No, it leaves us with “it gets me there faster” and “I’m going to go a speed that makes sense for the road and conditions”.

For about 38 seconds between the time you finish cleaning it and the time that some pollen blows by.

You get a sportier looking car without the insurance hike.

With all due respect to the great George Carlin, I prefer my version: Anyone slower than you who’s in the left lane is a moron, anyone faster than you is a rabbit to be followed at around 1/4 to 1/2 a mile while they find any hidden cops for you.

However, my drive Friday made me question the magnitude of the range of variables that will have to be loaded into autonomous car programs to cover real-world situations.

So apparently you’ve never seen a pump like this one?

Brakes on a (loaded) 747 - and IIRC Concorde - ought to hold the aircraft in position at full throttle, but you’re going to die if you try and apply them at the end of the takeoff roll.

The problem is that the UConnect systems have cellular connectivity. They are always connected to a public network, and thus they require a different update strategy for security reasons. Not updating is not a valid option.

To me the point of a speedrun is to demonstrate the skill of the runner. If a good run depends on an incredibly rare “pray to RNGesus” moment I don’t have a problem with the community agreeing that everyone can lock in the RNG to do the “right” thing.

Contrary to popular belief, assuming the keyboard isn’t a cheap PoS USB has no ghosting either.

You’d be surprised. I’ve asked for, and received, permission to put small holes in drywall in all of the rentals I’ve ever lived in except my college apartment. In the house I’m currently living in the landlord actually likes the fact that I’ve added ethernet wiring in a professional manner, they see it as a value-add…

A good receiver adds no meaningful latency. There are plenty of bad ones of course.

There are multiple third-party videos from the event where Billy announced the 1.062M score showing the MAME artifacts on the screens Billy himself is standing behind, playing off of a VCR he signed.

I’ve never understood why Mercedes doesn’t do the obvious and split their high-end. They have the “63" twin-turbo V8 and the “65" V12 models already, that seems like a perfect dividing line. Make the *63s the sport model and the *65s the luxury model. The people who just have to have the most expensive one get bigger…

Many of these are from a long time ago when a VHS tape or a Polaroid might be the best an average person could possibly be expected to supply.

I didn’t say I missed the ticket. I definitely got a ticket, went to court (mandatory, usually Ijust pay the ticket and move on) and ended up paying a few hundred dollars but got no points.

FYI, I’m also an average Joe and I never saw any points from a 123 in a 70 ticket. This isn’t necessarily special treatment.

You seem to have fallen victim to the common but mistaken belief that displacement alone matters in any real way.

Quit acting like 100 MPH in a sports car on a highway is some horrible dangerous act.

There is basically no such thing as a highway with an appropriate speed limit. In the US basically every single highway speed limit is somewhere between 20 and ∞ MPH too low. There are six lane divided highways with 55 MPH limits FFS... Anyone who even considers following those rules in clear conditions should never…