There’s some question as to whether it needs to be it’s own branch, but there is an easy case that it should at the very least be a unified command.

So, basically a Space Force makes sense, just not when Trump suggests it.

I guess putting ECU in there was setting me up for a reply like this. I generally mean computers in vehicles in general. Because when they fail, they can get amazingly costly to fix. Out of my four smart fortwos, two of them are currently suffering from major computer issues.

I daily drive a 30 year old Chevy with over 200k on the odometer.  It has had nothing but a clutch and brake pads in the last 5 years, and it has never left me stranded.  We can’t say the same about the 2011 Tacoma or the 2015 Legacy we own.  Both have left us stranded.  I don’t think the definition of reliability has…

Well, everyone grouses about the plice departments, but I know a lot of these sorts of things wind up in rural firefighting gear. Cal Fire loves nice sturdy vehicles that can go offroad.

Lots of good discounted brush trucks for Cali wild fires right here, at least the chassis.

Its a chicken and and egg problem: there hasn’t been any type end high-seas fuckery in part because (1) the US Navy’s extreme dominance of the seas, and (2) that dominance has allowed an interconnected world economy to develope such that any one country's attempt to fuck with it would only be self-defeating.

And no signal, because BMW. 

I already have no qualms about cutting off teslas in traffic because I know they will stop for me and not hit me.

How long until we just walk in front of cars because we know they will stop?

why can’t drivers just see humans and brake for them? humans are easy to distinguish from other things, and the brake pedal is right freaking there

So it uses the brakes just like human BMW drivers. (sorry had to take the joke)

The Corvette looks lean and fit, and yet somehow they took that style and managed to make a Miata look...

I just don’t see that this solves any problems.

This has been stated by quite a few comments and I will add to it. See that image at the top of the post? Driver has BOTH hands on the wheel. The rate of closure as they pass other vehicles is unnerving. Driving at that speed requires ALL of your attention. There is no phone fiddling, no leaned back one hand on the…

Disregarding the funding issue...

Like most of California, this is great in theory, but will be bad in practice.

I see one key element to this being successful, a minimum speed limit of say - 85mph - with heavy fines imposed for going below it.

It won’t (and probably shouldn’t) happen because let’s face it, American drivers are poorly trained and basically shitheads. (And I say this as an American driver)

Got the perfect name for it already “suicide row” considering the average American driver this will not end well.

Let’s see... we can’t keep our existing roads and bridges in top working order, and this dude wants to do what? By when? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....