Along with what everyone else said re: what you use trains and trucks for, this measure is for last-mile (or close to) distribution networks; routes that were already using trucks not trains, and most if not all of the stuff carried on them probably never sees a train at any point in its life.

By far the best thing about working from home is being able to take a 15-20 minute breather every so often and work on some personal project to reset yourself.

They claim there’s something special about the pavement in the corners that’s supposed to eliminate the marble issue

People have alluded to it in other comments, but there are more than a few British industries that have been close to drowning for awhile now (cars, obviously, but the steel industry has been hurting, too) but have been just been able to stay afloat because of the free access to the EU. In the automobile example, as…

For big companies, a CEO’s job is being a CEO, not being involved with the nitty-gritty of the actual business, and that’s not inherently a bad thing. A CEO’s job is mainly selling the company to investors and the market and the public, and making big picture decisions where only familiarity of the underlying business…

This is an extreme example of programming in a high-stakes environment, but it’s illustrative because nothing you interact with is made with even a percent of this attention to detail

While I generally agree with the point of the article, it’s worth recognizing that most people don’t interact with computer systems that have been made with a serious level of reliability built in; consumer-level computers crash because we don’t want to pay for fault-less programming. Programming for autonomous cars…

If you’re using the pound as a unit of weight (which they probably are), then you are measuring force, since weight is mass * gravity. 6 Silverados / acceleration of gravity = 1 Silverado * acceleration of more-than-gravity

I’m ambivalent about a bigger engine, but I’d gladly take a better transmission in my 6, that’s about the only thing about the car I don’t really like

To some extent decreasing you contact area is a valid way to reduce your hydroplaning chances, but you do lose out on mechanical grip. But I have no idea where the inflection point of that graph is.

You know you’re at someplace serious when the stats they give you include density altitude.

Why would you buy a Mazda that’s not soul crystal red?????

Well, the emergency procedures don’t explicitly cover lost wheels, but it covers one main landing gear unlocked, and in that case reads to prefer landing with gear down rather than belly landing. Some directional control is better than no directional control.

The pilots don’t inherently know that that the wheel falling off is a benign problem. If it’s not and you have to get down ASAP at some point, then at least you’re in the vicinity of a major airport, not over the Middle-of-Nowhere, Canada.

Cell phone GPS is generally pretty bad. A decent dedicated handheld unit can easily halve that.

iirc they’re also fixing how MCAS deals with bad sensors and improve the ability to cut it off if it goes wrong. The single AoA isn’t inherently wrong, and really the single bad AoA wasn’t the cause of the crash, it just caused MCAS to go hardcore apeshit, and the pilots couldn’t get it to disconnect.

So, the infotainment: with this and the new 3, have they made a new system, or is it just a re-skin of the existing system? The one on my ‘17 6 is... fine, but seems out of place for how well done the rest of the car is.

Loans for airplanes are also longer-termed than car loans — more like short house mortgages — probably because they do hold value pretty well. But yeah, it’s the operating expenses that really get you.

If the color of your Elise/Exige isn’t searing retinas, then you’re doing it wrong. This is A Good Color

Phoenix yellow was and remains and Cool Color