KlausWintergreen

Sorry I figured 900 lbs was pretty close to "like 1000 lbs"

just an accounting of the erosion of basic human rights

Look dude, I don't know how old you are or how much time youve spent in sports. But this absolutely isn't an "erosion". Coaches used to have absolutely immunity and were so much more brutal, both physically and mentally, than they are allowed to be down.

And to be clear, this isn't condoning what the coach did. But the mere fact he got fired (and has charges pending) is actually an improvement since the 90s.

Again, what the coach did is not good. And just because it's "better" doesn't mean it's good. Its just hard to take your comment seriously when you clearly have no context.

Its not any more expensive than some of the European stuff haha

Electric eels are psy ops. You can't have electricity underwater duh

The lightest model 3 weighs about 3900lbs. Which is going to be like 1000lbs on any similarly sized ICE car

Challengers are very heavy cars (which is why they aren't great sports cars :p haha) something like a civic is between 2800-3000 lbs.

The vast majority of the F-35 construction is actually done inside the US, and that's required for security requirements for things like this.

Now a bunch of countries (Canada, UK, Netherlands, and some others) did contribute to the development of the F-35 but I want to say it was only around ~10% of the total cost. And that also went towards the purchase price of their first block of airframes.

So that one sensor is $700. Waymo has 4 LIDAR sensors (all of which are physically larger and I would imagine fancier than the Alibaba ones, but that's speculation), so just in the scanner hardware itself you're looking at $2,800. Plus the computer to run it, plus the 6 radar receivers, and 13 cameras, I could absolutely see the price for the end user to be around $10k worth of sensors.

But to be clear, I don't think camera only systems are viable or safe. They should at minimum be forced to use radar in combination with their cameras. In fact I actually trust radar more than lidar because it's much less susceptible to heavy snow or rain.