I fear you didn’t read my comment. If you use a car to travel to the mall, the movie theater, or a restaurant, you are exposing yourself to risk, purely for a leisure/pleasure activity. How is that any different? I’m not saying that taking a car to work is the same, but I am saying that taking a car anywhere for fun…

It’s what you do with the remaining land that is a concern. You could reserve 99% of the land and still wreak havoc on the world at large with your activities in the remaining 1%.

If you use a car to pursue a leisure activity, or anything that isn’t essential for survival, how is that a false equivalency?

It’s funny that you should say that.... (I’m sure at least somewhat if not mostly in jest).

If there's a city, there's probably a sizeable river!

Often people knock the model s’s range (250 miles ish?), which is actually fine for 99% of the drives I do, and probably most people, but this range of 90 miles really does strike me as quite useless. Realistically that’s only a 45 mile range to a destination that doesn’t have a charger, and I do trips like that more…

The 3D printer my company has prints out parts by default in the fastest way possible. Which makes sense, until you try out a different orientation and realize that it’s only 1 minute slower, and uses 90% less support material (which we buy from them). It could just be that their software is simple and can’t optimize…

Most pro track cyclists look like this. On a track, your elevation change is zero, so aerodynamic drag is a much much bigger factor than hauling your weight. By adding muscle mass you don’t increase your frontal area (drag) very much, but of course you greatly increase your power.

Okay, I just need to survive the next ten years until these things are autonomous anyway!

History is rife with examples of these “discoveries” that have seemingly no application proving essential years and decades later. Hell, the computers we are both using were only able to be developed based on hundreds if not thousands of discoveries that seemed like “toys” at the time.

And if Froome does poorly today, then it will be “of course he was doping back in 2013!”

Am I missing something, or is there no link to the model?

I had the exact same experience! I was shopping for life insurance, and there were tons of negative reviews about refusal to pay claims, or dragging them out forever. In the end I just had to trust my agent (who did indeed come highly recommended).

And, the key point is that once the snow stops moving, it sets like concrete. So it’s key to be above the surface once the slide stops. Even if you’re literally just a few inches down, it can be impossible to free yourself.

If the systems reach high enough reliability levels, you could also reduce the crash safety of the cars (weight), further reducing emissions (not sure if they covered that in the report). It wouldn’t be as significant as improvements in fleet size and aerodynamics, but it wouldn’t be trivial.

I don’t think these are in the same used price bracket at all. Every s2000 I see is 10 years older and the same price, which, to me, does not make it equivalent.

I don’t think he implies that it would be worse than any other major city. Where did you get that from?

I actually have lots of pity for these sorts of people. That guy just had one ten second interval of profound stupidity. I think it “could happen” to more of us than we realize.

I’m saying it could be much more simple than that. There could be a cat I don’t care about at all, have no feelings for or against, and might fail miserably at keeping track of its kills over time. There doesn’t need to be a deep seated psychological reason for why my estimate is off, it might just be that I genuinely…

I’m sure the moon one is impressive, but I find the the neighborhood ones much more illustrative. I have no idea what a typical optical zoom can do when looking at the moon, but I have plenty of experience with zooming in on things in my neighbo.... erm, nevermind. The moon one is cool.