Robbing an AV is like robbing a security camera store. There are few places you can go that would have more high-res cameras pointed at you than within 20ft of an autonomous vehicle.

For sure they’ll be there forever, but I’m sure the UAE bigwigs that pay the money for appearances sake would like their track to be mentioned as a fan-favourite circuit instead of even the F1TV (and SkyF1) commentators feeling free to chat mid-race about how boring all Abu Dhabi races are.

After a fun year, what a godawful circuit. By the time Max had completed two laps, the field had spread so much that basically nobody was even in DRS range of each other (20th was +19.5s). By the time he completed four laps, even 10th was 16 seconds back. It’s as if Yas Marina was designed to create parades.

I’d guess that F-E’s marketing oomph just didn’t add up. The last race in Berlin has 99k views on YouTube after 3 months, while F1's “Interview with Mick Schumacher” has 143k views in 8 hours.  An interview with a boring not-even-a-driver-yet gained views about 270x as fast as F-E’s actual race.

A guy on The War Zone pointed out that in the sequence starting at 0:52 in this video, you can see a explosion-free splash during the attack on Lutzow, which is probably actually this bomb.

Hey now, the bots they purchased so they could appear to be influential are very nice lumps of code.

It could easily be sustained: If I drive a huge truck one-way to NYC, then U-haul needs to replace that capacity in Cali. Either they have to pay someone to drive the truck back, or they offer fantastic bargains on the NYC->LA leg to encourage someone to drive it back.

Here’s a better explanation: All the ludicrously high-paid software engineers that are now 100% work-remote are taking their 6-figure salaries and moving to cheaper areas where it doesn’t cost $5k/mth to live in a shoebox.

I agree the Canadian call was pretty crap.

Sure - but the loss of sales of emissions credits will be predictable to their accountants, and once it becomes apparent that’s going to happen, they’ll have to cut costs or raise prices.

Yeah, I don’t get the people whining about the emissions credits: It’s a real source of revenue. When planning their spending, Tesla would know the emissions credits revenue was coming.

I really don’t get the problem here and have been surprised throughout the Mercedes era that teams didn’t do this. Teams are always copying subsystems of cars (double diffusers, F-ducts, soon to be DAS). Why not copy the overall design too?

Sure was! Our 2013 robot was always a hit for demos, so for at least 6 years following (I moved away last year) the team kept it in tip-top shape.

Even outside the political arena, if you’re ever in the news for something, it’s always glaring how much they straight-up get wrong.

As we’re stuck at home, the idea of “hey, let’s just sit on the couch and listen to a podcast” has come up frequently. But then every. single. podcast. is about covid. Even the sports ones!

You the taxpayer may not want that complexity, but the procurement officer looking for his kids to get scholarships and the sales exec looking for a sweet bonus aren’t looking out for your best interests.

The team will make a pitch saying “look at this secret sauce technology we made, we are confident we’ll be at the front of the grid next year and your logo will be all over our car”. You’ll judge whether you believe them and invest or not.

This is basically a roller coaster - build a rollercoaster track embedded in the runway, the plane hooks onto the truck, and have the truck haul the plane.

There’s quite large (10-15%) false negative rates with the standard stick-in-nose test. Just make sure the tester doesn’t push it all the way in when swabbing your star driver.

What I’m hoping for is that the increased racing quality leads to greater sporting income, which then leads to a gradual cost-cap increase over time, but spread over the whole field, so you eventually get back to the same levels of R&D spending.