Manufacturers of “driverless” vehicles apparently are soon to be held liable for crashes in the UK, not the owners. British motorists will “not be liable” if their self-driving vehicle crashes while they are behind the wheel, according to experts. Yousif Al-Ani, principal ADAS engineer at ‘automotive risk intelligence company Thatcham Research stressed a recent ruling … Continue reading New UK “Driverless” Law Says Car Owners Not Liable for Crashes→
A Tesla Semi without a trailer suddenly veered off an Interstate into a tree (like so many other Tesla do) and exploded with such an intense 1,000 degree fire, it shut all lanes down. The crash occurred around 3:15 a.m. near Emigrant Gap where an electric vehicle traveling eastbound at the Laing Road offramp crashed … Continue reading Tesla Semi in “Veered” Crash: 12 Hour Toxic Fire Shuts Down California I-80→
American history is full of censorship and denials, as evidenced perhaps best by the KKK controlling the Oklahoma narrative for so long. The massacre took place over two days in 1921, a long-suppressed episode of racial violence that destroyed a community known as Black Wall Street and ended with as many as 300 Black people … Continue reading 3 More Victims Found of 1921 Tulsa Massacre→
It was pointed out to me recently that a paper (written by Tesla and SpaceX engineers) published by Elon Musk in 2013 credited the Hyperloop concept of a vacuum tube train to “The Limit of Rapid Transit” by Robert Goddard in 1909. That’s a start. Goddard was a prodigious inventor who experimented a lot with … Continue reading Who Invented the Doomed Hyperloop?→