NOVA - Car of the Future
 

This promises to be good. - "Car of the Future" NOVA episode on PBS
Tuesday 4/22 with Tom & Ray Magliozzi (Click & Clack the tappet
brothers, from NPR's "Car Talk").

Check out the preview at NOVA homepage:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Click the play button on the video window on that page to see the
preview.

There's also more extensive information on the website for the program:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/

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Looks interesting, thanks for sharing!

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Good show, I thought.

I think I'm actually in it, too. Heh, in the background of the Volt interview in the later part of the show, I'm on the far side of the Volt, or at least I think it's me. It looks like me, and is wearing what I wore that day. :D

I also saw Hobbit at the Alt Wheels, you can see his open Prius earlier, but later you can clearly see him standing next to his Prius talking to someone.

Anyway, I thought it was a good show, the only thing I was surprised they didn't mention was the official PHEV work, Ford PHEV FEH and Toyotas PHEV Prius, or anything on companies like Hymotion, Hybrids Plus!, etc. who do conversions of HEV's to PHEV's. Anyway, thought it was a good show.

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I missed it thinking it was on at 9 rather than 8. [D*mn you Osama!]

It's being rebroadcast at 1AM Saturday (tonight, an hour after midnight) on KCTS (Seattle PBS). Check your local listings.

However, I did catch a GREAT Frontline at 9. Hot Politics. I highly recommend it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/

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For those of you who have fast internet connections, you can watch it online for now:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/

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I just finished watching it online. I thought it was very interesting. I agree with one of the brothers....who the heck NEEDS 500 HP?

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No one NEEDS 500 HP, but no one needs chocolate either. But both are an awful lot of fun. I prefer to live in a place where there are more choices, not fewer. And I really prefer to live in a place where people with differing values from mine do not get to decide how I should live.

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Who said they wanted to decide how you live or eliminate your choices? Sounds like someone's paranoid. I just asked why someone needs 500HP. It's not like you can legally utilize it's full potential (in a car that is). If you could that would be cool, but you can't.

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Ever hear of a drag strip?

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Great show ! (500 HP & chocolate, ya'll crack me up) Isn't the Prius QUICK off the line (electric motor = lots of torque @ low RPM) ?

signed don't own one (yet)

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And what percentage of people who buy any car with that much horsepower from a dealer are going to go to a drag strip?

When I say i agree with the statement "Who needs 500 HP" I'm talking about for an everyday vehicle that runs on the road.


Are you in politics by any chance? If not you should be.

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Where's my choice for efficient EVs? Land of infinite variety? NOT! Last time i shopped a car all I ended up with was a 50 MPG Prius.

Why didn't Click and Clack ask the GM person about the "future car" of 10 years ago...the EV-1? where'd that battery tech end up? Well, Chevron holds the patent for the large-scale NiMH pack and the cars were crushed. THAT's the future...from the past. Wow, it boggles my mind that they didn't ask that when "40 miles and we're still waiting for a battery tech" was the answer the GM person gave when asked why the 'vapor' volt was not in production.

evnut.com for more info.

Stupid reallity conspiracies...

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It does not qualify as a conspiracy when there's clear and compelling evidence to prove the point. That makes it an inconvenient truth.

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You know... Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."

I think most people could agree to this proposition, even though it's not true as a matter of law. If you swing your fist at someone the right to do it actually ends before the other man's nose, because if you threaten someone so much that they think they could be hit it could be deemed assualt... the actual contact is the battery. (The quotation actually captures where assualt & battery meet).

Less people would agree with this statement, "I am all for 500 hp engines, as long as the people who use them re-route the exhaust into their cars so I don't have to breathe the wasteful emissions."

So, yeah, choices are great! But sometimes when choices effect others, the question of whether I have a choice or not of having to suffer the consequences of your choice becomes an issue.

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In truth, one's right to swing one's fist would end well before the other man's nose.

A man's right to take a dump on my lawn ends when I exercise my right to shoot him in the a**!