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Washington, D.C., circa 1941. "Thomas Circle at 14th Street and Vermont Avenue N.W." Medium format acetate negative with no photographer credit. View full size.
DC has lost of lot of good buildings. Just pains me to see these photos of how pretty the city used to be. There are still many buildings left. The biggest threat is to rowhouses that are being bastardized with "popups." For shame.
Yeah, EV sounds are iffy, at best.
"Starting in 2018, all EVs and hybrids have been required to emit sounds during battery-only operation when traveling under 19 mph."
Great! So that kid with his foot in the battery, traveling city streets at 40 MPH is running silent!
[Any car doing over 20 is plenty audible, from tire noise alone. - Dave]
I continue to carry on the "lunch liquor lunch" tradition to this day.
I'm sure the truck was stopped at a red light and the woman was hurrying to beat the light change. But it made me think of my next comment.
Last night some friends and I went to the first night of the 2023 Dallas Auto Show. No surprise, electric cars are the coming thing. They have instant torque so accelerate much faster than combustion engines. But electric engine batteries do not go really long distances before they need to be recharged, and recharging takes time. A very knowledgeable woman representing Lexus also mentioned another emerging problem -- electric cars run silently; many people have been hit by an electric car they never heard coming. She said some automakers, like Lexus, are adding an artificial engine noise, the volume of which the driver can control.
[We know it's a red light because of the crossWALK signals. Average range for 2023 EVs is 220 miles, with some makers (Tesla, Lucid etc.) offering 400 to over 500 miles between charges. Starting in 2018, all EVs and hybrids have been required to emit sounds during battery-only operation when traveling under 19 mph. - Dave]
Which is what you get when you stack "flats" on top of one another
1881-1962. Further evidence I was born just a little too late, as well as being - yet another ! - District intersection that went from hero to zero, architectural interest-wise.
If not, what is there now??
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