I smell something fishy here. A grenaded transmission perhaps? Some kind of VIN number chicanery? Something is not right here.

If there are too many cars there, yes, they are not charging enough. 

Well, I grew up in the 80's and 90's, and my peers were hitting mailboxes with bats and sticking vulgar bumper stickers on people’s cars without anyone filming it, so maybe kids have just always been a bit shit. 

We used to roll up next to the nice people in their nice cars, slouching ominously in our vile hooptie beaters, and when they nervously acknowledged us we’d whip out kazoos and begin playing ‘Taps.’

From the video, there are plenty of crackers involved.

I hope Ferrari follows through and joins this prototype Frankenstein class as well. A Porsche/Ferrari/Toyota/Cadillac/Peugeot class sounds bonkers. Get Bentely back in with an evolution of the Speed8 and we’ve got all the classic main countries covered.

Interesting - scaled to say, 40,000,000 drivers, that is 608 man years per year wasted. At a rate of income of $50,000 per year, that’s 1.5 Billion dollars spent on those 8 minutes a year. It’s really worse than that, because that’s 608 non-sleeping man years, so closer to $4.5 Billion in lost productivity.

People speed because the road is wide open with few parked cars or other sight blockers.

Real-world testing is fine. Deployment as a commercial product is not the same thing. Also, L3 implementation with no immediate handoff demands could be done, and data could be gathered that way without the inherent L2 problems. 

Ah yes, parks and churches, the ONLY two reasons that there could be pedestrians somewhere, or a reason to help control speed. What BS luck for someone trying to do good. That truck driver better end up in jail.

Jason, I can see how you find this confusing, but you need to understand exactly how the unique Tesla system works. I’ll break it down for you.

Except at least in Star Wars, they aren’t creating an anti-gravity field. The repulsorlift is mounted on the bottom of the speeder and pushes upwards on it by “pushing against its gravity, producing thrust” (Wookiepedia) to me this says that these devices are essentially reversing their own gravity only, not creating…

Great question. Probably because over the last few years after my daughter was born, I’ve been mostly confined to my home track of Road America. Which let’s face it, is a horsepower track.

Self driving cars will be a thing, but if it ends up not being a thing it won’t be because the manufacturing complexity. It will be the obvious thing that’s always been the problem: that making the software capable of driving a car is difficult and requires addressing a multitude of edge and corner cases.…

Is it really anthropomorphizing something if you give it a wing?

At least with respect to cars; “super cruise” has been used for decades to refer to an aircraft that can exceed Mach 1 (i.e., supersonic) without having to light off its afterburners (which eats huge amounts of fuel). The Concorde was the only civilian aircraft capable of super cruise, but having entered service in…

I think the angle of attack from Raph could be a little more nuanced. Objectively, it’s a gorgeous car and a well done restoration.

The problem with it comes down to all the “lore” that is attached to it by the people who are doing the showing and collecting. Regardless of whether or not it can be proven it was a…

That would be quite a feat anyhow, as the city of Nuremberg (Nürnberg) does not have a racetrack (and is more than 200 miles from the Nürburg-Ring).

The best analogy I’ve seen is the one of the WWII French resistance, which was comprised of every group who wasn’t willing to work with the Nazis. That’s practically the only thing they had in common, so their ability to function cohesively was next to none.