This is today’s version of Industrial Musicals. In the 1950s-1970s, corporations would commission entire musical theater productions as propaganda/hype material for their conventions.
Twenty Thousand Hertz did a great episode about it, and there’s a documentary about them as well (trailer).
As someone who might be plowed into by one of these things, I care about the difference. Is it something where 80% of them will be automatically fixed within 72 hours by an auto-update, or is it something I’ll need to worry about for weeks/months. There’s no way to know which recalls have been fixed when encountering a vehicle in the wild, so if it’s a software-only recall fix that applies automatically, I feel less concerned about it once the fix is available.
None of this should be taken as support of recklessly shipping unfinished software into a car.
A bigger plane falls victim to the square cube law - as it gets bigger the support structures need to get bigger too. At least that’s my hypothesis, clearly the article didn’t mention this. I’m curious if multiple smaller planes allows each plane to be lighter weight relative to the cargo capacity, with the front plane just sporting an engine overspend to its own size/weight.
Additionally, Apple intentionally makes green bubbles harder to read than blue bubbles.
https://medium.com/@krvoller/how-iphone-violates-apples-accessibility-guidelines-6785172eb343
Probably not for the most part. You need to get a face scan for the customized foam insert, so buying one secondhand might be a pain.
I’m inclined to believe this post, claiming this article is BS https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/112825798853315264