Hot New Electric Cars

Published on January 12th, 2009

Posted by John C Dvorak in General

CES attendance down 22-percent. I didn’t go either.
Google footprint issues becoming the big debate amongst engineers.
Legislation may ban all cell phone use while driving. 2600 people killed because of cell-phone related wrecks.
Cool cars in Detroit. Maserati doing the best.
Guitar Hero 3 becomes first billion dollar game.
DTV date change may be moved back. Obama is concerned.
GM has electric Cadillac in development.
Look for Toyota to win this electric war anyway.

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# 1 Angel H. Wong said, on January 12th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Of course Toyota is going to win, while the big three are busy developing gas-powered penile extensions the Japanese were busy developing cars.

# 2 Dallas said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

I didn’t go to CES either but really didn’t want to. Las Vegas is a frigg’n zoo.

A big reason I didn’t go is there is so much blogging, twittering and keynote video uploading that one really misses very little. UNless of course there are customer meetings to tend to.

Obama team is crazy if they want to delay the DTV transition. As far as I’m concerned, a quarter of those coupons will never be used. Many people think it is like a free check for $40. Surprise.

# 3 pedro said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

If you ask me, this whoel google/carbon footprint thing was made on purpose to make the greenies look ridiculous. They succeeded. Not that you need to do something like this to realize how ridiculous greenies have become.

# 4 GregA said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

This is the internet where the occasial safety popup on your computer is unacceptable but the the constant non stop nagging that toyota cars do is ok.

# 5 bill said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

Angel, no, the Japanese were busy building ‘electric powered rubber vaginas’. The Italians were building ‘gas-powered penile extensions’
And they look mighty great! The Americans were building practical manure wagons. And the Germans just build great cars..
my 3c.

# 6 Keaneo said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

The entire “discussion” comes down to one professor saying Google is a villain. That’s it, folks. No proof, not even a discussion except among those who have their nuts linked inextricably to the “skeptic” loop.

Om has spoken knowledgeably about it:

http://tinyurl.com/99tnx2

Urs Hölzle responded way too politely (I thought) only because of the media blather:

http://tinyurl.com/7a7p4j

You may now return to gaming, 24 and Fox Snooze.

# 7 KD Martin said, on January 13th, 2009 at 4:22 am

Here’s the electric Cadillac of which John spoke– nice looking car. Here’s some more information.

Cadillac

# 8 Pete said, on January 13th, 2009 at 4:53 am

Google needs to go nuclear. No carbon footprint.

This whole grams of CO2 per Google search is a little like the big-league pitcher who calculates, based on his salary, that he is being paid something like $200 every time he throws the baseball during a game. But he doesn’t get paid more if he pitches more.

# 9 FRAGaLOT said, on January 13th, 2009 at 9:39 am

Ah the first billion dollar game? If it wasn’t for the extra $50 for the guitar, it wouldn’t have achieved that.

It’s older than Rock Band which has more hardware to sell, so we should soon see it going over 1 billion, especially if you also factor in the massive amounts of download song addons you can buy for it.

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