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but not if it means I have to pay more for it, and more to fill it up.
And only lasts 10 years because of the batteries, and has zero re-sale value unless you put $10k into a new battery pack. I know most people don't keep cars as long as those batteries would last, but it would still have a huge effect on used car sales and people at the lower end of the price range.
People will buy electric cars when it makes economic sense to do so. That will happen when either the price of electric cars or electricity comes way down, or when the price of gas goes way up.
And when they're not trading internal combustion for spontaneous combustion a la the Volt, though we're assured that was only because they tested them.
It just looks like a helicopter to me. That's not futuristic. We've got helicopters.
I mean, I don't, but civilization does.
It's about time. My fifth grade teacher told us we'd have a flying car by 1985, no later. Now we can get working on the next item on humanity's to-do list, the pill you take to take care of all your food for the day. Followed by some sort of information super highway.
Eventually there will be voices in your car who give directions. (in addition to your spouse/sig other, who tells you where to go)
Obviously we need to be focusing all our scientific acumen on a cure for baldness. I mean, time is nigh! In negative 29 years, it's going to be 1984, man!
The US government spends way more on researching stupid things like breast cancer and prosthetic limbs for soldiers, neither of which helps me one bit. My entreaties to Obama for baldness research are ignored.
I hear he's working on an Amendment to the Constitution so that bald people only count as 3/5 of a person in the census.
As a future cueball, I now wish I had voted for Romney, though his thick lustrous hair may suggest a lack of empathy as well.
I hear he's working on an Amendment to the Constitution so that bald people only count as 3/5 of a person in the census.
This seems fair.