He's not that good. He let himself get caught.

Puffing out some smoke or fog should present a pretty effective scattering defense.

I don't drive your car.

I see an analogy to the airline industry which is going through entertainment changes right now.

They're accepting that the screen-in-the-back-of-the-seat can't compete with users own devices. So they're ripping them out and installing locally streamed content over wifi. This is a good thing. Car manufacturers could learn something from this.

Ditto the Mazda 5 circa 2009. We could have one of many options with an automatic transmission, or the manual car. There was one manual car, one colour, one feature set. We got the manual car.

>learning how to do the processes needed to attain that level of reliability for decades

Why is it then, that when I look at the electronics in a car, it appears to be optimized for cost rather than reliability? I've designed life critical electronics which must not fail. Car electronics looks nothing like that. I've designed cheap-ass cordless phones for indoors use that seem to have better water ingress resistance than car electronics intended for outdoors use.

My last vehicle was an F350 pickup truck. It stopped trucking one day when the fuel injection control module stopped doing what it does. Why was there not adequate overvoltage protection on the outputs to a reactive load?

Reliability certainly may be an aspect of car design, but when it comes to car electronics, it is subservient to cost at all times.

I got an Allstate ad. Is that what you intended?

>The argument against PTC is that the cost of these fatalities is only a few million dollars each, and PTC would cost several billion dollars, so it's uneconomic. That's all there is to it.

A few billion? Give me the contract. For a few billion, I'll happily install a gps equipped microprocessor board into each train that gets periodic updates of speed limits at each location. It sounds like a 10's of millions to me. Mostly for the development of a reliable unit, rather than the deployment.

That's one of many reasons why our business website doesn't use javascript. What's seen can be read by a screen reader.

If he were still riding the train, he'd have spare time to study Neil Kinnock's other speeches to see which one he was going to plagiarize next.

The bus is not:
(a) Convertible
(b) In my garage
(c) Zippy
(d) Bright Orange (well some may be, but not where I live)

To be fair, on the London underground the opening and closing of the doors is a pretty hard thing to get right without a human to work out what it going on between the platform and the train. I wouldn't want some AI algorithm with a camera deciding when to close the doors.

Thank you. I didn't know rpy2 existed.

This. The language is horrible. What R has going for it is (1) some quite good graph plotting and (2) Support any statistical function you can think of, since every statistics researcher works in R and so the functions a available. No other statistics product comes close.

A python statistics library with some funky C linkage to the R library would take over in milliseconds when people find they can get all the stats functions while being able to program in a sane language.

But the creationist view is wrong. So it doesn't actually depend on what people think. There are facts and falsehoods. What people think doesn't alter facts into falsehoods or falsehoods into facts.