| Title: | Cars in the UK |
| Notice: | Please read new conference charter 1.70 |
| Moderator: | COMICS::SHELLEY ELD |
| Created: | Sun Mar 06 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2584 |
| Total number of notes: | 63384 |
Anyone see Horizon on BBC2 last night?
It was talking about problems with cars in Los Angeles - smog. The
program looked at different solutions to the problem:
Reduce pollutant level of existing cars
Use electric cars - no battery exists than can power a car beyond 120
miles.
Use cars powered by methane gas - the pollutant level was found to be
little different from petrol. LA has ONE methane pump...
Use cars powered by hydrogen. Hydrogen is highly explosive, so the
hydrogen is supplied in solid form (hydroxide sp?). Expensive!
Use trams - trouble is trams have no right of way over the car.
Persuade people to 'pool' cars - one employee bought a coach and took
all his friends to work!
In the end the final conclusion was to change people, to provide homes
near to work, anything to avoid so many cars that are clogging up LA
(and shortly any other major city/town... Reading?)
Pete.
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| 1360.1 | There are lessons to be learnt | JANUS::BARKER | Jeremy Barker - T&N/CBN Diag. Eng. - Reading, UK | Tue Feb 12 1991 17:05 | 18 |
| 1360.2 | VW Leading Development ? | ESDC2::MUDAN | The Mother of All Personal Names | Tue Feb 12 1991 17:20 | 6 |
Yeps. An exciting programme. I was quite entertained with the
R & D that the Germans are investing in.
The VW `Auto-Pilot' and `Self-Parking' features were clever !
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| 1360.3 | I don't trust computers for safety on the road | JANUS::BARKER | Jeremy Barker - T&N/CBN Diag. Eng. - Reading, UK | Thu Feb 14 1991 02:54 | 7 |
Re: .2 I would want some kind of good fail-safe for the automatic convoy system. The self parking is a luxury. Parking is not difficult if you know how. jb | |||||
| 1360.4 | MARVIN::RUSLING | Hastings Upper Layers Project Leader | Thu Feb 14 1991 13:12 | 6 | |
Convoys have already been invented and are widely used around the world to move large quantities of freight and people - they're called trains... Dave | |||||
| 1360.5 | Move? | SUBURB::SAXBYM | We're the Young Generation, and we've got Saddam Hussein | Thu Feb 14 1991 13:17 | 7 |
>> Convoys have already been invented and are widely used around the
>> world to move large quantities of freight and people - they're called
>> trains...
Try telling that to commuters! :^)
Mark
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