With no traffic, sure. But as it’s been pointed out, with vehicles traveling at much different speeds, and with the way Americans pay attention to overtaking traffic (hint: they don’t), it’s a recipe for disaster.

Some vehicles headlight tilt can be adjusted by the driver, ostensibly to compensate for cargo load, and bad adjustments would be the source of some of those issues. Assholes who add aftermarket HID kits or LED lamps to stock headlight housings also blind oncoming traffic.

In Dallas I heard on the news that they’re going to get rid of the HOV lanes on 75. Can’t happen soon enough in my opinion.

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I wonder if the number could be higher than it might otherwise be because Tesla owners figure out when autopilot doesn’t work well, and turns it off in those cases. That might fudge the numbers in autopilot’s favor.

With only 130 million miles total, compared to the number of miles per fatality,the error interval is probably too high to say how good the autopilot is against human drivers. But you’re absolutely on the money that too many people here think the standard should, for some magical reason, be zero fatalities.

If you break a traffic law that results in an accident, but the other driver could have avoided the accident, then you won’t/shouldn’t be held at fault. That could be the case here. But the truck driver could still be cited for failure to yield the right of way, even if not held responsible for the accident itself.…

Hermione is pretty fine—in the later movies, you pervs.

Radio spectrum or data, doesn’t matter. Each new standard allows for more data in a given allotment of spectrum. The best thing to do is to retire the older standards as quickly as possible, so everybody is using the most efficient ones. But radio spectrum isn’t infinite. You can develop standards that allow…

In the DFW area, when I was on Sprint, coverage indoors at work was pretty much a no-go. Now on T-Mobile, and indoor coverage at home and work are fine. YMMV.

It’s $75 to park at a Cowboys game. DART offered to put light-rail service to the stadium, but the owner (that shall not be named) nixed that. By contrast, parking at the American Airlines Center is augmented by light-rail service, where adult tickets are $5. Haven’t been to a Cowboys game in years, but go to watch…

So what happens when there’s a problem, like on the Air France flight where the pitot tubes froze over? The autopilot realized there was an error and essentially said, let’s let the wetware deal with it. In the Air France case, the pilot screwed up what was a simple problem. But to think that we can have enough…

And eventually, manufacturers may start adding an expiration date to air bags, saying that they don’t guarantee operation after, say, 10 years. Which means that resale values will drop to zero after that. More car sales, tougher times for those who can’t afford new(ish) cars.

I agree about the drone/quad-copter issue, but that’s more a common usage error (think Kleenex/tissue, zerox/photocopy, and so on). Dictionary.com says two or more, as does the links I provided before.

Depends upon which dictionary you’re looking at. Some are incorrect and say one. I use to work with lithium cells, and the engineers I worked with all called them cells, not batteries. The datasheets from the manufacturers also always called them cells, not batteries.

18650s, AAA, AA, C, D, all of those are cells. They are called batteries because people who didn’t know any better started calling them that. A cell has one anode and one cathode, which is the case for the above mentioned cells.

Well, yeah, a battery is defined as a device made of two or more cells. It’s kind of like calling a magazine for a gun a clip. You’ll bring out the grammar Nazis, even though everybody knows what you’re talking about. But it doesn’t hurt to know the difference.

A battery is a device that is made up of two or more cells, so to be more accurate, you would say “A Tesla uses 7000 cells in each Model S.”

Agreeded, it’s like these touchscreen A/C controls on some cars. Instead of physical knobs, where you can reach for them and tell by feel if you’ve got the right one, you have to look at the screen and make sure you’re pushing the correct icon. Does it work? Yes. Does it add to driver distraction and contribute to…

Good point, forgot about Obamacare.