maestro64

The lesson for everyone, even your lawyer (Attorney Client Privilege) is not beyond the reach of our government if they looking to make an example of you. 

Everyone should put their politics aside and decide if what you are seeing from our government is good. Remember what they use to say, first they came for people you did not know, and you did not say anything, then they came for your neighbors, and still did not say anything, then your family and finally you but no one say anything to help you either.

That is pretty much how R&D is done, Red boards are common so people know it is not a real product. That board is made to do hardware debug to make sure all the hardware feature work and so you can easily put an analyzer on the board and look at the signal.

wood1208 said:

Don't believe what you read. Pilots are trained in many ways including flight simulators,cockpit practical flying,etc. Than, they fly for thousands of hours call on job perfecting skills.

Yes, all pilots are trained, but most have not idea why a plane flies (lack the engineering and technical skills). If you do not think this is important, just think about the two crashes.

Most likely we will hear there was some sort of bad data feeding (angle of attack sensor) the automatic flight controls which cause the plane to nose dive into the ground. However, it is easily corrected by turning off the automatic flight controls and fly the plane by the seat of your pants. The problem is no airline wants the pilots not following the book or flying by the seat of their pants. If you watch Sully the movie and listen to what they did in the hearing, they focused on Sully not flying by the book and doing his own analysis and what was best and turned out to be the best course of action. They do not want pilots not following their official training.

If you are flying outside US airlines, you may want to think twice about getting on the plane especially now with them becoming even more complex to fly with all the automatic controls. Pilots are very disconnect from the actually flying the just monitoring the systems. US pilots are still better than any pilots around the world they tend to have way more flight time on multiply platforms or know one platform really well. Because of these automatic flight systems it allows Airlines to use lower skilled Pilots since the computers are doing most all of the heavy work.

Who came up with the 35M number, I think what Apple sold is high since I see people wearing them everywhere. Unlike the old style Bluetooth earpieces for a cellphone which made you like the Borg on Star Trak the Airpod are hardly noticeable. Apple once again hit on what people really want, so much so the design is being knocked off all over the place. I hope the next version comes in black.

Anyone who lives in the northeast would you want a car drive you around which was trained on California roads? I'll give you a hint, would you get in any car with a person who never seen snow and let them drive you during the storm we just had.

The van Idea make sense since it give more room for batteries and allows the sensor to have higher vantage point. 

When I tough my kids to drive one things I taught them was not to always watch the car in front of them but the cars 10 in front as well as the cars behind. I have avoided more accidents because I saw brake lights way ahead and began slowing long before the car in front of me even tapped their brakes, this also allowed the cars behind me to begin slowing so we all did not have to panic stop. This is call offensive driving which most drivers do not do and think about the people programing theses system, what view of driving do they follow.