So Xbox Scarlett only has about twice the computing power as XB1X and Xbox Pink will have even less computing power than the current XB1X? That’s not actually that impressive. I guess that’s the downside of mid-generation refreshes. It makes the next generation not look like as much of a jump.

A kammback isn’t all about the teardrop, although it originated by truncating a teardrop design. To gain most of the effects described by Kamm, a car’s tail has to be tapered to about 40-50% of its largest cross-sectional area, which the Cybertruck appears to do.

Guilty. I would put all three in there, nearly every weekend, and snowboards too.

Yeah, because a Kammback certainly isn’t aerodynamic at all...

Reading an awful lot into this. How is this different from any of the other $50-60k optioned out trucks, except that it doesn’t use gas and doesn’t pander to the current ideal of what a truck should look like?

The Cybertruck is form follows function taken to the extreme. It’s almost like a test to see whether people actually value performance over looks. Talk about a Kammback.

It’s using the body as structure for stiffness, instead of a heavy frame. It already has a low c.o.g. from the batteries, so the strong body resists twist and is also super impact resistant.

And they’ll have the for-profit prison lobbies fighting to keep those conviction rather than overturning it. I would foresee states without for-profit prisons be the first to overturn convictions and stop wasting taxpayer money to house and feed people for no reason, and a tougher fight to overturn those convictions…

Right, and the Cybertruck has a smaller cross-sectional area than all of the ICE competition.

The other side of the question is, are current trucks really any more aerodynamic than this? Also, people get caught up on the drag coefficient, but that’s only one part of the equation for aerodynamic drag. Just as important is the cross-sectional area. Which is considerably less than the competition. The drag…

Cars and trucks in general have not been moving to the most aerodynamic or functional design. Just look at the popularity of all the retro designs like the Challenger and Mustang. Gas is cheap right now. If engineers were in charge of design, yes, your assertion would hold water, but design seems to be dictated by the…

Trump supporters have no argument that work against an actual liberal, so they have to have pretend arguments against their made-up personifications of what they think a liberal is, like art majors. They could never hack a real argument against actual liberals that are things like physicists, engineers, doctors, etc.

True, I’m really happy there’s a river with a whitewater park 5 minutes walk away, and some great mountain biking only 15 minutes bike ride away. Lots of free concerts during the summer too. If it was just a downtown, without all those outdoor recreation opportunities so close, it wouldn’t work for me. Anyway, the…

I see a lot of families in my building. I see their kids getting to walk to school in the morning too, instead of having to take some long bus ride from a suburb, or worse yet, their parents having to waste time and gas to drive them to school every day.

Shhh...people want to think they getting something sporty, and utlitarian, yet compact. A CUV is just a tall car, more like a tall/short station wagon really...

If you give people a free chauffeur for just one week, they’re going to use the fuck out of it, and you’ll have wildly inaccurate study results compared to owning an AV long-term.

Most people would be paying for it on a per-use basis though. I expect it to be cheaper than Uber with no driver to pay, but it’s not like I would pay $20/day to Uber both ways to work now, plus more for any other trips I do. That would quickly add up to more than a basic car payment, but if it’s only 25% of that…

I live downtown. I have a 5-minute drive to work, and can walk to about 70 bars or restaurants in less than 10 minutes. People choose to live in the suburbs, because a bigger house sounds enticing, then they spend half their life either driving to or from that big house, or doing maintenance on that big house and…

The big problem with this study wasn’t the sample size, it was the study length. “Hey, you get a free chauffeur for ONE week!” are you going to make as much use of it as you can, or let it go to waste just sitting at home doing nothing.

That’s why the Mustang GT would get renamed the Probe, because it’s slower than the Mach-E GT.