I obviously don’t know where you work, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a 10% workforce reduction that resulted in a 10% pay raise for the remaining employees. C-level people will take that 10% increase, but any leftover funds will be used to pay the consultants, not employees. At least that’s how it worked when I…

I note, with some dismay, that the tip of the nose cone is slightly south of the bullseye. I know there’s a target for it just below the crosshairs, and it’s definitely hitting the target where it’s supposed to, and missing the target by a few inches absolutely wouldn’t matter given the forces and masses involved...

It was set up to run without a driver

Wait, what?

“Senators are now pushing for more to be done to safeguard drivers, passengers and pedestrians...”

“the problem is that I don’t think you need a CDL to operate even a large one.”

I don’t think I would have been standing anywhere near that collision.

“The January 2023 crash happened in Louisville, N.Y., between a bus transporting workers and a box truck.”

Very diff here in KS, at least in my county. You sign up online for a time, you show up a few mins early to check in and be assigned a number. Ass in a seat for no more than 5-10 mins, bada boom they call your number, and you stroll over to an eye-candy lady across the glass asking for things their website made very…

Every. Single. One.

lol fair enough and both of those would have about as much traction as my V10 powered go kart. I am pretty sure just idling would be doing burnouts lol.

It’s funny how our expectations change. In this era of Hellcat motors putting out 700+hp, getting only 400hp from an 8L V10 seems almost quaint.

I cant wait for automation to take off. We need to get Grandma off the road. A lady just drove into the river near Philly. We used to have elderly people run into our building all the time. I’m not shitting on the elderly, but mobility options just do not exist for them that are cost effective and the elderly are…

We have an infamous one near my work. And it never fails I get caught behind one of those mouth breathers often.

My favorite callback is how towns had a small cannon set up in the square with a lens that would focus the sunlight at high noon on the fuse, triggering a small report from the cannon. Everyone could use that report to adjust their clocks to noon.

Ford should go back to making Probes instead of the NHTSA making them.

Haolong are we going to allow flat out copying from China?

Are we gonna say that every plane copied each other at this point? or cars copy each other for the general shape?

Agreed. It’s definitely a X-37B clone, which itself did also perhaps coincidentally look like the Space Shuttle

Looks a lot more like the X-37B than the space shuttle to me. X-37B is also unmanned.