I drive a Nissan Leaf. It has an exterior speaker that generates a noise when the car is travelling at less than 20mph (such as in a parking lot).

It doesn't matter. People just simply aren't paying attention, whether or not the car makes noise. They're too busy staring at their iphones.

Google collects information. Google uses that information to determine what ads to show users. But unlike other companies, Google does NOT sell that information.

One nit: Tesla has not yet solved the recharge time problem. Sure, you can drive cross-country in a Tesla, but if you value your time, it's not nearly as convenient as doing so in a regular ICE car. But they're doing their darnedest to make it better.

(Disclaimer: I too own an all-electric vehicle)

Let me get this straight. You're giving more credit to a politician. A politician who didn't even write the law. A politician who did nothing but sign a piece of paper presented to him by 535 other policitians. He didn't invent anything. He didn't build anything.

And you're going to hold him up as having done *more* for the environment than an entrepreneur who spent - and risked - his entire fortune to make electric cars a mainstream reality.

Seriously?

As explained in the article, the skin is useful for travelling over a sandy surface.

Would it pull over if it sees the blinking lights / siren behind it?

Sure. Why wouldn't it? It can detect cars with radar, and see flashing lights with cameras.

I think the hard question is whether it should try to get out of the way, or pull into an intersection to clear a lane (ambulance, fire truck, police), or if it should actually pull the whole way over off of the road and stop (police).

Could you spoof it with a bunch of blinking xmas lights on the side of the road?

No. Putting blinking lights on a car might spoof it, but that will probably get you arrested for impersonating a police vehicle.

This sounds like a very poorly-configured DNS server. There are other server issues as well. Some are slow. Others like to return their own special pages when you mistype a domain name. I've been using DNS Benchmark to determine the best set of DNS servers to use for a home network. It's a neat tool that provides a lot of information succinctly - be sure to read the walkthrough to understand what it's showing you.

No cooling water
No brake fluid

Don't go crazy. There is still brake fluid in an electric car. And they still have radiators of various types for cooling purposes.

I wouldn't blame the goto here.
The problem is single-line if bodies.
Or not using a tool that auto-indents the code.

I think the shift key on your mighty model M is only working sporadically.

I used DNS Benchmark to determine the best performing public DNS servers for my home network. Interestingly, it turned out to be neither my ISP's nor Google's public servers.

There appears to now be a similar, open-source DNS benchmarking program available: namebench. I haven't tried it out, but it looks promising.

FALSE

While Google does collect and make use of the personal information of end users, the one thing that they have NEVER done is sell that information to any third parties.

You can read Google's Privacy Policy for more information about how they use personal information. In particular, read the "Information We Share" section.

For that matter, I think that once I reach age 65, I'll start to also become bored with life and start taking some chances here and there.

Call it "Walter White Syndrome". :-)

You are correct. The only difference is that the Westboro Baptist Church isn't governing an entire country, spending nine billion per year on a military force and attempting to develop nuclear weapons.

Earlier this year, there was a bad accident where a Tesla Model S hit a 90 Honda Accord head-on: Tesla vs Honda Head-on Collision. The two people in the Accord were killed immediately. The Accord was a crumpled mess, as you can see from the photo in the article. The Tesla driver had only minor injuries. He was able to simply open his door and exit the vehicle. The accident itself is a terrible tragedy, but seeing a real-world example helps you to see just how safe the vehicle is.