I saw you submission last month. The problem is that it looked like direct copy of an AFP new that looked like a direct copy of a press release of Peugeot, so it was difficult to know how interesting the new method was and how much was only hype.
The NYT has a little more credibility and the article seams to be written more independently, but until there are some more real use case reports with the new cars it's still difficult to separate the reality from the hype.
Also strongly depends on what else is going on when it is posted. Only time I can recall being on the front page for long was when a hurricane had tons of people out of power and not posting. :)
haha yeah, people can be odd sometimes. I just had a -4 on a post saying that a particular thread (is so good) that it should go front page on HN, apparently it did, but oh the irony.
The NYT has a little more credibility and the article seams to be written more independently, but until there are some more real use case reports with the new cars it's still difficult to separate the reality from the hype.