I think the state owned (Aramco, rosneft, petrobras) are since their profits are tied up in social programs and they dont have the flexibility to change. The large semi private concerns (chevron, BP) can probably wiggle out of it (probably with a name change)

Oil companies can diversify. If they are smart, they will be using their profits to invest in other forms of power generation. The ones that don’t are likely to be in trouble.

Absolute worst case here is that electric cars will be as expensive to run as gasoline cars are now. But even that’s not very likely. Even if natural gas prices increase (which does seem likely), it doesn’t have the sort of refining costs that gasoline does, it’s cheaper to transport, large scale electrical generation…

Even if plants ran on oil (which most don’t) large scale electrical generation is over 60% efficient, while no one has hybrid ice is less than 35% efficient (due in large part to heat scavenging systems). So if you changed all the cars from ice to electric, and charged them all with oil powered plants, you’d still…

Cars and drivers communicate now via visual system. It’s easily hackable (you can make your vehicle resemble an emergency vehicle), and is sometimes hacked. This is a problem we already know how to deal with.

States can help jump start V2v communication by using smart signs. Attach a cheap, solar powered transmitter to road signs that transmits the area to which the sign applies (outer 2 lanes of highway 6, from mile 230 to 231.5) and the content of the sign (slow down to 55, watch for zombie bears). Made in mass this…

I take it you aren’t married. Families, at least well running families, operate as a single unit. It makes sense to send the strongest one as a scout, who can then request additional help if he needs it. It’s not like they could get help out there twice as fast if they both came out. Plus, were there kids in the back?…

Yes, having a lap time would have been great, and yes I agree that merely getting around the track doesn’t prove anything.

Yes, lets turn it into a woman hating thing, that’s what its really about.

It’s a phrase that doesn’t translate to well. “get out, maybe some one will die over there” is more literal, but not exactly clear to an English speaker.

The wife is actually saying “get out there someone might be dying”

8 speed transmission?

It doesn’t make the units any more terrifying (probably less if anything) but it does make them cheaper. Cheaper means there will be more of them, so your chances of running into one or more of them increase

After a certain high profile incident when US had its airspace locked down and everyone was on high alert, we did indeed intercepted some light passenger planes, precisely because there was no way to determine what their intentions and payloads were.

When a bomber is approaching your border, you have no way of knowing its payload.

Exactly, his chances of being a positive influence, no matter how small, we’re higher on the council than off

I’d guess not vent, but rather compress.

This should not be a crime.

I’m always glad to see more space technologies being developed, and there might be a need for a cheap, low payload rocket, but:

That seems to be it. It should be next to impossible to roll over a car on flat ground by combination of turning and braking. Hit a bump, and that becomes a different story.