At the end of the day, it seems like a person didn’t follow the rules of running autopilot (have your hands on the wheel to take control at any moment) and paid for it with their life.

Tesla has released their interpretation of a single piece of evidence. By releasing their statement prematurely they’ve already shaped the public opinion regarding this accident which may cause the public to ignore the NTSB’s investigation and recommendations. The investigation is meant to examine all of the evidence…

“Whaddya mean we need to let the investigation take its course and come to its own conclusion rather than trying to shape the online discussion ASAP? If we don’t get our talking points out there then somebody else may decide how this accident is perceived!”

Slight correction, but ‘Strategos of Yebu’ is likely a title, not a name. In Ptolemaic Greece, a Strategos was either a military rank equivalent to a modern General or the head of a provincial administration.

I’d guess that it was deliberately set that way to exclude Canadian factories or break unions while giving the negotiators plausible deniability. Minimum wage in Ontario is already $14, and given how long most of the auto part plants have been open I wouldn’t be surprised if some shops (especially the unionized ones)…

To add to this discussion, the only way to advance in Far Cry 5 is by planning your actions. The only way to unlock new abilities is by using Perk Points, and one of the fastest ways to earn Perk Points is by completing challenges. For challenges like the Death From Above, Death From Below, Sabotage Kills, or Chain…

That would also be nearly impossible to control, as you’d see a lot of:

If people operated Tesla’s autopilot in the same manner as airplane autopilots, they would never turn them on unless they were on a deserted stretch of highway miles away from any traffic or obstructions.

Commercial pilots also activate autopilot in environments where they’re thousands of vertical feet or at least 3 lateral miles away from a potential collision. I’m sure if a pilot activated the autopilot in an environment where the plane was within seconds of colliding with another aircraft the FAA would be on their…

4.1L rotary diesel turbine powered golf carts for everyone!

Honestly I associate those over-the-top set pieces with the introduction of Hobbes (Johnson). The first 4 movies were ‘believable’ (if over the top) stories about a gang of street racers, as was the first half of 5, but from 6 onward it felt like the gang was just being dragged around the world to fight Bond villains…

Can anybody think of what cars are excluded from tariffs using the provided metrics? It looks like nearly everything from 1.5L to 4L for standard combustion cars, and 1L to 4L for PHEVs, is captured, but then there’s number 26:

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…