“Putin is attempting to unify the white, Eastern Orthodox Christian, Russian-speaking world under a single nation, and sees Ukraine, Belarus, and other former Soviet satellite states as components of that nation that must be re-absorbed to undo Russia’s shame after the breakup of the Soviet empire and the chaotic and…

“Now, an artist called Shl0ms has destroyed a perfectly good Lamborghini to sell its part[sic] as NFTs.”

“Michigan’s no-fault insurance means the person hit by Ezero’s Tesla would be responsible for his medical costs. It’s one of the reasons I stopped accepting press cars, as I didn’t want a simple mistake to ruin the lives of any of my fellow Detroiters.”

But we don’t rely on only vision as a sense. There’s also vestibular, proprioceptive sensing (balance and body position) and much better stereo vision processing connected to a very sophisticated inference engine that lets a person figure out the meaning behind the visual and non-visual scene. Essentially, we recreate…

Vision only is a dead end, not a path to Level 4; the phantom braking is an example of why. My first guess, the Teslas on autopilot are stopping for shadows that they can’t disambiguate from objects. I’ll see this from time to time with my lane assist, where I’ll get departure warnings for the shadows of power lines.…

It’s a good idea; but that would probably require legislation or possibly a treaty, and not just a rule-making; unless you just want to adopt the current ECE regulations at this point in time as a snapshot.

1st gear: FMVSS108 limits front lighting to two (2) beam patterns, low and high. There’s a weird carve-out on dynamic lighting where the beam pattern stays the same; but just points in a different direction. Adaptive high-beam, along with ramped transitions between low and high beam, create new beam patterns and,…

I think it’s six. The block quote is from the 2018 article about the indictment, and shows $5m. The $6m figure is from the article about Warner taking the powder, so further investigation probably found that extra $1m.

“There has been some recent debate over whether to call over-the-air updates “recalls,” given that the term “recall” implies that you have to take the car to a dealer for service. Well, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration still calls over-the-air updates for potential safety issues recalls, so take it…

Level 4 autonomy, geofenced self-driving, is achievable. You’ll start to see limited-use fleets in the next few years.

Exactly the speed limit? Not really, as long as there’s a 2-3mph hysteresis. And I wouldn’t, because there’s a logical explanation behind that behavior. That person is driving the speed limit because that’s the posted speed limit.

I’d guess the hidden wiper he wants would stow under the frunk lid to keep the frunk/windshield seam as tight as Tesla’s assembly process can get a panel gap; and would tilt open when the wipers were needed.

The Mustang didn’t start out as a muscle car, it started as a pony car - not high performance but high style. It was originally marketed as a “secretary’s car”

2nd Gear: From youridioms.com:

Heated seats, while they sound simple, are more complex than your example. First, the heated seat control is going to need a couple of high-current MOSFETs to duty cycle the resistive coil mats and a A2D channels to read the PTC (positive temperature coefficient) device to sense the temperature. It will also need some…

The industry hasn’t used through-hole for decades. Almost everything, with the exception of connector headers, is all surface mount.

There is a difference between chip design and chip fab processes.

You have to read the article and the relevant law. When most of these tickets were written, occupying the left lane is only an infraction when it is posted with appropriate signage. There was no “Keep Right Except to Pass” signage on I-22.

Uh... what? LIDAR is LIght Detection And Ranging; it’s a laser-based volume scanning system that builds a 3D model of the scene centered around the sensor. It is entirely self-contained.

Yes, or at least driving unsupervised. We already do this. And yes, if you are driving with a learner’s permit you can get tickets for traffic violations.