The WORST connectors are the trapezoidal HDMI connectors. Not only are they orientation specific, but they are often used on heavy cables that pull on the connector causing it to lose contact, and even bend the pins in the socket.

Add in the fact that the data rate is like a zillion bytes per second and there is an encryption handshake that must go just right at the start and you have a clusterfuck.

HDMI connectors seriously need an upgrade.

Did you read the article? It isn't just the Chinese. R&D spending is growing. Other nations are increasing their R&D too. Except in the US R&D funding has been dropping as a percentage of GDP since 1985.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/s2194/conten2a.htm#7

You are why we can't have nice thing.

Look, it's something cool!
I'm gunna' shoot it.

will be all the free drones I get.

SO all the cars in front of you will be stoped, where are you going in your PoC-mobile?

"can cause brake failures and/or uncontrolled acceleration when the ECU/TCU bombs out due to noise on the bus. "
nope. Try again.

Yeah that's exactly the same thing.

You have NEVER had privacy regarding driving you car on public roads, same with your horse pre auto era.

Don't like it? Build you own private roads, with your own private police.

But yeah, being able to stop someone breaking the law is exactly like randomly killing people.

Inverse Square Law Look It Up.

Listening to you people try to 'solve this' is like reading a forum where 68 year old women discuss the best command line option: FiIled with stuff that isn't even wrong.

Grounding strap.

"extremely directional"
what the fuck is extremely directional? it makes no sense. Start making sense.

Directional TO THE EXTREME!

How about just a parabolic chamber pointed away from the vehicle firing it?

which is fantastic until a guy gets away and then kills someone, then the police are screwed. Or if the chase a guy and he kills someone, then the police are screwed.

The vast, vast majority have shown that, but people who use the tool properly don't get spread all over the media.

A friend of mine walked in front of a radar dish and turned into Bigfoot.

ug. Old people and their crappy cars.

fuck that noise, and stink, and increased cancer risk.

I'll just use my brain and harden a decent vehicle. kthxbye