If it had been a Mercedes, where would the engine have gone? Even if it didn't go into the cabin, it sure would have left much less room for crumpling to absorb the impact
Nearly all cars are designed nowadays so the engine drops under the car. So this problem was solved long ago.
The "story" you're referring to was leaked by Tesla itself. It was nothing more than marketing propaganda.
The machine did not break. It just reached the end of its testing limit and the car didn't break. Tesla also made other very misleading claims are that time. They claimed that their car scored a 5.4 on a scale that goes to 5. They were smacked down by the NHTSA and had to retract the claim.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...
>Get the electric airplane engine working. Let someone else worry about storing the electricity to power it.
They've had electric motors for more than a century. The motors were never the technical hurdle.
That's like saying "Pack your things for a camping trip on Pluto. We'll let someone else worry about how to get there"
Except this simply did not happen.
Ford offered a safety package in the 1950s but consumers weren't too interested in it. By the 1960s the NHTSA implemented laws that all cars sold in the US had to follow.
The Japanese carmakers really entered the scene much later, in the mid/late 1970s. They gained popularity not because of their superior safety features but rather their lower price. This was made possible by the exchange rate of the Japanese Yen to the US dollar and currencies in Western Europe.
It was launched on top of a rocket that brought it up to Mach 20. That isn't anything new or exciting. They lost contact with this aircraft and it's presumed to have crashed. When you're thousands of miles over the Pacific Ocean and your vehicle breaks, a "splashdown" is not difficult at all. In fact it's about the only thing you're going to do!
Also, I'm not sure why people are getting excited about this hypersonic glider that has a 100% failure rate. The Space Shuttle was a hypersonic glider that successfully landed over 130 times.
It isn't really that impressive that they got something to go Mach 20, considering that they launched it from a tried and true rocket. I could've put a cinderblock atop that rocket (a decommissioned Peacekeeper ICBM) and it would've went Mach 20.
The EV-1 wouldn't have gone anywhere. It was very expensive for GM to make and would have been sold in a time when you could get gas for under $1 a gallon.
Salt seems to be able to get through that protective layer. Aluminum corrodes very quickly in in a salt environment. In fact, you cannot salt airport runways for this reason.
There's nothing cool about swastikas, even for Hindus (it's a sacred symbol after all).
By that same logic, you could say that there's nothing cool about crosses, even for Christians (it's a sacred symbol, after all). Yet many people are proud to display their sacred symbol.
Whoa, you're right about that! We need to ban wooden chairs immediately. I'd glad that someone is thinking about the children. Thank you for your patriotism, citizen.
That's actually a bit misleading. Sure, Microsoft has been selling operating systems and office productivity products for more than 25 years. But Windows 7 and Office 2010 haven't been out for that long, so you can't imply that Microsoft isn't introducing new products. They have a couple of really popular brands and they're going to continue leveraging those names as long as they can.
The truth is instead of spending energy trying to hold afloat a sinking ship, it may be time to start putting the gang-plank out to that shiny new boat that can take us the rest of the way.
But what if we used 1/2 the money to turn that old boat into a submarine? Then instead of "sinking", it would be utilizing a new feature.
It's not like those terms were agreed upon 50 or 100 years ago, it was agreed upon not too long ago.
What is the point of having laws/agreements/contracts if the parties can randomly decide that the terms are no longer valid?
Then, if officers see the car in motion and judge it can be stopped safely, they can tell OnStar operators, who will send the car a signal via cell phone to slow it to a halt.
That sounds like remotely shutting down the vehicle to me. Nobody said anything at all about the brakes being automatically actuated- you threw that strawman in there because you have no other point.
One F-22 doesn't cost $360 million. That's a figure that's thrown around a lot, but that's including the cost of the entire program divided by the number of aircraft produced. Let's say that you had a program where you designed a new car. You spent $100 million in R&D. You plan on making 100,000 of the cars, and the R&D costs will be absorbed by the number of cars produced. If you make 100,000 cars, $1000 gets added to the cost of each car. If the car cost $10,000 to produce, it's now $11,000.
Let's say production is halted and you only make 10,000 cars. Now that R&D cost only gets amortized across 1/10th of the number of vehicles. Instead of the vehicle costing $11,000, it's now $20,000.
If this were being sold to consumers, the company would have to eat the cost because nobody would want to pay that much for a vehicle worth half the price. But for military projects, the military ends up footing the bill.
In reality, each F-22 costs about $120 million. The R&D and tooling cost was already spent.
If you're counting how many times it's been downloaded, that doesn't tell you much. I'm a Windows user, but I've downloaded Linux a few different times. I played with it, but that doesn't make me primarily a Linux user. I'm still a Windows user, but I'd be counted as several Linux users if you just looked at download stats.
He's still relevant because out of all the engineers who've ever done anything, Woz is very arguably in the top 10, period, of all time, end of story (which makes him one of the few, if any, who are still alive)
Do you often spell out your punctuation? Do you often put the period in the middle of the sentence?
I think our idiots will wake up long before that happens. Right now they're just sitting fat and happy, but when the sh!t hits the fan, they'll be forced to make a change.
Voting for people like Bush seemed like a good idea to them then, but if the country starts going down the tubes, they'll wake up and realize that people like that aren't a good choice after all.
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If it had been a Mercedes, where would the engine have gone? Even if it didn't go into the cabin, it sure would have left much less room for crumpling to absorb the impact
Nearly all cars are designed nowadays so the engine drops under the car. So this problem was solved long ago.
