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They may have a stupid plan, but I am pretty sure even their stupid plan calls for launching > 1 satellite per day.

Except that the radar completely stopped working when the front of the car was covered in a thin layer of snow or ice. And then there were overpasses...

Seems crazy that you would be ok with only every single car using it. What about bikes? dogs? children? cows? tree limbs? mattresses? ladders? trains? horse drawn carriages? deer? I think it should remain no-go for you until all of them are using it.

The actual monitoring is still in place. From the original reddit post:

Teslafi ( https://www.teslafi.com/firmware.php ) suggests that this option is available on 2% of the fleet (and most of them got it yesterday).

Because they want their product to be used? Anyway 4 or 5 years ago, after some NHTSA investigation, Tesla was seemingly forced to make changes. The vehicles now always come to a complete stop at stop signs as opposed to optionally rolling at three miles per hour through the stop sign. The...

When I first heard the name, my first thought was having to tell a jury that you put your car in Mad Max mode. I don't even know what the movies are about, but having a driving option with mad in the name seems mad. Seemingly this is just two numerical options (max speed multiplier and some...

For example, on July 6, 2016 police officer Jeronimo Yanez shot Philando Castile. One of the few pieces of evidence introduced at the trial of Yanez was the radio traffic on ARMER talkgroup 10430 (St Anthony Car to Car) where they discuss why they were stopping the car. At that time, it was not...

I think the Motorola ADP is 40 bit. At least in my part of the country almost all of this was transmitted without any encryption a few years ago. The strength of the encryption doesn't really matter. Any degree of encryption means that it won't be available to scanners and scanner apps and the...

In the US, P25 radios are commonly used for public safety. While there is a weak motorola proprietary encryption occasionally used, generally DES (56 bit) or AES (256 bit) are used.

LSP launches are the launches with the requirement that all previous launches by the same type of rocket be analyzed before flight, right? Meaning they create a weird bubble where you can't launch anything for a few days before an LSP launch. Or am I misremembering?

If it is a bargain, image what kind of bargain it was once announced to be... 11 September 2003:

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V092-6812.PDF That seems quite different from 570 crashes.

I think you let the kind of grand "Federal Election Commission" name confuse you. They don't have anything to do with who won an election. They collect reports on who contributed to what campaign. As they say on their website: US campaign finance laws are weak enough and contain enough...

I don't have any data, but I would guess that "morale at the agency is 'absurdly low'" would apply at many federal government agencies.

I am sure I am missing something obvious, but I can't figure out what it is. 9 * 24 * 365 =78,840. So, 78,840 gigatons lost/year, but only 1,000 gigatons freshwater flow/year? How are the other 77,840 gigatons lost?

What does such a manager actually do then? It seems like a terrible way to manage anything. Is this part of why so many government projects seem so screwed up?

Is this really a thing?

Doctors are still required to read and correct these documents before signing them, right? ;)

Tesla also streamed the event on YouTube. View: https://youtu.be/6v6dbxPlsXs?t=3165 SpaceX does the annoying only on X thing, but Tesla does not, so far.