I actually worked on LIDAR mapping for self driving robots a few years back. It will be a long time, if ever, before true unfettered self driving vehicles are a thing. Right now they require a human to pay attention which is a. Boring as hell and b. Defeats the purpose of self-driving.

You’d be surprised at how not true this is. There’s a whole system of prisons devoted to rich (or formerly so) people behaving badly. And it’s not like the popular culture idea of it either (cushy, conjugal visits etc).

I disagree with the idea that because someone’s parents are rich they have no need for an education - both morally but also practically. While no doubt that Jade’s parents are quite wealthy they’re not billionaires. Will that wealth still be around for decades to provide for her and her sister and potentially their…

I say this as someone who’s worked in the self driving field: it’ll be many years before its really viable. A couple of inevitable bad accidents will destroy public trust and slow the development to a crawl, if it ever actually happens.

Hail damage. Dallas is a hailstorm magnet. I’ve had one car totaled by hail and another, 2 years later, that spent a month in the shop from a storm that flung baseballs for a half hour. That one broke a house window.

Is a country club membership an asset that can be auctioned? I’d pay $10 for his membership to Chevy Chase and then proceed to a snobs vs slobs Caddyshack level of shenanigans there.

I cut the cord in 2010 and back then there were a few brand new options (other than putting together a custom small streaming PC). There was Google TV, the Boxee box, Apple TV and the Roku.

Tesla is not Fyre Festival, Theranos or any other kind of fraud that produced nothing. That is the dumbest thing I’ve read all day.

Re: Fisker. Of course he says that going after volume makes more sense than high priced exotic but he also now has the experience of setting up a manufacturing line. With the exotic the buyers expect glitches that come with being on the cutting edge. And your manufacturing process doesn’t have to be as tight. For a…

The NACA ducts on the wheels is an interesting touch.

There’s an interview with a Mazda exec saying that no Mazdaspeed plans now or in the future. They’re trying to move up market where there’s more profit and Mazdaspeed’s boy racer vibe doesn’t fit the brand anymore.

A lot of these folks aren’t going to be wealthy in the long run especially if they continue to live that lifestyle while not bringing any income in. First the parents retire, then if you’ve got two kids who could easily live to 100, plus eventually grandkids, and they hope to maintain that lifestyle until then, you…

Some Porsche’s have that. Uses a hydraulic setup I think

Tesla’s no Theranos - that was a fraud start to finish. Tesla has a real product. But they (and by “they” I think I mean Musk and his enablers) are flailing against the reality that its really hard to mass produce quality cars at all, much less inexpensive ones. He seems an off the cuff kind of guy, I bet closing…

In the 80s and 90s my family had a small Honda as a runabout (civic, then prelude) and a couple of big American sedans. This was where American brands still had it - larger size for families, roadtrips and hauling things around. Once the Japanese started selling larger sedans in the late 90s they gobbled that market…

Probably just an art direction decision in post-production.

My thought is, since this isn’t a thing yet, it won’t work for various technical reasons unless the system has been specifically designed to accept generator input. I don’t think software is the only issue.

People (and Trump) also don’t realize that there are often only a few plants in the world that make a certain quality of steel in a certain form. We have a building project that overnight became more expensive because some pieces had to be sourced from Mexico, another from Korea because those were where the type +…

The planes still run on jet fuel so no fuel, no flights and a useless vessel anyway.

They killed something like over 200 people. It was a disaster.  Anesthetic gas doses vary per person and the difference between “not knocked out” and “dead” is fairly small.  You can imagine in an uncontrolled space like a theater how this will go.