cool...i willy nilly one clicked a bunch of books that i now need to read, but im going to add it to my wish list :)

The Rangie is probably better off road, but the seats in this one can’t be beat. If you’re really just going to be in the suburbs with the occasional snowstorm, I’d take this one.

It is absurdly good looking, especially for an SUV. It’s the epitome of strong, silent Swedish design, and the interior is even better.

Computing technology has advanced so rapidly that we can actually invoke Clarke’s third law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Only a handful of people on this planet have taken the time to understand how computers actually work at a fundamental level which leads people to…

The irrational exuberance of some autonomous car developers is exceeded by that of the writers and commenters here. The consensus position is to pretend that this experimental technology is practically a solved problem, based as far as I can tell on an indulgent reading of Google’s press releases and total ignorance…

This is not limited to driverless cars. The tech industry does. It seem to understand that there are problems which are more complex than can trivially be solved by balancing equations. You see the same stupid arguments when, for example, you try to point out that Uber destroys impetus for public transit.

When a human did it, it could be taken as reflect or self-preservation or human error where it will different from person to another person

I’m still of the school of thought that automous driving will trickle in in the form of aids, not full on no-steering-wheel Google pods. You can already see the creep..... new S class can go, stop and turn itself on a highway. With time the capabilites will continue to increase, but I don’t think the ability (and more…

Asimov’s Laws of Robotics come to mind, including all the short stories he wrote about “insane” robot behavior rooted in conflicts between the laws. Autonomous cars should have ways to resolve such conflicts without causing unforeseen crazy consequences before they hit the streets. They won’t, at the rate things are…

As someone in the computation field, I strongly agree that there is far too much hype in the ‘self driving’ (as opposed to computer assisted) cars. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, machines do NOT ‘understand’ anything despite the claims and press reports. Even the spectacular performance of Watson on…

Questions arose about unavoidable accidents, moral choices about where to steer if collision with an object is unavoidable and the like. If vehicles will be driving as humans, how can their programming act and make decisions as a human would in driving situations? When encountering problematic situations on the road,…

It’s rude. It immediately identifies the user as poorly educated, lacking self-confidence and generally obnoxious. It’s the verbal equivalent of fart can. I don’t doubt there’s a huge comorbidity of drivers who do burnouts at cars and coffee and drift on the highway with people who say retard.

As an EV driver, I have to say that range anxiety is mostly in the minds of non-EV drivers. Most EV drivers get adjusted to the limited range and take the necessary steps to get where they need to go. Yes, it requires planning ahead, but it’s not impossible. Additionally, the i3’s Rex is able to power it past 60mph,…

If you don’t like the looks, ok, but try another word besides retarded.

I think it’s because Park is a common Korean surname. It’s like Smith in England in terms of being common. But thing is, Park is one of those names that can also be English and Scottish. Like if you heard the name Lee, you wouldn’t know if it was English like Robert E. Lee’s was or Chinese like Bruce Lee’s was.

I thought Chiwetel Ejiofor was only cast when an Indian actor had to back out at the last minute?

Listen, it just gets worse. There’s also a Dodge Caravan hidden inside of every Routan ever shipped. Granted, that’s only, like, three vehicles, but it just keeps going downhill in Wolfsburg.

If they were gonna go for the whole “Discount desirable design from an ironic source” angle, I could see a 780 Bertone being a much more fitting choice.

Indeed. $35,000 paid upfront is a hell of a lot more money than $35,000 paid in installments. If someone is willing to finance you something at zero percent, people seem to view that as “I’m paying nothing extra”, as opposed to reality, where it means “they’re discounting my cost at the inflation rate”. Forget about…

Also, the first old world person to meet a new worlder was going to set off the same viral genocide regardless. There’s enough to hang the guy with already without adding a failure to forsee germ theory