Plenty of people drive only 19 miles a day, or not much more than that. The average 'murican drives 12,000 miles a year (I think). If those drives were evenly distributed and they charged once per day, that could more than halve your annual fuel consumption.

It's decided, folks, if I ever want to get more than 3 recommends, I must invoke Archer.

Hell, the Model S broke the testing machine for roof crush protection. What the hell is it made of? Boron? What exactly is boron? I don't think anyone knows.

That's interesting, it sounds like the forums for any sports car ever made. Shocking!

Well, in his defense he's not saying it's okay or not okay, he's just saying he doesn't care to further deter their efforts.

Alan covered it much more thoroughly, but the big takeaway should be that the only unbreakable encryption is a one time pad. Everything else is just a question of how long it takes. Of course, "how long it takes" could be thousands of years or more without the proper hardware.

Yes, exactly. Now imagine yourself thinking of one at the turn of the 20th century. A device that flies through the air at hundreds of miles per hour and thousands of feet above the ground? You'd have to be crazy to travel on one of those!

It's funny.. I've seen engineers do things that physicists said were impossible.

Have you ever heard of the airplane?

"it's so hard to find a pristine version of one of these, no buy it and beat the shit out of it!"

The terrifying thing is that these are the people we rely on for news stories covering subjects we know nothing about.

Except, not writing an article about the Amish.

Think what you may, but this sport isn't unique in that regard. Although you called it a sport, more credit than many other people give it. :-P

Whenever I do the winter/summer tire change over, I think "an F1 team could have done this..... 600 times by now."

Name one professional sport that doesn't have waste and excess.

I guess the reality is somewhere between both of our perspectives... there are plenty of "nimbys" that are opposed to the slightest change even remotely near them, but for a lot of projects like this it really does have massive effects on people's property, neighborhood, and lives.

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Except that... we don't know what Musk's idea is. Save your TLDR; post for then. ;)

Withstand is definitely not the right word. I wonder if they were getting at some railway design principle that says that people get uncomfortable/queasy or something at over 0.1 g.

We should not stop swallowing for fear of choking.