While the C-130 is definitely durable as a truck, note that for instance they only fly out of Kuwait for their Iraq/Afghanistan missions. These kinds of assets you stage medium far from the conflict, so using a very fast, decently fuel efficient, decently large enough platform such as the G550 is more akin to grabbing…

Don’t forget the Miatas...

Honestly the autonomous truck design looks the most mature and possible. The trucking industry is going to be rather disrupted by this kind of tech. The two modules is also extremely forward looking.

As far as the sides of semi trailers is concerned, they can easily be combined with aero to increase efficiency at highway speeds, I figure these would literally pay for themselves after a time from the fuel savings. 

That makes sense, extreme regulation, limited suppliers and a sole installer tends to do that. I figure there would be significant differences between the two styles of reactor, I’d not thought about enrichment percentage though, it’d make sense to use highly enriched on a submarine where it being struck is…

When everyone else gets rid of their armies, then we can possibly talk about getting rid of ours.

Thanks, yeah that makes a lot of sense. Though isn’t the S9G (Virginia class Sub) much smaller than the A1B? What kind of economies of scale would be needed to actually make the TOC go down to feasible levels?

Color me corrected then. Were they just impractical due to the size of nuclear reactors of the time? Would a modern nuclear reactor such as one pulled from Virginia Class sub be practical?

Nuclear destroyers... Russia’s got a few

You first.

Military grade =/= good, Military grade == good enough from the lowest bidder

I’m sorry, but the cars shouldn’t be shooting at each other, we the spectator should be shooting stuff at the cars, making the autonomous vehicles react in real time to humans being assholes.

omg a 190E Cossie?

Lone Star Le Mans is absolutely fantastic, I had a much better time at it than the F1 race. Being able to look at a turn for 30 seconds and actually see two cars get passed there in that timeframe is awesome. I think there’s a group of Jalopnik people meeting up there, its usually organized a few days before the race.

I was at the Crown Royal tent I think (above and to the right of the amphitheater looking at the stage), during the Lone Star Le Mans their prices were high, but didn’t really account for alcohol quality. So while a Bud Light at $8, but a heavy pour of JW Black on the rocks was $11, which if following the Bud Light…

See now, that’s actually clever...

Wheels.. definitely wheels.

The new one’s do I think, that’s 5 years old tech in yours, car radar’s have gotten a lot better.

it yells at you and tells you it’s turning off cruise control at 7mph. decently obvious

Thats the one, BMW, Honda, Subaru etc have it afaik. I’d trade my hyundai in an instant for the stop and go capability (at the same price)