Only if you believe this to be representative of a road legal car. I find it easier to believe that it's a purpose-built stunt prototype, otherwise they couldn't stop talking about how clever they were solving the seemingly infinite list of engineering challenges and contradictions that make it an actual car that actual people can drive on an actual road.
? Do you think a Lambo is a particularly practical car? Obviously it’s a stunt car. It’s doing stunts! And no, it’s not legal to drive around shooting huge supersonic jets around the car; that’s hardly a criticism.
FWIW if you’re that concerned about scaring other people out of your way you could just wave a gun around out the driver’s side window. You’d spend less money and get your desired effect.
What is the practical use case of having a bunch of high powered jets all around the car? It could be used to automatically avoid fatal accidents, or at least reduce risk and damage in an accident situation. I thought everybody who watched the presentation video would reach that conclusion.
Do the air bags in your car go off at random while you're in traffic? If not, then why do you think a system using these jets to avoid accidents would?
Also where does the habit of ending angry messages with lol or lmao come from, which I only see here on HN?
"After the air bags were replaced and the vehicle was involved in a crash, the air bag inflators malfunctioned and ruptured, sending large metal fragments into drivers’ chests, necks, eyes and faces, leading to death or severe injury."
So yes, safety features sometimes have flaws.
> If not, then why do you think a system using these jets to avoid accidents would?
For starters, airbags are reactive to an impact, not predictive in anticipation of it.
"We're going to crash" is harder to assess than "hey a crumple sensor in the front bumper just got wiped out".
(The airbag is also deeply unlikely to obliterate a different car, pedestrian, or bike during deployment. They're simply not comparable to a rocket engine on the outside of the car!)
And no one was using AI for serious work a few years ago. Technology develops and moves forward. Practically every new car and motorcycle today has safety features which depend on computers. And they function in practice.
Trucks all have pneumatic brakes and an air compressor on-board. So that part is nothing new. A system of air jets could possibly be implemented as a correcting measure if a truck is overturning. There's no AI needed for the truck to know it's about to overturn. And trucks overturning are also some of the most serious and most dangerous common accidents in traffic.
But self proclaimed "hackers" are too busy with LMFAOing and LOLing at any suggestion or speculation on how technology could be useful in practice.
> Also where does the habit of ending angry messages with lol
I'm using lol here as an expression of rueful delight, not anger. I'm not being sarcastic - the mental image of vehicles autonomously leaping through traffic is really funny to me. However, I'm slightly perturbed by the lack of parsimonious thinking.
> SpaceX thinks it knows why its newest Starship spacecraft went boom this week. "Initial analysis indicates the potential failure of a pressurized tank known as a COPV, or composite overwrapped pressure vessel, containing gaseous nitrogen in Starship's nosecone area, but the full data review is ongoing," the company wrote in an update on Thursday (June 19).
you know what happens to you if a jet engine moves your car out of the way? you have the accident inside your car by yourself, you become the accident. physics states that all forces will be equal.
The business model is fundamentally broken. Reddit, unlike other sites driven by user-generated content, forgoes the cost of huge (but ideally impartial) content moderation teams in favor of unpaid user moderators, leading to what you've described. Nothing will change unless the business model changes.
Shareholders want to get paid.
CEO wants to get paid.
The primary KPI's are revenue and profit, customer satisfaction will only matter if people actively quit.
I started to get banned from subreddits after giving perfectly polite comments which happened to be contrary to popular opinion, so stopped posting on Reddit and only read it with an ad-blocking browser.
Don't give them content, don't give them your data and revenue. Reddit know full well that there should be an appeal process to user-mod nazi's. But these people obsessively post new content on their forums and so are protected.
Yes but not to the same extent. Professional, paid moderators following a centrally-defined set of rules are going to act differently to terminally-online volunteer mods.
Metal portions would be nice but i get it’s a weight thing. Also emphasis on it being cheap plastic rather than just plastic. Several parts of mine cracked and broke within a year.
There are different plastics, some feel much better than others.
I bought a Dyson vacuum and it felt like cheap garbage, to the point that I returned it. I didn’t trust that it would hold up. It creaked and jangled around. The feel did not match the price tag.
Other plastic products, like the old polycarbonate Macs, felt very solid and well made.
Carbon fiber and 3d printed titanium is probably where I'd start for materials to design a high end vacuum to be light/strong/durable. Injected molded magnesium alloy would also be a candidate if production qty was high enough to offset the tooling.
I would - rather it is. My grandfather had a kirby for decades. I've had a kirby for decades. Though mine has the transmission power drive that makes it a joy to use.
Did you mean puzzling look? Why is he wearing 2 shirts? In the 90's we would wear a long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt, but we didn't wear multiple t-shirts...
If you watch any 2000s comedy film, or just do a high level skim of 2000s pop culture, that was a very standard trendy attire back then. My parents were into me looking like that in school at the time as well + for photos.
I am quite sure long sleeve Tee under a band t-shirt will eventually make a come back, given all the nostalgia wave from Gen Z, experiencing their grandfathers teenage years.
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