As a person who listens to dorks talk about gravity waves all day (not to be confused with gravitation waves), you did a really good job with this. You, sir or madam, win the internet points today.

Yeah, anti-grav is definitely a force acting against gravity. It’s pushing the vehicle up by pushing down against the ground. If it cancelled gravity for the vehicle you’d have all sorts of other problems. People floating inside vehicles. No response to varying terrain. And you’d quickly leave the surface and start…

Tens of thousands of people die every year from these ‘completely unchallenging’ drives.

If you were to “turn off” gravity around the vehicle, it would be equivalent of phasing out the vehicle’s mass from space-time. Remember the gravity well and the marble thing? It would be like the marble would be floating above the surface. At that point, the vehicle would stop interacting with everything, including…

The only other option is if you’ve got a magic device that ‘turns off’ gravity around your vehicle

If the ground is being pulled up, the craft is being pulled down (Newton’s 3rd law). All the stuff under the car will be pushed down if it’s being pushed at all.

Level 5 drive-everywhere cars are a foolish goal. We don’t need them, and the effort it would take to develop them is vast.

Just going out to lunch today, I came across three situations where an automated L2 assist would just freeze.

If someone makes a vehicle that can perfectly handle limited access highways and their interchanges (with traffic), and nothing else, that is instant buy for me. It’s the easy part of the problem, and the biggest time-sink.

1000%. While Musk is shooting for the moon with AV’s, the “landing among the stars” might be other automakers having a system that is bulletproof on interstates.

Triggered Muskers is a great band name

Either that or people start actually taking it seriously again. Here, it’s exploding, so we’re back to masks again after they were gone for a while.

GM has really been knocking it out of the park lately. Supercruise is pretty incredible and I agree they’re targeting the right problem with it.

I’m sure there won’t be any deflection, not at all. 

“The Tesla Dishwasher would stand over the sink, like a human, washing dishes with human-like hands, but for safety reasons you would have to stand behind it, your hands lightly holding the robot’s hands, like a pair of young lovers in their first apartment.”
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Honestly, it’s so prevalent now that all of us are probably going to get it now sooner or later, it’s just that the vaccine means the difference between ending up in the hospital or worse.

This is a very well made argument. Nice work. As a result we all now get to hear a bunch of wondering dribble from some triggered muskers.

Hot take and totally right. Cadillac is doing it right by focusing on freeways, where you have a carefully controlled, predictable, well-marked, limited-access environment, and the benefit is high due to driver fatigue.

Well, I wouldn’t say quicker.  It’s definitely the longer way and the one involving more dead children... but that seems to be okay with folks like #DeathSantis.

I started seeing this a month ago: Say anything about the fact that ALL of the Southern states are Covid hell holes and out comes the “ B-b-b-b- but its because blacks and Hispanics aren’t gettin’ their shots.” claim. Its such utter bullshit and all it takes is a 2 second Google search to easily prove it wrong. Then…