I was unhappy with the headlights of my fj, and switched them out for piaa super brights (don’t remember the exact name) those were a little brighter, but tended to last about 6 months. After a while a decided to try some sealight LEDs. They are supposed to have the bright spot in the same place as the halogen. They…

The novel "children of ruin" spend a lot of time trying to imagine what hyper intelligent cephalopods would be like. There is a lot there about using colors to communicate. Also, cephalopods limbs have their own independent brains, with each limb doing its own thing under only loose directions from the main brain.…

The teeth surfaces are sliding against other teeth. That's literally how gears work.

Exactly that. The problem wasn’t the existence if the system. The problem was the pilots couldn’t tell that mcas was in action, and had no clear procedure for diagnosing it and turning it off. If Boeing wouldn’t have skipped the training, everything would have been fine.

Sure. Gears have pieces of metal sliding against each other. 

Buyer, sure. Because those who had fucks to give wouldn't buy a taycan.

The mpge rating goes by kwhr, so capacity doesn't enter into it. Yes, the tycan has an effectively smaller battery (or let's you access less of the same battery) but it also gets considerably fewer miles for every kwhr that battery holds.

It's less about the weight and more about the transmission.

How "in control" do you feel in a traffic jam?

33 ads in one article. Average of less than 2 sentences between ads. I think the old "hit next" time wasters on Facebook had a better as to content ratio.

Not really. With regen braking, you get back 90% of the energy used to accelerate. That means that weight doesn’t have much of a penalty with regards to efficiency. 

I’m so tired of this argument. Look, seatbelts and airbags are useless on 99.9% of all trips. We still want them, and for good reason.

You don’t even need that. There are only three gears you can be in. The right one, one that's too low, or one that's too high.

H pattern shifter actuates rods that move shift forks. On a sequential, the shifter works a ratchet and pawl that turns a drum that moves the shift forks. No solenoids.

Just click up 2 or 3 times before you release the clutch.

Better control over maintenance. You can be more sure that things get serviced, and if something needs further attention from Toyota (if modifications are required) it's easier to deal with relatively few large companies than it is to get individual owners to bring their vehicles in. Likewise if there is to be legal…

Also in that category are people who currently drive trucks, but could easily get by with a sedan or SUV, except that they just like trucks better. Which I think is something like half the truck owners.

With the average age of a car being around 10 yrs old, even if EV’s were superior to ICE in every way, we would still expect 10-30 years for most of the public to convert. Without forcing people, turnover takes time.

Nuetral,

Less wrong has a pretty damning summary of the NTSB report of the uber crash.