Oh golly, a reversing camera with smarts! That will really increase the range
And what, pray *fundamental* difference does that make to the car?
Here we are with car with a battery we cant mine the minerals for with a range that is inadequate and a charge time that is excessive. I mean LETS ADD A SMART REVERSING CAMERA instead of solving the insoluble problems and call it 'new tech'
In my day we called it 'chrome, and tailfins'
God you are pathetic.
And how much has the increased the range?
In 1889, Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office. He is widely quoted as having stated that the patent office would soon shrink in size, and eventually close, because? ?Everything that can be invented has been invented.?
No, you are pathetic. See my post about the new battery materials in the works. Sorry you cannot see the future. It will be fun for those of us that embrace it.
Range isn't the only criterion for better headlights.
Why are you obsessed with range? In any event, the range for EVs increased from a little over 250 miles in 2015 to almost 400 miles in
2020.There are more than 10 million electric cars on the road worldwide. That's not penny ante.
This tech (and a lot of other new tech) works on internal combustion cars as well as electrics.
Takes one to know one.
It may be stuff specific for schools, not really for labs or industry.
Yeah, they keep saying that about computers, too. And they're constantly proved wrong.
Indeed. And a lot of that stuff just isn't made any more, like orrery's, which used to be in every gradeschool science class.
I'd _love_ to get my hands on one of those foot high by three foot long slide rules that used to hand from science lab ceilings...
in 2021, the patent office has on file millions of patents of which less than 1% actually proved useful.
They are completely right about computers. They cant be clocked any faster, they cant be made to work with much less power - all they can do is add more cores.
The only radical breakthrough in the last 20 years has been the solid state disk.
Curiously not invented by Clive Sinclair or James Dyson, but by real engineers working in large companies.
The new(ish) Apple processors use a fraction (between and half and a third) of the power used by an Intel equivalent.
And this feat of breaking the laws of physics is achieved by?
That by itself, says nothing A Z80 uses way less power than a pentium A motorcycle uses way less power than a ferrari.
I like the comparison between Z80 and Apple. About equally usable really.
I'm sure they're in some science museums. I guess now we have to make do with pictures on a computer screen.
That's not what they were used for. This:
Make your own town names. Dundee belongs to Scotland and is where I was born.
Radical breakthroughs aren't how things happen. Slow and steady wins the race.
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