Let’s get him to Mars ASAP.

At this point Musk is the equivalent of that guy who is not on your homeowners association board but he is BFF with the board pres. He shows up at meetings to argue with the board, rat everyone out, make the meeting go on a lot longer than they should, and bitch about the quality of the coffee & pastries being served.…

“In its statement to CNN, the FAA said that the Turks and Caicos government was made aware prior to the Starship launch that the nation was located within a possible hazard area.”

This seems ripe for a lawsuit. It seems to be the only think muskrat understands. 

Nobody is beyond help. But the first step to getting help, is acknowledging that you need help.

He’s a billionaire who bought an entire social network just so he could yell to a captive audience and force them to pay attention to him.

I daily and roadtrip an EV that isn’t a Tesla. The lack of access to the Tesla supercharger network is a non-issue. At least on the east coast.

First of all inflation is cooling.

I work in an industry that has stuff that will kill you quicker than a jet engine. But, there are many layers of protection.

Real story from my old work. Imagine a system that produces 100x the thrust of the engines in this accident. We put up barricades that could take that hit and would prevent someone from being launched about 300 yards into the woods. We had procedures etc. to make sure that nobody was dumb enough to be there behind the…

The engineer side of me thinks cones are dumb. If you can get close enough to put down a cone, you are in a dangerous area if the plane is running. If the plane isn’t, you don’t need cones. I would expect that this lady just went into automatic mode, went to place cones when she wasn’t supposed to and...

I can tell you what would probably happen here (in Germany). They would look into the person’s state (sleep, alcohol, whatever), but also into the company. Did the person have enough time to rest the night before? Did they get their breaks? There was a briefing, great. Was the “15 foot zone” delineated with anything?…

Thats a really naive way of looking at safety. Blame the victim. Safety systems should always assume we’re distracted and inattentive because we ALL have moments like this and NOBODY deserves to die because of it.

If we leave it at ‘it was the victim’s fault, case closed’ then nothing improves and someone else WILL…

That's better, much appreciated. There's plenty of accurate insults for Clarkson. Might I suggest boorish or churlish?

Thank you for the clarification. I’ll refer to him simply as an old racist from now on. 

I want my digital crap in my handheld device and for my car to roll. That is its purpose.

I don’t have any reason to think that Google has hordes of engineers who are experts in control systems, so I’m not sure the kinds of people Volvo needs are working in Mountain View. They’re at Raytheon. What he said made a lot of sense to me, and tech-wise even the KE-Jetronic makes me nervous.

Well let’s be real. Nearly every car has crap “software”  as in the nav/entertainment systems have been garbage compared to even a 9 year old iPhone. And with EV, so much is software based in the controllers. So yeah, they all need to be a LOT better. They don’t need to “be” software companies, but their sw…

If, like the Porsche Cayenne and Macan, it allows Lotus to make five-hundrety-million variants of the same sports car...sure, I’ll allow it :)

Well you could: