That does suck. You’d think the one thing ABS would be tested on is in snowy and icy conditions. Although your “all seasons” might also just be too hard in the cold weather too.

Meanwhile, this Faraday actually produces practical if expensive, electric vehicles.

What , Chrysler made the Prowler work? It was underpowered and didn’t handle all that great. And didn’t sell very well.

I’d like to see their accounting on that. Does that $9,000 account for R&D costs? If so, it’s bullshit when you’re talking about the first car that is part of a larger platform effort in the long run. It’s the same bullshit reasoning that asks why Tesla isn’t making a profit, when it’s spending R&D money on a car that…

Mediocrity is actually what most people want. They don’t want a harder “sport” ride. They just want a nice looking comfortable car with space for passengers. It’s supposed to compete with a Kia Optima or Toyota Camry or something like that. Which it does competently. It’s not supposed to even been on the radar of…

Well duh. People with a lick of sense accelerate slowly in snow, and decelerate gently.

But this debate has existed since the beginning of ABS. A great driver who can feel slippage, can beat ABS on snow. A decent driver who is relaxed and confident can beat ABS on snow.

But if you are in a situation where you have to…

It’s all about Thai food in London pubs, from what my friends there tell me. Indian food is so 1980s.

I’ve had great meat pies in British pubs in Los Angeles. Empanada versions of meat pies would make great space food for the astronauts on the ISS. Of course in LA we have empanada versions of every kind of food.

I haven’t listened to FM radio since KNAC went off the air in Los Angeles. I haven’t listened to morning radio since CD players were first put in cars.

What is annoying to me now, are the talkers on the Sirius XM music stations.

When you replace the parts with ones that are functionally different, you are engineering your own car on a common platform. This is why I never bought any modified car, and would never buy one.

If you replace every part with factory parts, I can see an argument that it is different. But that also includes replacing…

We don’t know that he’s had fewer alien companians than human ones. The alien ones just weren’t included in the tales humans tell other humans about their interactions with The Doctor.

Every since it occurred to me that Star Wars is a story told by the victors (from the point of view of the citizens loyal to the…

They’re too big. They’re too thick. They’re too heavy. They’re too expensive. They need to be recharged everyday. They aren’t all that useful, considering the downsides I just listed. I just don’t think that many people really need constant notification without having to take out their phone, and that seems to be the…

Around here, the Silicone Beach Yuppies drive Teslas, Maseratis, McClarens, and these:

If an asteroid strikes off the coast Lucifer’s Hammer style, and there are a bunch of surfers waiting to ride a mile high tsunami, Jerry Pournelle will find someone to sue.

What you have is science fiction. Not a scientific theory. A scientific theory requires mathematical evidence to support it.

No one is going to budget billions of dollars to build detectors to “test” your theory. And if they did, you would have to submit your project with mathematical proofs, so when the detector is…

I want that in my belly.

Also how long do you want to live, anyway? Especially in Trump’s America.

Well, makes sense. Geo-engineering is our last great hope for preventing the greater damage of global climate change. That is, partially blocking sunlight that comes to Earth. Pretty easy to see how we could do something that would result in an ice age or totally break the weather all over the world.

It’s the car your blonde, late 60s real estate agent will drive.

Yeah, we buy a lot of stuff from Amazon and we got Prime for the shipping benefits. The streaming benefits are icing on the cake.

It’s a nice contention, but what evidence do you have to support your theory? When it comes to cosmology, if you don’t have the math, you don’t have a theory.