No company has to go through L2 to get to L4 or L5. That’s not how this works.

You know what else would exert force they’re hard mounted to? Wheels.

I love that on Jalopnik, we’re all: yeah, yeah, a train smashed a semi trailer and dragged it for miles blah blah, but what about that car in the yard there?

...bad company that is just in it for the money...

In - whoevers - defense. Car vending machines are stupid.

So what happens to the autonomous juggernaut when there’s a major accident on the highway and the cops are directing you off it onto a dirt road detour? How is AI going to respond to hand-signals from some cop standing in the road, and then proceed to navigate a narrow dirt road (with no road markings) for 10 miles?

Man, that was pure 80's directed straight into my veins right there.

Turning ships with the engines is way more fun anyway. 

This would encourage people to by more efficient cars, instead of just cars with bigger batteries. I think they actually added a figure for gallons / 100 miles to the EPA ratings a while back (or at least considered it), but nobody pays attention to it. IMO that makes a lot of sense becuase it better illustrates the…

“On August 15, 1899, a chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company’s main plant. That may not seem like a big deal...”

That is some solid wrong reasoning right there.

Don’t you mean “rickcursion”.

Trigger warning to Tesla stans:

NOW we need an etymologist.

Good to know, I thought is was so people have something to try and jumpstart on the side of the highway when the car stops working.

I guess weed must be popular in Candyland, wherever that is.

I’m well aware that drunk driving laws are a blanket safety feature playing to the lowest common denominator. And probably better to exist than not exist. (the “freedom” of driving under the influence isn’t an important “freedom”)

I learned to drive around that time. I heard similar arguments all the time in papers and the like. The root problem is something we don’t think about now. We have changed how we define drinking.

Drunk driving is bad, sure, and it’s also been demonized to the point of parody.

1) self-driving is pretty good at most things, except edge cases, and 2) almost everything is edge cases.