Valet drivers are gonna love it too. And you don’t have to tip them after, because you just them the gift of protecting their lives.

This is a great explanation and hopefully people are starting to get it.

Follow up question: what happened to the tech? Fired? Arrested?

“It’s not about the money, it’s not about anything else, we do good [financially], we’ve got enough stores... This is about fixing the problem right.” -Inder Dosanjh, Fremont Chevrolet owner

You know what else would exert force they’re hard mounted to? Wheels.

If you were to “turn off” gravity around the vehicle, it would be equivalent of phasing out the vehicle’s mass from space-time. Remember the gravity well and the marble thing? It would be like the marble would be floating above the surface. At that point, the vehicle would stop interacting with everything, including…

If the planet is rotating, how does it stay in place?

What’s under the car is not anti-gravity. If anything, anti-gravity would be a force equivalent to the gravitational forces. If that’s the case, how would a land speeder account for the contours of the terrain? As mentioned above, they’re called repulsorlifts. The way I see it, repulsion in this case would be more…

Sure. There’s nothing wrong with buying a big house if you’ve got the money. I would too if I’ve got the cash.

Wow, way to diss all the doctors, neurologists, and engineers and their hard work. You mad dude?

Depends on the state.

Breakfast tacos sounds good, but why not go full burrito?

Walk into a coffee shop and not sure what to get? For starters, get coffee (drip) or tea. Don't drink any of those? What the hell are you doing at a coffee shop?

Getting into a development partnership with Daimler does not exactly produce revenue.

To be fair, Waymo didn’t seem like they’re taking this autonomous driving seriously. I mean, sure they’re putting in a lot of research behind it but where are they planning to go with this? I mean, really? Ride hailing? How is that going to be more profitable than Uber? How are they building up their infrastructure…

Ha! Your faith in human capability is greatly overrated.

But if a trolley is speeding down to a crowd of people and has a choice of switching tracks that could run over a person, what will it do then?!

How so? There are hundreds of thousands of Tesla’s already out there with autopilot hardware. Even if we take 1% of that to be enabled, that’s still in the thousands. Yet we have only 11 crashes with 17 injuries and 1 fatality being investigated. Compared to the Takata airbags, it took 50 fatalities before…

Regardless of the what’s being talked about, Torch’s statement about people incapable of not noticing warning signs is not “simply” a thing. He totally underestimates the power of human ignorance.

“crashes into stopped emergency vehicles with flashing lights and sometimes even “flares, an illuminated arrow board, and road cones” are simply not the sorts of things human drivers wouldn’t notice”