Bandwidth is easy, but Einstein says latency-free satellite uplinks are not physically possible, no matter how much paypal money you throw at it.

If the federal government wants to off me, they can easily off me in any number of ways. Hell, they can easily hack any connected car nowadays and disable the brakes or slam on the gas. There are certainly privacy arguments to be made about autonomous cars, but “The feds might finally be able to off you” isn’t one of…

They only have to be safer than the average human driver. They don’t have to be 100% safe.

I just sent this to a friend who was talking about the Joy of Painting. It’s the same kind of soothing, interesting, don’t-worry-if-you’re-not-paying-too-much-attention viewing.

On any of the years where Sebastian Vettel and Alonso were within one race win on the last race of the season, I’d have Vettel’s engine blow up.

Yep - my last new car, my options were:
1) Take the car that’ll be here in 3 days. It’s dark grey.
2) Get the colour I wanted (bright orange) in 3 months.

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Here’s an attempt to brighten it up a little. The quality of that imagine isn’t so great.

Gotta say, I’m impressed that the Model 3 hasn’t leaked. There’s got to be a _lot_ of industrial designers and engineers that have had the chance to see the overall look of the car, and it seems like we haven’t had a credible leak yet. That’s either secretive design within the company where people are only designing…

[this is car-related, trust me]

I love watching the in-car cams from the LMP1 cars when they resume from a yellow flag. They both sound and look like they’re going into warp when the gas and electric stuff goes to full blast.

If she’s having a hysterectomy after 1-2 pregnancies, then they might just remove all the foreign tissue, so she might not have to take the anti-rejection drugs forever.

On top of what the others have pointed out, another risk for a ground fire is parachuting right back into the flames. It has happened at least once.

Sorry, BOV was the wrong term, wastegate was what I was looking for. Basically, instead of bleeding off air to prevent turbine overspeed, they can use the MGU to take that energy instead.

Why split? See the linked article. Basically, massive packaging and cooling improvements. Otherwise you have to route your intake air to the back of the engine where the turbo is, or run your exhaust up to the front where the turbo is. This way, air comes in front->gets compressed->gets exploded in cylinder->exhaust…

I agree that it probably shouldn’t be murder, if only because it clearly wasn’t intentional murder and that might risk the case being thrown out entirely. Idiots that can afford fairly nice cars but don’t take them to a track to get their jollies off can rot in hell.

Tax breaks aren’t _that_ bad, since they are only a loss if the company is profitable. If someone walked up with a well-funded but doomed venture selling literal shit, I could affordably promise them two trillion in tax breaks so that their VC backers piss away money in my jurisdiction, rather than someone else’s.…

The ISS is situated deep in the earth’s magnetic field, which blocks charged particles. Anything going more than a couple thousand km above the planet needs to think about a much harsher radiation environment.

That last picture looks like the freezing rain we (southern ontarians) had last night.

Velodyne is an interesting company itself.