He’s proposing a two week jail sentence for the deaths of less than 6 people, unless it’s a pregnant woman in which case it’s the death penalty.

Most people don’t want self driving cars. It’s corporations that want them and every MBA grad in America knows it.  It’s a deeply cultural thing. So every suit in every car company signed on with not the slightest risk to their careers. Boards of Directors will shrug. 

I always refer to it as the Mercury Mistake.

I’m stuck with an automatic transmission on my main vehicle now. Something I avoided for 45 of my 50+ years driving. I’m piping in because of the engineers coasting comment. I’ve found when I drive manuals now the thing I most miss about them is coasting. I know, it’s nuts. I was never really aware of how often I was…

Musk’s 20 million goal is another way of saying, give me more money lenders and investors. It’s more likely that Tesla, under Musk’s ownership anyway, will make zero vehicles in 2030.

Right. Tesla full self driving this year and I’m the king of Sweden.

That’s because it is full of errors and make no sense. Among them, the Vibe was a Pontiac. The Matrix was built in Canada. The California plant was not a Toyota plant. It was the illegitimate child of the GM Toyota affair. The Vibe was, except for the 5 speed whose output bearing would fail, the best cars GM ever…

Can they get a jury trial? Then they probably figure to bring in the man himself to con the jury.  Normally Musk can con half the people but with a jury it takes only one. Besides who wouldn’t be tempted to do something nice for one of the richest people in the world?

The hyperloop is loopier than cities on Mars. Neither will ever happen. Not until there is abundant cheap energy. The thing is there isn’t going to be abundant cheap energy. There is an abundance of money however and giving it to Musk is a very popular substitute for cheap ,energy, in people minds, wrongly, and they…

You’ll be in an air conditioned car. Quit whining. At least a quarter of all interstate highway miles are ugly and 50% more are boring, to most people.  It’s not really a state by state thing.  Well go ahead and make it that.  Your in for a crappy experience.

My fusion powered personal flying car is 3 years away.

I am going to get two cars. A Ferrari 458 Italia and then the greatest automobile ever made.

Tesla has been sued in most of these cases I assume. Has anyone seen any articles summarizing the trial outcomes, if there have been any.

They can hack cars great. Make great videos? Now so much.

$1.8 million or even 25% of same makes for some pretty nice walking around money. You have to haul a lot of potatoes to make that. So why not put up a cheesy website, drive around, talk to anyone who will listen and see how many suckers will pay for your act? Well not only that. Maybe get your picture on TV and become…

I’m no expert and we will hear from them soon enough but the reason they use slow turning twins on flat dirt track is the long duration between power pulses helps the tire hook up better. The flat continuous torque of electric motors seems to violate this. 

If your heading somewhere flat, with no wind on the way, this might be the ticket. I can only imagine heading over 7000 feet in the Rockies. OK, OK, this isn’t built for the road. For the backyard or he nearest state park. It is a beauty.

As we used to say when building those nuclear power plants; “Good enough, we ain’t building a Swiss fucking watch.” So Telsa says, Good enough, we ain’t building a fucking Kia.”

I remember the Mustang II ads

Does it and similar efforts have defrosters. I think we know they don’t have AC. AC isn’t necessary. Even heat for the cabin isn’t necessary. Defrosters are sometimes absolutely necessary. I assume as car/mobile heat pumps get more common heating and cooling will become pretty easy to incorporate into conversions.