“When you think about it, it is pretty strange that we spend over half a trillion dollars a year on defense against other humans, when we could all just as easily be wiped out, or at least partially, by a giant rock just going about its business in space. It shows just how near-sighted the human race is, especially…

I don’t know. I can’t determine his entire personality by a single action.

I don’t doubt that he is an awful person, but I do doubt his kids will be better off without a father.

It’s a bit taking back just how much work the pilot has to do to start his engine (especially noticable on the F15 video. The pilot looks like he is trying to monitor 12 different gauges at once).

I must be misunderstanding you. Aren’t you proposing that we fit all bicycles with identical motors and let them race with those? Won’t those be motorized bicycles? Aren’t those basically very light motorcycles?

Sort of, if I understand what you are saying right.

We already have motorcycle racing.

The motor in the seat post is connected to the cranks via gears, and gears make noise. There is also a need to place all these gears somewhere, so it could be easier to find.

I use a G700 for cad work, and it works fantastically. The single greatest benefit was to program 2 of the thumb buttons as copy and paste.

I had a recent model BMW. It literally cost more in repairs and maintenance than it did in gas, despite averaging 16mpg.

This is actually crazier than the squid car. How is that possible?

Trying to rip a fat ass wheelie

You don’t need 3 printing magic for that, you need a cnc grinder.

Solving important crimes is hard and expensive. Writing tickets is easy, cheap, and generates revenue.

Why with checkpoints of course. And by patrolling around looking for people who look distracted.

Yes, there is, but it’s not an immediately clear one.

There is no safety benefit at not requiring people to be very sober and very alert while their car is doing all the driving. That’s the line we’ll see pushed. No matter how safe autonomous cars get, they can always claim that having very alert drivers as backup is safer, even by a little bit.

Those same cops are not going to be thrilled about having to find other jobs, nor their superiors will take kindly to reducing the size of their fiefdoms. They will find new crimes that must be policed and fined. And people will grudgingly agree to it, because safety and children.

What do you want to bet there will be great pressure to make sure that the drivers of autonomous cars remain sober?

It may not lower fatalities, but it will increase revenue thru fines.