I remember in my youth people tried that at a festival site. It would have worked - but they didn’t account for organizers sweeping the grounds with metal detectors and finding almost all of the buried cartons.

Back in the day, the style my mates and I preferred was to conceal as much as possible in our cars. We did…

Ah, just a pretty informal betting pool usually, plus an old fashioned bookie from time to time.

although they do differ slightly, NASCAR came from boot leggers running illegal alcohol, and the aussie V8 supercars are still running booze

I know this is picky, but it’s been annoying the shit out of me.

Just as a short note about the IDs - You find out an episode or two later that the RFID isn’t in the coat, it’s in her wrist. She cuts it out of her sister’s wrist, and implanted it in her own.

Based on that tweet, I immediately made a small bet that Tesla would not be profitable in Q3 & Q4. I mean, let’s be honest, I’ve already made a decent enough amount betting basically opposite to anything Elon promises, so why not, I’m just re-betting winnings at this point.

There’s a world of difference between “Would have also hit a firetruck, after the large vehicle in front pulled into a different lane” and “Driving into a known stationary barrier at highway speed.”

There’s a world of difference between “Realtively minor traffic accident” and “Complete write-off of the vehicle and…

I know - but that’s precisely why I added the part about “Or at least mitigated enough”. With that type of sensor package, you’re never going to solve it completely without basically completely re-writing the book on computer vision and small-scale radar systems.

So, I have a question - if it’s just the fault of the media, and people freaking out because it’s a new technology, why is it that almost every other version of this technology, even versions that use the same Camera/Radar sensor package, don’t have these issues, and haven’t just not killed as many people, but haven’t…

But the system has a habit of ignoring stopped vehicles, and sooner or later one will plow into a minivan full of kids pulled over on the side of the road.

This statement admits the system is faulty, and yet still blames the driver. Tesla’s continued assertion that their system is safe is stretching plausibility at this point, and I think it’s going to hurt them significantly. This is a witching time for Tesla.

The funniest part of Overhaulin’ is when the production company is clearly trying to inject some drama by making it look like they’re really down to the wire, and if everything isn’t done right this minute they’ll fail - but then everyone in the show is just working along at a perfectly normal pace, and everything…

The drama on that show was the one thing that wasn’t really manufactured - The Tutle family are still mostly estranged to this day, AFAIK.

Please do! Good jokes are like garden manure, they work best when you spread them around.

Also, let’s not forget that if it wasn’t steering into the barrier at highway speeds, he wouldn’t need to intervene in the first place.

But this is really pretty standard spin for a Tesla incident. If the driver intervenes when it’s doing something absurdly wrong, and doesn’t recover, it’s the Driver’s fault, because…

No, Tesla isn’t at fault for the crashes— they do warn people to keep eyes on the road and hands on the wheel, but with their left hand, they repeat the use of a misleading phrase.

What can I say? We’re famous for our pioneering work in discovering new ways to take the piss.

Yeah, same here. I went through the game without ever really switching weapons.

Yes, that’s true. But there’s one other issue at play, there - even putting aside that Pilots have hundreds of hours of training before they ever take control of a commercial Jetliner, those Warnings and disengagement tones are so loud and insistent that they basically cannot be ignored.

The Tesla, on the other hand,…

Fair enough, I did have you wrong. A lot of folk have been using that sort of thing to shuffle blame off of Tesla, and with that in my head, I absolutely mistook what you were getting at.

As for tesla fighting it as long as they can - They’ve already tried to spin this incident by outright manipulating statistics to…