BINGO! Glad this was already posted. Some fast food restaurants were looking to “go green” by using a fluid-filled platform at the drive-thru window (to create hydraulic/electric power on a small scale), but critics all basically said “all they’re doing is stealing from customers.” Fractions of a penny at a time,…

I was wondering the same thing. If we’re slogging through roads, rather than rolling over them, in a tiny sense, are we really creating energy? It seems like strapping a wind turbine to the front of your scooter and letting the generated energy shove you along. It’s a diminished return.

Bingo, that’s my question too.

So do they manage to do this without increasing rolling resistance to the cars? If the road deforms more than typical asphalt, they really wouldn’t be capturing lost energy as much as taking energy from people’s cars (which aren’t exactly thermodynamically efficient to begin with)

I’ll just leave this here.

Yeah, I just went back and reread that section. V2V itself isn’t vital (its importance is way overstated), but a universal V2V standard is, if the implementation is going to be worth anything.

Agreed. In fact I would say that if you can’t have autonomous cars without V2V that is when they are doomed. For starters it is going to take a long time to get every car equipped with V2V, and probably just as long to get all signage, etc. updated. On top of that, a quick look at cars, especially in non-inspection…

For sure. It was the use of force. And really, the airport cops, not United, should be mostly blamed for that.

Warships are no longer super strong anymore. They cannot take hits from the weapons they fire, but are designed to be protected by computerized systems from ever getting hit.

Not as weird as an argument that doesn’t take into account replacement cost...

I was there tonight, couldn’t catch the 6:29 NJCL train I normally get due to the delays. I’m waiting for the train when I say fuck this, I’m gonna go smoke a cig. I get to the top of the escalator at the NJT exit on 7th when I see 3 guys running through doors. First thing that comes to mind is “wtf, are there guys…

This is the typical Japanese conflict in self-confidence.

I still think that once you’ve conquered gravity, you can make your ships as heavy as you want. There’s no reason not to. Yes, they have shields, but once the shields fail, there’s no reason to leave them without armor.

if the evidence is completely noncontroversial, like multiple recordings of Trump himself stating in explicit detail exactly how he colluded, how he knew it was illegal, how he didn’t care, and maybe drowning a puppy in the process

...there was some debris on the road and the driver lost traction.

As a former Tercel owner I suspect he must have ordered the luxury trim. I don’t think mine even came with any suspension, let alone one made of wood.

https://www.united.com/

I’m mostly kidding. I’m the only person I personally know who read them. But I am also an old, old nerd and some of my stuff predates cons being a thing, let alone the internet, so there was a time when I was also the only person I knew who actually liked Doctor Who. And it’s not like I didn’t have a group of friends…

That’s a one seater.

That measure was always optimistic: the original Citroën 2CV is a tad over 500 kg, and that little hoopty is one of humanity’s most awe inspiring achievements in lightness and simplicity.