Nokia lets you monitor the emissions coming in to your car
Have you ever been sitting in your car stuck in a traffic jam with the smell of all the fumes wafting into your car? Nokia has now built a concept mobile phone with a built-in air analyzer. The Eco Sensor concept can detect carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ground level ozone and particulates. It could be particularly useful to people with respiratory diseases like asthma that are aggravated by ozone. There's no word yet on when or if this technology will get added to production phones from Nokia or how much it will cost.[Source: AutoExpress]
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ug 4:56PM (12/20/2007)
I find it amusing that back in the 90s it was ground emissions that led to things like the EV-1. Now people have all but forgotten how bad ground air quality really is and are just concerned about how long they are going to be able to keep driving their SUVs.
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Joseph 5:41PM (12/20/2007)
"Now people have all but forgotten how bad ground air quality really is and are just concerned about how long they are going to be able to keep driving their SUVs."
Ug, cars are alot cleaner than they were before. From the transcript of a CARB meeting in 2003 someone said soething among the lines of, "Cars have become cleaner than once thought possible." Why? Well, I'm not exactly sure what the order of event were, but I'm sure it went something like this: 1990 EV mandate, car makers thinks it's bad, car makers think that maybe if they make car really clean then that maybe they be forced to make EVs.
Almost all hybrids are ULEV or SULEV and many regular cars also achieve great emmision ratings. You can go to fueleconomy.gov to see for yourself.
The U.S., particularly Califronia, has the highest emmision standards in the world. Air quality isn't as good as it could be, but just how much better can they (realistically) get? Yeah, I know there are days in California when people are recommeneded not to have outdoor activity, but it still has gotten ALOT better thanit was fifteen years ago.
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. afterall, I do live in Florida where all the pollution is swept across ocean.
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