That’s why they had a human at the wheel as well. The human didn’t do his job to step in when the computer didn’t work.

What about all that "almost broke Jalopnik" though?  I reread this a few times and not seeing it.  Might be my lack of comprehension though.  

When they’re weighed down by so many tomatoes, it’s easier to ketchup to them.

Yeah our drafted take was pretty much “this is a very European car and it feels like it.” It just feels foreign over here, but it’s very nice.

I was going to say that there aren’t many choices other then a G70 if you want a new RWD manual sedan.

Look at some of these posts, going on about their 8, 10, 12 year old manuals. These are not new car buyers and new car buyer do not want sticks, plain and simple. Funniest I saw was a truck owner complaining in Car & Driver that the 2020 Ford he liked no longer had a manual option. Said he was sticking with his 2000.…

I was planning to sell my manual 135i because I have too many cars. Yesterday, I took it out on a spirited drive in the santa cruz mountains - to pick up 50 lbs of tomatoes - with the kids. One of them threw up. But I had a goddamned blast and changed my mind on the sale.

Agreed. I had a 2010 Audi S4, manual. Automated everything, with a nice fat short stick in the middle. It was a sublime match, much like my Chromecast audio paired with my Jolida tube amp - until the usual VAG electrical demons came for it and destroyed the experience.

The important thing was sticking it to Airbus, and they were prepared to kill as many people as they had to to do it. Boeing management fly on Gulfstreams anyway.

The FIU bridge had no math errors. They assumed a part of the bridge wouldn’t move in their analysis. That part did move and it made the analysis worthless.

I’ve linked to this article many times, it is excellent https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-managerial-revolution

It was a bridge at a Florida International University that collapsed in 2018. But the problem wasn’t “pretty pictures of the analysis” as stated above. The problem was the engineers severely overestimated how much stress the design could actually handle, and severely underestimated how much stress would actually be…

Computers are just tools, and have nothing to do with this or the FIU bridge at all. The entire MCAS computer system operated flawlessly, but all its calculations are based off of a single sensor prone to freezing, with no backup sensor in place. Bad input obviously gives you bad output, but frozen sensors have caused…

Who watches the watchmen? Trick question; there are no watchmen in Trump’s America.

This is an exceptionally good example of why regulatory bodies should not be in bed with the organizations they regulate.

TL;DR

Uber was found not responsible because they took all reasonable steps to prevent the accident, including paying someone to sit behind the wheel and take control if it even appeared if an accident was imminent.

But wasn’t that basically their job: to pay attention and take over if the car’s computers screw up?

Considering where self driving is right now this is the only correct response. The driver was not paying attention. That is the main problem with these technologies.

that’s actually not absurd as you think, Microsoft was desperate to compete with apple in the handheld music player market when microsoft had a 90% market share in computer operating systems vs apple’s sad 8% market share. because that new market was growing and even getting a small slice of it was worth while.

Likewise…