This is a funny picture, but it points towards the biggest problem with autonomous cars: While driving, we often break rules. Not because we like to, but because the traffic situation demands it, like when you can’t merge onto the highway because of traffic and have to cut into the hard shoulder or when debris forces…

The race to full self driving isn’t going to happen unless car companies get onboard with vehicle-to-vehicle communications. If every car “knew” the speed, direction, traction, acceleration and braking of the vehicles around it, it seems like it would stand a hell of a better chance to stay on the road.

Cybertruck reservation holders have to be on life support at this point. Not a chance for 2021 production (which still hasn’t been officially delayed).

He’s also in for a rude awakening when he realizes that flying to Mars is hard

Lol, that elon tweet perfectly encapsulates rich, clueless asshole guy.

On the “Fireworks vs IEDs” discussion— There is some arbitrary point at which a device transitions from “Firework” to “bomb”, even if its builder intends it to be used for entertainment rather than destruction. Seeing as these devices were homemade, “Improvised Explosive Device” seems like a reasonable descriptor.

I’m no fan of the police but this is a dumb take, even after the correction for the very large, obvious, and premise-changing error which was inserted way down at the bottom of the article well after a significant conversation predicated by said error had already occurred.

Well... yes and no. Fireworks makers (and customers) like to talk about equivalency to a stick of dynamite, but commonly used explosives vary quite a bit in how they deliver their power.

Based on the explosion, it looks pretty clear that they weren’t sparklers...

I’ve driven up and down the 110 (near the neighborhood where this went down) a bunch this last week or so and I am constantly seeing illegal fireworks being set off. Not Roman candles or bottle rockets - but the real deal shit that a city will set off during holidays festivities. It’s so stupid for a number of…

Just FYI, they didn’t try and detonate all 5,000 pounds of fireworks in the containment vessel. They found a bunch of homemade fireworks, and that’s what they detonated.

Because they were dealing with unstable explosive materials in addition to the fireworks. Detonating them in the containment vessel on-site was less risky than trying to move them. Imagine if this explosion happened while the truck was being driven...

Here in Cal-I-Forn-IA its totally, balls to the wall, batshit insane. We bought our house 12 years ago for what felt like an insane, $450,000. It eventually climbed to a “supposed” paper value of $850,000. One of my neighbors casually mentioned his property had gone up 20% in 2 months. I looked mine up. Of course it…

From my understanding the fireworks were hauled away in normal box trucks. In addition to standard fireworks this piece of shit also had an additional 40 IED’s in his possession.

From the WAPO:

It creaked and thumped over the smallest bumps when it was new. 

Yeah, even with low miles I bet the ride quality is shit. Every rubber bushing is likely shot and it creaks and thumps over even the smallest bumps in the road. Nope

You have put more thought into this comment than any of the engineers at GM put into the Cavalier. 

No thanks. A well-preserved shitbox is still a shitbox.

What are you expecting? It’s from 1989, when a standard Corvette had 245 horsepower and a Mustang GT had 225.

That’s a very nice $1,500 car.