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jammies · 07-23-2017, 07:27 PM

I think the point of the comparison with Kodak is that technology isn't always incrementally improved within one paradigm, sometimes one utterly dominant technological solution is completely replaced by another in a short period of time. It's also apt because this quick replacement is much more likely if the technology in question has large support costs to use, as the cost of film and developing did for cameras, and gas and maintenance do for ICE-based cars.

If you can reduce the cost of ownership of a car by a few hundred a month with an electric, almost everyone will change over, and you could indeed have a large majority of electrics on the road by 2030. This is especially likely as the operation of an electric is pretty much like a combustion-engined car; you press one pedal to make it go, you press another to make it stop, and you turn the wheel to steer it. Despite it being utterly different technology underneath, it operates the same way for the end user - again, much like anyone who could operate a film camera could operate a digital one.

07-23-2017, 07:27 PM	#540
jammies Basement Chicken Choker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In a land without pants, or war, or want. But mostly we care about the pants. Exp:	I think the point of the comparison with Kodak is that technology isn't always incrementally improved within one paradigm, sometimes one utterly dominant technological solution is completely replaced by another in a short period of time. It's also apt because this quick replacement is much more likely if the technology in question has large support costs to use, as the cost of film and developing did for cameras, and gas and maintenance do for ICE-based cars. If you can reduce the cost of ownership of a car by a few hundred a month with an electric, almost everyone will change over, and you could indeed have a large majority of electrics on the road by 2030. This is especially likely as the operation of an electric is pretty much like a combustion-engined car; you press one pedal to make it go, you press another to make it stop, and you turn the wheel to steer it. Despite it being utterly different technology underneath, it operates the same way for the end user - again, much like anyone who could operate a film camera could operate a digital one. __________________ Better educated sadness than oblivious joy.