The Germans love driving. They love driving fast. I can see why it is set up so that "the first self-driving vehicles will perform only specific tasks." To numerous of them driving isn't just something to get from point A to point B. Which is why most German cars didn't have cupholders, etc that American cars did back in the 80s.

I was recently working in Germany and a coworker mentioned that some lawmakers want to put a speed limit but there is heavy, heavy resistance funded in part by VAG and Benz. He likened it to America's gun culture. and with that analogy some of the stuff some of our gun rights advocates say makes sense to them. (Not all of it, some of it is crazy rhetoric.) You don't touch Germans' driving/cars and you don't touch Americans' guns.

Not really. He never mentioned why he exactly wanted it to be encrypted. It also deletes the evidence of the police doing something wrong. What if it was a cop that ran the red light but said it was you? What if you pull up and see a cop beating someone?

He doesn't throw the card away. The "prying eyes" do. If his car gets searched and they confiscate the contents of his car. It's very easy for an SD card to go missing or get formatted.

"Hrm. Well there, this SD card looks blank. Format."

And it's tossed in the trash because it was broken.

What you need is something that streams to off site.

You can't import anything into the US over 5mW.

Tiger had lots of mistresses. Which one got it?

It's what I use on my and my girlfriend's laptop. I really just consider it Debian with all the annoying stuff done already. Like WiFi drivers, GUI, Sound. It integrates nicely with MATE (Since MATE was created for/by Mint). But under neath I just did a netselect-apt and found my nearest servers.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

LMDE in brief
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.
It’s available in both 32 and 64-bit as a live DVD with MATE or Cinnamon.
The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base.

And there is even a thread of guys who point it towards Unstable and it usually works fine. Plus you don't ever have to do a reinstall like you do with the Ubuntu based ones.

Plus my home server can now run apt-cache and everyone in the house gets the same packages.

LMDE. Linux Mint Debian Edition.

All of the pretty Mint stuff (cinnamon / MATE) but is compatible with debian testing.

Which West Coast are you talking about? The one with all the earth quakes?

Perhaps you also want to check up on your reading comprehension. Where did I say my 3 VW diesels were TDIs?

I had an '86 IDI which the engine hadn't been redesigned since the late 70s. Yet I never had to do any of this stuff. So in my 30+ year old IDI VW I have never once needed to mix Kero despite living in a place that regularly got into the teens F.

I also work for a large diesel engine manufacturer. I know my way around a diesel engine. We really don't do this.

So you're comparing one record to another record? That is in no way indicative of the actual temps/weather seen across the country.

And they're actually quieter when you're actually driving them because of the lower RPM.

> It's more likely older diesels that were unreliable, especially

Define 'old'. Because my '86 ran just fine. Even in the cold.

> You'd mix kerosene into your diesel for low temperatures

No. Never done that.

> . In some vehicles this requires a special "arctic" or "cold weather" package, which pretty much consists of harder parts in the injection pump

Nope. I don't think VW sells that. The 'cold weather' package is for creature comforts. Seat heaters and such. The TDI sold in all of north america (and Europe) had the exact same pump.

> In general, you need a block heater for diesels in cold climates, and some kind of fuel additive. T

Wrong and wrong again. I have never needed a block heater or fuel additive. Now the coolant heater is nice because it means I get heat out of the vents as soon as I start the car. Otherwise it takes 10-20 miles before that happens.

> The fuel systems also have heaters in them,

Honestly where are you getting this stuff from? I work for a large diesel engine company AND I've driven a diesel for 10+ years. I've worked over every inch of my 3 VW diesels and not a single one has had a fuel system heater

My old 1998 TDI accepts the bigger one. It's nice filling up in record time.

This is flat out false. So far from the truth you could end up costing someone an engine.

1) Gasoline has nowhere near the lubrication properties of diesel. You're going to ruin one pump or another.

2) Diesel is more of a controlled burn where as gas is an explosion. You will ruin a piston or something.

3) Even the highest most premium gasoline will ignite at the compression ratios found on diesels. This isn't the issue.

4) In the industry that marine fuel is called HFO. And it's even thicker than crude. It's closer to the tar you put down when you put asphalt down.

I don't consider that a valid argument. Ask anyone who drives a manual the last time they thought about actually driving. It's not like washing dishes where I have to take time out of my day to actually do something (and by using a dishwasher you actually use less water per same amount of dishes).

Shifting is so second nature to me I don't even think about doing it. Sure there is a small learning period but it's like saying you have to remember to breathe or blink.