Here's a coil map. Just to increase confusion.

I think I'm trying to argue a different case. Correct me if I'm wrong but you are making the case for an autonomous vehicle that can still be controlled by the occupants.

Obviously the lab. Sunshine doesn't even have thumbs.

Says who? Isn't that the point of driverless cars, that you don't have to control it? Also, who is to say that these autonomous cars even have a way if bein controlled by the occupants other than destination?

Thank you for finally writing an article about this. This is the first thing I bring up when people talk about autonomous cars.

Yeah, I search for the clutch about every other time I go to start an automatic. I haven't turned one off while still in motion, I have found myself wondering why the key won't come out of the ignition a few times. Oh yeah, still in D...

My personal favorite stupid maps are these as so elegantly parodied by XKCD:

Yeah, ever since then I've tried to stay more conscious about it. We have a Fusion for a company car that we take to customer visits and every once-in-a-while I catch myself searching for a clutch in that.

While I've had my share of face reddening experiences driving a stick, I'm a 27 year old guy living in the states and I have literally never owned a vehicle with an automatic. One example being: stalling my car trying to pull into a driveway on a first date (literally 10+ years of driving a stick every day.)

What happens when the trailer brakes go out or if you lose power? At least with air brakes when you lose pressure you come to a screeching stop.

Eventually they're going to run out of brakes. I'm not saying they can't stop 40k since that's part of the rating process but their issue is not pulling, it's stopping.

#1 is the important one for me. The blatant disregard to intellectual property is astounding. Someone else has already said it but I will echo it as well, quality.

Like this?

Then you're in the Danger Zone!

Adding to the complaints about using this tech at auto industry volume: 3D printing is literally not fast enough to keep up with the production rates of the auto industry. Toyota sold 400,000 some Camrys last year, that's 45 per hour. Injection molding can crank out parts that fast, 3D printing can't.

Boeing doesn't make 400,000 planes a year though. Yes, there are CNC layup machines and they are much faster than hand layups but they still only make a few fuselages per month.

Food for thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mig-29#In…

I've got one for this:

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that cattle were a dominant player in evolution. I was trying to point out how they were such a big part of this weight visualization and it has happened on a timescale that has a similar order of magnitude to evolution (does that make sense?)

This is one of my biggest pet peeves about corporate culture. Although it's completely eclipsed by my hatred of corporate buzzwords.