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Comment Re: They're obsolete. (Score 1) 222

I'm not sure why lane keeping requires and automatic, it seems to me turning the wheel would be fine.

My manual does fine for emergency braking (though it's a little touchy when someone in front of me is turning or if I'm accelerating to speeding under 20mph). I feel like if the emergency brake slows me down so much I need to shift the problem is me, not the manual (it hasn't over the last 10k miles I've had the car).

It'll certainly never self drive, and is useless for stop and go traffic cruise control (20-60mph heavy traffic is fine).

Comment Re: Yeah (Score 1) 222

The higher end performance is shifting towards dual clutch since it's objectively better for performance.

The economy cars are getting automatics to simplify production lines now that automatics are basically the same cost to make and essentially as efficient as manuals.

So the only manuals getting made are in the budget low tech sportscar market where people aren't going for performance, but fun on a budget.

Comment Re: Context? (Score 1) 131

Nonsense. Nobody is "forced" to incorporate GPL code into their project.

I may want to use the code modified and not share my modifications. The GPL prevents this.

Aside from the corner case of libraries incrementing proposed standards I think this is a plus, but it certainly is a restriction that a copy left license has and a BSD/MIT one doesn't.

Comment Ha. Old hat... (Score 1) 87

More than 35 years ago, well before the Internet, BBSes ruled.

One I was a pillar of was nothing but a wall where you would post anonymously (or not).
The software was written to verify the typing rate to make sure that no text was uploaded

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I wrote a special terminal program that would randomize the time between characters to foil that BBS's rejection of uploads...

(Oh, it worked, and the dude running the show never found out).

Comment Re: If this were true... (Score 1) 110

Lead used bad chemistry and no/poor cooling.

The first gen i3 used crumnny tech too.

I can't speak to the early GM products.

But for the most part effort was put into good temperature management (Tesla) and more robust battery chemistry (pretty much anything in the last 10ish years).

The Leaf was made super budget and it killed the batteries.

Comment Re:US senators ae shiteaters who swallow (Score 1) 131

I remember the space shuttle landing at Vandenberg, 200 miles away. We'd always get the double thump from that, and even in the Orange County suburbs it was enough to rattle our windows every time.

It was cool at the time, but it didn't happen very often. Flights regularly going over at supersonic speeds would get old really fast.

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