Good reading, thanks for the links

But you do watch too much TV...

Faster, yes, but not better. They are lacking some information necessary to make proper gear selection. All they have to go on is engine load, rpm, and vehicle speed. They have no idea what the road ahead looks like, and most importantly, they have no way of telling what gear the driver wants to be in.

I must have missed something something, because this solution makes no sense what so ever. If the car can run into situation where it must turn control over to a human, then surely turning control over to a drunk human is better than not doing anything at all?

Where is it written that manufacturing isn't cool? It is the making of all the stuff that makes out world, well.. our world. Without manufacturing we would still be living in caves. Carbon fiber tubs used to be made by a whole team of highly trained technicians, one at a time, taking several days. Now AR is going to…

Most cars don't use frames at all, that's not really the point. Maybe its because I'm an engineer, but I like technology in cars. Not infotaiment, god no, its a terrible idea to mix products with 6mo and 4yr life cycles. But V12 are very cool, along with boxer engines. So are torsen diffs, active aero, push/pull rod…

Curios, since you didn't get the CTS, what did you get?

I would agree with you, but if you want a carbon fiber car for way below $100k your choices are alfa and what exactly?

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18panels*100watts/panel=1,800watts/220V=8.18Amps max.

I would love to know how long your car has to sit there for the panels to give sufficient charge for a trip down to the corner store and back.

I was born in kharkov, and spend my first 9 years there before getting out in '90. As a kid, I didn't notice the political stuff, and most of the outrageous stuff seemed normal. People weren't being taken to the gulags anymore, mostly. Everyone made a point to acknowledge the bad days without talking about them. And…

I'm not sure how to translate komandirovka. Russians in the US use it to talk about business trips. Except, there is the command thing in there, so it's a trip the government commands you to take. Most often, it was a perk, sort of like a conference in vegas. Go somewhere sunny. I don't know for sure how travel…

Lots of gallows humor, that's for sure. The language itself seemed to have changed around the Stalin years. People recounting these stories talk in a weird third person possessive. It's not "I was hungry" it's "The hunger was present". There is this sense of detachment and helplessness in the language itself. You can…

Doesn't look like the same crash to me.

Can't find anything about pay structures. Doesn't mean much, I read Russian rather poorly, scanning is out of the question. There is the part about the guys leaving their docimeters in the clean zone so as not to be kicked out of the hot zone by the scientists too early. Or people showing up in their best clothes,…

Don't have the best russian, but I'll take a crack at it. Russian tenses are weird

If he is charged, his name should be public record

Damn spell check

I'm sure that there is a large sack of money to be made by whomever finds out why the car burned. Stop complaining about the lack of official statements to reprint and go do some journalism.