The car is efficient enough for it to do something (20-30 miles a day in summer if I remember), but yes it’s mostly marketing and they say as much. “Solar electric car” sounds a lot better than “this car is pretty normal but it’s super efficient”
I think the general absurdity of it, plus you’re never quite sure where they’re gonna go.
For example:
It’s part of the appeal
Fun fact: your left eye doesn’t go only to your right brain. The left half of your field of vision in your left eye goes to your right brain. Same with the right half of your left eye, and your right eye is split up similarly. How nuts is that?
My dad worked with a guy who is designing a system like this and it makes all the sense.
you shade the parking spaces
you absorb less heat into the ground than tarmac
free energy
direct panel-to-car charging for EVs
Yeah but they have thousands of tons of steel going overhead and rocks and dust all around. I don’t really see the advantage compared to a solar farm or a roof where they’re easier to set up and maintain
That’s both interesting and disheartening
Self landing rockets is a great thing to cheer about!
But also people cheered for a guy eating cheese balls so you may have a point.
He meant saying that non-verbally
Doubt it, the truck doesn’t say “CVEVORLETTE” on the bumper
That must feel so strange
Like yes taxes go up, but also you’re already paying for health insurance
This is what happens when you raise your octopus children to never eat fish, they never see bones
That’s cool, TIL!
We got some weirdos in the comments
This is hilarious
I think there’s netting in between
Hot take, I enjoyed Chappie. I don’t care that there’s some self-insert band in there, it’s just a funny robot movie