Here’s some food for thought.
We have managed to improve the technology in our cars, so that tailpipe emissions are now considered to be minor. (Note: That is not true for the emissions from big rigs, those tractor trailers that haul our freight around the country. They still produce volumes of pollutants- hence the push for the electrification of their engines- or to convert them to use hydrogen fuel cells.)
Continue reading Particulate Problems
It’s been more than four decades that I have been involved with designing products for the automotive industry. And, it seems that I lost touch.
Continue reading Um-pa-pa, Um-pa-pa
If you’ve traveled with me, you know I have a lead foot. OK. Maybe there’s a pole holding my lead foot down, too.
Continue reading Tread Monitor?
I generally ride my bike every morning. Sometimes I ride it in the afternoons, too.
But, since the end of Pesach, it has rained so much and so long that my bike riding has been pretty much missing from my daily activity logs. As a matter of fact, one night when I was returning from a business trip to Baltimore, the Rock Creek Parkway was underwater (that was announced on the radio), as was the road I was on (instead). Kenilworth Avenue/DC 295 had significant flooding that forced me to back up on an interstate (the first time I ever did so) and execute a very long detour. So much for getting home by midnight.
Continue reading It’s not hot air
