Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. Researchers in South China recently found tire-...
Electric cars are not THE solution.
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If we had those flying cars we were promised, this wouldn't be an issue.
Given how terrible humans are at driving, I think flying cars are a horrible idea.
Self-flying AI cars! Think about possibilities! 🫰🏾
I think it's only a matter of time until we get there with drones.
Not the military kind...the ones with four rotors that can already pilot a course and land themselves when batteries run low.
In a few densely populated cities in the richest countries where flying regulations aren't really strict, maaaybe. In general I don't think so.
Those supposed to be at the Olympics but they had to push it back because timeframe. (A couple successful flights but not enough to make guarantees I believe)
I’m looking forward to all the noise pollution. Drones, drones everywhere
Compared to now: car tyre roar everywhere. It might be better to have a drone taxi go straight up and away from people.
They're testing them out on the East Coast, won't be long now.
Source?
Probably referring to the large drones that have been seen in NJ, followed by NY and PA since November.
FBI is looking into them, its... Odd.
Some links to recent articles/Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_New_Jersey_drone_sightings
https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-sightings-central-new-jersey-cd8866c9c2568216759007716990decf
Right?! They really over promised the future. I want my money back.
mention of 9/11
Smaller 9/11s would be happening every day if flying cars were common
Also helicopters already exist and they're basically flying cars
What I'm envisioning isn't piloted by the passengers. Set your destination and it navigates following FAA rules and routes over short distances.
It's pretty trivial to detect humans and scan faces. Until things improve r these are going to be single passenger only so not much opportunity for a large payload.
With self driving cars, it's only a matter of time before someone makes a self driving car into a delivery system for a bomb.