Neutral: Do You Think Autonomous Tech Is Accelerating Too Fast?

I’ve got a Ford C-Max that goes about 20 miles on 7 kWh. It’s enough to get me to the office and back on a typical day without firing up the gas motor. On my current tank of gas, I’m averaging 0.3L/100km (784 mpg) only because the engine sometimes fires up to get enough heat for the defroster.

I’m sure there will be above-average sized pikes and muskies in the water to dissuade casual swimming. Not quite as scary as a croc, but 50 lbs of teeth and muscle harassing at you will still be worth avoiding.

The laser part of the LIDAR array may work alright, but the whole unit needs to spin (up to 900 RPM according to Velodyne’s data sheet) and presumably the laser emitter and detector must be free of obstruction. How will ice buildup affect the balance of the unit, and how will the unit deal with frost, ice, or salt…

That sentence fragment looks fine. Which part do you take issue with?

Heck, that’s a lot of weight to drag around for no reason. I’d love to have a generator that I could just hang off a trailer hitch or drag on a trailer for those times when I had to travel long distances, and have a lighter, more efficient car for those times it wasn’t necessary.

If nobody is monitoring the system and noting when the system is behaving incorrectly, what the hell is Uber doing putting these things on the road?!

Please re-read the article. Other companies use 2 people so that the safety driver can keep their attention on the road while the engineer can validate that what the sensors see match what’s happening on the road and logging any issues. If there is only one operator, such as in Uber’s case, are they also responsible…

Even the Wright brothers tested their aircraft in an open field. They didn’t fly over a crowd of people or beside a school because the technology was new and needed testing under a controlled condition. I have no affiliation with Uber, but because they choose to test these vehicles in my city early in their…

The images generated by the camera are a poor representation of what the human eye would see. An XC90 is equipped with HID xenon bulbs, but due to the way camera sensors work there’s a low dynamic range so either the light will be blown out or the blacks will be crushed in low light conditions. Even with worn out…

Probably they started with an x86 emulator that required little modification to work on the PS/Xbox CPUs, but which would require heavy modification or rewriting to work with the Switch’s ARM processor.

I would totally play Call of the Marder II.

Nearly every headline about a train vs pedestrian accident uses similar language.

Or you can look at particulate emissions requirements in China and Europe. They’re already causing OEMs to add an entirely new emissions component (gasoline particulate filter + related components) to meet those requirements. But the question is: is this the best way to reduce particulate emissions, or can it be…

Call me crazy, but if I were shipping a ‘1 of 1' model of a car, I’d probably pay a little extra for an enclosed carrier.

Neutral: I don’t really have an idea whether Tesla will be around in 10 years or not, but I do wonder what will happen to their Supercharging network if they do go out of business in the short term. Every other manufacturer seems to have selected the SAE J1772 adapter for EV charging, so will there be any business…

So if I see a used car I like in Carvana’s inventory, I should find someone else who is selling the same model of car and go sit in it, with no intent to actually buy it, just so I can know whether I can buy that car from the vending machine?

As someone over 6', that still sounds like a recipe for disaster. There are lots of cars out there that I can’t fit in regardless of how much I adjust the seats (my personal favourite was a Kia where my head was so far outside of the sunroof that my eyes were above the roof of the car, even with the seat all the way…

I much preferred the “Endangered Species” trailer for F4, but I can understand why they changed the intro since this one could be seen as glorifying street racing.

There are a couple of auto part stores around me whose delivery fleets are mainly stripper-spec Sparks and an old Ranger or S-10. I’d imagine they’d go for an electric option to save on operating costs considering they’re already using the smallest, cheapest thing they can find and it seems to suit their needs just…