Penal colony?

Of course, someone might want to buy a hybrid for grander reasons than saving a few bucks. Nothing wrong with that. I would however encourage one to account for the environmental impact of the entire lifecycle of the vehicle, which I believe can be done pretty easily through a few web resources. (And indeed, iirc one…

Well, the headline is a bit bombastic and perhaps pedantic, but the point of "don't buy a prius just because of its fuel economy" is still pretty reasonable. $2,600 over two years is nice, but that isn't a very fair comparison- you're comparing a new hybrid to an "old" ICE, and one that gets pretty lackluster fuel…

Wouldn't all of these false predictions just cast doubt on our current ones? :)

I don't want autonomous cars because I will trust them more than myself, I want them because I will trust them more than everyone else on the road.

The risk is still there, but for a car you almost never ever have a serious problem that you have more than 2 or 3 seconds to resolve. I'm not saying a pilot can be drunk off their ass or taking a nap, but there's orders of magnitude of difference between the intervention times required, which vastly diminish the…

I don't know much about aviation, but I suspect that when a pilot takes the stick to deal with an issue, it's usually something that developed over a few minutes, and takes several minutes or hours for them to "deal" with it. In a car, all of the things you need to react to occur in seconds or fractions of a second.…

I wouldn't bother using an autonomous car that required me to take control. If I still have to pay attention, be alert, and be sober, what's the point? I think a "driver" riding in an autonomous car would have a slim chance of paying close enough attention to detect any problems if the car is handling 99.9% percent of…

It might not be reasonable, or marketable, but that doesn't mean it isn't technologically feasible. (I don't know whether or not it is, I'm not about to do the thrust calculations). Often times when you're doing a patent you'll propose a few alternative mechanisms. As far as I understand it, this was one of those…

It costs a lot of money to come up with concrete designs and prototypes. If you required those, you'd be spending all of that money without having any protections of your intellectual property.

You are indeed right, this is different, but I think (think) that they would face similar challenges, the lower extents of the sphere would have the same water pressure on the outside, and about 1 atm on the inside. Perhaps Mr. Scientist will come along to explain a work-around to us.

just my nitpicking here- you wouldn't use a powercal if you had a power meter. A powercal has the added advantage over a standard heart rate monitor in that it uses cycleops proprietary algorithm to estimate power from heart rate, which you obviously don't need with a stages.

I agree! The closest I can get is:

But where do they say what the price of this will be? If they had that info in this blurb I might have been impressed!

And if that diameter is submerged.... think about it... you'll get there.

This is just a bike with an integrated gps computer and power meter. A huge number of serious cyclists already have all of these things. And they're bluetooth or wifi enabled so that you can already do the social network brag. Is there anything innovative about this besides the fact that is integrated?

Serious (and reasonably affluent) cyclists already have this... a GPS head unit with a power meter and heart rate monitor. The only thing that could be innovative about this is delivering it at a lower cost.

I would think it's because a button that says "free" is not obviously a button to download the app. Took me a good 20 seconds to figure that one out when trying to download an app for my mother on her iphone.

Imma be a pedant here, but he didn't put his life on the line to test his product, he put his life on the line to make an ad.

I think the real problem is that you articulated this more clearly than the blog post or infographic itself.