It’s amusing to me that the blimp is apparently armor plated to bash down the light stand.

Can they also take on the abuse of back-up/reverse indicator lights for any purpose other than indicating the car is in gear ready to back up? There may be some overlap that a car needs to make a back up noise if the car back up lights are used instead for decoration or whatever the hell (GM isn’t it) the car maker is…

It’s like a strip-tease - leave something to the imagination.

“do something like this”

There is a constant supply of “never driven before” teens entering the road with brand new driver’s licenses. It seems reasonable to at least indicate the possibility and reinforce the good part of their training.

Just wait for the Bolos. Atomic powered with nuclear armaments and self-sufficient AIs capable of choosing their own strategies.

Novelty is the main reason for collisions like this. Any traffic feature that is new or rare will get people injured. I have seen drivers turn left onto American traffic circles because the road they wanted to take was to the left.

Reducing the unsprung weight to zero has adverse effects on driving.

There are sticky weights and there are also idiots in tire shops. I’ve been victimized several times by those idiots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

Just wait for the first tire shop to hammer on the balance weights.  Or you scrape a curb. But if they aren’t going to do either, they make nice show-only wheels.

The spring in a truck brake is for the parking brake. It isn’t required or enough to use as the main braking force.

Or leave it on the ground, put a scissor jack under the 6 ft bar, and crank the jack. If you want precision in tightening, put a scale under the jack - at 6 feet that is 73.8 pounds. If you like round numbers then set the jack at the 5 foot, six and 1/2 inch mark and go for 80 pounds. Make sure the wrench is close to…

Human population and agriculture is doing the damage. All else follows from there.

It’s an interesting report, but slanted a bit - an airbrake system was developed around the time of the US Civil war, but that isn’t what is on trains now, though it might still be one developed in the late 1800s. What is on trains now is very similar to what is on over-the-road truck airbrakes. There is still the…

Just need enough voltage. You don’t see many try to pee on an electric fence a second time.

The Jones act regulates the transport of American made goods between American ports. If a slow operation is acceptable, then rail is the next best choice. Only if rail is too fast does putting goods on a ship make sense.

Shipping is the reason the community is there. There is plenty of open space in Nevada, no air pollution to speak of that is far away from warehouses and trucks. Making the situation more livable means more people and more gridlock and will increase competition for jobs, lowering the wages further.

Puerto Rico didn’t have port capacity to transfer the needed amount from the ships, which lay at anchor waiting for a slot.

This tech should be seen in cell phones and tablets and laptops long before they are in cars. But I haven’t seen any noise in the press about that. Not having a fire in the home because a battery went south is a pretty big selling point and I think makers would have jumped on it if there are all those advantages…