I think this car is a rental. It’s got an additional GPS screen bolted to the dash, probably from Hertz. It’s just happened that I spent the last week in a Hertz rental because some idiot kid was following too closely when traffic came to a stop and rear ended my 5 months old car.

How is one robotic arm suppose to replace two arms and two legs? It hasn’t actually flown the aircraft. The AFCS is still doing all the work.

Unless they get hacked.

But now it’s just Terrell writing about Trump this, Trump that.

And how many Tickle Me Elmo did they sell?

The fact that you watch it on Netflix instead of the local PBS over the air channel suggests that Netflix can make a business model of producing those shows. There is no reason for the government to spend money on it.

and Vandoorne was due to driver error, not Honda’s fault.

Eliminating the waiver is a good thing. It would get rid of the idiots at CARB. It’s because of CARB that Californians have to deal with the crappy gas. Arizona, California, and Nevada have the worst gas in the nation. It burns cleaner per gallon, but your fuel mileage goes down also. So in the end to go from Point A…

Of course jobs are going to robots. UAW would have you paying a worker $27/hr to load the spare tire into the car. Robots don’t need health care, limit on work time, no vacations, just the occasional sick time.

California is already working on taxing work done by robots.

The car looked like it had a case of diarrhea when it was being lifted by the crane.

But this is the military. Reliability is more important than the latest tech. In this case, if the system fails, people die.

They didn’t exactly learn the first time with the F-111. What makes you think they will learn their lesson this time?

Not according to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for their FY16 report which listed the MCBCF at 400 in shipboard configuration, well under the requirements at 4,166. http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2016/pdf/navy/2016cvn78.pdf

From the Operational Test & Evaluation office http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2016/pdf/navy/2016cvn78.pdf

Based on the latest report for FY16, EMALS failure rate is at 400 Mean Cycles Between Critical Failure. Way below the 4,166 requirement. It has 7% chance of completing 4 day operation, 67% chance of one day sustained operation. The report also said, “Absent a major redesign, EMALS is unlikely to support high-intensity…

One system has proven to work for the last 50 years, the other system isn’t working and needs more money and time to get it to work.

Also easily defeated. I work with a guy who used to design countermeasures.

While TOW missiles have advanced, not the ones in S. Korea. We do quite a bit of electronics for aircraft control systems for the TOW missiles for the S. Korean Army. Rebuilding the circuit cards hasn’t been an easy task because no one makes most of the components. We have to look for sources who have garages full of…

South Korea is not well armed. Company I work for supplies a lot of parts to the South Korean Army. They have a lot of 1970's technology. They still use TOW missiles.