Duh! There are all those videos of waymos partying in that big parking lot!
Those things are dangerous AF. Robot cars aren’t like apps and websites: releasing buggy new new versions of the latter doesn’t endanger lives. Everything re: robot cars has to be properly tested and debugged before unleashing them on the public, and there must be real oversight.
Robot cars can and do kill people. They have no business on public roads at this time.
Why they used a stock photo of four Nissan Leafs belonging to the Leipzig office of public order that were torched in 2022 I don’t know.
Looks like someone (or all) had beer and beans for lunch.
Sounds like a net benefit over the ferries that it will replace, but I could envision something like this disrupting the ecosystem at least a little if the hydrofoils collide with something swimming just below the surface.
At least this is Lake Tahoe so they’re unlikely to hit any manatees. Hopefully Tessie steers clear of these boats…
I chuckled at the article’s “Not science fiction”. Hydrofoil ferries have been around for about 50 years now.
And didn’t even write it.
I’m reading that there was one with regular passenger service operating in Lake Lucerne starting in 1953, and it had a top speed of 40 mph. So yeah, not particularly cutting edge technology, except maybe for the fact that this one is electric.
(Coincidentally I’m currently working on an electric boat project for work. The vendor that we’re working with has been making electric boats since at least the 1893 world’s fair, so electric boats aren’t particularly new either.)
The ferry’s “electric” didn’t impress me. Even some toothbrushes are electrified.
Yeah, well, Emilio Largo had one in Thunderball.
(I know them from Lake Garda in the 1980ies, they ran them up and down the lake like buses. There also were sightseeing trips for tourists. I think they some of the Youguslavian models. A bit fuel hungry, though. And once getting spare parts got difficult they were history. Fun to ride! The only thing faster on water I’ve been on? in? was the Hovercraft between Ramsgate and Calais, but that’s another story.)
The Tories may no longer run the United Kingdom, but that doesn’t mean TERF Island’s problems are a thing of the past. […]
Not sure how to put it, but I like it when a specialist medium looks a bit beyond their immediate subject, acknowledges that nothing happens in a vacuum and, well, does something like this.
I do hope that hovercraft was not full of eels.
That article made me curious about how common it is for British teens to seek driver’s licenses in recent years. Obviously demand is outpacing the available number of instructors, so it must still be a decent number, but the narrative I keep hearing around my area is that today’s teens aren’t pursuing driver’s licenses at anywhere near the rate of past generations. Is that purely an American phenomenon or is that a wider trend around the world?
I think it’s a wider trend. At least that’s what two friends of mine who run driving schools tell me.
They moved it very, very carefully out of the construction hall into the harbour basin (video):