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Everything indeed, except anything useful. :confused: .

But it's not possible to have a standard system. How would a self drive vehicle deliver here? Many of our pavements in this hilly estate have intermittent staircases, often long. Even at my home, one of many flats like it, the approach to the front door of the block is another set of stairs...

I'm not surprised that he has changed direction so completely, after the shame of having to admit to the US Transportation Board that his self drive system was only level 2, driver must be in control at all times and the system only an aid. But of course it still doesn't change what I've just...

While there are some degree of truths in all that, it isn't going to happen in the world we have. That brutal hill I mentioned wasn't because of steepness alone or even that. The outward bound side is a tight, narrow twisty uphill heavy with fast traffic and very dangerous for bicycles. The...

I think you are missing the point I made, that the world cannot make e-cars, or any cars for that matter, fast enough. The fleet replacement cycle in Britain is 23 years. So there's no point in you having a charge point within hours if you can't get the e-car. Even when I bought mine five...

No need, the e-vans currently used by our couriers do the job far better than the old milk float type Pedelecs are not practical, unable to cart the load for a typical London courier delivery route, they use long wheelbase high-roof vans for good reasons. In these internet buying days the...

As I posted only yesterday, we can't all switch anyway, just to change the 60% who can charge at home to e-cars will take 12 years, so those like yourself if being sensible face an unavoidable long wait. But that's fine, since in 12 years time the street charging infrastructure will be far...

Agreed, all the cargo bike promotions of this nature are ridiculous. In my borough a DPD van heading for my area each morning is typically carrying about 130 deliveries, but the furthest the driver gets from his depot is seven miles. To add to any cargo bike usage problem is the brutal North...

Good for you. Only question is, why on earth are you having any contact with the DSS and the Department for Employment? .

But I pay hardly any since there's no tax on capital, just that on income and interest. And most of my capital was made from property and Margaret Thatcher's stupidity. But the best measure of success is that in every year of very comfortable retirement my income after a little taxation has...

There are elements of truth in the things you post and some of the things you forecast have already been here for some while. But you are wrong on this: I haven't worked all my life, far from it. My employments spanned 38 years, most of them could hardly have been more cushy with others...

Just what you need to frighten those naughty overtakers! .

You're getting confused between the truth and myth: Backing up the grid peaks from e-car batteries is good for us consumers and just an example of a country using it's resources sensibly. But of course the eponymous "they" dont want the majority driving cars, it was a great pity the majority...

Honestly you can be so out of date! This is old news and very welcome, the sooner the better. Then like Denmark we e-car owners will have lower electricity bills. But of course this being Britain it won't happen for at least ten years,the first trial here was over two years ago! .

You need to be better informed. There are a number of e-cars with summer ranges around 350 miles, winter 200 miles, and at least two with 500 mile summer ranges. Most newer ones have ultra rapid charging anyway, adding 100 miles in around five minutes from some ultra-rapid charge points. You...

When I last went on a 200 mile journey is irrelevant. What is relevant is how many do need to go on such journeys and how often. The answers are very few and very rarely, in a country where the average annual car mileage is 7,300 and where over half the cars are parked and idle most of their...

But again not in any way a big issue for a long time yet: Flat dwellers in that position are not rushing out to buy e-cars of course. Those in London affected by the ULEZ charge will face savings with an e-car rather than cost, no congestion charge either of course. £24 a day ULEZ and...

This won't be a serious problem for a long time yet, we e-car users aren't daft. Why would I choose to pay over £40 to charge my car at a public point when it costs just over £4 for a split charge at home? If I can possible avoid it I don't of course. Thats why over 80% of all e-car charging...

It's a Mouse Spider, Scotophaeus blackwalli, completely harmless to us. It gets its name from the grey coloured abdomen which is covered in tiny hairs and resembles mouse fur. In southern Britain they are found in gardens and houses, In the north they are found mainly indoors. It doesn't spin...

Birmingham trying to deflect attention from their bankrupt state? These last Friday and Wednesday don't seem to be having any problem in my London pollution hotspot: Bombus hortorum and Bombus pascuorum Bumblebees, Epistrophe diaphana Hoverfly and Plume Moth, Ambliptilia acanthadactyla: