Morial said that the latest Equal Employment Opportunity reports filed by Google, Facebook and Twitter showed that only 758, or 1.8 percent, of their combined workforce of 41,000 employees, were black. And their own research showed that in the majority of tech companies, fewer than five percent of the workforce is…

(Apparently I am the only person from Britain with a name that doesn’t come straight from a P.G. Wodehouse novel.)

There was a wealth of miscellaneous Orioles stuff—photos he took at Brooks Robinson Day in 1977, on his first trip to Baltimore...

Just not sure why we’re so eager to lambaste Tesla whenever a Tesla driver misuses the car, whereas with other manufacturers we blame the drivers.

I think you’re exactly right. It wouldn’t be dramatic, it wouldn’t be “disruptive.” But it could be safer.

In the parking lot of my apartment complex are two Datsun 300ZXs, side by side, looking about the same condition as all the surrounding Hondas and BMWs and so forth. They don’t look at all like 30+-year-old cars, and I am impressed.

Thanks for the correction, as well as your insights about design. They sound on-target to me.

Here’s a RAND report that explains the difficulty of evaluating the safety of autonomous vehicles. It’s much harder than our intuitions might lead us to believe.

I was tempted after borrowing my father’s pickup one weekend, for a long trip to move furniture. Not only could I see farther in front of me, but the rear visibility was great compared with my sedan.

It’s an arms race (height, actually :-) and I don’t fault anyone for participating. Half of my friends and family drive SUVs, pickups, or big crossovers.

This analysis seems spot-on to me. We see the same thing with social media companies like Facebook and Twitter, so it’s not unexpected that it would appear elsewhere. And to me it doesn’t seem responsible.

That is a great design goal. Much harder to achieve than replacing human expertise, but worthwhile.

As a human factors engineer you understand this area a lot better than I do then! Thanks for the details.

Maybe humans just aren’t cut out to use driver-assistance systems.

Many experienced drivers know to look ahead of the car in front of them: Is traffic far off ahead coming to a stop? What’s the driver in front of me about to do encounter?

It would be nice if an influencer had some accomplishments to point to beyond “People pay attention to me,” because a natural reaction is “Really? Why in the world would they do that?” :-)

I lived in Germany in the late 1980s, and the Baby Benz was the first car I ever drove fast. This was a well-used company car that I took on trips now and then. If I remember correctly, it was easy to get it up in the 220 to 230 kph range (i.e. pushing 140 mph) on the Autobahn. Even in stock form, a 190E seemed very…

Think the hobbits are obsessed with eating?

How funny that the first image I see is the exact car I owned (2006 Audi convertible) up until February of this year, when it unaccountably started falling apart in drastic ways. It was comfortable and fast enough on the highway, beautiful inside (and out—over a couple of decades the A4s have been kind of timeless),…

Shiny, brand new, it’s almost twice the size of your own soccer mom SUV...