“Never underestimate the transmission bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the freeway.”

The article is conflating bandwidth with transmission time (which is essentially lag), and these are not the same thing at all.

petabyte(bit)/second hasn’t anything to do with the transmission propagation rate, it has to do with the transmission bandwidth. Transmission delay has to do with the transmission propagation rate; as you noted, latency.

I’m going to add some anecdotal validity to this point. I have a 2019 Subaru WRX, which has a good mix of touch and physical knobs, but my other vehicle is a basic 1994 Dakota pickup that I love because it’s got a radio and cassette player and very little else. The AC works, but it’s just a very in the moment…

Considering the sheer number of features modern cars come with, it’s unlikely that we’ll see any automaker completely abandon the touchscreen. Adding physical controls for everything would likely make the cabin look like the cockpit of a modern jet.

Capacitive touch buttons. Started to gain traction with Cadillac’s CUE, but the most egregious example I’ve seen is the Ferrari Roma. Everything on the steering wheel is capacitive, and even the mirror adjustment uses it.

Screens, screens, screens, screens and more screens.

No?

The root problem here is driving the kids to school. School busses, city busses and walking or biking are the right way to do it. My recollection is NYC schools give every student a transit pass so those kids could be riding those,MTA busses instead of blocking them. Even if the MTA needs a dedicated bus line with…

As a member of the disabled community I believe that you missed a few issues:

Wow, that bomb’s been playing the long game.

But I bet it was loud!

Yeah, that’s exactly my point. New, big, heavy cars are worse for the safety of everyone except the occupants.

It’s literally in the article that someone got killed in that exact intersection. As much as the news makes a big deal about theft, people generally don’t get killed in those incidents. So I would say enforcement action like this should have at least SOME priority, not zero.

How many people run over is acceptable?

I would prefer crosswalks protected by retractable bollards, the sort used to stop semis from entering nuclear power plant operations.

That’s not “innovative” and “disruptive”. And doesn’t require “courage”.

Hill forgot to watch Chris Rock

There is a special place in hell for websites that let you hover over one thing, then jump around so you end up clicking on another...

To be fair - this was technically a liquor delivery van. It delivered liquor right to the scene of the accident.