Re: 8 lessons on shooting engineers

On Apr 23, 5:18 am, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 23, 5:03 am, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



On Apr 23, 4:03 am, rick_so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

You provide the meters for cars, like you provide license plates for
cars and drivers licenses.

When you cross into America, well you will have to buy miles or
something.

Maybe that is the way to go. You have to buy miles.

Or take mass transit.

So why not do that then?
You have to buy miles and you can buy them like you buy a phone card
for your cell phone and if you get caught without a valid card, then
that is the same as being caught without a drivers license.

And if you run out of miles, on a dark stretch of road, you can use
your cell phone, to phone up and buy some miles on your credit card.
Or takes your chances. Just like you might if you were driving with a
suspended license.

Then you can sell Hydrogen cars.
You have a meter in your car, and you enter the digits to add the
miles.
You can get more high tech like they do with onstar road service and
as you are running low on miles a friendly voice can say, you are
running out of miles, and we know where you live.

If you want to encourage people, then you have a little reddish
blueish light on your license plate and when you run out of miles, it
goes on, but people would disconnect it, or you can just go on the
honor system, and hope you don't get caught till pay day, then put in
40 bucks, because you odometer keeps track, and the longer you don't
add your miles, the more it adds up, and if you sell the car, the
miles must be up to date, and if you renew your insurance, the miles
must be up to date.

That makes more sense to just go on the honor system, get a fine for
driving without miles, or if you want to be more strict say in Texas,
then you could impound the vehicle, but in Canada, when you renew your
insurance, your miles have to be up to date and for people with
disabilities, they might even give them a discount as well as seniors.

So there is no excuse for not making them. And you can if you want,
employ a miles service, but then what will happen?
Will that be like the bank which charges a buck every time you use
your card?

So screw that. Its a capitalist world, and candle makers had to make
way for Edison, and your gas stations will have to adapt to service
centers or go out of business.

But horses still pulled carts for years, while cars drove on roads
too, so it won't happen over night.

And it has to be a sofisticated meter, but not too sofisticated.
You point a bar scanner at it, it beeps job done.

You are entering a foreign country, like from Canada to the US, if
they want to charge you road tax, which I don't see why if it such a
small sum anyways, but you could have a button that banks your
Canadian and then you enter your US miles that you buy as you get
across the border.

I mean you could simplify even to the degree, that the car owner, must
be up to date, in order to get his car insured.

The insurance company, just points the gun at the meter, takes a
reading, checks it on the computer when you pay your insurance. And
you square up then.

Why add work for the police, to check to see if you have paid your
tax?

It follows the car, follows the odometer, and who cares who pays or
when as long as someone is responsible.
And at most you are insured for a year, so they wait at most a year
for their tax.

Cross the border and pay by the day week or month at customs. Whatever
the average would work out to.
Again why burden state police with checking people's meters.

Treat it like insurance.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ed501529-f1d9-4a57-a57f-f6b785dde4fd&k=75614
Regardiung mass transit, I don't think subways are as practical as
other forms of mass transit.

If we are going to Hydrogen powered vehicles, and it is cheap to run
them, then we are talking about wages for a driver and maintenance.

So we can go to shuttle buses and even cheap cabs, but wouldn't it be
nice to come up with some really new novel idea?

Now there is a program where you ride a bike, downtown, and someone
else can take it and ride it and they are funny colored, and old, so
they are not often stolen, and you just take it and ride it and leave
it for the next person.

I thought that was a interesting approach.

But there is also the concept of the electric car, that you drive,
within town, and park at the charger, in a line of these cheap small
electric cars, and the one at the front of the line is charged, and
the person takes it, and the one you just parked is now at the back.

Thats for in town driving around. And you could use a card and buy
miles on that system. Its public transport, except you drive and park.

Lets say you live in the burbs, you drive to the outskirts and park,
and take a an electric car. Then you go home with the electrioc car,
and park it at the park and ride.

If pollution is a problem in your city, electric cars can help that.
And so then you have multi person, electric shuttle cars from the park
n ride. From the park n ride you can also catch a public bus, and in
bigger cities get on the mono-rail or subway if your city has a subway
system.

So would people make a mess in the car and all that well these are the
issues. If you got the car by approaching the ticket guy, and gave
your drivers license then its yours until you bring it back that
night.

You pay for the use of it and share the expense with other people if
you car pool, and maybe get to use the bus lane or similar.

If we were really smart, couldn't we make a plastic tube, that runs
along the sidewalk towards the city, and just has electric bubble
cars, that stop at stations along the way. Do we need a great big
subway, when an amusement ride will suffice?
Will not a roller coaster type of service, shuttle people as well as
digging up the road, and making a huge subway system?

How light can light rapid transit be?



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