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I would expect that intensive large fires will destroy all forests in affected areas... So next season will be 'fine' (= no trees at all).

Ideally some 'low light camera' should warn you that in darkness far ahead there's 'something' unusual on the road and you will have time to react. Recently there was accident where truck with palm oil overturned on highway and first cars crashed into the truck because they were travelling too fast and only with low beam lights : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igX765Vw1fY

For example this camera module will be used soon in cars and it's really more sensitive than driver's eye : http://www.camera-module.com/download/sony-imx390-sensor-sel...

They recognize much more objects on the road but major problem is to do not cause a lot of false alarms. e.g. You don't really want to drive car which decided that plastic bag on the highway is reason for emergency braking, on the other hand is that really plastic bag or some drunk person who is sleeping on the road...

I remember when Volvo introduced IntelliSafe technology few years ago that car was totally "paranoid" and it was beeping all the time -> most of drivers deactivated that system.

Audi A4 and Subaru Outback aced 3 years ago in similar test (ADAC, Germany) :

https://www.adac.de/infotestrat/tests/assistenzsysteme/fussg...

Audi A4 has single monochrome camera (+well tuned image recognition HW/SW) and Eyesight system from Subaru has two cameras and it's already used for ~5 years.

it's impressive. Major improvement would be if all travelers in chinese trains would use headphones if they want to listen music or play games. Personally I love silence in Japanese trains - everybody is polite and silent.

funny how VW ignores success of Toyota hybrids. Their marketing is now like - let's skip hybrids let's drive electric cars :D

It's not about children. Majority of new cases are older adults (immunization failed after ~ 25+ years).

There's serious engineering problem - you need CHEAP material which will be able to handle: 1) very high pressure 2) ultra precise sealing 3) material needs to be resistant againist hydrogen embrittlement (problem for all metal materials)

...in order to build cheap vehicle which will lasts at least 10 years.

On the other hand 1/2 of world looks more or less the same - rural Africa, india, china...

If you believe we are highly adaptable and new technologies will 'save us' somehow check this presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkj_91IJVBk

...it's eye opening

I am sure we have enough time for discussion as there's : ~ 1.2 billion cars in the world ~ and only 5.6milion electric cars

Even if US and EU will be fast in adoption there's still a lot of work ahead.

brakes ? rarely

I am sure that tires (in the city where is majority of cars electric) will not cause PM2.5 mayhem :)

Also VW prepares this technology : https://www.motor1.com/news/346653/brake-dust-particle-filte...

if you have 'clean' electricity mix e.g. France (dominant nuclear), Norway (dominant hydro) then I consider electric car as 'ecologic' (after few years lower CO2 than conventional car).

For other places around the world where electricity is more 'dirty' just drive some small car with combustion engine and maintain it as long as possible. Small car needs less energy for transport then heavy electric vehicles.

"real reduction in emissions" ...real problem is : Is your electricity 'clean' ?

In France for sure : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

in China I don't think so : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China ...however local pollution is zero so that's huge benefit for large cities of course.