The C6 chassis was released in 2004 and the ZR1 was down nearly 200 hp. I know it’s a big difference, but given how wild the GTD is, it doesn’t seem big enough. 

I just don’t see this as particularily impressive. If this was a $100k mustang it would be world beating to go this quickly, but when your mustang costs substantially more than a GT3 RS and is eight seconds slower....meh?

I wish there was a way to measure smiles per mile. A lot of these vehicles that rip off insane times around a track are boring to drive in the real world, because most drivers don’t have the skills and even if they do, it would be insanely illegal and dangerous to push the limits on such a vehicle on the street.

This is the bike traffic sitch in Amsterdam. To an fresh observer, it looks chaotic, polydirectional, and prone to many collisions. But to me as the cyclist, I can sense and predict and monitor many actions at once, and there simply are no collisions, as folks just know when/how to turn and stop.

Well done Herr Müller.

Yet here we are. Russia “won” the Cold War by tricking racist grampa on the facebook machine...

“Production” Car. 

“The video quickly details the magnitude of the Green Hell and shows it wasn’t smooth sailing for the program with concerns that the 815-horsepower machine was underpowered.”

Some will trust it. Some won’t survive their trust. Some who don’t survive their trust won’t be the ones who gave said trust in the first place.

When something very bad inevitably happens, how will Tesla squirm its way out of massive liability lawsuits? They can no longer blame the occupants of the car who cannot do anything. They can’t blame their own employees or hold them accountable beyond firing them.

I can’t even begin to express how much “nope” I feel about getting into a remotely operated “autonomous” cab.

Excellent reference, my good sir.

Unless the ratio of remote drivers to remotely-driven vehicles is 1:1, there’s gonna be problems. And the cost of paying a remote driver for every remotely-driven cab is going to be too high.

So the ONLY way this works is if you have a human sitting there watching the entire drive from start to finish, apparently with their hands on a game controller style steering wheel and feet on game controller pedals, basically doing nothing but looking at a screen for, what musk hopes, is the vast majority of the…

Oh yeah, this sounds great. It won’t be one remote driver per one cyberdeathtrap. It will be one to a hundred.

When they get notified of an issue, they’re supposed to find the right deathtrap, assess the situation and react correctly. Sure, that makes sense.

That assumes zero latency but we know that’s not the case.

Ye…

Should have just named it “Mechanical Turk” and been done with it. 

Yeah this has bad news written all over it. I’m sure they will operate at a loss to make it seem like an affordable option at first. But what happens when they actually want to sell them to consumers and are inevitably still highly reliant on these remote drivers?

1st gear: Where will these “drivers” be located in? I assume First Lady Musk won’t hire American employees for that. Imagine some guy in India (nothing against people in India) try to take control of a car driving in Massachusetts on the Pike at 5pm. Only Massachusetts drivers know the unwritten and unspoken rules and…

“Tesla Cybercab Will Be Remote Controlled Until FSD Improves”

First gear: so, do I have this right? A presumably huge room full of low-paid staffers/remote drivers that are expected to pay super-close attention to everything going on around a car by watching screens and listening for warming beeps? Notwithstanding the possibility that they’re going to be chatting with the…