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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3758378" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>In my first and only year in college I had to do a paper on useless and antique laws still on the books as a lesson to learn how to research government records.</p><p>So I researched the laws of Tonkawa Ok where Northern Okla college is located.</p><p>Before a horseless carriage could come in the city limits, the Chief of Police had to be notified, there had to be a person with a shotgun 100 yards ahead of the horseless carriage with a red flag and shotgun to be discharged every minute while the horseless carriage passed through town.</p><p>So it appears it was a pretty slow passage through town, and I have no clue if that law is still on the books. I'm betting there are a lot of forgotten laws this dumb still on some cities books.</p><p>So your correct there was a lot of opposition to new fangled technology.</p><p>The difference now is that we are flooded with information that is minutes if not seconds old so we can make that judgement and use the internet to seperate fact from fiction if one digs deep enough to find the real truth.</p><p>We know batteries are sourced from china, we know charging times could be inconvenient, we know base load power plants are still going to be required to provide the electricity to charge them and so on.</p><p>I think the EV's are pretty cool, but the battery technology isn't there yet. It will happen down the road just as any new tech evolves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3758378, member: 5412"] In my first and only year in college I had to do a paper on useless and antique laws still on the books as a lesson to learn how to research government records. So I researched the laws of Tonkawa Ok where Northern Okla college is located. Before a horseless carriage could come in the city limits, the Chief of Police had to be notified, there had to be a person with a shotgun 100 yards ahead of the horseless carriage with a red flag and shotgun to be discharged every minute while the horseless carriage passed through town. So it appears it was a pretty slow passage through town, and I have no clue if that law is still on the books. I'm betting there are a lot of forgotten laws this dumb still on some cities books. So your correct there was a lot of opposition to new fangled technology. The difference now is that we are flooded with information that is minutes if not seconds old so we can make that judgement and use the internet to seperate fact from fiction if one digs deep enough to find the real truth. We know batteries are sourced from china, we know charging times could be inconvenient, we know base load power plants are still going to be required to provide the electricity to charge them and so on. I think the EV's are pretty cool, but the battery technology isn't there yet. It will happen down the road just as any new tech evolves. [/QUOTE]
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