Rocket science IS easier than self driving.

“The Tesla Dishwasher would stand over the sink, like a human, washing dishes with human-like hands, but for safety reasons you would have to stand behind it, your hands lightly holding the robot’s hands, like a pair of young lovers in their first apartment.”
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Hot take and totally right. Cadillac is doing it right by focusing on freeways, where you have a carefully controlled, predictable, well-marked, limited-access environment, and the benefit is high due to driver fatigue.

Being part of a railroad family I can assure you that trains hitting tractor trailers, cars, and people (routinely) is an unfortunate fact of the job. The reality that the video doesn’t show is the engineer on the floor of the locomotive praying to God that this isn’t there last moment on earth and thinking about…

Most modifications tend to be a compromise. Want to improve the road handling by lowering the suspension? Compromise comfort. Wan’t more power? Kiss your MPGs goodbye. There are exceptions, of course, but automakers spend billions to engineer a car that makes the best compromises it can so any deviation we make with ou…

As a reference point for those who are bad at the maths, that’s basically 12 bags of stone from Home Depot in the bed. Which I may or may not have exceeded in the back a Subaru Forester.

Depends on the truck and how the weight is distributed.

Diminishing returns in action.

What’s that old joke? What do an 700hp, and 800hp, and a 900hp Supra have in common? 9 second quarter mile times.

After reading this and seeing all the pictures my hair just spontaneously grew out into a mullet 

If it’s so easy and that’s all it needs, get the battery replaced and sell it for 10k.

Yeah, I didn’t really understand the harping on manufacturing complexity. These vehicles are, and will continue to be, proof-of-concept vehicles trying to get the right mix of sensors for maximum cost/benefit ratio.

Yeah I don’t think actually producing them is a thing that will happen here at all 

Well, they’re built to very rigorous automotive standards.

“Do you plan on including the fact that other TACC systems fail to recognize emergency vehicles consistently?”

At least the front didn’t fall off.

Running a 100 meter dash really easy. Nearly everyone can do it. Doing it better than everyone else is quite challenging. 

This particular comment thread is a prime example of how to be oblivious, think you know better how to do something you have no clue about, and then continue to bury yourself to the very end. You started out with a “I have no clue about this sport” and finished it acting as an expert on how to make the sport you know…

Well thanks. Now I’m going to have to buy a Kia and replace all badging with a stylised NIN logo. I hope you're happy.