The "story" you're referring to was leaked by Tesla itself. It was nothing more than marketing propaganda. The machine did not break. It just reached the end of its testing limit and the car didn't break. Tesla also made other very misleading claims are that time. They claimed that their car scored a 5.4 on a scale that goes to 5. They were smacked down by the NHTSA and had to retract the claim. http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...
>Get the electric airplane engine working. Let someone else worry about storing the electricity to power it. They've had electric motors for more than a century. The motors were never the technical hurdle. That's like saying "Pack your things for a camping trip on Pluto. We'll let someone else worry about how to get there"
Except this simply did not happen. Ford offered a safety package in the 1950s but consumers weren't too interested in it. By the 1960s the NHTSA implemented laws that all cars sold in the US had to follow. The Japanese carmakers really entered the scene much later, in the mid/late 1970s. They gained popularity not because of their superior safety features but rather their lower price. This was made possible by the exchange rate of the Japanese Yen to the US dollar and currencies in Western Europe.
I prefer the Nexus 7's that look like Pris. But I guess we'll have to wait for the basic pleasure model.
It was launched on top of a rocket that brought it up to Mach 20. That isn't anything new or exciting. They lost contact with this aircraft and it's presumed to have crashed. When you're thousands of miles over the Pacific Ocean and your vehicle breaks, a "splashdown" is not difficult at all. In fact it's about the only thing you're going to do! Also, I'm not sure why people are getting excited about this hypersonic glider that has a 100% failure rate. The Space Shuttle was a hypersonic glider that successfully landed over 130 times.
It isn't really that impressive that they got something to go Mach 20, considering that they launched it from a tried and true rocket. I could've put a cinderblock atop that rocket (a decommissioned Peacekeeper ICBM) and it would've went Mach 20.
The EV-1 wouldn't have gone anywhere. It was very expensive for GM to make and would have been sold in a time when you could get gas for under $1 a gallon.
Salt seems to be able to get through that protective layer. Aluminum corrodes very quickly in in a salt environment. In fact, you cannot salt airport runways for this reason.
You know what I like best about that satellite? The creamy white filling.
There's nothing cool about swastikas, even for Hindus (it's a sacred symbol after all).
By that same logic, you could say that there's nothing cool about crosses, even for Christians (it's a sacred symbol, after all). Yet many people are proud to display their sacred symbol.
Whoa, you're right about that! We need to ban wooden chairs immediately. I'd glad that someone is thinking about the children. Thank you for your patriotism, citizen.
That's actually a bit misleading. Sure, Microsoft has been selling operating systems and office productivity products for more than 25 years. But Windows 7 and Office 2010 haven't been out for that long, so you can't imply that Microsoft isn't introducing new products. They have a couple of really popular brands and they're going to continue leveraging those names as long as they can.
The truth is instead of spending energy trying to hold afloat a sinking ship, it may be time to start putting the gang-plank out to that shiny new boat that can take us the rest of the way.
But what if we used 1/2 the money to turn that old boat into a submarine? Then instead of "sinking", it would be utilizing a new feature.
It's not like those terms were agreed upon 50 or 100 years ago, it was agreed upon not too long ago. What is the point of having laws/agreements/contracts if the parties can randomly decide that the terms are no longer valid?
Where does meat fit into your diet? How much protein do you eat?
But what percentage of those astronauts that went into space did so on the Space Shuttle?
You've got to be kidding me.
Then, if officers see the car in motion and judge it can be stopped safely, they can tell OnStar operators, who will send the car a signal via cell phone to slow it to a halt. That sounds like remotely shutting down the vehicle to me. Nobody said anything at all about the brakes being automatically actuated- you threw that strawman in there because you have no other point.
One F-22 doesn't cost $360 million. That's a figure that's thrown around a lot, but that's including the cost of the entire program divided by the number of aircraft produced. Let's say that you had a program where you designed a new car. You spent $100 million in R&D. You plan on making 100,000 of the cars, and the R&D costs will be absorbed by the number of cars produced. If you make 100,000 cars, $1000 gets added to the cost of each car. If the car cost $10,000 to produce, it's now $11,000.
Let's say production is halted and you only make 10,000 cars. Now that R&D cost only gets amortized across 1/10th of the number of vehicles. Instead of the vehicle costing $11,000, it's now $20,000.
If this were being sold to consumers, the company would have to eat the cost because nobody would want to pay that much for a vehicle worth half the price. But for military projects, the military ends up footing the bill.
In reality, each F-22 costs about $120 million. The R&D and tooling cost was already spent.
If you're counting how many times it's been downloaded, that doesn't tell you much. I'm a Windows user, but I've downloaded Linux a few different times. I played with it, but that doesn't make me primarily a Linux user. I'm still a Windows user, but I'd be counted as several Linux users if you just looked at download stats.
First of all, home desktops outnumber corporate desktops. Second of all, every company I've ever worked at used Windows.
He's still relevant because out of all the engineers who've ever done anything, Woz is very arguably in the top 10, period, of all time, end of story (which makes him one of the few, if any, who are still alive)
Do you often spell out your punctuation? Do you often put the period in the middle of the sentence?
A fish can go pretty far using no diesel fuel at all.
I think our idiots will wake up long before that happens. Right now they're just sitting fat and happy, but when the sh!t hits the fan, they'll be forced to make a change. Voting for people like Bush seemed like a good idea to them then, but if the country starts going down the tubes, they'll wake up and realize that people like that aren't a good choice after all.