So you’re cool with an officer who has probably handed out thousands and thousands in tickets to people for doing the exact same thing? Depending on how fast they got up to, it’s straight to jail for you or me and at least a $1k fine. No, fuck that cop and I’m glad he was caught. Should never be allowed behind the…

Don’t give this douchebag a pass like he’s “one of us.” He wants to pull stupid shit on public roads, he isn’t a gearhead. He’s a reckless moron that likes cars. Big damn difference.

It’s the marketing that’s the problem. The word Tesla used in chinese actually means “car will drive automatically”, and they had salespeople claiming you could sleep while the car drove.

So let’s say TM is correct here and the motorist didn’t take the wheel as instructed. Well guess what that should be? That should be part of the FMEA. Since the severity of such a thing would get the highest (worst) score it should have been addressed. The probability wouldn’t have scored well but the detectability…

Maybe if I drove a Tesla I’d understand better, but I really struggle to understand how we’re going to get through this intermediate period before cars can truly drive themselves.

Well unfortunately a lot of guys just can’t let it go, and have to focus on everything but her actual talent and performance. Which is ironic because they say she’s not a woman, and yet that’s the most quintessentially female experience of them all XD

Come the f—- on. Osama Bin Laden’s actions this century lead to the US and the rest of the world to spend trillions on defense along with two fairly major wars and a dozen smaller theaters.

It’s kind of hard to ignore when his minion remind us of that every 42 seconds.

There is this thing next to your right hand. When you want to have fun you can use it to down shift the gears until the RPMs are in that sweet spot. When you don’t want to have fun you can use that same hand to up shift and keep RPMs down. If you’re worried about getting beaten out of the hole by a minivan you need to…

The EPA tests are very well defined. They set ambient conditions, how the car should be soaked, and even down to how much the car’s battery charge can drift during a test (It must start and finish with the same charge). The new 5-cycle tests are MUCH better than the old 2-cycle (FTP-75 and HWFE) test. And they…

Yeah, but there’s a bit of a gap between “let’s try getting around the spirit of the law with this semi-maybe-plausible loophole” and “what if we just don’t tell them about all the gas chambers.”

The hyperbolic character of his assessment leads me to wonder how long he’s been familiar with mechanical engineering

“My Joshua Tree post, in particular, was mocked online,” White told me. “That’s one of the potential downfalls about writing personally online, especially when you’re a woman.”

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This is the epitome of owning a Mercedes. The car sounds fine but the owner sounds like a trash fire of a human being.

Well... so far it’s;

On that note, what unit of measure should be used to calculate work undone? Say by breaks, or more relevantly by regenerative breaking?

Same thing - hp. It’s doing work as well just to achieve the opposite effect. Conventional brakes produce heat that can be measured in horsepower. They would produce significantly higher peak power than the respective vehicle engine(usually).

It’s scary to think that a handful of “strays” scares you so much that it’s worth sacrificing the lives and livelihoods of thousands to tens of thousands of people. You could have easily been born in their position.