It’s funny, I could drive around with high beams on in my F150 and no one would notice, but I occasionally get flashed with my low beams in my Fiesta.

That’s awesome!  Although I have a hell of a time not tearing up my grass with my paultry 23HP zero turn.  

I don’t know... It’s pretty cool, but making an unusual vehicle go fast is only a mild engineering challenge for those used to making things go fast.  I want to see the thing till or plant corn at 100mph.  Now THAT would be a serious engineering challenge. 

I’ve had success with this between my cats. It even worked with my cat and dog, although I wasn’t doing it specifically regarding pheromones. I had the idea that as long as the two animals were comfortable being together receiving affecting from me at the same time, they would eventually associate each other with…

Yea, fair point, I hadn’t considered pre-delivery planes.

It surprises me that it would be better to store them at one place. I would have thought it would be better to fly a repair crew around to the various airlines and have them repaired there.

Look, if my server ever responds to my question, “hows the chicken?” with “It’s dead.”  I’m going to laugh heartily and give a big tip.  But that’s just me. 

Seems like it would be easy to argue out of a hit and run. “Well, I didn’t want to block the road, so I pulled into my driveway a few feet away.”

You’re 100% wrong on that front. I will put money on it. Our government mandates technology that will save 0.1% of drivers from having accidents (things like reverse cameras, blind spot detection, etc. etc. etc.).  Yet, over 90% of accidents are human error.  The only logical step is to remove the human.  

That’s what I said. Almost as in assisting technologies, almost as in it can’t quit do it by itself yet. The original point was that we are far closer to full level 5 autonomy than we are to flying cars.

Almost drives itself as in lane keeping/assisting technologies, as in we are pretty close to having cars that WILL drive themselves, reliably, in very limited circumstances.

I did say they can “almost” drive themselves, lol

Not yet, that’s for sure. Aviation autopilot is, generally, a simple controls problem. The closest thing cars have is a freeway, where everything is, for the most part, expected. Stay in a lane, maintain speed, make sure no one turns into you, etc. Technology today is pretty close (within a decade, probably) to…

*sigh*  Well played. 

Weeeeellll, the difference is you cannot run to a dealer and buy a car today that is both flight worthy and road worthy. You CAN however, go to some dealerships and buy a car that almost drives itself.

Perfect world, in my opinion:

Christ, I so wish I had video from our ChumpCar race a VIR a couple years back. It rained so hard and our windshield defrost couldn’t keep up. For quit a few laps, I was literally driving by braile, keeping one tire on the edge of the track, and driving out the side window. Did I mention it was night? They don’t use…

I’m super skeptical on the “driven gently” thing.  Why put all those bits on the car, ESPECIALLY A LIGHTENED FLYWHEEL, if you are just going to putter around town.  Look man, be honest.  You flogged the shit out of it, but took care of it otherwise?  NP.  Going to be shady about it?  CP. 

I always used my commute as a bogey for deciding if electric cars are a viable option. It’s 140 miles round trip, so that’s a pretty difficult task, especially if I want heat or A/C. I recently found out that my work offers free electric charging, so it looks even better.

The problem, for me, boils down to economics. …

If you do a few of your own repairs (especially if they are labor intensive), you have likely saved enough over paying someone else that you can buy your own hoist.  The biggest problem is having somewhere to put it.  Most garages are not tall enough.