And they visit dance clubs in the evenings.

Right. The Godfather was a trashy potboiler novel, not even in the same league as the movie.

Elon goes on to say that all of Tesla’s neural-net-based AI hardware and sensor systems “make sense to put onto a humanoid form,”

I just checked, and it’s already been knocked down from $27,500 to $25,000. Maybe with time...

Thanks for the clarification. I think that in general, all else being equal and given the state of the art in machine learning today, the winner will be whoever has the most good data. Everything’s not equal, of course. I might give the edge in depth of brainpower and experience to Waymo, and I think Telsa has…

These developers continue to vastly underestimate the complexity of both the task of driving and the human brain that performs it.

Eagle-eyed catch there.

Well, you have to remember this was way back in... checking... 1978? Wow.

What’s really fascinating is that we have a perception of our lives and thoughts as aggressively, excessively documented, but all that documentation is owned by a handful of profit driven entities.

I liked the look of the door panels (metal mesh below the cork) because it makes it obvious that you’re riding in a machine, not some mobile version of your living room. But you and others have pointed out that the road noise would probably be really annoying over time... Good point.

The organizers could have disallowed any bike over 600 ccs. They could have banned slicks. Hell, they could have mandated dirt bikes with plenty of suspension to soak up the mountain’s bumps. There are so many ways they could have gone without an outright ban.

Now I’m imagining a sign:

Michael-not-Mike Richards!

So Autopilot is a Coyote emulator? Note to self: Avoid after-market accessories sold by Acme Corporation.

How funny. I’ve always associated Delco (though not necessarily AC Delco) with radios. Probably just memory bias on my part.

Stop A.V. Club’s cultural appropriation! It’s The Baby.

Make it a component of the modern pentathlon, which is currently fencing, swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross country running. If “the modern pentathlon is similarly patterned on events representing the skills needed by cavalry behind enemy lines,” per Wikipedia, then motor sport replaces…

As an academic, I’ll judge that the authors could have said something much more generic, rather than saying that this specific relationship is unknown.

Can We Blame Automotive Marketing For Reckless Driving?