I’ve been there, or at least we talked our way through the outer perimeter. It’s a really weird place: They have EVs and EV chargers everywhere (you RARELY see EVs in the Kingdom because, y’know, petroleum); people get around on electric scooters; and the landscape is amazing, like scifi movie amazing. However, it’s…

Holy shit. NEOM is MOEN backwards.

Come live in a weird futuristic ghost town!  What few people are here all eat in a generic cafeteria!

Then Mar-a-Lagone!!!!!

The biggest threat to domestic auto manufacturing is a president who thinks we should just completely throw in the towel on producing EVs when EVs are 100% the inevitable future of cars.

There are almost 350 million people, and only 20k were murdered last year, or about 0.005%. Seems like a big waste of taxpayer money and resources investigating these crimes.

Pedal misapplication is the leading cause of vehicle unintended acceleration incidents. It’s exacerbated in EV’s when the operator uses the one-pedal-drive feature. It’s counterintuitive to the way we learn to drive, i.e., using the two pedal (or three pedal) system. It’s easy to make a mistake when you’re constantly…

Worrying about 0.028% (yes, you read that correctly) of the vehicles on the road is just stupid.

Depending on how far out of bounds the emissions output is - yes this EXACTLY.

It’s real bad that I saw “January 2019" and thought “oh, this thing was brand spankin’ new.” When in fact it's probably got millions of miles on it.

COBB is pretty big and been around for a long time. I suspect the EPA is about to hit every tuner now.

“I say no emissions regulations for vehicles”

I fly a King Air so I’m familiar with the process. It’s the rapid rate of change that causes problems, so if the cabin wasn’t pressurizing it wouldn’t be a big issue as they probably held at a lower altitude to sort things out. But if they climbed quickly with the cabin altitude still high I can see now how that would…

Hope it’s not the same plane.

It was me. It’s my fault. I’m sorry. I forgot to roll up my window.

I had the experience of driving a rental Tesla Y recently. Some things were done really well, but other things were done so poorly so as to overwhelmingly cancel out any positives.

It probably took that DC3 a lot longer to get those altitudes than a jet airliner, giving your ears that much more time to equalize.

Plane are not air tight like a balloon. Without the cabin pressurization bleed off the engines (or if someone left a window open), cabin pressure is going to drop as the plane climbs.

The lack of pressurization means the pressure *inside* the ear is much higher than outside. The pressure imbalance is going the other way. 

Here is the flight: