The Volvo V40 sold in Europe at least has had an external deploying pedestrian airbag since 2012; most likely engineered and manufactured by Autoliv of Sweden. Side note- notice no Volvo passenger vehicles are part of the global scale Takata airbag recalls.
I still buy CDs as MP3 sound quality is not good enough and both my cars have Surround Stereos. The difference between playback of MP3 vs a CD is night and day. However even within the team of IT professionals I work on I am the only one that is concerned about sound quality - MP3 suffices for the rest. AptX ? They've never heard of it. I rip my CDs to FLAC using the highest sampling rate available in EAC and use a dedicated Sony High Resolution Audio player with AptX paired with Sony Bluetooth headphones with AptX for playback while hiking/walking or on long flights.
I believe the lack of concern for music quality mirrors the quality of the politicians we elect in the USA which also mirrors the lack of outrage over internet speeds - we are Mediocre, be proud!
C.A.P - Combat Air Patrol - aircraft that are armed constantly rotated to Patrol a conflict zone. I'm sure we could do a C.A.P. w. fighter escorts protecting B-52s equipped with a cruise missile.
Tesla may have better optimized software and reduced friction components (within the axle) to take advantage of cruising. The software surely would take advantage of in depth GPS data and analytics gathered by the many Tesla model already on the road. Also Tesla may have improved regenerative braking capabilities.
The Safest? What statistical evidence is there to support this? VOLVO's LAST generation XC90 (released in 2003 for the US) has already been recognized by the IIHS for going a significant number of model years without any deaths and IIRC the Acura MDX received the same recognition. Just because Musk says its the safest doesn't mean so. Volvo has decades of real world crash statistics (including blood splatter patterns) for car interiors they have use to refine their cars for decades. If find it funny Musk directly compared the crash test results of a 65K+ Model S vs a 34K+ Volvo S60. Has ANY Tesla been subjected to the IIHS Small Overlap Crash Test? (I wonder why). Volvo started engineering their cars to handle Small Overlap Frontal Collisions over 20 years ago. When the IIHS started performing Small Overlap Frontal Crash test even Mercedes with its vaunted safety credentials was caught off guard. How well will a Tesla front seat hold up to high speed rear collision - something not currently tested for? Both Volvo & Mercedes engineer their seats not to collapse in such collisions.
Volvo has already set a goal for no serious Deaths or Injuries in their new models by 2020 and part of reaching that goal is their advanced autonomous driving capabilities. Yes the new XC90 can steer its way out of certain collisions autonomously too & all Volvos come standard with autonomous City Safety Braking. IIHS statistics prove that Volvo's with City Safety Braking have reduced collisions rates significantly for Volvo models versus competitors.
As Volvo has laid out the implementation the KERS powering the rear axle allows effective AWD without the need for a "propeller shaft" to send power to the rear of the vehicle. AWD additional complexity happens no matter whether a car is electric or petroleum power. What about maintaining a set temperature range for a battery pack and shielding large battery packs that may stretch a significant length of the car from debris/crashes?. All the wiring needed to connect the cells that make up the battery pack? Charging infrastructure that has to deployed ? That IS complexity compared to Volvo's KERS system augmenting an internal combustion engine.
I think you maybe wrong about that - my understanding is the flywheel can remain spinning (energized) for a significant time period after the car is shut off.
I graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery (BS in Business Administration, Management Information Systems major) and never took a foreign language. They used programming classes I took to meet my foreign language requirement.
I visited my sister's family over the Holidays and my Electrical Engineer brother-in-law is a manager for an aircraft company. His group designs Electronic Counter Measures for military aircraft. He stated that he was going to have to lay off people from his team after the Holiday break.
I would think many of these people could transition into positions of Data Center Engineers, Database Administrators or perhaps Network Engineers. At my previous employer, a large well known global website, I was the only DBA without an engineering degree (B.S. Business Admin - MIS major)- engineers apparently make great DBAs. The director over the DBA group at the website has a Masters in Electrical Engineering.
There is no actual proof that Trayvon initiated that fight - for all we know Zimmerman shoved him first and Trayvon responded by punching him; Also less you forget Zimmerman was the one with an arrest record for shoving an ARMED Police Officer. If you are willing to shove an Armed Police Officer I have no doubt you could shove a "punk" who you believed didn't belong.
