So, we did lots of things in ye olden days that are now considered “holy fuck what were they thinking.” The playground equipment I played on seemed to be purpose-designed to break bones and crush hands. And yes, we survived. But I doubt anyone would recommend breaking a collar bone for fun. We redesigned things so…

OK, let’s try it this way- when you are playing a driving simulator/game, you start with everything automatic so you can focus on learning how a car handles, how everything works. As you get skilled and learn how to corner and accelerate and brake and deal with other cars, you can add more control- turn off all the…

I did :) It’s more that the same folks who built letterman’s volvo built this so buyer beware :)

It was. I doubt this has the same problems though it’s built by the same guys sooo...

One should probably watch the Letterman episode of comedians in cars getting coffee before considering buying one. I believe letterman said his caught fire.

Or you could just be a grown up and admit that you are never, ever going to need off-road capabilities greater than those provided by a Subaru Outback and just go with that, or some expensive AWD BMW if you need to look fancy and shit.

I feel like people who insist their kids learn to drive stick are kinda like folks who want to homeschool their kids so they only learn what they want them to learn. Teach them to drive stick after they’ve mastered driving a 3500 pound vehicle through traffic- like when they turn 18. Right now, a manual transmission…

Oh, it’s not just the south. Not just rural.

We’ve got 3 in Madison, Wisconsin/Dane County.

Man, this barrel sure seems to have a lot of rotten apples, maybe we should dump the barrel out, get rid of all the bad ones and then look at the barrel to see if it’s a problem with the barrel or just an apple problem, or if it’s both. Like, maybe this particular barrel seems to get the worst apples? Or maybe the…

I mean, the bulk of most major cities in the world was built post WW2. Yes, the oldest sections of london were built by the romans, but that was a city of thousands, and now london is a city of 10 million or so. And somehow, they managed to scale up public transit with their growth. Despite their shitty weather. Ditto…

So, taxis, but you have to completely re-do our entire road infrastructure and no one can have a regular car anymore. It’s a terrible idea. It’s an expensive solution for the simple problem of, “just take a bus or a train or a taxi or and uber or a bicycle or walk or just don’t be an idiot behind the wheel.”

Or, we…

Honestly, FSD is a solution to a problem no one asked to be solved.

It get what you’re saying and I totally get why you’d need to do this for closed circuits, but... I doubt you’ll get it. too much liability. the amount of safeties that would have to be built in so that this could only ever be turned off on a closed circuit would be prohibitively expensive, and you know that if it…

So, we are never going to get full self driving cars. It’s just not going to happen. And that’s OK. But what we are getting is cars that make the world safer by having better reaction times than you. And that’s fantastic.

Since that’s not going to happen, we’ll go with the braking thing.

One can posit all sorts of what ifs. But that’s not what happened and it’s not what happens with almost all “accidents.”

Again, if you don’t see the cyclist or pedestrian, you’re either not paying attention or you are going too fast for the conditions.

I’ve actually been that guy- I stopped to help ducklings that couldn’t make it over the curb to follow their mom. Those little fuckers do not want to be caught. I stopped my car behind them and used it as my traffic blocker.

That said, I’m of the opinion that there’s no such thing as an accident in a car- there’s…

This pisses me off because it could literally be me. Several years ago, on the way to work, stopped to help some ducklings who were unable to jump over the curb to follow their mom.