If the other drivers skin shade is anything darker than fresh toilet paper, Bingbong Singalong here will get away on “I wAs fEaRiNg fOr mY LiFe”

Sarcastically referring to these chucklefucks as “members of America’s well-regulated militia” is HYSTERICAL and I’m absolutely stealing that, thank you for that.

Lets count this fucking idiots colossal dick moves, any one of which is probably enough to get this idiot off the road forever...

Even just from the perspective of an automotive lighting engineer, it’s really easy to tell that this is just a glorified design buck- something akin to a showcar. FAR from a production prototype.

Where are the mandated front and rear reflectors? Where are the side markers? It looks over-width, too, so where are the…

I’ve never had a problem voting. I’ve always had access because I’ve always been fortunate enough to live in affluent areas.

You’re speaking from privilege you don’t realize you have. Its not like that everywhere.

I mean, you’re not picking on me becuase it wasn’t my idea. I even said that it “wasn’t realistically scalable” and “was never going to be crash-worthy”. But I think you’re missing the point- it wasn’t supposed to replace traditional methods.

Not even LM ever pretended or postured that printing would replace stampings…

I agree- It was a fantastic way to start my career in engineering. I think it’s better to start by teaching engineers to be creative and flexible and to push boundaries AND THEN teach them bureaucracy and logistics and structure, rather than to try to do it the other way around.

This is public knowledge- the company was Robotic Research, a perfectly respectable company in autonomy, but primarily with the DoD. I very badly wish I could say more about the autonomy system but all I’ll say is that I learned this valuable engineering lesson early in my career:

Yeah I spent a lot of my time as an engineer trying to keep suppliers happy, which is not what engineers are traditionally good at, and that’s all I’ll say about that.

Yeah I joined on after the pivot. Olli was a good idea, but it was a big idea. Too big for LM. Other, much bigger companies are still struggling with their equivalents.

Hah! No! Ironically, I have COVID now and have a bit of the COVID Brain. I worked back the layoff date based on thinking it was still 2021 and neglected to cross check the result.

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!