I’m a home inspector and worked pretty much every day during Covid from the beginning. That was the only bright spot. Zero traffic. It was like a zombie movie at times in April 2020. I could go 15 miles down a 6 lane highway and see 3 other cars. 

That’s honestly amazing so many people still aren’t wearing seatbelts. What’s wrong with people?

Well, this guy wasn’t the only idot driving around Manhattan at 2:30 that morning. People just casually driving down the middle of lane markings like there’s not other cars on the road (besides the McLaren).

Yes, but it raises social mobility for THEM, and they assume that also means reduced opportunities for the current in group, which is a big reason why people hate busing. 

But is it screaming for several seconds when it runs right up on something from behind like multiple autopilot active cars have done? Like trucks, emergency vehicles, etc?

Supposedly the design requirement for these new trucks does account for them to be able to be changed over from gas to battery electric in the future.

There are legitimate reasons to be able to briefly exceed any limit. Getting away from a developing collision or some sort of road rage incident. They may be very rare, but I don’t think they want to be telling anyone sorry, your loved one died in a preventable situation if they could have gone faster for 10 seconds.…

Could be a safety thing. Like hey Bud, if you’re merging on the highway right now, you better back off or have someplace to go NOW, because you are not going to be able to pass that darn Peugeot already on the road. 

On the face of it, It does sound like they tried not to shoot him and he didn’t give them much choice. On the other hand, if there weren’t so many instances where police were shooting people that didn’t deserve it, it would be a lot easier for people to trust in this case.

That’s true but it did take them a while with F9 to get the boosters to consistently land dead on which is what this will take. Will all of that experience and knowledge translate directly to the Starship Booster? Who knows. Plus they haven’t done that many hops with it. On the other hand, if all goes right, the…

And yet all the right wing wackos think Twitter is against them. LOLOLOL

A lot of right wing nuts who have taken Elon up as their new savior because he is going to stop evil liburullll Twitter from being big meanies to them are going to have to take a side now!

LOL, now you’ll feel like every other EV has when waiting at a standard charger while a Tesla is using it instead of a supercharger somewhere.

I think auto start/stop is very dependent on the implementation. We have a 2019 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited with the 2.0 turbo with etorque, which uses a very mild hybrid system with a battery pack and motor/generator off the drive belt. It uses that system to give a boost under around 1500 rpm and for the stop start, so…

Exactly. It gives state legislatures a roadmap to start making laws. Honestly, I think that was kind of what they leaked the opinion. It wasn’t democrats trying to get people mad, it was republicans telling states to get their laws ready for day one. 

Honestly, it looks better than the Galactic Starcruiser hotel, because they actually continued theming onto the the ceiling. GS guests just get your bog standard hotel ceiling to look at. 

I’ve never understood why they wouldn’t put a bottle of nitrogen on the thing and have a couple of nozzles to blow. Building nitrogen tanks is well understood and yes there is a mass trade off for other things potentially, but the system is simple and should not weigh that much, plus extending the life by a period of…

Free market and all that, but they should not have this both ways. If the dealers are going to restrict your ability to sell, then they should be selling at the MSRP without BS add ons. If they want to add a market adjustment and you the buyer can find some sucker who can’t wait and will pay even more, then more power…

My wife flies fairly often for work (or at least used to, it’s coming back but less) and she’s seen multiple guys watching porn either on planes or airport bars. Lots of times these wack jobs are doing it purposely to be seen by women.  Scum of the earth. 

The episode of the Osborne’s where Ozzy tries to use iDrive has to be one of the funniest “reality TV” moments ever.