As a former LM engineer, I’m sorry for your former company. It was a mess.

My first engineering gig out of college was with Local Motors. Worked there a good while then was laid off in April of 2019 due to COVID along with almost half of the staff. I think, realistically, that was the final nail in the coffin for them and it’s been a slow death since.

I’m thankful for my time there and…

I’ve wondered for a while if Tesla’s computer vision system is a bit Jurassic-Park-Raptor-esque in that its highly reliant on some level of motion or parallax to accurately pick out things at speed. I’ve wondered this because most of the major autopilot accidents seem to be happening to large, stationary objects…

So what I’m hearing is they didnt get a single one of their HMA test mules above 13k miles before selling these to the public?

Reference to Audi’s E-Tron models, I assume

The car companies are gonna find new ways to nickel and dime us whether its a hemi or a prius. Gotta pay those shareholders!

The thief can work a prison job until he covers cleanup, then he can be free. Incredibly wild that they let him walk.

Jason, as an automotive lighting engineer, your articles and especially your photoshop work keeps me coming back. You were able to put into words and pictures something I’ve felt deep in my bones my whole life!

I’m an automotive engineer who works in automotive lighting design. We were hoping this would go through- our incoming platform is set to include advanced adaptive headlights that were going to be kneecapped on US market vehicles- looks like we may be ready-to-market with this when it gets formalized! Very exciting!

Good observation- I’m a mechanical engineer but I didn’t think of that until I saw your comment, so it’ll be the buckle side of the belt for me tonight.

One thing that definitely helps them is that the mass of the projectile is actually a surprisingly small amount of the total rotating mass, but that alone probably…

Holy shit, dude, who shat in your wheaties? It was a totally reasonable question.
At first I thought your comment was from some random kinja troll, took me a while it was from the guy who wrote this.
Fucking embarrassing, man.

It’s because the UAW reps all of the Big Three, so until Tesla and other startups, “Domestic” was basically analogous to “Big Three” and most of these parking/brand perks are union-negotiated one way or another.

The worst part is that they literally redesigned the BMW i3 without stopping to be like “hey, but did the i3 do very well?”

No. It didn’t. Used ones in perfect condition are <$15k and plentiful, and you can even get them with range extenders.

So... this is a BMW i3, but literally a decade late?
Sounds like typical Mazda, despite how much I still love them.

From having ridden in one, having been around them on the road, and from watching this- they’ve got some weird insistence on being in the right lane as much as possible. I think that’s what did it in and caused the weird slaloming effect.

It’s interesting how detail and resolution aren’t the actual key to realism. Lighting obviously plays the biggest role, but it’s clear there are certain things that only look real when you decrease the detail/resolution, because our eyes would normally never perceive as much detail in real life as can be pumped into…

I mean... from the image it seems pretty clear what happened. Taco driver drifter cleanly and quickly into oncoming traffic with enough leftward speed to carry them to the guard rail. The Merc seems to have been hit square on, and it’s still dead-nuts in the middle of it’s lane, minus the obvious beginnings of a…

Would be interesting to see someone pick up the chassis tooling and start building more Tesla Roadsters

I can’t help but notice that this teaser doesn’t once show it on anything other than a flat, immaculately paved surface.
Not an implication of it’s capability, of course- just a very odd marketing choice... It’s like the cinematographic version of saying the quiet part out loud.

I apologize for being abrasive, wasn’t my intent. I was trying (and failing) to extend an out if I was misunderstanding you.

I think ultimately we’re both right. Neither model is perfect and there will be people left out in the cold either way, but I would definitely disagree that LESS people will be served through a…