I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you. GM really doesn’t know how to market cars that don’t have a V8.

A fucking jarhead. I knew it.

Maybe he’s shaving, then.

I remember now, combing your hair with your shoe was really popular back then.

Is that...is that a shoe? WTF is going on in this picture?

People often forget that the Beetle was not always universally well received, especially in the US. It wasn’t until the car ended production that it passed into the realm of nostalgia, where all is sunshine and happiness and nothing ever rusts or breaks down.

0.378 US gallons to be precise, powering a motor that was probably about 70% efficient in a period of time when the best ICE engines were struggling to get to 20%. The best today can only crack 30% while the motors powering the Tesla P85D get around 95% efficiency.

It’s the ride of choice for goth kids who like to listen to synth pop.

Because they’ve spent so much time developing the hardware. They’ve even stated that their end goal was not to sell them but to use them in an Uber-like ride sharing system. That’s why they’re so intent on fully autonimous cars that can drive without human intervention and not just a Tesla-like autopilot system that…

Google figured out the hard way that writing code for something in the physical world is very different than writing code for the Internet. It also figured out that making a product that has massive amounts of safety regulations is much harder than they originally thought.

Google is doing this because they probably realized not long ago that they were in way over their heads.

If you were born into a life of privilege and your first car was a 911, then yes, the Miata is a piece of shit.

I understand the importance of the Navy, but it’s not like the Army has been sitting on its ass, either. One of the wars we fought was in a land-locked country. The Navy can control the sea, it can even control the air, but if you want to actually fight groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS, you’re going to have to send in…

I’m not exactly a Russian nationalist, squawking about “proofs” every time Vlad the Implyer’s hand gets caught in some other country’s cookie jar, but a lot of these same arguments could be leveled at the US military. Even the buildup during the Iraq war didn’t take us any where near back to Cold War levels. Granted…

That’s been the case in the Army. Enlisted personnel have always been UAV operators there.

What’s the scariest sight in the world? A 2LT with a map.

The only stats I have are come from the company trying to push this product on the market. That’s not exactly a reliable source so I guess I’ll have to fall back on my degree in computer science and my 602.4 hours as a UAV instructor for the US Army.

I find it funny that a company that created a serious safety problem with their technology wants to solve the problem with more technology.

Well, they’re doing a pretty damned good job if these regulations are any indication. They seem to have borrowed from US military regulations on UAV operations and FARs concerning commercial passenger flights on aircraft with advanced autopilots. The “We don’t have the expertise to make these regulations” remark was…

Sorry about that. I’ve read dead serious posts on this subject that followed logic very similar to that.