You know, that sounds an awful like the reason we have trained pilots sitting behind the yoke of an aircraft on autopilot.

They don’t need to be available to the public, they need to be available to the accident investigators, and they are available to the accident investigators, as they have been on every car manufactured for sale in the US after 2010. Tesla’s online telemetry is just a tad bit faster than offline access to the onboard…

“camless” motors were developed over 200 years ago

You still run into problems with cycling the valves, even on a short stroke engine... unless you’re a ported two stroker.

Your I4 at 10k is going to have the same “sample rate” as a V8 at 5k, or a V12 at 3k. In each of these cases, the responsiveness of the engine is 40-50x the responsiveness of your foot. The only way you’re going to be using the throttle to improve the characteristics of the suspension is if the “bump” is several…

That reminds me, what ever happened to the “Balloon Boy” family?

it was silver, and I kept losing it among all the other silver crossovers out there

ICEs only require a local gas station

Correction, if it drops by 8Mbbl/day, it’s down about 10%. If it drops to 8Mbbl/day, we’re down to around 10%.

every few months there is a new breakthrough in solar cells which hugely advance the amount of power they put out

But coal isn’t an option for quick power supply. Nuclear, or natural gas works way better.

Get yo skank ass outta here Shantara.

coupled with the always-on Tesla transmission that is by design always engaged

No dragoning of firearms allowed!

The reactor was contained. The radiation leak was comparable to the whole region up and moving to Denver for a year, or taking a few airline flights. There were no statistically meaningful increases in cancer rates in the aftermath.

Are you talking about backups that were intentionally disabled by the equipment operators? During an event that had no measurable consequences outside the loss of said equipment?

Its just a typo.

If you have pressure walls that fail, you just keep venting until you hit the nearest wall that closes. If a vent fails, doesn’t matter, because you’ve got hundreds more along that section of tube.

You have pressure walls that can drop to seal off a section of tunnel, an then you vent that section to atmosphere.

Decompression is only “explosive” until the atmosphere is evacuated, which is probably only going to take a few seconds. You get a brief rush of air, and then it’s over. Unless you happen to find some existing fatigued area, it’s not going to rip through the hull. You’re not going to suck people out through a small…