“Everyone wants to talk about a moonshot. That’s not an accurate term for most projects it’s applied to, which are just about identifying outrageous market segments,” says Castriota. “When NASA said they want to go to the moon, they knew where they were going. They just had to reverse engineer how to do it. We were in much the same position.”
“If everything goes perfectly, then most people could do it,” Webb says.
“Nobody knew who we were,” Jerod said. “I decided that this top-speed record would be a good way to get mentioned in the same sentence with Bugatti, Koenigsegg, and Ferrari.”
“You can be a success in most things if you put in enough effort, but we all fail in our effort to go home again.”
Celebrating 09/28 with my Porsche 928.
Smart streets. Smart cars. Smart drones. Smart houses. Smart ubiquitous surveillance. What could possibly go wrong?
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My brilliant friend Tamara Warren launched her new automotive site, Le Car, today, and I’m honored to have a story included. What’s more, it combines my two areas of expertise, cars and kids.
Mercedes-Benz refers to this as “four-dimensional aural immersion.” It would not confirm that the system was tuned by listening to “WAP.”
