The motorcycle on which Evel Knievel allegedly first planned to jump the Grand Canyon was, in fact, equipped with Turbonique rocket motors.



That the bike was actually functional, or capable of making the jump, has to some extent been de-bunked. Good article here from a retired aerospace engineer who claims to have had some involvement: How I met Evel Knievel



But, yeah, Gene Middlebrooks (Turbonique founder) was clearly on-par with Knievel on the batshit-crazy-ometer.






Anyway, this is allegedly footage of a Tesla model 3, running on Autopilot, doing a remarkably good job of holding its lane position and not crashing after a Nissan gives it a pretty good sideways whack at high speed:



I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to do that manually.

 

 

^ That's entertainment

 

 

 

Finally back to normal Internet. I can post!

 

 

 

 

 

^ Probably laughed more than I should

 

 

I'm inclined to think this was intentional...

 

^ Yeah, no doubt. At least they got the price right.


Unrelated:

(and clearly not a turkey bone)

 

 

 

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(from Douglas Adams)

--Ian