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Why? Old men have had a whole lifetime to learn not to be a prick.

Rail, ofc. Delete the bulk of the long range, high speed highway lanes and replace them with it. Most of the up front cost is the right of way, using the centers of highways makes it cheap. The nation was headed that way until the streetcar conspiracy.

That's partly the algorithm too, though. The speed sensitive cruise control systems should not permit you to choose a following distance which is so excessively close.

But then, that exposes a flaw of the whole system: IME, there is not enough road for all the cars which must use it at commute time to maintain a safe following distance. If they did, then they would be spaced out in such a way that there would not be enough room for them to actually be on the highway, and traffic would simply back up in the places which feed into it. As well, it would never be safe to enter the highway, because there would never be a clear space long enough to enter with safe following distance (and leaving it for the driver behind.) Vast numbers of onramps would have to be altered to address this deficiency. I suspect that mandatory and thus ubiquitous AEB is going to expose this flaw rapidly, with chaos at every onramp.

The best modern ABS systems are smart enough to lock up the brakes just enough to build up a pile of stuff in front of the wheel to aid in braking, then release just enough to let you steer.

In my 1993 Impreza the ABS would not slow the car down AT ALL in icy conditions. I had someone try to turn right while going way too quickly (with no warning, they didn't signal or anything) in front of me in a Toyota pickup going up Cobb in the snow on CA 175. Instead of departing the road for the shoulder like they were trying to, their vehicle turned 90 degrees left (blocking both lanes) and then slid to a stop. The pickup driver in the oncoming lane managed to stop. I barely even pressed the brakes and my ABS activated fully, and the vehicle did not perceptibly slow. It DID allow me to steer gracefully onto the shoulder AND back onto the road, at which point I released the brake and (no one having actually hit anything) continued on my way. This was a wonderful outcome, but it was based on my having had someplace to go. If the shoulder had been blocked or nonexistent, I would have had to have chosen between T-boning the driver's side of the Yota, or driving into the ditch.

Active stability control they are mandating will have this feature will therefore also have that. In fact the NHTSA is also looking at mandating it for heavy trucks, and in the bargain also mandating stability control. I don't know if our bus actually has stability control or not, but it definitely does have ABS, and the generation of Bendix ABS used in it in 1999 was capable of doing ESC.

Nobody is supposed to be driving on public roads such that such an event would cause an accident anyway. Even my car with no ABS and no ESC and a stick (it's an '08 Versa) is arguably excessively dangerous to do that sort of thing with because it has throttle by wire. With my 1989 240SX, which was an OBD-I vehicle, outside of malfunction the vehicle only did what you were asking it to do with the sole exceptions being the idle air bypass and the EGR, neither of which is capable of causing a significantly handling-affecting event. Then at least I was only having to worry about equipment failure or human error.

It's probably due mostly to our higher speed limits and faster vehicles. Yes, your top end vehicles are just as fast as ours, they are the same vehicles, but our average engine displacement is much higher so the torque figures are larger and it's much easier to get into trouble. And speed doesn't so much cause accidents, that's more reckless driving, but it does increase fatalities.

We have great collision testing requirements here, generally the most stringent on the planet in fact, but add enough energy and no strategically shaped piece of sheet metal will save you.

"Woke" means "aware". Yes, specifically of imbalances built into the system which perpetrate injustice, but those things are real. You want your AI to know about things which are actually happening, so yes, you are hoping your AI will be woke. If it isn't, then it's ignorant, and it can only give you bad information.

You might be in favor of those imbalances, so you don't want to hear about them. In that case, why do you need an AI? Lies are easy, truth is hard.

My point is that it is not a news story, it's an opinion piece. News stories generally inform the reader of the news in as neutral and balanced way as possible. This was a badly written opinion piece. Going to the sources is the job of the journalist. The fact that even you are suggesting that this is needed means that clearly the so-called journalist did not do their job.

Hoover. Dyson is a sphere, and you can't have a spherical cow in a spherical vacuum.

If by "about to", you mean September of next year, then maybe it might, but I suspect you're thinking of the Boeing Starliner crewed test in a couple of days. Completely unrelated.

• Soyuz: Russian capsule (and service module and orbital module, but the capsule is the interesting part) used for getting people back from ISS (capacity 3).
• SpaceX Dragon: U.S. capsule used for getting people back from ISS since April 2021 (capacity 4).
• Boeing Starliner: U.S. capsule intended to have a second alternative to Dragon for ISS flights (capacity 7).
• Orion: Combination of a capsule (Lockheed Martin) and crew module (Airbus) for Artemis missions (capacity 4).

They're all capsules, but Dragon is basically intended as a replacement for Soyuz, Orion has the ESM (European Service Module) attached, which lets it be useful as a habitat for longer missions, and Starliner has more crew and cargo capacity, I think.

The other key difference is that Orion is designed for reentry from higher altitudes (more heat shielding) than Dragon or Starliner, which are both designed only for LEO (e.g. ISS). A version of Soyuz (Zond 5) did fly past the moon, but I have no idea if the current versions are built to withstand high-altitude reentry.

The hard part is finding a spherical cow that can survive in a vacuum.

This just popped up as well. NEW electric car motor is 67% more powerful, 20% smaller & weighs 75kg. (165 lb)

Plus the lighter, more efficient motor can have a significant impact on range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

NA+ is somewhat less energy dense which makes it less attractive for EVs... but doesn't matter a lot for grid storage. If they're cheaper and they can dramatically drop the price of backup storage, I'm in.

"... are 20's to mid 40's overcompensating males with their overpriced oversized pristine pickup trucks that get maybe 9 miles per gallon with a tailwind..."

Fixed that one for you in several places....

Nah. Put one right smack in the middle of the field and add a random blocking factor to a home run hit. Add a bit of interest to kind of a boring game.

I'm also in favor of installing some sort of motorized moving backboard to basketball hoops. If you can hit a moving target with that three pointer you actually deserve that extra point.