Note that the panel on the center stack there isn’t a touch screen in the traditional sense. It’s a panel of solid plastic with capacitive contact areas that are backside illuminated by point LEDs. So the controls don’t move around at least, and it doesn’t blind you with glow all the time. Having driven a Taycan, it’s…

The amazing thing is those are still 20's.

Indeed, and the race commentator right after that interview (I forget who) said something to the effect of “I’m really impressed with the maturity I’m seeing from Sainz, he knows what the objective is for the team and is focused on accomplishing it.”

Occasionally you’ll get something like Alonso defending Hamilton at…

The contract to secure a PU from a maker (which is a fixed 15mil Euro fee) is excluded. The actual materials cost of new units isn’t, I don’t believe.

Defending, especially against an opponent you know is materially faster than you, eats tires. Quickly. And it risks a crash. The mid table teams get out of the way (or at least, don’t defend too hard) because it’s not worth risking their race strategy to delay the inevitable. The likelihood of them losing the battle…

Eventually they’d run over the cost cap. One of the reasons F1 added the cost cap was to prevent exactly that kind of situation.

My guess is someone mixed up having it go live on Nov 5. in each time zone, and instead it just went live on Nov 5, JST.

Whacking them counts as interacting with them, which reduces their likelihood of moving. You have to literally ignore them completely, no interaction whatsoever. If you ignore an islander completely for about a week, they will leave.

The lightning in a bottle that Pokemon Go caught was that the gameplay loop actually matched the IP. Like, the entire concept of Pokemon was “walk around, catch monsters, occasionally battle.” Pokemon Go managed to make that a physical reality, instead of a controller and screen based abstraction, and that resonated…

The question isn’t really “is this game making money on its own.” It’s “could I make more money by investing the money it takes to run this game elsewhere?” If the answer to that is yes, it doesn’t really make sense to continue running the current game. This is true in any business, really.

Well, not really for non-repeating noise patterns (damping there is purely a function of the passive noise canceling properties of your headphones). But sure, that’s because your headphones are deciding what “normal” noise is by listening to the environment and learning from that. Here, Toyota has almost certainly…

Well, in fairness “palm steering” would probably turn into “grip the crossbar of the yoke.” And in this case, the variable steering ratio would probably make it _easier_ do drive this way, since the steering angle you need would be relatively small. But yeah, nothing about the yoke makes sense in a car. It’s just a…

Apologies, I was imprecise in my language use. Technically, no car is full DBW in the US for steering, you’re absolutely correct. What I meant was full electric power steering. You’re right thought that in such a system, there is still a full time mechanical coupling (other than in Infinity’s implementation). And I…

Speed dependent (and driving mode dependent) steering ratios aren’t new. A lot of modern cars have them. They’re just usually not nearly so aggressive as to try to maintain a < 1 turn lock-to-lock at all speeds. I imagine it basically would be tuned to attempt to maintain a constant lateral acceleration for a given…

Have you not driven a vehicle with power steering produced in the last decade? Speed-variable steering ratios really aren’t a new concept. Lexus started using them around 2010. BMW, Audi and a few others had them even earlier. Heck, you could argue the 4 wheel steering systems that came out of Japan in the 90's were…

I mean, it’s pretty straight forward to develop a model of the expected vibration frequencies of the tires under normal operating conditions, and build a feedback control program that damps these out. Car makers already did this mechanically for luxury cars for ages. And in DBW systems any feedback you’re feeling at…

I think what Toyota means here is active noise canceling, but for tire vibration. They likely have developed a pretty solid model of the “expected” vibrations from the tires for a given road surface range and vehicle speed, and simply subtract that model from the feedback information. In theory, this should actually…

That was my take on it as well, given the closed office was home to what was in theory his org. The person taking over the role likely wasn’t in that office, and didn’t want to relocate, so they relocated the org to them, instead of them to the org. This choice was probably helped by the fact that the CA office was…

This is played on later post fight scene when she tries to reassert some authority and say “we need to get Paul off planet” and he, without even blinking, just says “nope, not happening, I’m doing X, Y and Z.” And you can just see a look in her face of “oh shit, I’m just a passenger now.”

In general I actually think…

And again, that’s not what people are thinking is weird. That’s pretty normal (at least, in the West. In much of the east mixed gendered generational familial bathing past puberty is more common). They’re reacting to the shot before the turn around, where there is explicit attention placed on the fact that it is…