Cars already have sensors and safety packages. These are being improved all the time. In 10 years, the only way to run over someone is with your bike.

Seriously, they need lower joule rail gun that can fire lots. It does not need to shoot 100 miles, but only 10 miles. BUT, it needs to shoot a larger numbers of rounds, more like a Gatling or Phalanx gun. And for further out, laser.

Actually,many of us will tell you that sales ppl and marketers ARE four-letters words. Sales ppl have little to no integrity, and even less knowledge of the product. Fuck, they run telling you that they do not sell the product, but themselves through any means possible.

given the choice of keeping sales, or keeping manufacturing/engineering, well, only idiots go with sales/marketing.

Umm, you could make an argument that those are the same for both nations

Actually, it was Elio that I was looking for. Reminds me of aptera. Turns out that they will start production this year.

Think it is easier? Look at how long we have taken for JWST. Basically, building massively new large sats remains expensive.
OTOH, it is MUCH cheaper to fix the hubble. Even with the shuttle, it was still cheaper. Now, with the coming Dragon along with Inflatable space stations.

0-60 in 5.7 IS slow. Sadly, those who push for cars like the golf will scream that it is lightening fast, when it is out and out a pig. Over the coming years, as electric pick up, it will be increasingly shown that even 5 seconds is slow.

Mod op up please.
note that without human fixes, we would have discarded Hubble. The fact is, that repairing a sat via robot is difficult.

Landing on Venus is trivial. Getting the lander to survive the heat and pressure is not a big deal.

Not sure that I agree with you about n1. Its issues was that they had lousy QA ( still do, which is why they build designs that can handle that ).

OTOH , Apollo was only 200 mph shy of earth escape speed.

F9, delta, and atlas are all capable of sending 7 or more ppl into space.
In addition, dragon 1 and 2 are fully capable of holding 7 humans today.

Going to mars after going to the moon is much easier than going to the moon for first time.
The problem is that going to mars was too expensive because companies became too expensive. Now, spacex and Bigelow are making it cheap to go to both.

BTW, I doubt that you will see any human piss in space.

Wow. That just plain sux. I liked the idea of innovative cars, but running them through traditional makers is a losing proposition. Hey do you know what is/has happened to a similar car maker from new Orleans area? I can not recall its name.