I don’t think it disengages automatically, I think it is just an electronic disengagement triggered by squeezing the latch release. This design makes sense for, as someone pointed out above, child safety reasons, as they might not be strong enough to disengage the latch from the internal release point.

The issue is that the second latch cannot stand the force exerted by the car moving at speed. This is almost certainly an intentional design feature, so that if the primary latch where to fail, the secondary latch doesn’t deform the hood trying to hold it closed, and also probably as a cost saving measure since it…

I doubt the lawyers wanted the liability of an override button. They are almost certainly much happier having you drive at a speed that cannot cause the hood to pop up then trusting the customer’s judgement on if the failure is a false-positive.

Because that wouldn’t help you at all if the frunk was already in the open-but-latched state, which was the point of the change. Stopping the frunk from opening at all at speed was the point of the change to the actuation controls (needing a long second press, which is amazing wasn’t already the case, every other…

One can want to move forward without being ashamed or feeling shame about where they are. Assuming shame is the only motivator for improvement is one of the greater failings of many modern societies.

Let’s ignore for a moment the assertion that a private company board is just full of cronies. Certainly, that can happen - my dad got royally fucked out of a business he built as its board was his primary investor, that investor’s wife, and that investor’s lawyer, who proceeded to initiate a vote of no confidence with…

They weren’t trying to steal anything. Private companies often have a board of directors, that typically represents investor interests as well as employee interests, in order to avoid a situation where the CEO can do anything without repercussions. The powers given to that board are written into the business’s…

For proper sponsorship, all of it does (agent fees aside I guess if the streamer works for an agency). That’s why the streamers are so upset about this. BK is getting in-content advertising while paying much, much less than it should cost.

It’s an extremely good deal. For the marketers. Buying 8 seconds of air time on a major twitch stream with high viewership numbers would cost much more than $5 normally. Buying “in content” airtime (proper sponsorship) would cost astronomically more.

From my limited experience with marketing, I completely agree. It’s an existential threat from Twitch’s prospective (why would you ever pay for advertising if you can get 99% of the value for 1/1000'th the cost), but I’m sure whoever came up with this viewed it as basically no different than if they went to a sports…

While I’m sure some of this is corporate bean counting, you do have to remember the consoles, Xbox especially, have some extremely draconian and burdensome requirements about issuing updates to existing software. There may also be weird edge cases around licensing of various technologies and art/music/vocal assets,…

Even VR, which solves the head-to-body restriction, doesn’t solve the eyes-to-head one. It only amplifies it. Because now it’s so realistic that you _try_ to look with your eyes, expecting it to work, and have to keep reminding yourself that you’re not actually there, you’re simply looking through a camera mounted on…

I think you misunderstood what I meant. I’m saying that possibly the van _does_ have 150+ miles of actual battery range, if the van was going to report 0-100% charge as actually being ~0-100% charge on the battery. But in order to provide commercial grade reliability, Mercedes has designed and marketed 0-100% range to…

The problem with Enter The Matrix wasn’t so much that the game concept was bad. It was just a buggy, borderline unplayable mess when it launched (on PC at least). Once it was patched to a fixable state, you were left with basically Max Payne, but Matrix characters. Which wasn’t inherently a bad thing, but if you…

Yep. It’s also why I specifically wanted the leather wheel/shifter in my GT3, because I daily drive it and didn’t want goo wheel like what happened on my old 330i ZHP. It’s also why BMW switched from an Alcantara wheel to a perforated leather one after the 2004 model year.

You’re assuming that Mercedes is designing and marketing this car like it’s intended for consumer drivers, for whom range (and really, spec sheets in general) is the end all be all. That’s almost certainly not true, because commercial consumers value reliability and predictability of results over absolute spec sheet…

Is it my imagination, or do those Earth to Ned sets look like leftover Farscape sets?

Yes, The Matrix Online. It was not good, like every video game made as a Matrix tie in. It shuttered after 4 years.

Define “not right?”

Yeah, that was kind of an odd statement. Commercial vehicle development is all about tailoring a vehicle to exactly a specific use case. Sure you probably want a platform that is flexible enough to be adapted to many use cases, but tuning an instance of that platform to a specific use case isn’t odd at all.