If you’re in the area, try to get that Markforged. It was hardly used and is very impressive.

It wasn’t building them, it was safety/homologation. It’s ridiculously expensive to crash test and fully homologate a new-platform vehicle, and a lot of the geometries of the design weren’t quite up to FMVSS standards.
That was dodged that by selling them under kit-car regulations, which is why buyers had to show up…

I used to work for LM in their Arizona location. The auction for that location (what was left of it) was a few weeks ago- glad it didn’t get publicized. I got some good stuff from it. It was also fun as a former engineer to watch the mystery items get bid up speculatively, but to know how worthless they were- or…

I mean, in these market conditions he really should buy out his lease- if nothing else to sell it for a profit…

1st Gear: Woohoo! I’m in the middle of a headlight development with adaptive beams. Timing looks good for my headlight to be one of the first new vehicles on the road in the US with adaptive beams.

Tesla as an organization is pretty clever [citation needed] and if I were in their shoes, I’d offer a pared-down Model 3 only in Cheap-Appliance-White with none of the expensive self-driving sensors or fancy computers, shipping with only recycled battery packs and steel wheels (with the cheap plastic covers they…

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.

You can thank the US for personally empowering this specific “peaceful” brand of Islam. Arming them. Bringing them to power. Whole 9 yards.

This feels less like they’re worried about planes getting shot down on routes they’re running right now and more like they’re vying for a leg up in supply distribution contracts with the DoD come the next inevitable large-scale military dustup overseas.

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.