Uh, ok. Let’s forget for a second that what they’re paid is irrelevant to whether it’s a sport or belongs on Deadspin: the average professional video gamer gets paid like a small town librarian but without any of the benefits package, and the top NHL players get paid more than a gamer could make even if they took top…

Competitive poker = card sport

I had an interview at an old school company recently, where one of the managers I talked to referred to “whatever bullshit Agile buzzwords are trendy at the moment.” I’m really hoping I get this job.

2nd: remember that Uber is a company which made its software break Apple’s rules for how iPhone software behaves, and then incorporated a workaround so Apple wouldn’t find out about it (which they did anyway, because they’re not dumb). They really think the rules don’t apply to them.

Is that camo paint, or will it actually be offered in those color schemes? Really hoping for that second option...

Were you thinking something like this?

Some roads may never be fully autonomous

As someone who spent 30+ years in areas with lots of snow, humans are pretty bad at figuring out where the lanes are when they can’t see the markers. That aside, how do you know where to drive or what the speed limit is when there’s snow? Whatever you answered, that’s how an autonomous car would do it.

How well do licensing requirements correlate with fatalities? I’m looking at a list right now, and while Scandinavian countries (high training) are much better than the US, Japan (also high training, though not as much) is worse than we are. And the lowest rate in the chart is Sweden, with half as many fatalities per…

Seems like the answer is in machine learning: equip a fleet of cars with all the sensors you plan to have on an autonomous car, but have them driven by randomly selected humans. If you have 10k cars driven by typical American drivers over a year, that’s 150M miles. I would hope they’d see just about every situation…

We’d basically be building a new train system at that point.

I’ve been in an Outback with Eyesight. The owner was showing it off to me. I was impressed: it kept its distance from a guy on a bike, but didn’t care about a bird that flew across.

I assume the (Grand) Wagoneer will be a 3-row when it’s released.

It’s a unibody chassis and built on a car platform. All new Subarus (except the BRZ) will share a platform from now on.

The Outback also got an update. It’s more Forester-like now, but bigger.

This is an FA series motor, or maybe a derivative. The FA20 in the WRX is already capable of plenty of power for the STI — it’s limited by the internals not the displacement. The reason the STI still uses an EJ is because the turbo FA20 can’t handle long track sessions without some serious work.

Yes, and until you drive one, you probably won’t see why. It doesn’t win (straight line) performance crowns like it used to, but it maintains the driver’s connection to the car in a way that’s almost dead these days: hydraulic power steering, rod actuated manual trans, fully mechanical limited slips, and that laggy…

As a Genesis G70, most likely.