Imho about hot brakes and stuff ; when you pull off the circuit then don’t immediately park but drive slowly off the circuit (if you can) and onto the parking lot, for example and keep driving (almost) without using the brakes (so that means carefully). The airflow will cool off the discs way faster than when you park…

China has issued statements that all cars by 2030 should have autopilot features. That is in 14 years from now. While in the US you can drive a classic car ; in China you cannot. In general most cars aren’t older than 10 years after which they aren’t allowed on the road anymore (since most of them won’t pass the very…

I guess the passengers don’t mind, their AI driver will just automatically upload the video and telemetry to the local police so they can pick you out of the traffic a few miles ahead...

What “consumer” drone flies “at an altitude of 9,000 feet (about 2,750 metres)“ ?

Angry white male un-educated voter paying a couple of dollars per gallon for his 5 liter V8 truck ; who gives a vuck if he’s broke after a few years?

Sometimes people only learn with their wallet.

Well they’d decelerate as well of course. On top of that the pods do have brakes.

Or they stop selling cars or parts back to the US and only focus on markets outside the US. Perhaps they’d operate some small factories in the US to supply the local/domestic market but that’s of course not good enough to keep all those people employed.

After a while the factories outside the US (Mexico, but also…

You understand that the US is importing about 250b USD a YEAR from China and that imposing tariffs on those products is only going to make them more expensive for the American people meanwhile not creating jobs at all because the parts that come from China are so damn cheap and meanwhile so ‘high’ quality that no…

That sneaky snake snuck sneakily on that plane!

You’re right in 90% of all cases. Which means you’re often right.

1. chinese don’t listen
2. chinese don’t learn from mistakes
3. chinese don’t take responsibility
4. chinese will give up and leave before admitting failure

To avoid this ; you need on premise western QA that will time after time tell them how to do things…

The other thing is that Musk seems to know what he is doing and understands tech a bit better (look at SpaceX) while the chinese guy basically is an IT-dude. We all know IT-dudes. They’re smart. Give them a hammer and they could technically kill an IKEA cupboard and then blame the manual.

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AI in computer games is actually more advanced than you think. Given the limited resources (CPU, memory) in consoles where 1 system basically has to do all the calculations of up to 23 AI drivers (you are #24) AND the system has to render all the beautiful graphics, then you can imagine how ‘well’ the AI can be if a…

I think the idea was to have a high-revving engine. Not just any engine. A Ferrari sound. In a ‘86. Bonkers.

E30 - looks good.
E36 - looks crap
E46 - looks good again

Most peeps that are buying the SLS haven’t manually shifted for around 40 years. So no, no manual for us.

I’ll inject a virus in your USB-port.

No, I, will upload a backdoor is your front-loading DVD-tray.

Booyaaaaa!

*conversation recorded between two autonomous cars misbehaving on public roads. Both cars were apprehended by local law enforcement and undergoing AI-re-education courses.

In a Mustang it would have taken only 30 minutes...

It’s not about the power. I believe it’s fine. Perhaps even the exhaust note is tuned in a way it is interesting to hear and the engine compartment probably is triple insulated to keep you from hearing that tractor sound.

It’s the soot. The damn black soot. Anyway good luck with the diesel and keeping the EGR port…

What’s the difference with a high-powered V8 that does NOT cover everything behind you in cancerous soot?