Those are some of the dumbest, most arbitrary reasons to tell someone their phone is too large - is he/she being paid by Apple? I want a phone with a screen large enough for me to read web pages comfortably and not need a tablet. I would be fine with a 7 inch phone - not everyone has the hand size and lifting strength of a teenage girl.
I can't imagine a Public Technical School being that expensive. I have friends that earn 90K+ (Senior SQL Server DBA) and 115K+ (Senior Network Engineer) that both attended an inexpensive Technical College for Associate Degrees in I.T. specific areas. Both had technical certificates (MCDBA at one point, A+,Network+ for the DBA/Cisco for the Network Engineer) prior to obtaining Associates Degrees. The Network Engineer's employers have paid for additional vendor specific certificates for him. I attended an inexpensive Public University in Alabama and have a B.S. in Business Admin (M.I.S major) and earn 90K+ as a Senior SQL Server DBA. We all live in areas of the Southeast U.S. where the cost of living isn't that expensive.
I worked for a very large global website where at least 2 of the Directors was a self-trained programmers that had no formal education prior to joining the company as programmers. The easiest route is to attend a traditional University and an accredited public one to keep cost down if you have no experience otherwise in a career field. However some of the best and brightest I have worked with developed an urge to teach themselves more about information technology and talked their way into entry level positions (often Help Desk) at I.T. companies before pursuing any formal education.
JVC Flats sound wonderful and can be found for $20-25, maybe less at some retailers. The bass response is impressive. The drivers rotate and fold flat for easy packing/storage.
They don't want you to upload videos of unarmed, handcuffed Black males the BART Police have shot in the back before they have had a chance to confiscate your cell phone.
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The Volvo V40 sold in Europe at least has had an external deploying pedestrian airbag since 2012; most likely engineered and manufactured by Autoliv of Sweden. Side note- notice no Volvo passenger vehicles are part of the global scale Takata airbag recalls.
I still buy CDs as MP3 sound quality is not good enough and both my cars have Surround Stereos. The difference between playback of MP3 vs a CD is night and day. However even within the team of IT professionals I work on I am the only one that is concerned about sound quality - MP3 suffices for the rest. AptX ? They've never heard of it. I rip my CDs to FLAC using the highest sampling rate available in EAC and use a dedicated Sony High Resolution Audio player with AptX paired with Sony Bluetooth headphones with AptX for playback while hiking/walking or on long flights. I believe the lack of concern for music quality mirrors the quality of the politicians we elect in the USA which also mirrors the lack of outrage over internet speeds - we are Mediocre, be proud!
$1000 worth of Volative lap dances at a strip club is no problem.
C.A.P - Combat Air Patrol - aircraft that are armed constantly rotated to Patrol a conflict zone. I'm sure we could do a C.A.P. w. fighter escorts protecting B-52s equipped with a cruise missile.
When you can't do something blame the government.
Tesla may have better optimized software and reduced friction components (within the axle) to take advantage of cruising. The software surely would take advantage of in depth GPS data and analytics gathered by the many Tesla model already on the road. Also Tesla may have improved regenerative braking capabilities.
The Safest? What statistical evidence is there to support this? VOLVO's LAST generation XC90 (released in 2003 for the US) has already been recognized by the IIHS for going a significant number of model years without any deaths and IIRC the Acura MDX received the same recognition. Just because Musk says its the safest doesn't mean so. Volvo has decades of real world crash statistics (including blood splatter patterns) for car interiors they have use to refine their cars for decades. If find it funny Musk directly compared the crash test results of a 65K+ Model S vs a 34K+ Volvo S60. Has ANY Tesla been subjected to the IIHS Small Overlap Crash Test? (I wonder why). Volvo started engineering their cars to handle Small Overlap Frontal Collisions over 20 years ago. When the IIHS started performing Small Overlap Frontal Crash test even Mercedes with its vaunted safety credentials was caught off guard. How well will a Tesla front seat hold up to high speed rear collision - something not currently tested for? Both Volvo & Mercedes engineer their seats not to collapse in such collisions. Volvo has already set a goal for no serious Deaths or Injuries in their new models by 2020 and part of reaching that goal is their advanced autonomous driving capabilities. Yes the new XC90 can steer its way out of certain collisions autonomously too & all Volvos come standard with autonomous City Safety Braking. IIHS statistics prove that Volvo's with City Safety Braking have reduced collisions rates significantly for Volvo models versus competitors.
