I'm pretty sure a computer can out-smooth-brake a human, even today.

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Oh, sweet. Now let me just contact my cable company to get that one extra channel... oh wait, I have to add over $100/month of services just to watch Top Gear. No thanks.

Also knew a kid in HS who got a new Corvette and promptly rolled it. Got a new Jeep or something after that.

What do you mean? There are two speedos, the one on the left is pretty smooth. The readout on the right is not refreshing that fast which is kind of annoying. Is that what you meant? Of course the progression isn't linear, the acceleration isn't linear.

I was referring to monthly costs, not overall.

Yeah I had a POS.... three of them actually, that had mediocre safety ratings. I destroyed all of them. Once of them broke my arm and that's when it sort of hit me that I wasn't as invincible as I thought.

Yup. Which is why we sort of had a SUV arms race. If you car weighs more than the car it hits you sacrifice the other people's safety for your own. Of course, this also increases braking distance (usually), handling, and a host of other things but as long as my kids are safe when they drive recklessly, who cares?!

Ah, so it would still affect the range but to a slightly smaller degree. My point was that perfect range would be acquired flat (or downhill, really...), no braking, no acceleration (save for the first start and final stop), no speed changes.

Yup. I'm dreaming of replacing my Focus with a Model S, but to get the one I really want I would have to pay what a decent mortgage costs around here, even after discounting gasoline costs. No thanks.

I imagine it's as little as possible, maybe even without braking at all. Virtually any braking means you'll have to accelerate again at some point (unless you go 240 miles down hill the whole way), and while regenerative braking recoups some lost energy you still lose overall.

Sure. Can that 90 year old though?

It's 100lbs....

He left the car before impact.

Woo hoo! Just enough for my lifespan. Suck it!

Honda? You mean 3 story boat diesel.

Mark of the warrior. Never remove it.

What are you talking about? The point is that an electric fan gives you relatively constant flow when on. Of course there's zero airflow when it's off but that's not what he's getting at. Having the ECU control whether the radiator fan is on allows the car to warm up a bit faster, and it saves power by turning the fan…

Why is it dumb? Because controls on the steering wheel should be controls needed when driving. It's like putting A/C controls on the steering wheel.

Well, the pretensioner maybe we don't, but the same mechanism gets involved regardless of whether it's pretensioned or not. You just have a small amount more slack without it.