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I have been at the headwaters of the Mississippi in Minnesota - it is not nearly so impressive there, given you can walk across it’s mighty 18' width without getting your feet wet. England is a tad small to end up with something like the lower Mississippi.

Judging every other river by the one of the biggest rivers in the world really isn’t fair.

Today’s headline: Ship carrying timber delayed in UK river for several hours due to low tide.

All but the last of these is already managed perfectly fine without AI, and the last will not be possible on this car so is irrelevant.

I drove a Mk8 GTI and really didn’t like it. Maybe the things I really like about the R will outweigh all of the things I don’t like about the new one, but we’ll see. VW is pretty clearly looking at a different market segment with this car, and it just doesn’t happen to be mine.

Ew...no

I started to go through this point by point, but CarPlay and (physical) buttons will be better and far safer for me in virtually every case. Remains to see how much of this and how much will be on chip and how much will be cloud-based. amyy default assumption is that VW will be using this to train their systems on my…

A car typically doesn’t “need” ChatGPT in the sense that it won’t improve the car’s mechanical functions or performance directly. However, integrating ChatGPT or similar AI technology into a car can enhance the user experience in several ways:

WTF does a car need ChatGPT?  

So many innovative new failures!

The video from Goodwood was pure insanity. It’s comically fast.

I cannot wait to see how poorly these stupid wipers do in ice and snow in the winter. I smell a second recall coming when even the improved motor starts failing against an even higher load.

The Speirling is such an incredible machine, I’m surprised that it doesn’t get talked about more often. 

Insurance is going to total that thing because:

“’Never drive uphill, me boys.’ -Robert E. Lee” - Donald J. Trump

My guess - the truck saw itself in a reflective surface for the first time and attempted to self-delete.

No - he was jamming the brake, hence the back wheels locked up.  The software decided to keep the power on to the front wheels though...

New question when applying for auto insurance:

Sure is moving fast and breaking stuff