That would be the least of my worries. The COPVs are designed by Spacex and they are usually the only things that survive rocket failures and even unshielded orbital reentry in one piece. They are ridiculously strong. Pretty sure they wouldn’t even flinch if run over by a semi truck. However they can become pretty…

That Mythbusters episode was based on a Darwin Awards Urban Legend:

This right here. I’ll assume this would be considered an exhaust and fall under noise level regulations that most states have. Pretty sure 27kg/s of air is going to well exceed 100db.
Although I’m sure this is just Elon being Elon and this never has a remote chance of being reality in a production car. 

Hell, I can’t even empty the air tank on my 6-gallon air compressor without ear protection.

I’ve turned Jalop into a Saw sequel.

That mindset makes it awfully easy to pull the Sarcasm Card at any given moment, whether it’s warranted or not. It completely diminishes the level of responsibility inherent in strong leadership.

google up the rocket sled tests the USA did.  They literally kept increasing the acceleration till the guy nearly died from it. 

27 kg/s of compressed air will not exit the nozzles without extremely loud noise. This might became the first EV that will be able to give permanent hearing loss.

This article in four words: Use synonyms when searching.

At first, I thought you were making a political analogy. 

In this case, likely more a BOAB.  She should have been dry docked in 1985 and left there.

Perhaps sadder is the condition and future for the SS United States. Since it ceased operations in the early 70s. The ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction. But since being retired form active use, she has been…

They need to build a permanent drydock for it and just get it sitting out of the water.  They can then build whatever sort of attraction around the ship as needed.  The ship itself is totally worth preserving though, not only for itself but as a time capsule to that era when sea travel by ocean liner was necessary.

Of course! It needs some work so this won’t be the last you hear of it. Perhaps my feelings will change when it’s time to buy hard-to-find parts. Then again, I happily put up with the infuriating nonsense that comes with owning an imported Euro-spec Smart that has exactly zero U.S. support or parts. lol

#1 it’ll almost certainly be a different software build. I don’t think a neural network trained for camera & radar will be very happy if the radar just disappears.

Wait what? Radar is still tremendously useful at speed. It’s why we still have it on aircraft that are moving at hundreds of miles per hour. Even if you’re “just” using it in a relative manner, it’s still brilliant at that role.

Pretty sure those are the only situations where radar is being used. They’re figuring out how to do it with vision as they go. Continental’s data sheet on the ARS4 specifically mentions it being useful for AEB and collision warning. 

I wrote the most amazing, beautiful, insightful rebuttal to your non-comment, but it was simply too good for this world, so I’ve purged it from existence.

The fact that they are only pulling it off the 3 and Y but leaving it on the more expensive S and X tells me that this is all about cost engineering. They are (probably) about to lose their billions in carbon-offset credits as Stellantis integrates FCA, and they need to make a profit from actual car sales. Since they…

I wrote an entire answer then deleted it because this whole Jason vs. Tesla thing is wearing a bit thin.