1989 Ford Taurus?

Regarding the RSO responsibilities: agree, that should be an interesting story! I get sweaty palms by merely thinking about being the guy with the big, fat red button on the console...

Have you syndicated this with Popular Science?

Yes, pleeeeze, lots of snow! Everything looks clean (for a while), allows for creative driving, and gives a pretense for drinking lots of mulled wine, or hot chocolate with rum.

• The aircraft will supposedly cost $564 million per unit.
  

Everybody was equal in the “socialist workers’ paradise”, but those who were able to afford a Wartburg (as opposed to only a Trabant) were even more equal...

Counterpoint: Mark Twain, in the 3rd volume of his autobiography, about Teddy Roosevelt:

Simple - no more cat videos, no more Taylor Swift. People would notice how empty their lives are, and would start a war, because excitement.

Exactly, as if it was about the hissing link.

Emphasis on ‘now’.

...it has received four requests from state authorities and the FBI for five of its users’ accounts. (The company says it denied those requests)

I’d wager that you can’t make THAT kind of money without being at least a leeeeetle bit evil...

But why would I want to wake up if I had an Android device?

wow, nice! No, that one was just a 2012 SS. Nice engine, awful interior.

I’ll be terribly smug now, and say “it’s all about knowing how to drive” (not completely true, I know). Here’s an awful streetview screen shot of a road somewhere in the Mojave I drove up with a Camaro. Not once did its belly scrape the rocks...

I drink my coffee black, in order to NOT be a psychopath...

You’re doing it wrong: black coffee with a shot of rum, covered by whipped - yes, whipped - cream.

The main problem for implanted electrodes (for example, in brain-machine interfaces) is how long they can keep their functionality, before there is too much signal degradation.

You’re right with the crevasse. Not convinced, though, regarding falls in a rock wall (as lead): one situation is that you’re unconscious during a fall, either because a rock hit you, causing the fall, or you fall and bump into something during the fall... The other situation is when when the CoG is high due to a…

Nice article! Can’t help though - I’m still very distrustful towards everything using batteries out there (well, except headlamps, and nowadays a camera). They’re heavy (relatively), they don’t like the cold, and they inevitably let you down when you need them most...