There’s a big question of whether the capability of the SAR there depends on clear weather conditions, or if it’s equally capable through thousands of feet of dense cloud cover.

Yes, you SHOULD be required to keep your hands on the wheel until Autopilot can be drastically improved, but that’s only because the general population is stupid and can’t be trusted to pay attention. Don’t blame the automaker.

I thought he was ticketed at the time of the accident, but I may be misremembering.

I caught some shit last week for claiming that our EV future is going to be like driving iPhones. Completely locked down devices with no room for hobbyist.

It is cheaper, because of the BoP and lack of hybrid. Neither are things the ACO really wants in their top class, for good reason I believe. And the only way to get them into the ACO’s class would be to make the class less suitable for IMSA. Adding 200HP isn’t cheap, especially since it rules out using GT3 and LMP2…

But then you’d have BoP determining the overall winner at Le Mans, as well as screwing over the LMP1 Privateers.

Reinhold is a pragmatist, he’ll race wherever someone will pay him to race.

Which is exactly why it’ll never happen. IMSA needs the lower costs of the LMP2 platform, the ACO’s just trying to push higher costs onto IMSA for their own benefit.

BoP isn’t a problem for manufacturers. They tend to like it, especially in GT classes.

They say it’s technology transfer, which also explains the rumors of them wanting to race only at Le Mans, and spend the rest of their budget testing more efficiently.

It was awful last time they did it.

They’re likely to continue with a hybrid, they’ll just be closer in pace to the Privateers.

The 2012 joint ALMS/WEC was awful. It would be even worse now that the two series have different tire, pit stop, and caution rules. Not to mention not enough grid space, and IMSA who owns the track stands to lose out in a potential merger so they have no motivation to do so.

DPi comes with the problem of BoP. And I think P1 Privateers will be sufficient, especially as they have more chances of outright victory.

Dagys isn’t the only one reporting Toyota only wants to race Le Mans.

Wut?

1) Nissan’s just providing and developing the engine for ESM, they’re not a works effort.

It’s a long, difficult, circlejerky song that anyone talented enough to pull off probably knows better than to try. So it’s only yelled at acts where they clearly can’t pull it off (and it’s quiet enough to yell, probably because they’re not that good). From there it gained a life of its own and became a meme of sorts.

You can’t upgrade the cars, you race them in exactly the same spec they’re raced in real life. You do get full setup access with the same settings as a real team, so if they have 7 wing settings you get the same 7 settings. Each corner of the car can be setup independently as well, with asymmetrical setups.

While you’ll spend more than that for a PC comparable to a PS4 Slim, you really won’t be spending $2000 on it. You could get you a quality PC and all the sim racing gear listed for well under $2000.