This all gets much worse with autonomous vehicles.... Doh!

Rise of the ‘ghost owners’: 18,000 UK vehicles in use without proper records Exclusive: Labour MP calls on DVLA to take action, saying ‘speeding, hit and runs and worse’ are going unpunished

NEW: More than 18,000 vehicles are being used in the UK without proper records of where their owners live, it has emerged, part of what Labour MP Sarah Coombes has called an increasing problem of “ghost owners” who cannot be held accountable for their driving.

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Why Cities Shouldn’t Fall For the Robotaxi Hype Transportation historian Peter Norton sees a pattern in the promises that autonomous vehicle companies make as they push self-driving cars into cities.

Transportation historian Peter Norton doesn't buy into the robotaxi hullabaloo:

"What robot cars are promising is the next generation of car dependency."

In @bloomberg.com, my lengthy conversation with @norton.bsky.social

I know you know already...

But, if ya buying an EV (second hand?).. it MUST have CCS charging. And 40kwh+ battery (160mile real world range). And rapid charging (35-50kw+++).

Anything old with anything less is scrap metal / sold to suckers / 2nd car.

Imho.

As an aside, as far as I know Sefton council removed all their EV chargers and have never replaced them...

Does using the app get you reduced prices, or do you need to pay an additional subscription? My local rapid chargers are brutal...

Slow chargers are cheaper.. but, err, slower and actually time limited so even less useful.

As soon as Barringtons name is associated I lose any faith in the delivery. Repeatedly spineless. A bloody year to design it....

Council awards design contract to progress Vauxhall/Greatie active travel improvements - Liverpool Express Liverpool City Council has approved the award of a contract for preliminary design work to support major active travel improvements across the Vauxhall and Greatie corridors.

liverpoolexpress.co.uk/council-awar...

To be brutal... Find any way you can to charge at home. Public charging is a shit show. 69p/kWh is pretty typical. Paid 84p at times.

28p at home (or less) makes all the difference.

That's amazing... Probably cheaper than us public charging an EV!

Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly!

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1 Screenshot from the movie "Blade Runner" (1982): First, a computer screen displays a profile on a male replicant named Leon, including a small image of his face partially in shadow. The screen lists his designation as NEXUS 6 with serial number N6MAC41717, an incept date of 10 April, 2017, and his function as Combat / Loader (Nuc. Fiss.). His physical and mental levels are rated A and C respectively. The interface has a retro-futuristic design, with a cyan-blue glow and bold typeface.

Apr 10th 2017 - The Nexus 6 replicant named Leon Kowalski was incepted.

📽️📅 Blade Runner (1982)

this is not the 3rd place we were hoping for.

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.

One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

"20 yrs ago the world took a year to add 1 gigawatt of solar.
Now it takes just half a day.

Solar costs have fallen by around 90% over past decade, & as costs fall, installations accelerate.

Nowhere is this clearer than in China 🇨🇳. It now accounts for well over half of global solar installations"

A metal bollard which makes a modal filter passable only to bikes.

On my ride yesterday. I can suspect what they *thought* the purpose of this bollard was, but it actually makes it surprisingly difficult to pass by bike, and impossible for any other modified bike.

Those cobbles look smoother and easier to ride than half the roads in Britain... The current cobbled sector is immaculate!!

Haha... I really enjoyed it and went on many, many side quest / Wikipedia / YouTube adventures.

But super readable, and short enough not to get abandoned...

Her book on the end of the universe is really good. Actually great light reading, it flies along!!...

Much, much better than it has any right to be. Genuinely smart and stupid at the same time... Fantastic.

No consultation that I saw... And I generally pay attention. This is a like for like resurface so doesn't go to consultation - I think.

I think this road has light industrial units... So that wide mouth will be for the white vans... The LGVs and not forgetting those blindspots in the HGVs....

Feisty cycling!!

They've read the books, they've done the work jolly trips to Amsterdam. It is 100% not a lack of knowledge. They've even built some short segregated cycle lanes.

The problem is the complete lack of spine to tackle the deepest belief in their bones - that roads belong to cars.

Steve Rotheram. He talks a LOT about delivering an active travel revolution. And he has delivered nothing. As close to zero as makes no difference. And he's been mayor for a very long time. A complete and utter failure in the role.

They've been, they've seen, they know... The council and metro mayor all know what needs doing.

They just don't have the balls to actually do it here.

Every cyclist learns this very quickly....

But the people who build roads, they never cycle.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...

When a company builds roads for cars then everything.....

Oh man, that would be incredible if it was... I mean, I'd hold my hand up and I fell for it.

The pictures were sadly posted by the construction company singing the praises of their work...

Have you seen any Facebook pages recently, in the age of AI? Just raw sewage being drunk down as 'the good old days'...