I think the safety of the drivers of those Volvos, Infiniti, Mercedes etc is bit more important than your want to avoid speeding tickets.
As Volvo has laid out the implementation the KERS powering the rear axle allows effective AWD without the need for a "propeller shaft" to send power to the rear of the vehicle. AWD additional complexity happens no matter whether a car is electric or petroleum power. What about maintaining a set temperature range for a battery pack and shielding large battery packs that may stretch a significant length of the car from debris/crashes?. All the wiring needed to connect the cells that make up the battery pack? Charging infrastructure that has to deployed ? That IS complexity compared to Volvo's KERS system augmenting an internal combustion engine.
I think you maybe wrong about that - my understanding is the flywheel can remain spinning (energized) for a significant time period after the car is shut off.
I graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery (BS in Business Administration, Management Information Systems major) and never took a foreign language. They used programming classes I took to meet my foreign language requirement.
This is just a reminder that you live in the "Land of the Free"
I visited my sister's family over the Holidays and my Electrical Engineer brother-in-law is a manager for an aircraft company. His group designs Electronic Counter Measures for military aircraft. He stated that he was going to have to lay off people from his team after the Holiday break. I would think many of these people could transition into positions of Data Center Engineers, Database Administrators or perhaps Network Engineers. At my previous employer, a large well known global website, I was the only DBA without an engineering degree (B.S. Business Admin - MIS major)- engineers apparently make great DBAs. The director over the DBA group at the website has a Masters in Electrical Engineering.
Airwolf could do that in the 1980s and it's a helicopter
Communicate effectively with less intelligent people
I know in the U.S.A. you can barred from being a Police Officer if your I.Q. is to high. Are the French Police intelligent enough to use Linux ?
There is no actual proof that Trayvon initiated that fight - for all we know Zimmerman shoved him first and Trayvon responded by punching him; Also less you forget Zimmerman was the one with an arrest record for shoving an ARMED Police Officer. If you are willing to shove an Armed Police Officer I have no doubt you could shove a "punk" who you believed didn't belong.
Can Toasters type ?
Those are some of the dumbest, most arbitrary reasons to tell someone their phone is too large - is he/she being paid by Apple? I want a phone with a screen large enough for me to read web pages comfortably and not need a tablet. I would be fine with a 7 inch phone - not everyone has the hand size and lifting strength of a teenage girl.
I can't imagine a Public Technical School being that expensive. I have friends that earn 90K+ (Senior SQL Server DBA) and 115K+ (Senior Network Engineer) that both attended an inexpensive Technical College for Associate Degrees in I.T. specific areas. Both had technical certificates (MCDBA at one point, A+,Network+ for the DBA/Cisco for the Network Engineer) prior to obtaining Associates Degrees. The Network Engineer's employers have paid for additional vendor specific certificates for him. I attended an inexpensive Public University in Alabama and have a B.S. in Business Admin (M.I.S major) and earn 90K+ as a Senior SQL Server DBA. We all live in areas of the Southeast U.S. where the cost of living isn't that expensive. I worked for a very large global website where at least 2 of the Directors was a self-trained programmers that had no formal education prior to joining the company as programmers. The easiest route is to attend a traditional University and an accredited public one to keep cost down if you have no experience otherwise in a career field. However some of the best and brightest I have worked with developed an urge to teach themselves more about information technology and talked their way into entry level positions (often Help Desk) at I.T. companies before pursuing any formal education.
JVC Flats sound wonderful and can be found for $20-25, maybe less at some retailers. The bass response is impressive. The drivers rotate and fold flat for easy packing/storage.
Everybody knows you can't get a quality education for cheap! This is the land of the Private University that offers freedom by enslaving you in debt.
They don't want you to upload videos of unarmed, handcuffed Black males the BART Police have shot in the back before they have had a chance to confiscate your cell phone.