VG did NOT dump SC.
This was planned for several years.

Spend time in the model S.
Believe me, the physical buttons SUX once you spend time on the Model S.
Heck, you mention volume and and channels, and yet, radios can be changed. That makes it hard to deal with.
With the large screen, it is possible for Tesla to allow us to have our own layouts (and it will come).

Ford has quit Microsoft (thank god) and switched to QNX, which is a decent realtime system.

Germany is currently behind in driving automation, but by their gov. creating a lane between 2 cities in which only partial and fully automated cars car drive, well, they will move this up QUICKLY.
If Tesla and Google want to retain their lead and Ford wants to join them, then they should encourage California to create some lanes that are 50 miles or long on road that are heavily traveled by commuters. In addition, CA would be wise to let these companies use some of their cars for experiments.

Thanx bill; I could see some use for that for a science fair as well.

Hmmm. Where did you get ahold of aerogel at?

They can not make under 1 m resolution. We would have to send one of nro's SATs to get decent resolution. Considering that nro gave us 2 that are Hubble quality, one would be ideal for sending to mars

Visa's should be awarded based on nation need first. Iow, we should increase yearly visa ( say 15% more ), and then make 50% of all visa's dependent on nations need and candidates education. The rest can remain as it is.

however, they need to resolve the current group of illegals as well as change what is citizen, along with who can run for president/VP.

While girly men have VW's?

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.

What the fuck part of " A pat-down of someone who's being detained for probable cause is okay" did you manage to misread?

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.

A firefighter has a reason to be there if there is a fire to fight. As the SCOTUS already said, police using this sort of thing without a warrant is an illegal search.

If you're talking about "stop and frisk" then the courts are certainly not okay with that. A pat-down of someone who's being detained for probable cause is okay. Being black, young, or poor is not probable cause.