I love how dramatic the voice over is. “A strong magnet pull the cue ball out in to the chute.. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME”. Said with the same inflection that a voice over would talk about a serial killer who went back to the same house to kill again.. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Oh, another consideration for this technology would be manufacturing cost. Our current batteries are pretty tough to manufacture, and use some precious resources. We’re getting better at it, and have a big head start, but there’s probably some theoretical limits to how cheaply we can make them. Right now we can’t make…

Hydrogen at 690 bar (about 10kpsi) has an energy density of 4.5 MJ/L compared to 0.9 to 2.6 MJ/L for a lithium-ion battery. The real problem for hydrogen-powered cars is not infrastructure. That could be built out pretty quickly if the demand were there. It’s that gasoline is cheap and abundant right now so there’s no…

The apology has already made the new Top Gear worse than the old.

Defibrillators, battery back up for smoke alarms, fire alarms, burglar alarms; emergency torches, emergency mobile phones. Emergency packs for disasters, UPS units in non-managed facilities. The lights and beacons in emergency equipment (think life jackets on planes), even the batteries in black boxes and emergency…

Lots of application currently exist that utilise standard batteries, but don’t really actually use battery power. Things like UPS systems need regular battery maintenance and replacements despite the fact that many of them never see any use. So a temporary system with a depletable storage with unlimited shelf life(and…

Seems like the kind of emergency tool that would be useless in an emergency because it was all used up showing off how amazingly cool it is to family, friends and co-workers.

Your local Russian is here to translate.

I only had time for one sloth.

Wait, so a rear engine, cab rearward pickup truck? The space efficiency of a cab forward truck without the safety concerns? You just blew my mind...

Or why not just put the cab at the very back? You get the experience of that rear-fire engine navigator, and you can keep an eye on your payload. Unload it, and maybe it could do some wheelies for kicks.

Very easy to prove since he reportedly confessed at the scene. Probably thought it wasn’t going to be as serious as this. He deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail as far as I am concerned, but he was still dumb to confess without attorney, even if (as some commentors thought) he thought he was doing the right…

So in heavy gridlock, surrounded by a full school bus and a propane truck, police decided to open fire? On suspects that were running away (as opposed to attacking) and (based on there being no mention of a weapon) unarmed?

Why do I smell patent bullshit? This reads like vapor dreams, and the pictures could easily be an off the shelf inverter in a shiny billet box.

Faraday Future is the Donald Trump of car manufacturers.

Moving goods is the one thing our rail system is good for:

The whole reason I bought a car in 2014 is that I could get one without an infotainment screen. I figure it’ll be good for 15 years or so, by which time I’ll be too senile to care.

They might not be the same people, but the same company is managing the deliverable items and holding the appropriate people accountable. If you can’t get something as SIMPLE as infotainment right, how can I expect the company to manage getting the autonomy right?

The sponge is a red herring. That in and of itself isn’t that surprising—it’s pretty common for companies to make one enclosure that will hold the internals for multiple products, and a foam brick is a pretty common way to prevent electronics from moving where they aren’t supposed to. Actually it’s one of the better…