It has too many roofs. I liked it better when Edsel did it in 1934.

We can concede the point that “Tesla’s autopilot system is statistically safer than a human driver”, but what if human driver’s also could not see to avoid anything above eye level?

PTC?

Considering Tesla’s ability to extract vehicle info, the speed at which Brown was actually traveling would be at issue here. Driver’s are generally expected to display a reasonable level of caution, and slightly more so for CDL drivers, particularly those carrying loads.

Dude, I like your take on a lot of things, but you got this one wrong. What about this truck has anything to do with hipsters? Hipsters like things like overly elaborate methods of brewing coffee, fixed-gear bicycles, and hating your taste. These are easily attainable ways of feeling exotic while expending minimum…

So it’s an Audi. Cool.

If we’re talking about the same patent, Blue Origin’s patent for landing on a barge, SpaceX requested an inter partes review concerning what they believe was prior art from the 90s from a Japanese inventor. Also, I don’t know that the patent was invalidated or if it was filed for re-issue, but I believe it is the…

But that’s not how it works. Enablement doesn’t merely mean that you have an idea that someone else can make work. To be awarded an effective filing date, much less have your application granted and a patent awarded, you must reduce your idea to practice whether actually or constructively. A constructive reduction to…

You’re not familiar with enablement requirements then.

What the hail! Red flagged for hail storm. Never seen that before. That’s gonna be a cold ass track when they get back out there.

Err, that’s not how it works. Ideas are not patentable subject matter. That said, if he does have a patent covering some kind of subject matter in use in SpaceX’s rockets, it is, by definition, more fully formed than a mere idea.

“These are all cars! They burn petrol, they’re exciting! ... Perhaps you need to take your blinkers off and have a look at this wonderful world of cars and engines.”

Low range would have certainly gotten more done.

While the A does possess manual start capability and hardware, they also had electric starters. In any event, if you manually start it correctly it’s impossible to break your arm. (Ha, that’s what a thousand people with broken arms said too.) Needless to say, I’ve never tried starting mine with the crank.

What Toasted said. If you’ve got your timing dialed in you should, like in the video, fully retard the spark during ignition and then fully advance it for driving.

Be still my very old 1931 heart, an antique Ford! Raph, y’all are always welcome to give the A a try. Henry had a few things figured out by then, except synchronized gears. Still gotta double clutch. And mind your spark advance.

The Russian-propaganda-film levels of foley work inspires little confidence. Perhaps they just should have overlaid the engine banging against the rev limiter.

I also wont pass a rig with a load unless I can clear the whole distance in one quick blip of the throttle.

Well, I’m at least glad to say that Pennsylvania ain’t the South.