Nowhere in the article did they mention they’d all be running the same software. In spec racing series now, you still have variables between the cars - the suspension setup, the driver, etc... I imagine that for a spec autonomous racing series, you have the exact same thing except the variable driver is replaced by…
That book hit me right in the feels... I have never actually cried while reading a book until The Art of Racing in the Rain, and I bawled multiple times while reading it. Fantastic read, even though it has its sad moments.
This bothers me. Why is “Dynamic steering” not in Dynamic mode?!
YES! An engineer who actually understands how the auto industry works!! Cue all the “I can spend $5 on plastidip, why can’t the OEMs just do that?!”
The Ford Racing Handling Pack (FR3 kit) is not a factory option on the GT. You’re thinking of the “Performance Pack”. The FR3 kit is a part designed by the Ford Racing Performance Parts group, which is separate of the base Mustang team.
Haha go drive a Fiesta ST for a bit, then your Focus ST will feel very plush!
Wow, leaking strut? How many miles on the car? I’m a bit surprised since my struts are fine, and I daily drive on notoriously bad Michigan roads (~23k miles so far).
My understanding is that it’s pretty close to stock, besides obvious safety equipment (cage, seats, harness, etc...) and shocks. The shocks are actual racing shocks, but the rest is stock (again, that’s my understanding from what I’ve heard).
Lol the coils are over $2k, the hardtop likely $3-4k. So $5k minimum? Yeah, kind of a big deal.
Yes, it actually is.
Interesting... I’m curious - what exactly was the issue?
So ideologically, I actually agree with you. I just don’t think it is very realistic. Sure, let’s raise electricity prices (through fees for emissions, or carbon tax, whatever) - theoretically, people should realize that by using less, they will be paying less. Switching to LEDs, making even a slight effort to…
The problem there is that as soon as the electric company gets the fees for emissions, they’ll pass those costs on to the consumer. Now your electricity prices are higher, and you have (almost) no say in how the electric company produces your electricity.
So, just in my experience with one auto manufacturer, they do that. I have participated in studies where one company will take vehicles (sometimes their own, often other manufacturers) and do just that - you don’t get to look at the dash, then you’re told “do this”. Then you can look at it, and they record how long it…
Lol I’m really not an angry person, but you can’t seem to provide any useful reasoning for your argument beyond “well that’s how it’s always been”.
Hold up, let me quote myself here...
What? What does that have to do with anything? Not to mention that the touch screen is probably closer to the shifter than a button to the left of the steering wheel (for example, where the traction control button is on my Fiesta ST).
Agreed. But I think the issue is still time and money. It probably takes more money, or maybe even more physical space to get a better processor for faster responsiveness. And it takes more money for software engineers to design/write the system to work better.
Saving money? Saving precious interior space? Again, for the vast majority of owners, they’ll likely never need the traction control button, so why waste space on it? Why waste money on it?