Yeah, yeah, everybody’s more Catholic than the Pope in this business.

What 355? All I see is that Boxer...

No kidding. This kind of thing is goofy when you have 400 horsepower on tap, much less 40 or whatever the Miata has these days.

Holy hell, that thing is ugly, isn’t it?

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

Any insurance company on the planet will take that bet with a smile.

Nobody has ever promised a perfect autonomous car. But most accidents, fatal and otherwise, have much simpler causes that are trivial for an autonomous system to avoid or prevent by comparison.

“Expert system” is a term that hasn’t seen wide use, for good reason, for about 20 years now.

Perot made his fortune by starting a company called EDS (Electronic Data Systems) and selling it to its biggest customer, General Motors. As I recall, he was basically competing with IBM’s services division. It was a ten-figure deal.

Wow. It’s almost as if suborbital flight is a lot easier than orbital flight.

No.

You need to rent a movie called The Lives of Others.

The development team at Google that just mopped the floor with a 9-dan Go professional isn’t going to have too much trouble dealing with any of the examples you mentioned.

Yep. 911 people consider that a feature, not a (VW) bug.

The NSX was a great car, but it wasn’t an icon like the 911. It was always very clear that it owed its conceptual existence to the mid-engine V8 Ferraris. Every time I saw one on the road, I remember thinking, “Hell, for that kind of money you could have bought the real thing.”

There’s good money in the business of fixing automakers’ mistakes, to be sure. Ask Ross Perot...

So Russia has about as much money as.... Apple.

(Shrug) They seem to be getting shit done.

He didn’t pay enough attention during grenade training, I take it...

Germans capitalize adverbs and adjectives?