You’re showing your age mentioning Knievel.

I’m curious as to what battery is actually being used. I would think that it’s unlikely that Nissan had a custom cell designed for the battery pack. Tesla, for instance, uses the 18650 cell, which has been around for a long time. Nissan uses a pouch-type cell in the Leaf though, so carried forward from the Altra?

How much do you want to bet that they ticketed the driver of the car for not yielding to the cop? Because the driver should have been able to read that cop’s mind.

More like they invade Poland and then argue “you keep it all!” “No, you keep it all!”

From what I understand, the MAX is safe to fly, without MCAS, assuming a competent pilot. It just handles a bit differently than the previous versions, and MCAS was added to essentially do some hand holding for the pilots.

You put chargers in front of a few parking spots and designate them BEV only. Convenience stores like for people to go inside and buy overpriced stuff while waiting.

“If I just play/watch it I’m not downloading it, therefore it’s legal.”

Here’s a link to an article about 447: Air France 447. It’s not the one I read awhile back, but it’s pretty good at discussing problems with automation in the cockpit.

I thought it was the co-pilot who knew what to do, but because of the rigid pecking order that’s common to some countries, the co-pilot deferred to the pilot. The pilot took a plane that was flying just fine when the autopilot dropped out due to the bad airspeed indication, and he stalled the plane all the way into…

As I recall in the Air France crash, the Airbus had 3 heated pitot tubes, and all three froze up. I think there was also a DC-10 crash where the cargo door blew out, and the resulting decompression caused both sets of hydraulic lines to be severed. Even redundancy has limits, but using just 1 sensor? Damn.

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I did a little more reading and it looks like it was 200 hours total. In the US, you have to have at least 1,500 hours to be a co-pilot. The pilot on the flight, while young, had about 8,000 total hours.

Even though there are two AoA sensors on the plane, Boeing only decided to use one of them for input to the MCAS system, which appears to go against practices that suggest that systems whose failure can lead to a “hazardous failure mode” should have redundant systems.

I read that it was the co-pilot who had only 200 hours. But info is being pushed out so quickly there’s no telling what’s accurate and what’s not.

What I’m reading is that the pilot training depended upon the carrier and could either be watching a video or reviewing a training manual. I’m also reading reports that pilots at at least one (US) airline claim that they already had instructions in their manuals while pilots at other airlines are complaining that…

From what I understand Boeing didn’t even tell the carriers about the MCAS system, at least until after the Lion Air incident. If there’s no procedure to follow, what do you do? You have to know which switch to flip to bypass a system you don’t even know about.

To add to that, if you have a pre-existing condition they could choose to 1) Decline to offer you coverage. 2) Charge monthly premiums in excess of $2,000/month.

Tell that to Nissan about the Leaf’s super-reliable early battery packs. Hey! We left out thermal management components! Fewer components = better reliability!

So skimmers don’t use keypad overlays anymore?

Spit?