Seattle…is not an appreciably bigger market than OKC

Do you tip your nurse?

It’s pretty hard to tell from the headline whether the bribery accusation is directed at the new CEO (it is not) or the company he now leads (it is).

Wait, 1914? What?

I don’t think that’s how that works

No idea what the preceding aircraft was but the one in question was an Airbus A330, which is a wide body twinjet, between the Boeing 767 and 777 in size. It is exceedingly unlikely that a significantly larger aircraft would have been ahead of it.

But the ticker has stories about Lynch’s first season with the Raiders, a new contract extension for Xavier Rhodes, etc. Those didn’t happen last summer.

An impressive and dramatic meltdown. Makes you wonder if there wasn’t some orchestration behind the scenes.

Maybe. FE budgets are said to be $5m to $10m per year. That’s 2.5-5% of an LMP1 budget, and if you assume a major manufacturer will spend $20m, they would still only need to attract 1/10 the audience of the WEC to achieve a similar return on the basis of marketing alone.

Potential viewers is pointless. Peak viewership is on the order of hundreds of thousands in the U.K. out of over 80m potential viewers, probably the most enthusiastic motorsport market in the world. That ratio gives you 5m peak global viewers.

Never write SAT questions

It’s called marketing, right? A $600 billion industry for a reason.

If full autonomy is demonstrably safer than nothing (which, by all appearances, it is), then it is obviously a desirable goal. But I don’t think partial autonomy is safer.

Full autonomy or nothing. The middle ground is the most dangerous possible situation, where constant vigilance is required but interaction is minimal and distractions abound.

She was cast, not interviewed.

This should be a Torch article. There should be illustrations.

What the fuck is a recidivist race manipulator?

I keep seeing this and I’ve made reference to it before as well, but after reviewing some of the sources making this claim, there is no first-party proof (the FIA released no such statement). I think it’s best to say that it is probably conjecture based on the penalty handed down to Vettel or the notorious “unnamed…

Never happened. He offered to back the pack up when Bottas was unlapping himself near the beginning of the race, and was reminded that he must maintain a set distance to the safety car. When the safety car lights go out, it will be in on that lap and the rule regarding following distance no longer prevails.

The video telemetry is notoriously out of sync.