Only if you are traveling in the US and the plane is a GoGo subscriber.

So your theory is that someone capable of cutting the transponder is incapable of cutting the satellite uplink that powers all that fancy in-flight wifi?

At cruising elevation, no cell phones will work, even over land with dense cell coverage.

Did you even read my comment?

"But, again, it seems highly unlikely that anyone would be able to keep all 239 people on board from pulling out their cell phones and getting SOME sort of communication out."

But we aren't talking about street racing squids vs ricer boys. This is racing on a track.

As someone who spent 8 years pushing my father around in a wheelchair, these won't help at all.

The sensors are already there, so is the computer. This is pure software fun.

That is supposed to be the next one:

Tesla's naming scheme shows how much the company is engineering dominated. They don't pay big money for some shiny shoe guy to come up with weird names, instead they just use the obvious abbreviation and get on with making cool shit.

I know several people in fire country that put in a pool primarily for water storage: water tender trucks can suck from it, helicopters can grab some, or you can hook it up to a gas powered pump and run sprinklers on your roof when the water goes out. Plus it has the added benefit of being nice to dip in during a hot…

"Stupid beancounters won't let me use the carbon-titanium-beryllium composite super material because it is too damn expensive. I bet Ferrari engineers don't have to put up with this shit. If only our customers were richer..."

Hopefully this isn't the start of an inside job assassination. What better way to "accidentally" strip the POTUS of his armored protection...

well that google link came out bad. Try the one below

Hitting SF and LA on that tight of a schedule would require missing either the Coast or the Sierras.