleed power back out to charge other nearby units if the grid cant keep up.
There will be a social media campaign to liken non compliant users to the same selfishness as parking in handicaop spacers.
Your smart meter will detect that your car is at home and start switching off/denying you your other appliances until you plug the car in. Also the authorities will determine what you run via smart meter during peak grid loading times. Non essential use such as computer, games macvhines, tv's etc will be remotely switched off to limit demand.

Never mind that in NZ only about 65% of our energy is hydro, rest is coal/oil/gas burning. Wind is a net loss enviromentally if you factor in the power stations pooled up wasting power capacity to balance grid incase wind drops (you cant just suddenly run out of electricity, it damages the distribution infrastructure with sudden load changes). And then theres all the construction and maintainance activity, limited lifespans compared to other generation sources, many turbines are failing after 15 years service. Also turbine gearboxes have anywhere from 60-400L of transmission oil in them and the oil is at limits of technology dealing with massive shear loadings.
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buy my magna bro

[James Deuce]

Autonomous vehicles spell the end of motorcycles. Electric bikes are evil.

[James Deuce]

that would be a tesla coil.

there's also the whole "randomly arcing to ground through, like, people and shit" problem to be overcome.

David Attenborough would call that a solution to the population problem. That widely revered little motherfucker is a closet genocide fan.

[Dadpole]

David Attenborough would call that a solution to the population problem. That widely revered little motherfucker is a closet genocide fan.

And this is wrong how?

[James Deuce]

And this is wrong how?

You and your '70s farm bike are on the list.

[Viking01]

http://russia-insider.com/en/politic...inance/ri21165

[R650R]

buy my magna bro

been there done that, had a 93 Aussie built V3000 5 seed manual sedan. Was a bloody good car

[R650R]

Autonomous vehicles spell the end of motorcycles. Electric bikes are evil.

Just imagine the hysteria about the harm to planet earth when a car autonomous or not runs over an electric bike rupturing the fuel cell.

In a car vs car it would be mostly contained or protected... but just imagine a 20,000AH Lithium fuel cell getting squished on a rainy day....

[Akzle]

been there done that, had a 93 Aussie built V3000 5 seed manual sedan. Was a bloody good car

yeah. had a couple of the old mot magpies myself. the 6g fucken fangs. better with a turbo. shame they were fwd.

[TheDemonLord]

Just imagine the hysteria about the harm to planet earth when a car autonomous or not runs over an electric bike rupturing the fuel cell.

In a car vs car it would be mostly contained or protected... but just imagine a 20,000AH Lithium fuel cell getting squished on a rainy day....

If only Mythbusters was still going - that'd be great for it!

[oldrider]

been there done that, had a 93 Aussie built V3000 5 seed manual sedan. Was a bloody good car

I had one of those - did about 90,000Km in it!

It was a really fast car, hard on tyres if you were slightly heavy with the foot but as responsive a car that I have owned.

Never ever had it flat out, there always seemed to be a little bit left to go before you ran out of (special off road track) everything!