Smart guns are dumb..

[Blackfeather]

This was a very interesting read.

Is your electric vehicle really all that green and cost less money to own and run.

14 Hidden Costs of Owning an Electric Vehicle That No One Is Talking About

Rising gas prices have more people eyeing electric cars, but going electric isn't for everyone. Here are a few things to consider before making the switch.

financebuzz.com

 

[EvilElmo]

And tires which require petroleum products to make.

Not to mention the literally hundreds of tons of materials that have to be mined just to make one battery.

Electric cars don't reduce pollution, they just move the immediately visible part of it to third world countries where the environmental regulations are lax (or nonexistent).

 

[Pitdogg2]

Not to mention the literally hundreds of tons of materials that have to be mined just to make one battery.

Electric cars don't reduce pollution, they just move the immediately visible part of it to third world countries where the environmental regulations are lax (or nonexistent).

BOOM DROP THE MIC!!

 

[Annihilator]

One word………”SKYNET!”

 

[BobT]

About a year ago I bought a brand new HP Laptop with a finger print reader to unlock it, it worked (once) now it only unlocks with a PIN number.
As mentioned the fool proof technology is not there yet, to many variables to go wrong.

If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs.....

... then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization!!!

 

[BobT]

This was a very interesting read.

Is your electric vehicle really all that green and cost less money to own and run.

14 Hidden Costs of Owning an Electric Vehicle That No One Is Talking About

Rising gas prices have more people eyeing electric cars, but going electric isn't for everyone. Here are a few things to consider before making the switch.

financebuzz.com

Here is #11.....

The length of time it takes to become carbon neutral due to the pollution of manufacturing your lightening limo is around 8-10 years. (Source - a John Stossel report).

 

[SimonRL]

This was a very interesting read.

Is your electric vehicle really all that green and cost less money to own and run.

14 Hidden Costs of Owning an Electric Vehicle That No One Is Talking About

Rising gas prices have more people eyeing electric cars, but going electric isn't for everyone. Here are a few things to consider before making the switch.

financebuzz.com

Don’t even get me started on this. Somehow using less fuel equates to being green without considering everything else that goes into manufacturing EVs and their batteries. What’s more we’ve all been about not being dependent on foreign oil and the EV market relies on cobalt for batteries which is, by and large, controlled by the Chinese. I’ll be buried in a car with an internal combustion engine and a manual gear shift!

 

[Hammer67]

Any time a manufacturer feels the need to put "smart" in the product name, you should probably be suspicious.