I thought all 39-year-olds look like that.

It took autopiloted Model S’s more miles to cause a fatality than the average automobile on the road*. Assuming that number is comparable to the overall statistic, the cost-is-no-limit response to save lives would actually be “put autopilot on every single car on the planet”.

Still seems pretty easy to avoid: If there’s a moto near (within 1km or so) you, let the motor cool off. If there’s not a moto near you, let fly with the extra couple dozen watts. Don’t use it in really obvious places like breakaways or uphills (where the attention will be greatest), use it to save energy on the flats…

I was pretty shocked how boring it was - I’m guessing every driver was driving at 8 tenths the whole way, assuming that every _other_ driver was going to crash and they’d be able to pick up places for free.

Mass shouldn’t matter too much for steady-state highway driving, especially since big rigs use extremely low rolling-resistance tires. You’re right that getting a big rig (let’s say 20,000kg) up to 60mph will take a lot of energy (7MJ = ~2kwh, then divide by mechanical efficiency), but once it is there, the dominant…

Because the energy required to haul a massive load cross-country is very large, and so they need quite a lot of fuel to do it.

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.

I can help!

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.