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The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me) | Tesla
The failure of electric vehicles in the early twentieth century, and the emergence of the internal combustion engine as the dominant form of propulsion, has much to do with liquid fuel providing far more energy per unit mass than a lead-acid battery can. But the explanation is not purely technical. It also has a psychological component. Buyers of p
... See moreTom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
But predictions that self-driving “robotaxis” would be ubiquitous by 2020 proved overly optimistic. Autonomous vehicles (AVs), as self-driving cars are known in the industry, can do extraordinary things, such as navigating busy downtown streets and handling complex junctions with multiple traffic lights. But they seem to be stuck in perpetual testi
... See moreTom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
The right metaphor here is not “Let’s stick with horses, even though automobiles get around,” because automobiles were clearly a more energy- and monetarily efficient way of moving things from A to B, just like email is clearly a more efficient way for me to deliver a memo to you than a fax machine. The metaphor is that it took a while before we f
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