What is missed in this discussion is that FSD in Tesla is a beta system by definition and so should have sufficient safety systems to ensure it as a beta system. Even the Autopilot is a beta system. If you use the live world as a test population, the standard of extra safety mechanism must be maximal .

West Side Story and In the Heights were bad. Remaking a perfect classic is hubris. In the Heights just was not good. 

Movies are business endeavors so cost versus earnings count. The Marvels needed 600 million to break even . The movie has very little future earning potential. The director’s race is not an issue as references to that are just excuses for the director.  The issue is she directed a 300 million dollar loss. Wonka is a…

Woke does not sell. Dial is woke...the male hero is a broken shell of aging toxic masculinity who is saved by the female hero. ..why is anyone surprised that is rejected by Indy fans? Go woke, go broke. 

Oppenheimer should be a remarkable film but 3 hour, serious, historical biographies that need to make 450 million to break even are a tough job. Napoleon will be in the same boat. Neither will have very much international audience so they can be tremendous art but lose over 200 million.

The issue is the cost VS box office and that is very negative. Disney is losing about 600 million on summer movies. WB is losing about the same and has two expensive possible losers still to come. Other studios are looking at big annual loses.  As a business, Hollywood has a red VS black bottom line and not being…

Having seen the first 2 episodes, the use of multiple skin color actors is great. The lead characters are female..great.

The problem with self driving tech is speed. The faster the car goes, the further sensors much reach and the less time to process .

Tesla and Musk have tied themselves to two wrong technologies. Self driving cars will never be practical except as low speed, limited area delivery vehicles. There was an excellent review article showing how as speed of vehicle increases, the need for sensors to see further increases . Tesla uses 2 megapixel cameras…

Inclusiveness should include the people that defend freedom. It is both hypocritical and foolish to denigrate the people who make weapons that defend freedom of speech and freedom to write stories. These apologists should check with writers in China on how freedom gas to be defended...oh, they can’t because China has…

The Vikings came to Greenland and North America during the Medieval Warming period which was about 2c warmer than now and when that warming ended , the cold was too much for the Viking colonies to persist.

This latest Dune looked and sounded like the bad Star Wars prequels with long , dramatic shots one after another and dialogue that was spoken in slow motion. Only Mamoa sounded and moved like a real person. The hard part of making epic scale movies is not losing the realism of the human characters and , sadly, this…

The biggest issue with all the “ self driving” type systems is they drive like a student driver. That is , they only see and respond to what is immediately around the vehicle. If something is happening two cars ahead, the systems cannot sense that and never will be able to sense that. Since these systems aim the car…

Go Trump!

Other reports note Tesla used multiple electronics that were not rated for automotive use and used other tech in ways not designed for long term use. Many Tesla multiuse tablet screens are just standard commercial grade never intended for the heat and vibration of car mounting and have failed.

OOh come on. President Trump has led the fight against China all the time.

Kerr is a hypocrite. Simple. How much of his anti-Trump stuff is actually orchestrated by China since Pres Trump made opposing China a major focus?

Freedom means defending the speech of those you disagree with.

ESPN is all fine if it’s on air people call President Trump and 50 million Americans horrible and untruthful insults but Disney/ESPN stops any negatives against a dystopian Chinese oppression.

Let us be clear. President Trump is leading the fight against totalitarian China .