Basically, they make electricity with hydropower. They’re like 98% renewable.

Have been doing Agile for the last 3-4 years or so. My company is very conservative because of the industry that we’re in and thankfully they’ve phased out the “MVP” terminology.

The Silicon Valley model of using customers as beta testers takes on a whole new dimension when applied to multi-ton moving objects.

Minimum Viable Product. This is what “Agile” development has brought us.

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If you actually read all the ‘negative’ articles about Tesla on Jalopnik, you’ll note that almost all of them are caveated with positive statements about the vehicles engineering, capabilities and the impact of Tesla on the broader automotive market. But they don’t spend 12 paragraphs repeating that because there’s…

Honestly fuck Tesla forever, but if you’re in the driver’s seat and have been adjusting it for 90 seconds within the span of 5 minutes, you shouldn’t have been driving the car to begin with. Seriously, use a stopwatch to get to 90 seconds, it’s an eternity.

One car family here. Motorized seats allow for memory settings. Eliminates a huge annoyance. 

What if instead of locking you out, it gave a warning that “This motor is not designed for excessive, repetitive use. Abusing its use will cause premature failure” for privately owned vehicles?

If the UK is anything like where I am, the police can operate check points where they stop all comers and check road tax, insurance and so on. They don't need a reason to stop you.

to me off side/near side is very British because its obtuse! and worse, its specific to driving a British or RHD drive car.  I don’t like Left/Right either but it is at least more defined.

I believe dome refers to their location (not their shape) if you think of the vehicle’s greenhouse as a dome. Map light are typically located near the rear view mirror, and have a more directed beam.

Try being a Canadian. Our speech is a mix of the Queen’s English and terms used by our southern neighbours. I chuckled when I read your chart of terms because I hear both in everyday shop talk up here. Except for spanner... makes sense, sounds odd.

Somehow we don’t. I have no explanations. 

You’ll end up like any of us who have lived for a significant amount of time in both places: choosing the word that leads to the least amount of confusion or embarrassment regardless of country you’re in. Those things that hold up your trousers will always be braces, but also ‘dipping your lights’ isn’t going to…

Plus, what is Rolls-Royce’s record production, the equivalent of the weekly production of a 3-series? Prioritizing RR would barely be a blip on overall parent company production, anyway.

New ad campaign. “Get a Rolls, because you are gonna croak any day. Why wait for your heirs to waste your money on stupid crap? Start wasting it now and enjoy your short retirement.”

Yeah I’d think that BMW would give chip priority to RR seeing as how much more profit is in each unit sold.

Of course this was the first article I read today. Never change, torch. Never change.

I could never understand why you’d willingly sacrifice transmitted power, precision control and gas-mileage in favour of a slushy, unresponsive and unpredictable system