But more importantly, why is the interaction with the cyclists bad? The cyclists were all over - but the car responded conservatively and gave them plenty of room.

“If one watches it at 0.25x (to account for the article’s note that they’re at 4x speed), I don’t agree with this claim.”

Tesla offered other manufacturers the opportunity to license the charging system for free for their cars if they would partner on building the Supercharger network. None did.

“Is it that programmers haven’t bothered to counteract human bias or that they didn’t know there was bias there to counteract?”

“The rest are all the same, they’re racist. I find it hard to believe that a majority of the doctors are racist.”

Way to misplace the blame.

“the opening is too small to resemble fellatio.”

“If one atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima accounted for 70,000 immediate deaths, and 135,000 deaths after the effects of the radioactivity and burns, if you extrapolate those numbers to 279 aircraft (if there were an equivalent number of city sized targets), the immediate deathtoll would be nearly 20 million people,…

“The outcome of both (all) bombings was horrific, but the thought of a single weapon killing hundreds of thousands of people is terrible.”

Ah... the outrage from people who don’t remember what it was like when men were required to wear a coat and tie to fly first class.

I would buy that- FOR A DOLLAR!

My favorite RPG memory? This one time, in Afghanistan...

According to a more recent update to The Verge’s article, it was.

Planetary protection is only an issue for something that is built to survive entry and land.

It’s standard practice not to risk millions of dollars designing a science payload to fly on a rocket’s first launch. Typically boilerplate payloads are used that simulate the mass of a useful payload but function only to make sure the rocket works before trusting it with serious cargo.

The Verge has updated their article, too. Apparently he was kidding when he said he was just kidding.

According to the latest update on The Verge article, he was joking when he said he was joking, and he was actually serious about launching the Tesla.

The Verge has updated their article...

While I agree with the sentiment of fantastic Goodwill going in the history books, I question how many of those first China will be able to attain with a 2036 first mission timeline.

Which begs the question - why wake them up four months early, necessitating that fuel and energy be spent keeping them alive four months longer in space and playgrounds and amenities, instead of hauling needed supplies to the homestead planet?