That was a driverless truck.

A barrel roll is a low positive G maneuver - so gentle that most airliners could manage it without falling apart.

a helmet

Yeah, no.

My parents married in 1984. Their combined income at the time was $34k/yr. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $80k, or $40k each in 2016 money.

THEY BOUGHT A HOUSE AND TWO CARS ON THAT INCOME.

I make $80k/yr myself, and I’m nowhere near being close to being able to purchase a house, much less a new car. And,…

THE DECADE ENDED IN 1972

Patrick George & Michael Ballaban

I passed a car down in my family so that some of our grandchildren could learn to drive a manual transmission. I told our older grandson that it would be a good way to impress young women. Maybe I was right? Maybe I was just preparing him for a successful career in auto theft?

Elon is probably yelling at someone right at this second about that.

the Tesla’s driving style would be just fine in Boston, where driving patterns are all unpredictable.

Already there.

Am I the only one thinking it is driving fairly aggressively? Accelerating pretty fast, changing lanes quickly, braking hard. I get it, it can make decisions much quicker than a person, but it should still be predictable to other drivers around it.

One must crawl before one breaks into a full sprint.

Hence, these features will not be turned on for quite a while, but with the hardware now onboard, they will be in a passive learning mode.

Calm down, people. It’s not meant to be 100% error free yet. Were you 100% error free as a 16 year old with a Learner’s Permit?

And…

also lol it pulled into the wrong lane

obscured signs

No. You can’t even compare Autopilot with conventional cars yet because of the favorable conditions that must be meet for Autopilot to even function.

Jalopnik posted a big color photo of a British BMW wagon police car today. I think it means the Germans are sabotaging British law in an effort to reinforce their Brexit vote...

I agree.. The media sensationalizes things that are not normal. If an electric car catches fire, it’s front page news. If 200 gasoline cars catch fire on that exact same day, nobody cares. Yet, it creates the illusion in the news that electric car fires are more common. The same issue is happening with the…

Since Albert Einstein first predicted their existence a century ago

It’s a good thing he’s dead because that mother fucker would be smug as all shit by now.