I feel pretty confident in saying they’ll never be practical (and I don’t mean never in an absolute sense, but at least for hundreds of years). The applications are totally different; you’ll always be better off with dedicated systems. Something like the Workhorse Surefly makes “flying cars” irrelevant anyways.

The whole concept of a flying car is stupid as hell. You’ll always end up with a vehicle that sucks at both flying and driving.

Yuuuup! My first real wrenching fuckup. I was living in the frozen northwest at the time, so I did the oil change at work in the wash bay of our nice, heated, underground parking garage. I had soap and hot water on tap, so it only took about 30 minutes to clean the oil. Cleaning the car seat after I shite my pants,…

I drove a Corolla (I know) with adaptive cruise last week. Was mostly ok, I was using it for the novelty factor. I gave up after a couple hundred miles. It’s just so much easier to drive the car myself.

If people want to make bad decisions and screw themselves over, by all means go for it. Unfortunately, that’s not how the financial system works. As 2008 showed us, a lot of innocent people get screwed over thanks to the bad decisions by others.

These are all objectively bad choices... is there a single airbag among the lot? If I’m going to die in an auto-related accident, I’d hope it would be in something fun and unique, like an old MG or air cooled Porsche, not some crappy old Japanese truck.

Sounds awesome. For the first time in my life, I kinda wish I lived in LA.

I suspect reports of Tesla’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. And I do think 2019 is rather bold, and with the way Tesla projects production start dates, “real” production won’t start until 6-12 months later.

I almost mentioned that in my original comment. My cousin bought a 2017 Tahoe LT, with nice looking chocolate/mocha leather seats. He was replacing a 2007 with 170,000 miles on it, similar specs. We sat in them side by side. The 2007 seats, even worn out, were significantly more comfortable than his new 2017.

I’ve been wondering what the deal is with car seats lately. Nearly every “new” car I sit in feels like the seat designers just transferred over from “Pew Design - Old English Cathedral”. And I FUCKING HATE THEM. It’s one reason why I think trucks sell so well, they actually put real, honest to god cushioning in their…

From what they tell me about LIDAR, it should have picked her up. Why didn’t it? The other issue that comes into play is the robustness of these complex systems. What’s the failure rate? Are we only going to know there’s a failure when an accident happens?

Using personal experience wasn’t to make a statistical argument, it was to highlight my point, which you missed: You are approaching this with the underlying assumption that autonomous vehicles are safer than human drivers, without accounting for the fact that autonomous vehicles are currently driven on the BEST…

The problem is, there’s no possible way to obtain that information. Short of implementing self-driving and seeing what happens (which is exactly what they’re doing now, for better or worse).

Been driving for 20 years. I’ve driven through snowstorms, rainstorms, floods, wildfires, crowds of drunk people, and on a whole lot of shitty, shitty roads. Not a single accident, and I haven’t killed anyone, yet. In what has to be a half million miles, I haven’t needed the car to take control from me once (if you…

Your argument makes a LOT of assumptions. 1) That the view you see from the camera is exactly what a human would see (wrong). That a human could not have braked/swerved on time (wrong). And that flawed human = flawed machine. There are different levels and degrees of flaws for both, otherwise known as variables. Which…

Anyone here accidentally read ft/lb, when in reality the diagram said in/lb? Yeah....

Not bullshit, but kinda funny. I attended high school in a VERY rural town, pre-smart phone and social media days. Due to the distance between towns, it wasn’t uncommon for the bus to return from away basketball games at 2-3am. So one winter night my older brother and get off the bus after 2am after a particularly…

Wow, this sounds important! Let me check my List Of Shit I’m Going To Worry About Today:

Our 2013 Ford Escape has panel gaps and inconsistencies that make the Tesla look good.

I thought the movie was meh. I guess by the time I finally watched it I was expecting more of a “Saving Private Ryan But Dunkirk Instead of D-Day” type of film, instead it felt more like “Blair Witch Project But Dunkirk Instead of the Witch”.