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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

Cars That Think

The way a Braille cell works is there’s as many as six dots arranged on a two-by-three grid. and it’ll say “ You have three-quarters of a 250 milliliter jug of orange juice that expires in two days; you have six bananas and two of them look rotten.” It’s got anywhere between like 14 and 80 cells.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Once weve consolidated everything to depend on the grid, we can clean up everything by cleaning up the grid. Once electric cars are more common, demand for electricity will rise, and electricity producers will have to look at big generators such as dams, nuclear stations or decentralised wind turbines that feed in to the grid.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Also, besides giving you the ability to charge at night when most utility rates are lower, future vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology may allow you to sell some of your stored energy back to the utilities. The demands on the grid would require a lot of infrastructure work without some sort of "energy reservoir" in place.