Do you drive in a region where the roads are salted, sanded in the winter? This is typically the case when I've had it happen. I would guess that potentially heavy dust could also cause it.

I've had the same issue on other makes in rental cars. Sensor's get dirty/obscured, at some point the software decides there isn't enough data to operate properly and disables. Normal cruise control won't be an option because of the human element. Can't have people thinking the car will react to other vehicles when it won't, can't trust the general public with that/withstand the lawsuits that will inevitably result.

I feel ya, but the problem with regulating the news/press is that the regulation could be used to erase dissent by the party in power. If any of the powerful in this country had those tools at their disposal, the US could have been an authoritarian regime a long time ago. Who determines "truth?" There is no unbiased, effective method the law/state has for determining and applying reality.

As it stands, news sources here are beholden to the whims of capitalism. People recognizing their bullshit don't engage with them, not subscribing or ignoring their advertisers, redirecting potential revenue. If no one is watching, they aren't surviving. In a regime with state-approved "truth," if no one is watching the single state news source, it doesn't matter. There's only one choice anyway, no need for any others as they wouldn't be spreading the "truth." A creative authoritarian regime might allow slightly different flavors of the "truth" to proliferate and encourage multiple news outlets to give the illusion of choice and freedom, but they are all constrained by the state-sponsored "truth."

Any single news source is curated bullshit. Only when taken together as a mass collage, or at least from sources that have differing motivations/biases/financial support can an approximation of reality start to emerge. We need the shittiest rags to be allowed to exist so that more of our world is exposed. Most of the time they aren't worth listening to, and the size of their audience will reflect that, but sometimes they are the only ones willing and motivated to publish the obscure, dangerous, unpleasant gems of reality.

Freedom of the press and freedom of speech (and freedom from of religion, but that's another discussion) are intertwined and integral to each other, and ineffective individually. Diversity is a strength.

TLDR: If you craft a weapon to beat your enemy with, they can turn it on you and may have fewer reservations about using it.

This where the PHEV shines. The short, slow trips are better on electric. Longer trips, the MHEV is going to be more efficient

The wing has to be structurally modified to handle the weight and aerodynamic forces the winglets will produce. Have a look at this link for a possible modification path and its challenges. (same link in two formats)

https://www.tamarackaero.com/technology

Tamarack Active Winglets

Y'all need to watch The Measure of a Man or similar. Isn't that simple

Thanks for running the math! So now the next question, that can't be answered, given enough distance to target, would it be better to use all the antimatter as propellant to accelerate to a higher speed? I'm assuming this can't be answered as there's no way to calculate anything related to warp drive or for speeds faster than c. For 'close' to real world, perhaps it would about even out? The kinetic energy contained in the fuel would approximately equal the energy gained by accelerating the device. But, isn't it pretty much assumed that warp tech/magic involves gaining many orders of magnitude more energy out in kinetic energy than the drive generates from anti-matter annihilation, through the magic of the warp bubble?

Good point, thanks for saying this. Assuming there is no seat limitation, it's the entire payload that's an issue, not one element of it.

Definitely, brings up a question I had: Are photon torpedoes contact or proximity fused? Which brings up a second question: Would a torpedo do more damage from kinetic impact at c or from the anti-matter/matter annihilation? I assume that the kinetic energy isn't able to be calculated at c, but 99.99% ought to be close enough.

Yeah, if we are talking about building a specific purpose Borg hunting ship, I'd suggest grabbing the phase shifting cloaking device from the Pegasus. Get the Romulan's in on it purely for Borg hunting purposes (worked with the Dominion) and have a small ship like the Defiant, carrying massive cloaking mines you could leave behind in the cube, decloaking, phasing in, and detonating at the same time. No need to lose the ship here.

Of course, if the Borg got a hold of the phase cloak, that might be bad.

The following idea wouldn't happen due to budget, plot or continuity issues of the show, but seems to me like the best attack the D had was to evacuate the star drive section and Holdo maneuver it into the cube. Picard maneuver suggests the cube wouldn't be able to outmaneuver it. Plus Worf gets to say "ramming speed" with some actual consequence. Losing the star drive section is a helluva lot better consequence than losing the fleet. Granted, they did not know that Wolf 359 would be so catastrophic.

Would the Tamarian's love Pulp Fiction?

Butch and Wallace, in the basement.

Jules, his eyes open.

Jules and Vincent get the hose.

Jules and Pumpkin, with the wallet

Butch, after the fight

Butch, receiving the watch.

There are so many.

Likelihood of pilots bitching about the job approaches 100% as the number of pilots in a group increases above 1.

"Work work work work politics work work"

I do 2-4-6, but same idea. Especially wish I could swap 6 into 5's spot and put a taller gear in 6th, almost never use 5th.

Hmm... laser guided stink bombs. I like this line of thought. The real sticky, foul kind. With a non-washable mild radioactive tracer, yes, this could work

Agreed. Have to use the physical key all the time now with mine.

But they are standard aboard aircraft. Enclosed, and mostly airtight

CX-90 has the auto high beam control button on the end of the light control stalk. When enabled a green A in a circle indicator illuminates in the top left center of the instrument cluster. I believe the default setting is auto high beams on. With this setting enabled. Any time the headlights are on, the auto high beams come on when system logic dictates. You can enable or disable via the button on the end of the stalk.

Electric cars can be light, just have to kill the range as a sacrifice, and not be trying to prove something with the acceleration. I might be willing to take an electric Miata with about 100 miles range if the weight was close, and still balanced. If done right, cg could be lower, might be able to still feel the same with a few more pounds on her.

That said, it would not be a GT with that low range, and would turn off anyone who would take it on longer drives. Not sure it's worth cutting out that segment of the market. I do not want the electric Miata to kill the Miata off if it fails. If Mazda could manage to offer a potential electric Miata AND the classic I4 manual, until the market decides if the electric can truly replace the fun, at least 2 model years, maybe as many as 5 years to finally see what people will actually buy, then I'd support the experiment. They can't half-ass the electric version though. It has to have the same level of thought and tuning that goes into a Miata. I believe it's possible to retain the jinba ittai feel with an electric drive train, but it will require careful reanalyzing the tuning of the suspension, dynamics and inputs.

The original Miata took the best parts of examples of a dying car class and made the enduring class leader. Mazda doesn't have the benefit of decades of various "close but no cigar" electric roadsters to build on. For an electric Miata to be successful, they'll have to take what they can from the ICE version, and build the world's best feeling electric drive train for her. They don't have a bunch of electric experience, so this is a tall order.