OK...

Still don’t see what this has to do with my response...

Fair enough, but my response wasn’t regarding whether it will happen, but rather how you (and others) believe it will happen...

Even within the modded muscle car scene, things that were fast 20 years ago are downright slow now. Used to be a 12 second car was fast - now we’ve got 6-second pro-mods surviving Hot Rod Drag Week. We’re in a golden age of automotive speed right now.  Modern cars are ridiculously good.

“But hey, you can stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.” 

I really don’t see why people honestly think this will be the case. People will still want their own vehicle, even if it drives itself. While people living in extremely dense cities may think that a subscription service or ride hailing service will work, it definitely won’t for vast stretches of the country. I’m not…

Pretty obvious to anyone who’s actually looked at the cars.  The C2 had a wide, flat, tall hood rather than the low, narrow, wedge shape that defined every generation after. Plain as day. But hey, you can stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.

“the non-Stingrays were a mistake”

...you do realize that “Stingray” applies to 1969-1976 model years, right?

Or did you mean “Sting Ray”, which would have applied to the C2s?

Also, there is no similarity at all between the C2 nose styling and anything that came after.

You’ve clearly never paid attention to any of the other high profile launches...

Handling literally has nothing to do with my response, nor the original post I was responding to. So no, the comparison is completely justified. A manual transmission does just fine in very quick cars - much quicker than the GT-R referenced, and much quicker than this base-model Corvette will be.

...this car is much quicker than that GT-R...seems to do just fine with the manual.

“...where the golf clubs are supposed to go on my mid-engine sports car...”

I find this a hilarious complaint given the abysmal storage space on C2 and early C3 Corvettes.

Doubtful.  Gran Turismo was already a thing before FnF

I mean...the Corvette already went through that phase...

C3: 1968-1982

OK, that made me chuckle - here’s your star.

“Why wouldn’t you trust a 10 year old GPS system? Roads tend to be fixed infrastructure.”

No, I’m really not making your point. I’m literally saying, we do not assume the world is perfect - we assume it is not and apply factors to account for it. How accurate those factors are is certainly up for debate, but that was in no way whatsoever the point that was being made.

Further, assumptions are often used…

Hate to break it to you, but young engineers, regardless of what era they are from, have always been inexperienced and prone to making mistakes. Such failures come from a lack of mentorship and/or oversight.

This is utter hogwash.

1) Yes, we always make assumptions. And for every assumption we make, we do so as conservatively as possible. We build conservatism in material properties, in loads, in boundary conditions, in operational scenarios, in environments...literally every last thing we do has built in conservatism to…

The majority of the country is against impeachment. There is zero chance of the Senate removing him from office.

What, exactly, is to be gained from impeachment? Politically, it will hurt Democrats in 2020. As much as your echo chamber may be screaming lock her him up, it ain’t gonna happen.

“Mechanical and software engineers project a perfect world without blemishes.”