To be fair, the Model 3 is supposed to be a mass market car. The Ford was always meant to be exclusive.
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The WEC exists, it’s just the rules for one class. These are the replacement rules for the original plan of making LMP1 even more technologically advanced, which they had to cancel when Porsche left.
They’ll be silhouettes, no road car basis required. However, there will be enough freedom in design that they won't be identical under the bodywork.
They don't even enforce that in GTE.
This class won't have development, it's too expensive and already scared away all the OEMs. Teams will be allowed only one Evo, and the performance is capped.
This class won't actually involve any road car homologation requirements. It's more like DPi where they're allowed brand-relevant bodywork on their prototypes. Some might mirror a road car, but that's entirely optional.
Yup, one car homologated before the first race, the remaining 50 within some time frame afterward.
It’s not actually a budget cap. They’re performance capping the cars. The $20/16M numbers are what they expect is the minimum budget to be competitive, with spending more not increasing performance.
Missing: how close is Ford to fulfilling the original two years of production? Aren’t they still woefully behind on that 250/year production?
Dad is very involved in Santino’s career. He bought the kart track Santino raced at.
Good thing he’s manufacturing flamethrowers for spy checks.
If not, they were tailgating. If Tesla autopilot is tailgating by not leaving safe distance, that’s a problem in itself.
In this case, the question is why autopilot followed the car ahead so closely that it has no time to react? Especially if it’s not able to sense what’s ahead of the car it’s following (as humans often do)?
It’s a niche market. To develop the content they do, for the relatively small user base (tens of thousands, tiny), naturally each user has to pay more.
Muscle memory, and good tactile feedback from your buttons make it pretty easy to use. My biggest struggle is remembering which button is which, because I can’t see the labels in VR.
But the question is still how much better than average it needs to be. Not every human is a good predictor of these things, and some of the troublemakers will be replaced by autonomous vehicles as well.
It’s totally being designed to coexist with humans, that’s the only way to get them on the road in the first place. Have you not seen the examples of Waymo cars abiding people drifting into their lanes and going the wrong way in the highway.
It’s not necessarily a problem with the technology, it’s with the policies of the companies testing on public roads.
I wouldn’t go so far as to claim it wouldn’t happen to Google. I do think opening the black box helps convince that they’re doing everything necessary now to be safe, and that’s more a PR thing than technical. I believe how the company communicates shapes how they’re perceived when incidents happen. IMO this incident…