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I don't think we should assume autonomous cars will reduce traffic stress. http://www.businessinsider.com/self-driving-cars-traffic-con...

Denver driver/transit-er here. Cars aren’t automatically better than transit in many cases.

The rail is nearly as fast and much less hassle along the I-25 corridor, which is why I take it. My route is probably the most optimal of course as I both live and work near a light rail station.

I’ve commuted from south Denver to Boulder and that is about 30 minutes longer using Public Transit, but that’s largely due to transfer waits.

"... is like saying I'm putting my company above my health."

From parent: "Ron Conway: Well I mean are you willing to work 24/7"

So, yes. That's exactly what they are saying.

The general term is "Bootstrapping" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

Generally you start with "something smaller/easier" and build your way up.

Denverite here (lots of microbreweries in the area). This is obviously anecdote, but it seems that the desire to max out the IBUs in Pale Ales and India Pale Ales has run its course. I never was a big IPA fan and couldn't even order a standard Pale Ale for years. I feel I can now safely order a Pale Ale in most places that isn't super bitter.

Braking power is proportional to mass and velocity. Larger mass moving faster needs bigger brakes.

Electric motors can be used to provide some braking via regeneration, but even so braking generally comes down to "how much heat can you dissipate". A small, slow (relatively speaking) city car won't have as much heat to dissipate, so there are more options when braking.

Having lived in a "remote" (read not actually remote but not served by any ISP) area nearly anything would have been better than dial-up.

Way back in the day (10-15 years ago) my friend with satellite Internet had 300+ ms pings everywhere and at the time a dial-up modem was still required. Good to know things have changed.

"They laid the pipe"

With how much in original federal subsidies? How much in annual federal subsidies? How much is the protection of monopoly provider in certain areas worth?

They (Comcast) aren't running their business with ONLY their dollars.

I am not a fan of Comcast, but I'm not switching my hard-wired Internet for satellite Internet which is high-latency and subject to weather conditions.

Hmm, they are local. I think I'll apply. :-D

Oh, I think I understand now. "I have to use one on my phone"

Thanks!

I'm not sure what you mean by "I don't get to choose if I need one". Both Android and iOS natively support VPNs, and most corporate phones are set up to connect to the corporate network securely via VPN - on many US carriers.

Another satisfied NewsBlur subscriber here. I’d add that the iOS app is excellent and I regularly switch between web and mobile without any synchronization issues. Highly recommended!

I'm responding to your question of "Why should we have density?" I do not care to quibble about the number of benefits, merely to state there are measurable ones.

Density provides many benefits. For example - how much is an hour worth to you? How many hours a day do you commute? How many hours are just sitting in a car watching traffic (or the countryside) driving back and forth to work? That certainly isn't a zero dollar impact.

It would be nice if telecommuting was an option, but even most computer-based programming positions don't have a lot of telecommuting flexibility.

Yep, I've owned Jeeps (YJ, TJ) and regularly ran with no top/no doors. Rain gets in, pull plugs, rain goes out.

Also mud and deep water. But that's another story. :-)

FYI - if you do get a Honda Element don't wash the interior out with a hose: http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-...

(I am an Element owner - I have not hosed out my Element however)

I've heard (citation needed) that if you are going to be in an accident the best step to take is to relax.

Anecdotally, it depends on how far away you see it coming. I'm constantly scanning front, rear mirrors, and side mirrors and if someone is driving erratically I take steps to get out of their way (in a safe and predictable manner of course!) I have no evidence this keeps me safer, but this and other "traffic calming" behavior I engage in makes my commute less stressful. It has the nice side-effect of continuous practice that reinforces good driving techniques.

Yeah, If i get a password prompt and I didn't do anything to "initiate" it, then i'm not typing my password in. I've never had anything fail using this behavior so I feel I'm safe.

"feel" being the operative word here - am I safer? Who knows?

I'm hoping they don't remove the app. I use Groove to play my MP3 collection. It's built in and gets the job done.

If its a turbo (i assume not?) the car’s ECU will compensate for lower octane. Source: me when, half asleep, I accidentally half-filled my 03 WRX tank with 87.

It seems one of the "killer features" of this transmission is the ability to rotate in the same direction as the motor is spinning as well as the opposite direction the motor is spinning. I'm not sure if there is a lot of utility in "bicycling backwards while pedaling forwards". :-)

Still - I would imagine there are many uses outside of robotics for this transmission.

facepalm I see now.

An M4 is price equivalent to a Golf R in Europe? Wow - quite a different story here in the US.

The magnitude of the emissions. We are putting tens of billions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere per year. Even assuming the filtering process is very efficient (net-carbon negative) where do we store that in the blimp? How many blimps would we need?

As a thought experiment - look at the average car - a Toyota Camry for example. That car emits 206 grams per kilometer. Over the course of the car's lifetime (about 200 thousand kilometers or so) that's 41 thousand kilograms of CO2. For one family car.

Apologies for off-topic question, but which Android app do you use? My favorite app (Overcast) is only available on iOS and I cannot recommend it to friends on Android-based devices.

I remember that story well. I still assert that someone could find out EVEN MORE with my web history and location data.

It's similar to other rewards programs but "Customers must give the carrier access to their web-browsing history, app usage and location data" is a lot more information about me than "what I've bought at <local supermarket> in the past year".

Boring old rubber car tires can already grip at 1+ G. Tire technology isn't currently a safety limitation in road cars.

I love VR car racing, and it's way cheaper when I make a mistake and spin or go into a wall, but it's just not the same as an actual track day (not racing, just a standard "high performance driving event") in my boring daily driver. I'm not sure it will ever be.