Based on the proportions (especially from the rear), I’m glad that minivans are officially back in style. They just need re-invent and re-brand the sliding doors now.

Shitty teams don’t generate money, so Mazepin’s big-bucks Russian oligarch daddy is precisely why he’s racing.

This will hopefully be a more successful experiment next year with the aero changes to support overtaking.

The problem for me with “how was your day?” is that you’re putting no effort into the question, and putting all the effort on the askee to compile a narrative on the spot.  Ask a no-effort question, and you’ll get a no-effort response like “fine”.

Tesla’s in-depth single-variable regression: is autopilot on? or is it off?

Fortunately (err.. “fortunately”?) Tesla ditched their dependence on radar earlier this year. So if the car in the article was running the latest software, it’d would’ve been optical-only.

Max, George, and Leclerc are all 23, and Lando is only 2 years younger.  They’re probably going to provide a core for the next 15 years.

I enjoyed Vettel being driver, race director, commentator, and medical car in the same half lap.

If it has the same motor mount positions, it becomes physically easy to put in any compatible car made in the last 100 years. This is for EV conversion projects.

I guess if it’s a wall you really dislike or think might need scorch marks, I guess.

Republicans are _generally_ fine with NASA - it supports their defense-contractor buddies, supports high-paying jobs in red states like Texas, Alabama, and Florida, and occasionally revs up a good round of flag-waving that can be exploited if they’re in power at the time. If you watch the NASA budget against who was…

I wouldn’t say we mastered it - it was way too expensive, only supported 3-day missions, and that entire Saturn V launch stack from top to bottom was thrown away each time. If your car only makes one trip before blowing its engine, you wouldn’t say its maker mastered making cars.

While they’re playing with formats, I’m hoping for one-lap qualifying at Monaco (or as a YouTuber suggested, one-lap qualifying in Q3 at Monaco).

This is why picking a common word for the AV division you’re hoping will conquer the future may have been a bad idea.

I was spitballing alternative sprint race implementations, and I thought of “if you start in grid slot N, you have a twenty-minus-N second penalty”. So Hamilton on pole would have a 20-second penalty, then Verstappen with 19 seconds, down to the Haas drivers with a 2 and 1 second penalty.

Arguably efficiency might matter more with EVs- if you’ve got an inefficient car and lots of money it doesn’t really matter - you have a higher gas bill, but you get on with life. If you’ve got an inefficient EV, topping up 150 or 200kwh when the article’s merc might need only 60kwh means a huge time savings at the…

Even in theory, crypto is much more like a more volatile version of “cash under your mattress” than a bank. Just like CUYM, you have to hope someone doesn’t find your mattress / private key, just like CUYM you have no regulatory protection at all*, and just like CUYM you’re entirely dependent on your own smarts to…

Yep - blanketing the planet in solar panels simply to perform useless hashes and provide a couple transactions per second is not a step forward.

Rich people including Bezos actively lobby against our interests (minimum wage, environmental or worker protections, unionization), so it is rational for us to lobby against theirs.

F1 cars, given that they have enough downforce to drive upside down, would look ludicrous going off a jump - they’d go off the end of the jump and unnaturally zoom back down to the ground, probably starting before the rear end had even finished going over the jump.