There’s probably good training value - they learned how to exploit various temperature layers to be more or less visible while pulling off a precise shape.

You can’t make them _that_ much faster if you’ve got a live crowd.  They’d upset a lot of track-design assumptions since you can’t be as sure that you won’t have sideways impacts during a straight or that the car will at least attempt to stop before it hits a wall.  A track with a live audience would need to handle…

It’s so that teams can test with an on-board human tester/debugger/trainer.  Theoretically they’ll eventually graduate to basically raw EV skateboards.

The greatly reduced brake needs are probably helpful.  I’ve got a friend with a Prius C that’s nearing 200k miles and hasn’t had to do brakes yet.

The F9 and FH (and basically every other rocket) first stages get the upper stages up to MUCH higher altitudes and velocities than this thing does.

Consider his purposeful ramming of Lewis under safety car in Baku when he didn’t like how Lewis was pacing being the SC.

Rivian is known to be using F-150 shells on their prototypes, which they are actively testing around Detroit.

Yep!  My bad.

You’re right and I’m wrong.

Oh crap, what an error. I wish I could edit :-(

And in case anyone wonders what his time was and how it compares to F1:
-He did 1:46.0177
-F1 2018 Pole was 1:37.392

Agreed.  I did the whole loop in 8 days, and it always felt like we were in a rush.  “Ok guys stop taking in the stunning landscape, we gotta cover 300km today”.  We basically didn’t do any side trips away from the ring road, and several times a day we had to skip things that we all agreed we wanted to see but…

I got a Renault Master camper from a local rental company.

If we go off the stats we have so far:
7 pilots (LionAir x 2) affected by malfunctioning MCAS
1 of them knew what to do, and saved his 2 other pilots.
4 of them died and took their passengers with them.

Apparently the yank-the-yoke approach was sufficient to make the old speed-trim system stop while you were pulling up. You could then readjust the trim wheels and continue.

MCAS did _not_ exist on previous 737s. It was added for the MAX to make it handle like previous 737s so airlines didn’t have to retrain.

Likely just doesn’t count as one because it wasn’t designed as one, and isn’t as accurate. Having used a bunch of microchip accelerometers in phones and on robots, they’re _really_ noisy and temperature-dependent.

Nobody tell them that elastic laces are a thing... I haven’t had to tie a sports-related shoe in years, because the first thing that happens to them is the stock laces leave, and elastic laces go in.

Keep in mind that the reason Metros spiked in price was because the great recession was preceded by a long period of very high oil prices, so people were desperate for something economical.

Interestingly, it was revealed in GM’s regulatory fillings with the California DMV that one of their autonomous test Bolts is named Bolty McBoltFace.