The water is cooling off the tires, not the wheels. The heat is coming from the contact patch of the tire. 

No, not in an automotive application. And assuming they are done correctly of courses. 

Well they definitely aren't fixing something that's not broken, I can guarantee you that. 

There is WAY more than software protecting us when we fly, and the software running on an airplane is tested much more thoroughly than anything in a Tesla Even Boeing planes are many, many times more reliable than the typical software.

“follow the money” was from “All the President’s Men”, back in 1976.

A lack of synchronization between input and output is a much better way to describe this than "lag". They probably didn't bother to tune the force feedback to match the limitations in steering speed when the tires are stationary, and for once I agree with them. As long as it keeps things in sync when the tires are…

Why would an MBA know anything about accounting? Those are two separate friends of study.

Accountants don’t make these decisions. They tell management how much it costs and management decides whether or not the money should be spent. Don't blame accountants here, it's some narrow minded C-level idiot who's trying to look good by squeezing an extra few cents of profit out of each vehicle that's the problem.

And a more cautious civilization than ours might purposely refrain from generating radio waves powerful enough to attract attention. 

If other civilizations are anything like us, a good portion of them probably nuked themselves within 100 years of being capable of generating space-bound radio waves. Of course this isn't a novel observation, but I think it's a really compelling explanation for the Fermi paradox.

It does need to be badly inflated id we invest in our energy infrastructure proactively. It’s going to take a combination of technologies (especially nuclear), but we absolutely have the ability to produce the electricity we need in the long run without fossil fuels.

Instant throttle response is good, but extra weight is very bad, especially if you’re interested in something more than just forward acceleration. Small, lightweight cars can be very fun to drive even if they don’t accelerate like a Tesla.

Most influential? Sure. Best? Lol.

CFOs are not all accountants, lots of the are finance/ banking guys. Personally I prefer working under a CFO that is an accountant, at least in my experience.

Accountants don’t make those decisions, they tell management how much either option will cost and then management decides. Go ahead and call us Bean counters, we don't mind that. But don't blame us for management's dumb decisions.

Yeah but all of those companies were actually in compliance with the relevant regulations at the time. If you let corporations get away with it they'll cut corners everywhere they can. But if you regulate them thoroughly enough they generally comply with the letter of the law. Disney isn't going to build a hotel that…

I saw one in early evening the other day at just the right angle for the sun to hit the side of it and it looked absolutely horrible. I was a lane over and a couple of car lengths behind it, so the angle basically magnified the imperfections in the panel flatness to the point where it looked like the bow of an old…

Wow, they detailed a car with 35 miles on it. With that level of service, I bet they through in an air freshener too!

I think what he meant was “our dealer networks learned the value of pretending to be nice to the customer and their finance teams figured out how to price cars so they could maximize profit with set pricing instead of haggling".

My wife and I both had Saturns back in the late 90's / early 2000's. They were the first “grown-up” cars we owned after having various high mileage crappy cars in high school and college, and they were great. Sure, they were nothing fancy, but they were miles ahead of anything we had owned up to that point and the…