“I don’t understand why you want more people to die.”

Fact: a Honda Civic can detect faulty vehicle control system sensors and disable features, notifying the driver that there is a fault and advising them to drive with caution

“If your goal is reducing accidents more control should be taken away from the pilots and given to engineered systems, not the other way around.”

“If your goal is reducing accidents more control should be taken away from the pilots and given to engineered systems, not the other way around.”

“now how is that electric steering...”

“It seems like more robust pilot training about sensor failures, and avoiding tunnel vision might be a little easier than making an AI supercomputer auto pilot that can figure all that out itself.”

In its current state this airplane is dumber than my car.

....an accountant educated at Trump University.

Using multiple sensors and reporting to the pilot if there was a discrepancy detected would have been the responsible thing to do.  “Hey pilot, your MCAS is disabled because because one of the sensors is faulty.  Proceed with caution.”

This is terrifying. My Volkswagen requires input from no less than three sensors to determine if stability control input is necessary and Boeing is giving “full authority” over the rear the rear stabilizers on passenger jets to automated systems based on input from a single sensor???

Nice looking car.  I wish it had a real name.

Imagine if in 1978 that you as a viewer knew about the Lotus 79 ground effects kit and how big of an advantage it was while the rest of the competitors fed into the rumors about some super trick differential and you got to watch it all play out.

I know how unrealistic an idea that is given that you’d literally have to…

The races are won and lost by the engineers who build the cars.  Through  F1 history there are only a few drivers who were so much better than the rest of the field that the car wasn’t all that important.  For the overwhelming majority of champions the car they were in was the primary factor.

From that angle I think F1…

I don’t see the problem here.  It’s a completely valid strategy.  If you’re trying to stop for tire changes fewer times and are running slower tires because if it then it is absolutely to your advantage to force drivers behind you to go slower.  The end result is a better finish for you.

The problem with F1 is that most of the really, truly interesting stuff is happening behind closed doors. How do teams pick apart the regs looking for loopholes and advantages? What creative engineering challenges are being solved and how are they going about it? What are the precise reasons why Williams cars are such…

Everything I’ve seen about Jr. suggests that he’s a top notch guy in general.

Yeah, and I already know enough to say that I probably wouldn’t be a fan of his. Having had some leadership experience myself (at a significantly lower level than Steve Jobs) I can say that I fundamentally disapprove of using toxic, negative motivational techniques. But I do still think there’s a gap between the…

The last time American and Canadian military forces shot at each other in anger the airplane hadn’t yet been invented. If you’re talking about exercises, as someone who has participated in them, as well as served as a mediator between “red” and “blue” forces I can tell you that if your take-away from those results is t…

FIA shouldn’t allow it to be on the car on any track, anywhere.

Yeah I’ve always known that Steve Jobs was an ass, but was he an ass because he (abusively) pushed his engineers to meet his standards of perfection or was he an ass because he was specifically trying to ruin lives?  I mean this as an honest question, I don’t know all that much about Steve Jobs other than that he…