I can think of several versions of the Stack Interchange in Los Angeles: 405/10, 105/110, modified with tunnels 105/405. Some of the ones listed are cooler looking, like the Turbo, but the simple and obvious Stack has the most reliably high flow. Los Angeles proves how irrelevant flow can be when your overall capacity…

Get used to it. This is the way the whole country is moving with education, medical coverage, and retirement, based on current state and federal government policies. The rich are entitled to whatever they want, everyone else can suck it. The notion of “Public Resources” will be as quaint as a hat with dodo feathers in…

I never really noticed that before, but now that you mention it...

We as a society don’t have too much horsepower. As with everything else, the horsepower seems to largely be in the hands of the same 1% who have all the money.

It is always fun to see those things stuck in bumper to bumper traffic and limited to the same speeds as someone with a Smart Fortwo.

0-60 on the Leaf is 8 seconds. On the Bolt it’s a hot-hatch like 6.3 seconds. They’re still not getting it.

Also, styling looks like a 2009 Subaru Impreza hatch.

Most companies wait for you to take the car to the dealer to get the defect fixed. Like mine, which didn’t have a t-clamp tightened on a large coolant hose, resulting in all the coolant leaking out and the car overheating.

You realize that was complete bullshit, right? The utilitarian Prius-esque design of the first Volt was not the result of aerodynamics, which could have been resolved while maintaining the Volt’s sportier looks. He chickened out, because he felt anyone buying an electric car wasn’t really interested in “Sporty”.…

The original Volt concept car, looked like an electric Camaro. Chevy chickened out and felt that they had to make it look more Prius like.

Or...Chevy could have made the Volt look like the ELR in the first place. They would have sold a whole lot better. And the ELR should have been nothing less than a Tesla competitor from the get-go. It wouldn’t have been that difficult to spec a bigger battery and a bigger motor than the Volt, and if they were going to…

I drove a Chevy Bolt at the Seattle auto show.

I drive a Focus ST. The Bolt is nearly as quick and handles nearly as well. Mash the pedal, and that torque from a standing start really gets your attention. And also, you find yourself going way too fast in a hurry. Which I found astonishing. And it makes me wonder.

First,…

I moved from LA to the Tacoma area earlier this year. People here are classic car crazy. From around June to September, there’s little to no rain, and the classic cars come out. One person parks a classic in a parking lot while going for groceries, and suddenly there’s 20 of them and it’s a car show.

Around here, some…

The pecking order is this.
No Camaro can compete with the Corvette.
No Chevy hot hatch can compete with the Camaro.
No Chevy sedan can compete with a Buick.
No Buick can compete with Cadillac.

So if any other GM division has a concept car that is too good, there are multiple fiefdoms that can squash them. And they do. All…

My Focus ST came with these enormous tombstone rear seat headrests that I had to immediately remove because I couldn’t see out the back of the car with the interior rearview mirror, and it was dangerous. Adding to the misery, the 2013 Focus ST did not have rear camera availability, though the infotainment system is…

I think your vision of what neural networks and machines can do, is about 10 years out of date. The goal in neural network research, has been to get past rigid instruction/result programming, and replace that with learning and improvisational ability. Vision has been the weakness of automation, understanding what is…

What they are good at NOW, is utterly irrelevant to the discussion. People are trying to make them good at the things they aren’t good at, now. All those weird Google images show that they are capable to doing incomprehensible things, they have been known to invent their own efficient languages, and advance after…

Can you name a field in which a neural network, capable of independent thought and nearly instantly acquiring and integrating vast amounts of data, wouldn’t be better at than a human.

Here’s some thinking occupations I can think of where that would replace humans:
Corporate lawyers
Law clerks
Doctors
Lab techs
Marketing
Web…

If you own the company that uses it, sure. But the goal of that company is to use the neural net to hire fewer thinking employees.

YOU think you’ll be one of the people who use the technology. Likely you will be one of the people companies try to eliminate by adopting AI.

I hope they stop the merger. I’d like to see all mega mergers stop, permanently. This consolidation of massive companies is a step toward the “Economic Singularity” I studied in college, in which it’s inevitable that a single economic entity ends up owning everything as long as intellectual property and high barriers…

Watching him, his driving performance and style were excellent considering how they were portraying him. It’s a shame they’re dumping him.

When you buy a used car of that age, working on your car every weekend is your hobby until you sell it. The indeterminacy of arriving at or leaving your destination is part of the thrill. Sleuthing out and solving fluid leaks makes you feel like an automotive Sherlock Holmes. If your cost of repairs stays below what…