If designing to the test doesn’t make the car safer, then we need a new test.

“Amtrak is probably America’s finest bar. On the Northeast Corridor run, you can get a bottle of Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA for $8.”

Don’t worry, once the first major bridge collapses we’ll surely get serious about this.. wait, what?! A bridge collapsed in a major city NINE YEARS AGO?

I hope you’ve been studying your compound meter, I for one look forward to this jig.

Have fun riding your autonomous car across state lines...

I feel like for something “in beta,” it should actually be a deadman’s switch to make it move remotely, in that if the user lets go of the fob it stops immediately.

If it were a fully autonomous car, it would have to be the manufacturer. There’s no other way I would own one under any other condition, and no one else should. (And I’m “pro-autonomous,” if there is such a thing.)

Complain about the acting all you want, but as you say Anakin’s descent made complete sense. Maybe Ren's does too, but I really don't see why everyone is raving that this one is so much more convincing (yet).

I’m sure plenty of people would say the same about where you live!

Except that would be contrary to any reasonable city’s goal of reducing driving.

“He still might, but it took Vader three movies. I would hope they don’t track the original trilogy storyline that closely.”

Banning bike’s without one single handlebar seems like a really convoluted way to achieve what I assume they really want, which is keeping the speeds down to a more “reasonable” level.

Are you kidding me? You think that cyclists should wear helmets so that they don’t negatively affect motorists’ insurance rates? How about motorists stop hitting cyclists?

I find it even more alarming that he convinced at least eight friends that this was a good idea.

All of the time was certainly an overstatement on my part. More appropriate would have been “this has happened before.”

I disagree about which one is safer, but I certainly don’t think you’re totally off-base, and it’s *possible* that I’m not right. ;)

You might see flaws with my plan, but we saw how well theirs worked. ;-)

Wait around the other side of the corner, waving to warn people. Problem solved. It was already partly on the shoulder.

Well, in all fairness I can afford to comment on more cars than I can afford to buy.

People try stuff like this in other industries all of the time, and it’s the stupidest thing you can do. Even if you do “get away” with it, as soon as you show it to your new employer, they turn you in, because there’s no way they want to be associated with that crime or have any liability for it.