I’m going to go ahead and mark the photographer as the major asshat in this story. A rally car halfway out of control comes spinning towards you with smoking pouring out over the windscreen, and you bend down to pick up your camera gear instead of getting out of the way? Yes, I’m sure that it’s a very, very expensive…

This. There needs to be regulation that allows the authorities to take away someone’s license permanently, without any way of regaining it, and it should have been done in this case.

I couldn’t care less about naval warfare, but you got me hooked by the “no map” sentence. There is something to be said for video games where exploration means actually having pen and paper next to your keyboard, making notes and drawing maps as you play.

Exactly. Yes, pretty much all sports (including e-sports) could be watched via VR. But these sports are already watched through a large screen, positioning the audience exactly in the spot where you get the best view of the action. Even at live events at traditional sports, there is a screen to watch.

Absolutely. I think that at least in the short term it’s a solid business model. But as someone who appreciates technological innovations, it’s not a focus that I appreciate.

Fellow Scandinavian here, I agree. And this is what makes me so sad when I hear my non-car-people friends talk about how “finally someone is innovating in the car business” regarding Tesla.

I completely disagree.

I agree, and I think that he’s the least entertaining of the trio. But in the end, the character he’s playing is a brutish clown, and he was involved in some pretty funny moments.

A black hole would be created, and the entire world would perish.

It should be mentioned that mine is an NA, but my gf (from whom I extrapolate all non-car-people) seems constantly annoyed about the lack of practicality. Whereever we go she seems to sit and think about how much more space for stuff we would have had or how much silent and smooth the ride could have been if we had…

If it makes you feel better, you’re not contributing that much more than your fair share to smog, since basically every car on the road performs worse in real life than they do in a test cycle. The only really controversial thing about the VW:s was that they actively cheated instead of building an engine optimized for…

This! Monte Carlo is weird in the sense that the spirit of mid-20th-century racing is still there, even though the racing is still taking place, and even though the course is converted back into regular streets for the rest of the year.

This is a really interesting sector of cars, and (at least for the European market) I’d like to add the MGB and the Alfa Spider to that list. Naturally all these cars will appreciate above their lowest value (that is typically found a few decades after the car was built, so right about now for the Miata), but their…

How are you supposed to keep the bottles cool in here? I would definitely prefer a small fridge compartment.

I don’t think that you would even be able to ‘hoon’ a One:1 in Monte Carlo, even for the brief time it would take to crash. The F1 track is composed by the widest and most easily-navigated streets in the city, and even then they use both halves of the road. In the rest of the city streets, you would have to crawl as…

They really do deprecate painfully slowly! I tend to check the used market here in Europe once per week and so, and the cheapest examples basically still fetch the MRSP even when they have been driven for a year. This might be one of those cars (like the BMW Z8) that simply never becomes cheap :(

I’d like to add that as a European, visiting downtown Detroit has been my most pleasant experience in the US. Sure, there isn’t exactly an abundancy of shops, restaurants or botique cocktail bars, but some nice architecture, and the people are amazing. Americans in general tend to be quite extrovert and nice talking…

Actually, Kunos Simulazioni just announced that AC will be coming to consoles in 2016. I saw it just days after purchasing my PS4. This will be a good gaming year for me.

Yeah, that’s why I suspect that they’re using a neural network. They are often used to cathegorize data by more fluid and less easily defined criteria (such as telling the difference between a set of small dogs and big cats, just to give an example). They are also sometimes used to recognize facial features. If it…

That’s actually kind of what I’m after. More often than not I play racing games without opponents, just driving. It’s a task that helps me switch off my thoughts. I know that many people go for a drive to clear their minds, but I live in Sweden. It’s winter, I own a small convertible, and the gas is close to 1.5…