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Posted on 06/22/2020 2:08:09 PM PDT by sodpoodle

1- Basic auto repair shops will disappear. Read on to know why.

2- A gas/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has only 20 parts. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor.

3- Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots

4- Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!

5- Gas pumps will go away.

6- Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world.

7- Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that build only electric cars.

8-Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop. Say goodbye to OPEC! The middle east is in trouble.

9- Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and than they use, and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispense it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.

11- In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever happening?

12- What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years ... and most of us don't see it coming.

13- Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you'd NEVER take pictures on film again? With today’s smartphones, who even has a camera these days?

14- Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law – that technological capacity will DOUBLE every year. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became 'way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.

15- It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence (AI), health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

16- Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4 th Industrial Revolution.

17- Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

18- UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

19- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties. Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

20- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

21- In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of computers, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy – compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.

22- Computer programs already help nurses diagnosing cancer, and the programs are 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

23- Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans...

24- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won’t WANT to own a car anymore as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination

25- You will not need to park it. You will pay only for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

26- This will change our cities because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking lots into green parks.

27- About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles. With autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles. That will save more than a million lives worldwide each year.

28- Some traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

29- Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting this year – with the 2019 models using all-electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out the hybrid models.

30- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla – and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all-electric vehicles. That was unheard of only a few years ago.

31- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their auto insurance business model will disappear.

32- Real estate will change. If you can work from home (or from literally anywhere), people will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable locations ...

33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.

34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well.

35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting ramped up.

37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy.

38- Health: The "Tricorder X" will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the Tricorder from Star Trek) that works with your phone – taking your retina scan, your blood sample, and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any disease. There are dozens of phone apps out right now for health.

WELCOME TO TOMORROW! – some of these actually arrived already.


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1 posted on 06/22/2020 2:08:09 PM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Coal will go away? How we gonna generate electricity? Nuclear?


2 posted on 06/22/2020 2:12:11 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: sodpoodle

I wouldn’t want my name on it either.


3 posted on 06/22/2020 2:12:42 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: gundog

It will come from a Magic Spot on the wall.


4 posted on 06/22/2020 2:13:16 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: sodpoodle
35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

That is really nice, except the fairies and unicorns will have to work overtime...

5 posted on 06/22/2020 2:13:27 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: sodpoodle

Maybe John Titor wrote it.


6 posted on 06/22/2020 2:14:41 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: sodpoodle

None of this happens if the BOOGALOO comes first.

My guns and ammo are ready.

If the electric truck can mount a .50 cal. for the siege on Denver, then cool.

But.....I think you have just too many numbers on that long-haired list of yours.


7 posted on 06/22/2020 2:15:17 PM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: sodpoodle

I’m still waiting for my flying car....


8 posted on 06/22/2020 2:15:33 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: sodpoodle

Meh.


9 posted on 06/22/2020 2:15:35 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: sodpoodle

Most families will need a gasoline powered vehicle for long trips of more than 50 miles.


10 posted on 06/22/2020 2:17:03 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Bookmarking


11 posted on 06/22/2020 2:18:13 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: freedomson

I had to read up on him. Ha Ha!!!!


12 posted on 06/22/2020 2:19:02 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: sodpoodle

Sodpoodle, the humor that you post is always welcome. You’ve outdone yourself this time.


13 posted on 06/22/2020 2:19:23 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: sodpoodle

Apparently written by a fellow named Joseph P. LaStella:

https://ravallirepublic.com/news/opinion/viewpoint/article_1c724abc-df36-5f6a-9182-646dd5daa49f.html


14 posted on 06/22/2020 2:19:25 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: gundog

Actually, yes. Nuclear is the cleanest energy out there.


15 posted on 06/22/2020 2:21:58 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: sodpoodle
39. Electric car companies will make it part of the contract you sign that only they can work on your car. You will be charged a monopoly price for repairs.

40. You will be able to purchase options on your car, for example to increase performance or support fast recharging, but when you go to sell the car those options will be deactivated. You will be told you only paid to rent those options and your care will be worth much less in resale value.

41. Electric cars will need to always be hooked to the web. Your car will have to be available for constant software updates or else your car will go out of warranty and your insurance will be invalid. Your whereabouts will always be known.

42. Trying to add any features to your car may be considered "jailbreaking" and will make the warranty and insurance invalid.

43. The electric grid will have to be further expanded in order to support all of the charging. This will make it more susceptible to EMP.

44. With more people charging their cars at all hours of the day and night, wind and solar will be seen as a luxury which we can't afford. More power will be generated by coal, oil, and natural gas.

45. More third world countries will see environmental catastrophes as mining for lithium and rare earths expands. Their populations will be subject to poisoning and other harmful environmental effects.

46. People will be forced to purchase self-driving cars, electric or otherwise. In order to drive yourself you will have to pay for time on a closed test track.

47. Terrorists will wreak mayhem by hacking self-driving cars and causing major high-speed traffic accidents or using the cars to deliver bombs, etc. to specified targets.

16 posted on 06/22/2020 2:22:31 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: sodpoodle
Interested summary. The one major problem is the build out of the electrical grid. Who pays for it and who owns it. The power companies will insist and get a fee from every solar installation the is also connected to the grid. Makes the cost structure fail without subsidies.

No job on a vehicle of any type takes 10 minutes that is just denial of the facts. Replacing a windshield takes more than an hour now and requires computer hard ware.

A handheld medical tricorder that takes blood samples? No, just no, and you get all the results that a main line lab has available? LOL

17 posted on 06/22/2020 2:23:08 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: sodpoodle

Fossil powered cars wont disappear completely but the whole fossil ecosystem will greatly scale down. Radio didn’t kill newspapers. TV didn’t kill radio. The internet didn’t kill TV. As long as wealthy enthusiasts like Jay Leno continue to drive fossil powered vehicles, the induction motor won’t kill the internal combustion engine either.


18 posted on 06/22/2020 2:23:28 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Vermont Lt

Probably why the enviros are encouraging us to build all of those nuclear power plants. /s


19 posted on 06/22/2020 2:23:30 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: sodpoodle

Who wrote this AOC?


20 posted on 06/22/2020 2:24:05 PM PDT by hercuroc
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