That feeling when you realise the traffic lights have to be connected to air traffic control.
And the transportation engineers tend to be a bit, um, special themselves.
As a civil engineer who did all the coursework anyone considering going into transportation engineering had to do at my uni my theory is: overexposure to clothoids at too young an age. Some kids just can’t handle that.
When I’ve seen these mandatory monitoring features in medical devices, it has been as a mitigation for known but rare defects.
Beside the consumer protection aspect of forcing customers to subscribe to an optional service they may not want, this reeks of a potential safety defect that GM wants to monitor without holding back sales.
Huh. Spotted a Ford Sierra Cosworth at the beginning of Sandman episode 3. Somebody on that production is a petrolhead.
“That is why we sign the waiver.”
Indeed.
Are they US street legal?
Do you have a latent death wish?
ETA:
Gah, this isn’t what I wanted to post!
Maybe.
This is what I wanted to post:
And I thought the approach to St Maarten was low…
It may be not my place to say this, but to my mind this is not a conveyance fit for the Empress of Transadelphia.
Follow-up:
Now all they have to do is actually build it.