Electric cars are not any greener. What do you have to burn to make the electricity at a power plant? What about the energy losses transmitting the power from power plant to the car? What about the manufacture and disposal of millions of pounds of toxic chemicals making and disposing of the batteries. Not any greener, maybe worse than the good old, computer controlled, gasoline engine.
“With a team of 100 reporting to a former Apple engineer, the Detroit giant is researching how humans experience machines, running autonomous-vehicle driving simulations and testing software that examines how bicycles and cars interact.”
Cars and bicycles interact like this. A bicycle rider thinks the road belongs to him and he goes into the car lane, car hits bicycle, rider usually killed or maimed. Don’t need software for that.
The Los Angeles Times [paper edition] had an article on Sat, Nov 14, 2015:
[my summary follows]
“Electric vehicles beat gas cars in study”
by Jerry Hirsch
He reports on a study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, authored by UCS scientist Rachael Nealer.
That study found that ... a cradle-to-grave analysis ... finds electrical cars create less greenhouse gas than gasoline vehicles.
It may take 5 to 20 thousand miles for the electric car’s advantage to overcome the initial carbon costs of battery manufacture, but after that they are “impressive” and “much cleaner”
Meanwhile, I recall a Google study that green energy (wind and solar) were net losers.
So the brainwashing ramps up.