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The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org)
schwit1 shares a report from IEEE Spectrum: The 2018 Audi A8, just unveiled in Barcelona, counts as the world's first production car to offer Level 3 autonomy. Level 3 means the driver needn't supervise things at all, so long as the car stays within guidelines. Here that involves driving no faster than 60 kilometers per hour (37 mph), which is why Audi calls the feature AI Traffic Jam Pilot. Go ahead, Audi's saying, read your newspaper or just zone out while traffic creeps along. To be sure, the A8 also monitors the driver, even while the traffic jam persists, and continues to do so as the speed edges up over the limit. If the driver falls asleep, it'll wake him up; if it can't get his attention, it will stop the car. If you want to buy the new A8, you'll have to check whether your jurisdiction will accept it as a Level 3 car. Audi said in a statement that it will follow "a step-by-step approach" to introducing the traffic jam pilot. It plans to sell the base model in Europe this fall for 90,600 euros, or about $103,000, and to enter the United States market shortly afterwards. A model having a longer wheelbase will cost a few percent more.
Corvette = primitive fibreglass shit
NFL = boring sissy sport
WW2 = won by the Soviets after being held by the Commonwealth single handedly for 2-3 years. America came in late, helped the effort, but was not responsible for the win.
European cars = so far ahead of the American cars it's not funny.
Soccer = boring
Rugby = NFL for real men, minus all the protective crap, and you don't get to take 10 minute rests between 15 second bouts of play, plus you stay on the field for the entirety of the game, not run on, have a kick, then run off to the bench for the rest of the match.
No NFL player would last more than 10 minutes in a competitive Rubgy game before being run down and smashed into gristle.
The US played its part, after being dragged kicking and screaming into the war.
The idea the US "won the war" though is patently absurd. It's just Hollywood propaganda, up there with "We kicked out the Limeys" when in actuality it was the French who did all the real fighting and heavy lifting in the war in the colonies.
You don't even know your own history.
Still, can't expect too much from a nation of ignoramuses who elect a reality TV star as their leader.
The US sold their wepons to both sides. Had they kept out in the first place and not supplied Germans the world would have been fine.
Of the 125 major European wars fought since 1495, the French have participated in 50 – more than Austria (47) and England (43). Out of 168 battles fought since 387BC, they have won 109, lost 49 and drawn 10.
This makes France the most successful European military ever, period.
You really should thank your lucky stars the French decided to take on the British on your behalf.
It's ironic that the people who coined the phrase "Cheese eating surrender monkeys" are the ones who have benefited most from French military prowess.
Right or wrong about the impact of the US on WW2 the Americans who fought in World War II are dead. Maybe you need to recognise that the measure of your countries greatness is your OWN deeds and your OWN contributions, not draw down on the credit of the dead.