If I’m not mistaken, if it can only drive itself on 90% of roads, that’s not level 5 but level 4. Level 5 is 100% autonomous in all scenarios on all roads and parking lots. No steering wheel needed.

I’m not sure any amount of power was the answer considering how bad the handling was.

The S2000 was not turbocharged.

In such a busy city, how does one not notice the cacophany of noise coming through an open door and think the car is a bit louder than it should be while in motion?

If you mean how easy it is for consumers to do this to their own cars, I doubt it.  I don’t see anyone doing this to a Mini they’ve purchased, and I doubt BMW does either.

If this were a consumer product, yes. This is just an experiment - a one-off. The environment cost of disposing of one car’s interior and paint is negligible.

Cork would hold up really well over time, exposure to sunlight, and such, but wouldn’t it get nicked and scratched very easily?

I’ve heard delta has a R value of 9, and it’s so infectious that pretty much everyone not vaccinated will have gotten it in the next few weeks.  If that’s true, we may be mostly finished with covid at that point, until the next horrible variant arrives.

when has the “virus issue” left for any of us?

That part is known. The question is, whose mistress?

It isn’t a country.  ;-)

Or just someone who needs a car immediately. For example, their last one was in an accident and totaled.

Could be a long wait for a new one vs a more expensive used one right now.

You may know this already, but police officer isn’t even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the US.

Now that cockpit doors are locked, it’s vanishingly unlikely an unruly passenger could kill anyone, let alone everyone. Maybe - maybe - they could kick a window out, and people have been sucked out of those. I don’t see more than one person dying from that. Which obviously is horrible, but far short of everyone on the…

The organizers could have disallowed any bike over 600 ccs.

the PIAA’s are wired into the bike’s high beam switch, which is a super nice touch.

That doesn’t even make sense.  How do you associate yourself, but not your name, with anything?

Have race operators been found liable for the deaths of racers?

Isn’t that Erik?