Even if we assume the $200k figure is true (it is probably _much_ less cost to the dealership to replace those wheels/tires), a given dealership would have to be robbed to this extreme once every 5 years.

Meanwhile in Canada:

Great article. On a similar note, some older pools can’t be equipped with electronic timing, because the touchpads shorten the pool by too much and you end up swimming 24.95m instead of 25m per length.

The guy with the hot-mic yesterday was Byron Macdonald, the other commentator. Byron’s pretty awesome (I swam in Ontario, and you encounter Byron and swimmers that swim under Byron frequently), so it’s unfortunate that that “controversy” sprung up at all.

It’d be _really_ hard to pull that off, since you wouldn’t be able to target your time so precisely to make sure you ended up 2 places above or below Le Clos.

And they have openly-gay Mark Tewksbury doing a lot of commentary/analysis: https://twitter.com/CBCOlympics/st…

The issue is that it’s not really practical to enforce the coaching ban if you don’t also have a technical ban, since teams will immediately come up with technical-sounding codewords for coaching.

Thursday numbers are usually “previews” held later at night.

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.