Because if every race was “make the cars as good as they can” then every race becomes essentially “whoever has the biggest R&D budget wins.” That’s why shit like the leMons exists; it’s a race that you and your drinking buddies can enter (IIRC it’s like $5k counting firesuits and roll cage and whatnot, but still…

I took the batteries out of mine (for some reason there are TWO of them within 5 feet of the kitchen area), and they started chirping an intermitent low battery warning. I’d honestly rather just permanently disable them and rely on the THIRD smoke detector in the room, because they go off pretty much every time I use…

3 million trucks

Are they going to be changed so that they aren’t shining in the eyes of anyone driving a car anymore?

See, that’s the issue with self-driving cars as a whole, I think. It seems like they’ll only be able to exist in the long term if they’re the only vehicles using the road, and that simply isn’t going to happen. Every level of technology still uses and shares the roads, cars, motorcycles, bikes, joggers (in…

Yeah, I wish they’d leave them off, or at least make it so you can open them manually when you want to get out now rather than tomorrow. I cannot stand that when I pull the door handle, all that does is start the powered door opening. I can open and slam shut the unpowered door on my dads ~20 year old POS van twice in…

They also still have the text block about paperwork at the bottom which is only present on the acceptance and waitlist letters (not the legit denial letter).

You could have at least used the rejection letter as the base for your shoop. It kinda makes it obvious that they’re fake when the TO: block says [accepted applicant] and it still has the “wee need your paperwork to stay in the program” block at the bottom.

+1 big cars, too. I loved the article about Lesabre’s a while back. Same deal as this. Yeah, it’s a granny car. You can also drive yourself and all your shit to college dorm in one car. You can also peg the AC to 55 in the dead of summer and cruise home after a 10 hour workday.

Honestly, I dislike automatic sliding doors. At least ones that you can’t just open manually instead of pulling the handle and waiting when you want to. I can open the doors on my dads old POS 2-3x faster than any automatic. I just want to get out of the car, dammit.

My dad got his (currently around 20 year old) Plymoth Grand Caravan to use it as basically an urban truck. He got the GC because with both rows of seats taken out, you can fit 4x8 sheets of plywood in the back with the hatch shut. Do that in a crossover. When I did my Eagle Scout project (and when my brother did his),…

1 is only a short-term issue. Yeah, I might not be able to buy TP AND Paper towels in bulk this month. So I buy one in bulk and a smaller pack of the other. Then when I run out of towels, I still have plenty of TP, so I can buy a bulk case of paper towels. Then when I finally run out of TP, I still have paper towels.…

CP. You can get one that hasn’t had a downgrade added to it (lowering) for a similar price.

The screen would need to be larger than the mirror in order to give a similar FoV, since you can move your head to get a better view with a mirror, but not with a screen. For a similar reason, screens don’t work as well for spatial awareness.

If you’re living so close to the wire that you can’t afford to buy an extra $5-10 worth of TP in order to save money in the long run, then you’re not budgeting effectively. TP is not that expensive; my last TP purchase was about a year ago, for around $20, and I’ve still got nearly half of it left because I bought the…

At least for the car filming, the car that hit the moose first is at an angle that would likely have obscured it from the driver. The person filming/the dashcam is almost certainly in the passenger seat and likely a couple feet in front of the face of the driver, both of which give it a better angle to see the moose,…

As one such (great)-grandson, I can concur on the Lesabre.

There’s also the problem that the situations the AI is most likely to want help (inclement weather), is when reception will be at its worst.

Satallites are better and don’t cost thousands of dollars an hour and two pilots to operate.

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