Well...yes and no about the fancy taxi. And yes and no to it being a worse train.

It’s a taxi that becomes a train. With cars that can be assigned different routes or destinations. The car can also be detached if people are getting off at a regular stop, while the rest of the train continues. Until the whole line is…

That happens now. So that particular objection is merely minor point in the world of public transit.

It doesn’t get a lot of publicity. Odds are, the reporting mechanisms will be far superior and a response faster because of the connected nature of the vehicles. But 100 percent safe is simply never a realistic goal,…

Fair, but what hot hatch is going to be available in the US with a stick? No more Focuses. I think the GTI is the very last of the breed in the US now.

And if the DSG and paddly shift annoy you, how are you going to adapt when there’s no reason to shift at all? I mean, I feel ya. I have a 6-speed and it’s great fun.…

This is the very last gasoline GTI. The ID3 will eventually work, and that looks like an electric GTI and Golf R. People haven’t quite gotten yet, that electric cars are fun to drive now. An electric GTI/R will be crazy fun. Hell, even a Chevy Bolt is almost fun (they need a Bolt SS).

Just about any new gasoline model…

Last way longer than 145K? Absolutely. But it comes at an ever escalating price that goes far beyond the value of most cars. A fuel pump in a ‘95 Trans Am cost about $1500 to replace. Because the rear axle had to be dropped to access the top of the gas tank.

You don’t just repair one lifter.

A water pump can fail in…

You have to admit, that a factory in Nevada will hasten resolution of these engineering minor points. They can’t change it too fast, because they’re sub-contracted with someone to deliver a specific design spec. If it’s faulty, then there’s some finger pointing and arbitration that will need to happen before the…

LA to Vegas during the summer, the asphalt can reach temps exceeding 150F. The air, 135F in places. The giant thermometer in Baker is frequently above 110F. It’s hard on tires.

So, first time model, relatively inexperienced company. And super low maintenance under 200k. And some maintenance items, will become more reliable in future models.

I’ve taken old cars to about 145k. For a near 400k miles car, that is some cheap maintenance. But I wonder what it would come to if the battery wasn’t…

But fewer and fewer over time. Because sharing accident data will be the law. And all of the autonomous cars will learn from every collision. And they will all learn how to avoid it with the next update. Rinse and repeat. They will be safer than any human in a very short period of time.

Autonomous cars currently have…

More or less than buses or people driven cars?

Remember, once this technology is mature, there will be zero “exceeding safe speed” accidents, near zero accidents resulting from mechanical problems because they’ll be detected before catastrophic failure and the vehicle will take itself in for service, no running of…

I would see this as less a personal vehicle, and more of a public transit solution.

In a full, autonomous public transit system, each vehicle acts as a cell that transports people in a larger transit organism. Subtract non-autonomous vehicles from the high density sections of a city, and these would flow without…

It’s autonomous. Your likelyhood of being in a collision drops dramatically because it would see what you can’t and react faster than you ever could.

It’s “safer” than public transportation. 

That’s the plant in this article, scheduled to close in 2025.

Heh, maybe not this version. If it is dino fueled, it will most certainly be the last Dino Z. That just barely makes sense now.

Catch up to the future my friend. Anachronistic 19th Century Industrial Revolution tech is on its last legs. No one will be building more coal plants. Anywhere. Ever. Texas is going renewable.

Truth. My Brother color multifunction printers tend to last over 6 years. It’s worth it whether we print a lot or just once in awhile.

It’s healthier that you don’t like the movie. That way you stay detached. Agnostic if not a SW atheist. Not like the people who seem to have made a personal religion out of a capitalist marketing property.

I can take a direct flight from Seattle to Nashville in 4 hours or so. You gonna have a direct non-stop hyperloop line from Seattle to Nashville? Or every other major city combination? You’d have to make transfers, and those suck up vast amounts of time.

Sure, jet fuel has 12kWh/kg, but only about 1 kWh/kg reaches the fans. The rest is thrown out in waste heat and thrust too high and concentrated to efficiently move the plane forward. Gas turbines are pretty inefficient overall in the way they’re used in jets, but are as efficient as they can be made.

If we don’t have…

Why? Did you think no one was working on replacing fossil fuel powered jets with battery powered ducted fan “jets”?