I disagree. If you don't have to deal with automotive regulations, you need to spend more time on design in order to remain competitive.

I was going to say this, but you covered it all and with much more passion. ;)

Watching him would do lots of good as he watches him rocket into a building or roll over some kid.

I know that first impressions are crucial, which is why it is important to design things the way you said. But when it's my car, I'm perfectly fine with searching for a switch one time in order to have it in a better place forever.

Used to work there... AMA. :)

The website says it has "7-SPEED WITH ACTIVE REV MATCH." Is that what it sounds like? Does it blip the throttle for you? That takes half the fun out of it.

They should just convert the volume dial on a stereo to a gear selector like that automatic one we saw last week. That would make it really easy to dial down from gear thirty to ten for a corner.

Fair enough. :)

Then just give me one.

That doesn't make sense. By tying them together, they make the second key useless. Unless they untie them while they are at the rental facility, and are somehow using both keys then.

Sure, you would rather do that, but I'd also rather do that than be stabbed. But that doesn't make having two keys tied together any less annoying.

Don't keep track of it, just get rid of it. It serves no purpose.

You HAVE to rely on sensors, unless you stop all traffic one night and then mandate that from then on autonomous cars only. I'm sure a mandate will happen, but only after a large chunk of autonomous vehicles are phased in. I think the first step is that we will have designated autonomous lanes and then work from…

The Nordschlieffe can handle it, it's a question of the car or squishy human inside it...

It seems like a disproportionate number of F1 drivers have been killed during testing vs. during grand prix. Is that because you have less experienced drivers, or less stable vehicles, something else, or is that not actually the case?

I guess he probably wasn't texting.

Yeah, I live in a very different area. No straight roads, no open plains or fields, and very densely populated. So even if a road has hidden drives, you know they are there because a decent amount are actively being used!

I know nothing about this, but from my personal experience I still get that "uncomfortably fast" feeling because I'm including outlets/intersections/visibility/a whole slew of other factors into how fast I think I can go, not just the road as if it were a track.

Eh, I haven't really seen much of a spike in news volume this year, and I think google trends corroborates that. But anyways, I contend that you may be right. However, I'm still not going to say a single positive thing about Bernie. ;)

Here's one: both FIM and the government made boat loads of money, and I saw no coverage of the protests outside of passing comments during the race. Granted, domestic events have dominated the news recently (what with a terrorist hiding a mile or two from where I am), but I don't think there would be any coverage…