It always struck me as weird to celebrate one’s connection with, not mere traitors, not even traitors who fought to continue enslaving other humans, but traitorous enslavers who got their asses kicked six ways from Sunday. You’re celebrating a bunch of losers, in every sense of the word.  Every time you see someone…

It’s good that M5 owners don’t go to the track. They’re so heavy that smaller cars like the Elise or Miata are unable to escape the enormous gravity-well of the M5. It's a real problem.

Okay, I’ll bite... Are there really that many “myths about traffic signals,” such that an individual might feel compelled to dedicate significant time to dispelling them?

Well yeah, they all get to school in Range Rovers. Private school kids wouldn’t be caught dead riding a bus like some kind of peasant.

The ergonomics and packaging of the ND are incredible for everything imaginable except for...

Ahh, no worries! Happens to the best of us sometimes.

It’s about as much fun as you can have on public roads. And you can have maximum, pedal-to-the-metal fun without reaching arrestable speeds. And the trunk is basically the same volume of a standard grocery cart. If you typically carry between zero and one passenger, it's almost the perfect car.

Unabashedly socialist, thanks!

Yeah, stupid/careless/drunk drivers cause enough mayhem without bringing gravity into the mix. I'd rather have someone crash through my fence than my roof.

The problem with black-box AIs is that they *don’t* always perform as programmed. They can occasionally hallucinate complete nonsense and present it as truth. And because black-box AI is not capital-letter Explainable, you can’t know for sure when it will do that, or even *if* it is doing that

Just to get on the same page, because I *think* we might be talking about different things (apologies if I’m way off base here) -

I dunno, Texas... If you care about those kids, maybe you should mandate AC in school buses? In one of the hottest areas of the country? Maybe that’s a good idea?

We need to build a mock-city for testing. Then rent time out to AV companies to test their stuff in safety.

The difference (well, one of the many) is that the human can explain an action after the fact. AIs often cannot. And so you’re left with what is an obvious problem or failing, and you’re stuck trying to deduce the reason. And scientists, computer or otherwise, don’t always think about things the way everyone else…

I usually play as a knife-throwing ninja assassin; I don’t go in for all that quick-hack wizardry. So calling it Punk 2077 is almost more accurate for me haha

Lets recap.

I’m extremely 5'8" and my ND pretty much fits me like a glove. I don’t know how someone who stands head and shoulders above me could ever drive one.

Don’t laugh, okay? You have to promise you won’t laugh.

Everyone should have a Miata in their life at some point. Either you’ll love it and keep it forever, or you’ll catch the sports car bug and eventually move on to stronger, more expensive stuff, but you’ll never regret having it.

Unpopular opinion: Jeep did the right thing. The Samurai defeated itself in just 10 years. Competing with a doomed rival would really just have hastened the cancellation of both. So if you like the Samurai, be happy Jeep didn’t kill it quicker.