I thought they’d already banned the military from using this, you’d think secret service would be included in that ban too

Gen Z is a lot older than you think, early gen Z were around when fax machines were still common. Gen alpha maybe though.

do you think you have to kill chickens to collect their eggs?

Even then we still don’t use the same control scheme as the model T then, the model T had a separate forward and reverse pedal and no clutch.

But fly by wire isn’t a matter of difficulty it’s a matter of redundancy and safety, like I pointed out before, people aren’t going to maintain the system properly and if there isn’t a back up it’s going to lead to accidents.

Fly by wire would be a terrible design for a car, I’ve seen people driving on space saver tires or with taped up windows for months. If people already just ignore warning lights until something physically stops them from driving then at least having a physical steering column means there’s still control after the power steering fails so that they don’t go straight on into oncoming traffic.

On your other point about still using the same control systems as a model T, modern cars don’t. Hydraulic steering came around in the 50s and almost all modern cars have electric power steering, the model T had completely unassisted rack and pinion steering. I can’t find any definite answer on what the last car without any hydraulic steering was but I’d definitely like to find out if anyone knows.

They always seem so chill in photos but I’ve worked with them and they’re one of the most skittish animals I’ve dealt with, the tapir they lived with was always wanting scratches though

Wait they actually released that thing? I thought they dropped the semi truck design?

Tbf other countries were starting to build up prior to the start of ww2, it’s not like they suddenly started the war effort in 1939. Afaik the only reason the war didn’t start when other countries were annexed is because Britain and France wanted to build up their armies first and Poland just became the breaking point.

I thought they’d confirmed that almost a year ago when it was spreading through sea mammals?

Oh fun, I just got my airbag module replaced in my 2012 Kia and now I might need to get the airbag itself replaced

At least Stingrays look good, I don’t think anyone’s gonna be crowding around a cybertruck asking about it’s specs

Sounds like Skippy from cyberpunk2077

Not only did they decide to do it in the middle of a religious festival, they did it in the middle of a festival that’s part of a religion that worships nature.

Oh no! Anyway

Houses are required to have heating so why shouldn’t we just change it to include cooling as well? Or maybe in your mind we should go the other way and stop requiring heating so we can all suffer in the winter too?

Btw plenty of people in Europe do have AC, it’s just that they usually tend to be portable units that can only cool one room at a time.

The desktop version of Earth has had it since the early 2010s if not earlier, I remember messing around with it while being taught how to use the measuring tools in a geography lesson, tbf that’s only for maps though not street view

I’m in Europe and I still get blinded by modern SUVs with LED headlights constantly, having auto levelling headlights is nice and all but when the headlights themselves are at eye level for drivers in anything lower than a landrover it doesn’t change much

Idk if they’ve got a fully worked out solution but some of their renders from a few years ago just had a big hydrogen tank in the tail, you don’t really need to worry about the centre of mass shifting as the fuel drops if the fuel doesn’t weigh anything

Faster transport hasn’t always been a good thing though, look at Concorde. The fastest passenger vehicle to ever exist and it was retired without a replacement because the extra speed wasn’t worth the cost and it lost money even with government subsidies.

I think airbus managed to get pretty far with their hydrogen jet engine tests a couple years back, plus because hydrogen is lighter than air it means the aircraft that run on it would be even more efficient due to the lower weight