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Reminds me of a story a contractor told me: he was building a multi-million dollar house in Hawaii as a second home for a very wealthy California couple. He said they made the kitc…

Xenses Park near Cancun, Mexico, also has a great illusion with water appearing to flow uphill - it's very disorienting: https://youtu.be/c8v_CJtYjCI (Water mentioned around 2:10) …

Tesla frequently talks about platooning when touting their Semi. "Self-driving" by almost blindly following a human-driven lead vehicle doesn't seem that far off. But I'm not looki…

This. An unoccupied car should be able to find a parking spot at the mall or in a parking garage, or go from the airport terminal to the "economy" or "cell phone" lot by itself. An…

The plane didn't leave the ground - the engine blew up as we were accelerating for takeoff. That's now something I now find reassuring: takeoff seems to be a time of maximum stress…

There's better advice here than thinking about the odds of a crash, but if that helps, you could also factor in the odds of actually dying in a crash - not just being in one - beca…

Flew it once myself, must have 1986 or 1987. Some of the same memories: - Not just tiny, but claustrophobic: seemed like it had about 30 or 35 rows, so if you were in the back it w…

They do: see http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/creating-world%E2%80%99s-bes... "Tesla is building a fleet of top of the line Model S loaners. These will not be our basic model – they…

Perhaps the future lies more with the "something you have" form of authentication than the "something you know", like passwords, that this article complains about. For example, Goo…