Daily Archives: October 24, 2023

In 2021, an engineer named Missy Cummings drew the ire of Elon Musk on the social network then called Twitter. A professor at Duke University, Cummings had conducted research on the safety of self-driving cars, and the findings led her to issue some stark warnings about Tesla’s driver-assistance tech. The cars, she wrote, had “variable and often unsafe behaviors” that required more…

Inspired By The Corris Railway! Apart from a very few modern examples, it is no longer necessary to think about turning trains round. They come as a close coupled unit usually with power spread throughout the carriages. So gone are the days when a mildly interested passenger asked “what is on the front”? What’s on the front could also be…