I don’t like that you made me do this, to be clear.

Hey! This is exactly the sort of hard-hitting journalism I need to make it through my workday. You leave Torch alone, he’s doing God’s work.

The ground is a liquid of infinite viscosity. It’s all the same ... 

*Psych

Aem's legit, so this sounds like Lego-level fun. 

Pretty sure that’s a Lambo Dude!

In the case of Air France 447, all three pitot tubes froze up. Regardless of the number of sensors, you need to be able to handle failure cases up to and including all of the sensors.

ROI: Return on Investment.

Arson was almost immediately ruled out after a July fire in the IT department at the UAW’s Detroit headquarters, though it was never clear why, exactly, especially since the fire occurred amid one of the biggest corruption scandals in UAW history.

You can easily limit a taxi’s routes to an area that is already mapped out in detail. Autonomous vehicles work better when they already know the detailed terrain and traffic patterns of where they are going. Taxis usually have a much smaller set of routes that they’ll drive than a personal car as well.

Southwest and American had dual sensors. I think It was an optional upgrade. Yeah

Can someone please explain why they 737 MAX issue isn’t resolved by just adding more AoA sensors? I mean, get crazy and have three AoA sensors and have the MCAS require two agreeing AoA sensor inputs before the system takes over.

Probably because people will accept a taxi having ugly lumps and radar arrays all over it do to autonomous right, but would be upset that their private car looked like that. 

First Gear - Well at least all the requisite senior leadership types got their kickass quarterly bonuses when pushing this thing through into production and no one will take that from them. Thats all that matters in the end.

And a one in six chance of sitting in bodily fluids.

When Tesla screws up: Jalopnik goes out of its way to remind people how bad of a misstep it is. Repeatedly.

So how big was the check from Porsche? 

GAWD DAMN!  That’s some Heisman Trophy winning throwing of shade right there.

The cars involved are interesting.