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  • I drive a nc mx5, another issue is that their headlights (which are always bright white and far too bright even on low beams) shine directly into my side mirrors (and often the rear view as well) due to the height at which they are placed. Also, they are often are too close when high beams turn on automatically, which presents further problems for road awareness.











  • Problem is that battery technology follows a far slower doubling path historically than solar has (doubling as in Moore’s law)

    Battery tech is also more complicated, as you are optimizing/trading off piles of different factors, and often different applications necessitate different tradeoffs (e.g. one-size-fits-all won’t be the case unless we have far better battery tech)

    • cost
    • charge/discharge efficiency
    • self-discharge
    • energy density (by mass) wh/kg
    • energy density (by volume) wh/L
    • charge/discharge speed (specific power, w/kg)
    • cycle life / lifespan (includes tolerance to deep discharge)
    • safety