Which GPS monitors? I’ve had GPS monitors that, based on satellites traveling tens of thousands of miles per hour in orbit, correctly note that I am going exactly zero miles per hour.

You know what - no matter how much someone else eats I won’t have a coronary because of it.

Sure, oil trucks dumping loads and no one cleaning it up - happens all the time. Cop was a dick for writing that up.

If you read the Ethiopian preliminary report and ignored the accusations and concentrated on the FDR graphs, you would ask, why would Ethiopia care at all about killing Ethiopians when the President of the Airline and also President of Ethiopia has killed hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and left millions of…

If you think Airbus is any safer - you are deluded. PIA 8303 was a direct result of Airbus failing to provide ground contact prevention with wheels up and recently another Airbus made it within 6 feet of the ground several miles from an airport, again because of failing to provide ground contact prevention - it was…

Not at all. There was never training for a failed AoA sensor that continued to report inaccurate values, so there was no potential to train for that at all. There was also the expectation that unwanted trim change would be reversed by the pilots. Read the Lion Air Final Report and see that the first crew not only did…

The thrust line is in a better place than the NG. The diameter of the engine changed the lift interaction slightly and would likely NEVER have been seen by any commercial pilot at the near-stall condition where it happens. Thanks FAA for forcing a fix to a non-problem. Good Job.

Saint Louis is also the place where two on-duty cops took time along with a third to play with guns and one died.

I doubt the goal is to succeed in the suit. I expect the real goal is to make a lot of public noise about the situation and why not. A frequent use of the stolen hyundais and kias is to ram openings into gun stores. This has moved above the joy riders and the people parting them out. These incidents blip up and…

Tell me how thin-wire Ethernet worked. Tell me how cell phones work.

This is how air traffic control works - every commercial flight has a transponder to show location, speed, direction, and altitude, along with an ID. There is also a separate system - TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) - that is direct comms between planes to avoid collisions.

20 years in tech is pretty fast for dealing with the unpredictable world. Look at the fact that 20 years after the Wright brothers built a fabric covered wood-framed airplane military aircraft had fabric covered wood frames. It’s easy to be spoiled by the semiconductor industry and think that anything they touch…

There’s a company that does perfect background checks.

“This route would offer millions of drivers an alternative” which is to say, a perhaps 1% of them with the capacity it will have and a far smaller percentage who live within some workable distance of their actual destinations at both ends of the trip.

Sure - but if you are required to incrementally change all the oil before the oil change interval that’s a problem. Just say “Add a quart every thousand miles and change the filter every 5 quarts” instead.

Mmmm, horse paste.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RIHnK0_NE

The original work was to create robotic pack mules. Then things got out of hand.

I expect one day for a team to break their way into DARPA, smoldering wreckage all around, bodies torn to pieces and find, scrawled in blood on one wall, “IT WORKED. GOD HELP US”

There is a worse problem - the 3 Laws don’t work, which is why Asimov developed them as a way to generate stories concerning how they can fail.