Off-Grid Tech

Most newer electric vehicles have V2L, which allows you to plug in an electric frying pan, toaster, microwave oven, refrigerator or other appliances during grid failures. Also handy for camping. Saves money on electricity when vehicle is charged during cheap off-peak rates.

Smartest solution is to charge electric vehicles with rooftop & vertical solar power or wind power most of the time. Occasionally with a multi-fuel linear generator running on landfill methane. mainspringenergy.com/solutio…

Waymo has started deploying autonomous vans. These can be made accessible to accommodate baby carriages, strollers, cyclists' baby trailers, mobility scooters, electric wheelchairs, and delivery bots by incorporating kneeling suspension & fold-away seats. Meanwhile, autonomous shuttle buses can do the same. Buses without kneeling capability (ability to lower suspension for level or near level access) are dangerous due to steep ramps or steps. Even privately-owned vehicles can benefit from variable height suspension to let elderly or disabled relatives enter and exit safely. Aftermarket/retrofit variable height suspension kits for small vehicles are available.

Smartest way to obtain gold is to recover it from waste streams using AI-vision assisted automation.

Competent governments contribute to problem-solving by providing security--including removing road racers, red light runners and other killers from public roads. Police who do this are an essential part of preventive health care. Incompetent governments have more sympathy for killers than victims. Instead of locking-up crack dealers, they assist crack dealers by handing out free crack pipes.

Agricultural mechanization enabled farmers to produce more food with shorter working hours. Inventors develop machines based on knowledge developed by scientists. Industrial automation engineers produce machines at low cost. Unions take credit for accomplishments of scientists, inventors and engineers. Now they're trying to interfere with data scientists saving lives with autonomous vehicles, AI-assisted medical research, and telemedicine. China quickly lifted itself out of poverty by implementing agricultural mechanization, freeing-up farm laborers to become scientists, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs and educators. Pol Pot did the opposite. He forced scientists, engineers, inventors, entrepreneurs and educators to become farm laborers. Poor countries are poor because they have too many communists, not enough agricultural mechanization. Especially irrigation. Wealth has to be created before it can be distributed. Efficiency creates wealth. Featherbedding destroys wealth by wasting human potential.

Your trash produces methane gas as it decomposes in your driveway. And then in a landfill. SO2 and germs in the gas are unhealthy. Bots that haul trash away daily to automated sorting centers protect public health. So do pipes that collect methane from landfills instead of letting it go into the air. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… When garbage truck drivers go on strike, and trash piles up for months in residential areas, that creates a substantial public health hazard. Your digestive system also produces methane gas. Especially after eating burritos and drinking beer. Releasing this gas in an elevator, bus or other confined space is a public health hazard. dumpsterfire.com/l/7134/bus-…

Autonomous delivery trikes follow whatever rules they're programmed to follow--including parking properly. xitter.gq/aj_hugs/status/2082145… Magna International has also built and tested autonomous delivery trikes: electricautonomy.ca/automake… Previously tested in Detroit without any safety incidents. Detroit and Toronto have similar average annual snowfall — roughly 45–48 inches (about 114–122 cm). Autonomous taxis have already proven themselves to be far safer than human-drivers over hundreds of millions of miles, largely due to the fact that computers and cameras can focus in multiple directions simultaneously. Human drivers take seconds to refocus physically and mentally. Large mirrors on buses obstruct forward vision, creating forward blind spots.

Used car salesman then? In the real world, some people DON'T drive attentively and defensively. They run red lights at high speed and kill families. How do you propose to get these individuals off the road BEFORE they kill? Here's an example from Renton, WA: komonews.com/news/local/rent… An example from Brampton, ON: cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/b… This has been going on for over 100 years. Driver assist, autonomous vehicles, and other approaches can now slash road deaths and serious injuries by over 80%. No matter how attentively you drive, you can't focus in all directions simultaneously like an autonomous vehicle or driver assist.

Sodium-based batteries work at lower temperatures and present practically zero risk of fire. Even LiPo batteries present far lower fire risk than gasoline lawnmowers and snow blowers.