Literally every 4th gen or later fighter jet that is worth it’s salt in a dogfight requires constant computer input to fly and would crash in a heartbeat if all the computers failed. The issue isn’t that it needed constant computer input to fly, its that the programming of that input was shitty.

No doubt it’s still an issue for ICE vehicles, but at least with a gas tank you can plug the leak and still make it home. If you did that to a battery pack at best you are stuck waiting on someone to pull you out, at worst, your vehicle and everything in it just burned to the ground. Also, the size of the skidplate…

Waiting until after you need to quarantine to get the RV from storage is like waiting until after you get shot to put your vest on.  Otherwise she is going to expose her household to the virus or the storage site.  Maybe the HOA should have been informed ahead of time, I’ll grant you that, but showing just the tiniest…

I don’t think I do. There are several examples of electric cars burning to the ground as a result of a punctured/impacted battery pack, and off-roaders are very likely to have significant impact to their undercarriage. Lithium-Ion batteries are extremely vulnerable to fires when punctured, and if you are putting them…

Indubitably.

I read something yesterday that indicated that if you can get someone with covid-19 on a CPAP early enough around 50% don’t need to be moved to ventilators.

that low-hanging battery pack is not an advantage, it’s a hazard. Misplace a tire and puncture the pack, suddenly your car is on fire.  You’ll have to fully armor the entire bottom of the car, which makes it much heavier, which causes it’s own issues.

I would think the hardest part about an EV off roader would be adequate protection of the battery pack. Misplacing a tire and having a sharp rock pierce the battery pack causing the car to go up in flames seems like a problem when you are potentially 50 miles deep in the brush.

Cuomo can order everyone to wear a chicken on their head, but he can’t take over the manufacturing industry and make them build things that are useful. Only Trump can do that. And so far he has sat on his hands. States can provide guidance and enforcement of quarantines. The federal government can move industry to…

I’m OK with giving rental car companies relief money so long as there is a stipulation that none of the funds can be used to purchase Nissan Versa’s.

How did you not call it the 3.14pi?

$6k per sticker...

This seems like the perfect time to drop a hellcrate in there.

The sensor suite didn’t see the truck in the first place, so it doesn’t matter if it was 70, 55, or 155, if it didn’t see it it wasn’t going to see it. The driver was also not watching the road, as he didn’t hit the brakes until there was less than 1 sec left. At 55mph he would have only had an additional 20 feet if…

This accident wasn’t related to speed.  It was related to the driver of the car not at all paying attention to what the car was doing.  He’d be just as dead today if he had been doing 55 instead of 70.

He is going to buy a jeep in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in such bad shape that they actually pay him to take it, then drive it the full length of Dalton Highway (which is ‘paved’ in fist sized rocks). 

In addition to crushing and dismembering it’s crash test dummy, Several dummies waiting to be tested in other cars were heavily damaged, 4 human witnesses were also harmed by flying debris, and one had a fatal heart attack upon witnessing the carnage.

CT is littered with onramps that have no acceleration lane. I can see many situations where I’d need, and indeed have, gone WOT from speeds under 19mph to merge on the highway.

Can we please stop calling it a trillion dollar plane? That number requires so much hand-wavey made up math it’s downright offensive.(mostly the part about using future dollars with future inflation). You know what else becomes a trillion dollar plane when you apply the same math? the B-52.

Autopilot is a perfect name for what Tesla’s system does. The pilot of a plane doesn’t set the autopilot, then lean back and take a nap. Instead he sets the autopilot, then continuously monitors systems and instruments to ensure the autopilot isn’t screwing anything up. That is exactly what you are supposed to do…