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I knew NASA had put out tenders for “what do we do with this pristine, enormous runway?”, but I’m surprised the best they could do was top-speed runs.

Neat! That sounds like a really interesting angle. Seems like it’d be profitable (and convenient) to have an amazon affiliates link in the article, since I bet I’m not the only one to wishlist the book based on this review.

They’ll probably have to start using psychology: Make all the other colors the opposite of red (whatever green + blue is) so that his face stands out. As it is, the plurality of the pixels in the center of his face are max-red.

Team orders (and anything else whose banning is unenforceable) should be allowed, but if the constructor/driver championships are remaining separate, they should be scored using different rules to make them more relevant to either driving or constructing.

I wonder if they could just have a merge before each jump to ensure trucks are going straight and not side-by-side when they hit the jump. Crashes would happen when two trucks came into the jump section and both went for it, but crashes on tire barriers are safer than the trucks colliding in mid air.

Nathan Peterman: Starting QB, despite his most recent appearance including 5 picks in a half.
Colin Kaepernick: still not even a backup QB in the NFL.

It was a nailbiter throughout the race - Hamilton and Kimi were rarely more than 1-2 seconds apart.  Him having a 9-second lead at the end does not communicate how uncertain that result was up until lap 50 or so.

It’s the evaporative emissions system that whines for the gas cap, because all your gas fumes are escaping out the gas cap instead of being processed/filtered/captured properly.

Sign this absolving of us all safety concerns or else you’re an unemployed ‘History of Belgium in the 16th Century’ major” seems a bit coercive.

If a road has a 70km/h speed limit, it is likely a broad-ish city road here in Ontario with lots of stoplights, cross traffic, and intersecting roads. 140km/h is well over highway speeds.  140km/h isn’t too dangerous on a highway, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a road labelled 70km/h that 140km/h would be a good

1) The article actually came out after the Uber event.
2) Uber had disabled the Volvo AEB and replaced it with their own, but their own system ignored all commands to brake harder than 0.7gs, which means it would never actually emergency brake.
3) Full-on autonomous cars are SUPPOSED to brake when there’s an obstacle in

Many emergency braking systems are disabled at 40+ mph - radar is very low resolution, and they’d need to be able to distinguish a stopped something a couple hundred feet away, AND be certain that it was in your lane and not a lane beside you. A bush on the shoulder might cause it to slam on the brakes and cause a

Assuming that there’s ~20 120V electricity outlets and 1 220V outlet per household, there’s a LOT more EV charging stations than there are gas pumps. Your car always starts the day charged.

The article I read on it seemed to say it was worth it if you’re a teenager. If you can find three per hour (there’s an app to tell you where they are), that’s not a bad rate.

They’ve actually got an interesting economic model for that - you can sign up to be a bird-charger, and Bird will mail you a charging brick. Then you go around town looking for discharged ones, charge them overnight and put them back out at a main bird location, and you get $5-$20 per scooter.

Since it’s a rate and not an absolute count, the math issue with Elon’s comment isn’t that Teslas haven’t racked up the miles, is that the situations involved with “all cars” and “Teslas while using autopilot” are very different.

Yeah, I agree that they’ve gotten a bit lucky. Fundamentally the 2017-2018 cars don’t lead to good passing opportunities, and China/Baku were good because those tracks generally _are_ good (their bigass straights will tend to lead to satisfying passes when a car is fundamentally faster than the one ahead).

Teams change the wings’ design every couple races, so their current inventory of front wings is definitely not a reason for opposing the change. Sometimes teams will arrive at a race with only a single wing, so only one of their drivers will get the latest spec.

They tried reducing tire grip in the past (with the grooved tires)- it leads directly to less passing, as reducing mechanical grip leads to an increased dependence on aerodynamics.

You found China boring, even with DR’s run from 6th to 1st over like 15 laps? I’m not sure that overtaking rules are for you, then.