*mass produced* carbon fiber is a breakthrough... no longer having to do manual layups is a breakthrough... bringing down your production time and costs by an order of magnitude for a new material is a huge breakthrough.

someone read max brook's surviving the zombie apocalypse

what if I'm really tall and don't want to pretend to be comfortable and want to survive a rollover?

drivetrain is not a breakthrough, it's a 3phase AC motor hooked up to lithium ion batteries. That's a business breakthrough, not an engineering breakthrough, no new technology was invented.

name the technology breakthroughs they made.

it also sums up how this car is a true breakthrough compared to a tesla. As he said, tesla didn't fundamentally change how a car is built, they just put on a new powertrain. Mass produced carbon fiber however is a pretty big fucking deal.

wait wait wait, so under the assumption that property is guilty until proven innocent, doesn't that mean that all guns are guilty of conspiracy to murder and can be seized?

yeah but back then our enemies also didn't have the kinds of SAM capabilities they have now. This is a great weapon for WWIII 30 years ago, but now it's a little outdated against a near equal enemy.

set a salary cap. You can spend X amount on your driver and car every year but within that you can do whatever the fuck you want within reason. That would lead to some pretty interesting trade offs imo.

don't blaspheme

mr. armchair engineer.

for WW3 these planes would be pretty ineffective because they're too low and slow and would probably get shot out of the sky.

if they are using a mercedes system, I'll accept that. but as someone who works on this stuff for a tier 1 supplier, no way in hell tesla did it without contracting 95% of development out

yes, on pristine roads in pristine weather on pristine routes.

that's not an engineering problem... that's a problem of will. Autonomous vehicles is a huge engineering problem and the manpower simply isn't there unless they bought someone else's system.

no they most certainly are not. Google works well in controlled environments but they're much more public about it. VAG has a much better system for unpredictable environments, aka the real world, and have been keeping development close to their chest

bullshit. how is tesla capable of implementing this more quickly and reliably than every other automaker and auto supplier in the world? VAG is leading the industry on autonomous driving and forgive me if I'm skeptical that a cash strapped company with 6000 people beat VAG and their Stanford partnership to the punch.

I know many myself, and yes, they work stupid hours for shit pay until the shine wears off and go to boeing or Northrop Grumman or something

japanese cars sell like shit in europe, American cars sell like shit in europe. Ford of europe exists because ford knows that Europe is a xenophobic car market. And to say that europeans aren't incredibly xenophobic is laughable, look at how everyone reacts to muslims and africans moving in. This attitude naturally…

this. For some reason people mistake "good engineering" with over engineering. Germans are horrible at over engineering things.