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Understanding the engineering mindset behind a Tesla begins with the windshield wipers. Or rather, the control that makes them automatic. Many cars have automatic wipers, Tesla just has one of the worst systems. It doesn’t work very well and that fact is well documented on Twitter. Solutions exist to upgrade Tesla’s automatic wipers so they […]
With the introduction and growth of Driverless Cars (or Autonomous Vehicles) a pressing ethical question has arisen over how to program these cars in situations that will clearly result in an unavoidable collision. Faced with the choice of saving the “driver” (or the occupants of the vehicle) by plowing into a group of pedestrians, or sacrificing the occupants for the greater good, should the AV be programmed to save as many lives as possible?
It takes technology, of course, to win a Formula 1 race and in today’s world tha means an electric motor, not just a gas powered engine. The combination of torque and immediate response from an electric motor with the high top speed of a gas powered engine with gears is unbeatable.
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