Assuming constant braking acceleration (which is incorrect because of the drag brake), average velocity over the braking maneuver would be half, or 55mph, which would cover 65ft in 0.8 seconds. 110mph to zero in 0.8s is nearly 5Gs. If we consider the air brake, the braking force is proportional to the square of…

Again, we had ventilators before electronics. As for FDA approval, you don’t think they would fast-track such a thing if we suddenly found ourselves in need of several hundred thousand extra?

At the exact moment you’re doing it?  Maybe.  Usually anything you’re fiddling with on Auto/CarPlay will take considerably less time than a distracted, one-handed text.

Why not? We’ve been building ventilators for nearly a century now.  Now we don’t need to be putting people in iron lungs.  Smaller, conformal negative pressure ventilators are available that fit over a patient’s chest.  We just don’t use them because intubation is one-size-fits-all, and the patient is generally…

Twice as slow as being at the legal limit. I’m sure most people getting pulled over for DUI are way over that, with reflexes deteriorated accordingly.

I also have a bit of a tough time believing that one is more distracted futzing with Spotify on the big center console screen up near the windshield rather than typing a text message on a tiny screen down in your lap

They put a traffic signal in right next to work, and it has caused hell with traffic. I keep running into problems with 1:04 in the linked video. People drive enter from the left lane, straight across, and try to exit in the right lane.  Nevermind the whole “don’t change lanes in an intersection”, they actually have…

Carry-on is in the overhead, and I’m incapable of holding onto things while sleeping.

How about a water bottle?  Airliners don’t have cup holders.

Where else are you going to put your trash?  It’s not like everyone on the plane is going to get up and walk to the serving station or the bathroom to throw things away.  Put them in a pocket?  Put them in the vomit bag?

Most cars don’t have “Auto” headlights.

A supercap is not an arc flash hazard.  It’s a bursting hazard, and that burst capacitor may spew boiling electrolyte on you, but it doesn’t have the voltage to maintain an arc.

The other problem with capacitors is voltage is proportional to charge. Use half the charge, be left with half the voltage.

Misuse of terminology.  They meant “induct” as “receive”, rather than “induce”.

That’s what happens when you apply way too much voltage to it. It overheats, boils, and becomes an explosive, defined by the strength of that burst plate at the top. Batteries will do the same exact thing when you apply way too much voltage to it. As will standard electrolytic capacitors. They just have much higher…

That it’s not just “taking away toys”.  It’s not a loss of a game, but of a job.  As you say, he’s getting fired.

And the picket fence roof?

No argument here.

Everyone seems to be misinterpreting my comment as me being against this action.  I’m merely pointing out that this may be more severe than just simply not letting him play a game online.

I implied no such thing.  I’m suggesting a reason why it’s more than just a slap on the wrists.