But cheap and useful is a much better gift than cheap and eyesore. You weren’t being cheap, you were being thrifty. And doing (I’m guessing) 24 turkshead knots is not quick, so you invested your time, too.

My Escape didn’t have the factory keypad, but they do offer a keypad that just sticks on with double-side tape. It works the same as the remote on the key, and you set your own code. It‘s great when I go kayaking or the beach, don’t have to worry about drowning the key.

It doesn’t sterilize somebody that already had it. But more than likely, the number of people that leave with the virus will be equal to the number that arrived with it.

Machine learning might help with bots in a game, but it would probably be useless for a product launch like this. Where are you going to get the data to train it? Even the legitimate buyers on launch day are going to look very different from the normal store traffic from any other day.

You’re thinking of the non-plug HEV like the Prius, which requires the ICE engine for some driving modes, especially highway speeds. I’m talking about a PHEV like the Volt, which has a 149hp electric motor, and the 84hp ICE engine is ONLY used to charge the battery. There’s no drivetrain connection for the ICE, and…

Maybe not new testing, but certainly a lot more redesign and R&D for the smaller crunch zone. While by leaving the long front they can use most of what works in the current model, perhaps with minor tweaks instead of a ground-up redesign. The extra length also means a larger crunch zone which can absorb more energy,…

Right, but I was talking about when it’s used for extended range and the battery is low. It doesn’t let it get low enough that it NEEDS the ICE to launch from a stop at the green light. And the short duration where the power used is greater than the power generated by the ICE is followed by some less stressful duration…

The reason they can have a smaller engine is because nobody except race cars drive at redline all the time. A PHEV that has electric motors sized correctly will still have power to get things moving when the light turns green, and the ICE engine can make up the difference over the next mile or so. The smaller ICE…

That design still uses a standard propeller, but at certain wind angles, the rotor sails can reduce fuel usage by about 40%, or increase the speed by around 3 knots at a constant power level. Source

I’m surprised they have so much horizontal top surface and don’t have more solar panels. They will need some power to move the sails and rudder, and charge the batteries for the electric motor they use in the harbor.

The tube thing is pretty cool. It uses the Magnus Effect, which is the same thing that gives a curve ball the curve in baseball. It does require electricity to spin the tube, but far less energy than the propulsion it is able to extract from the wind.

But that doesn’t explain picking two words that are so similar for two different models that are offered in the same market. I mean if VW had the Tiguan and Subaru had the Taigun, then VW would have a legitimate trademark lawsuit in a heartbeat.

Random would be better than two words that are 90% similar. But maybe two different words might still be better than just random.

and its availability as a feature would essentially advertise the unreliability of first party hardware.

But his shirt is readable, which wouldn’t happen in a mirror. Of course I can’t rule out a good Photoshop, but I don’t see a bad one. My guess is the tat artist printed the design on some transfer paper and applied it wrong way up.

Downside is: Pipe insulation usually not as stiff or thick as a pool noodle, which could make a difference if you are trying to protect something. But they do often have a handy adhesive tape to seal the split together around something.

If there is any work involved in replacing the stick, they might just have an inventory of fixed units they can send out when they get yours, and then have time to fix and test yours before sending them to someone else.

If you have a deadzone set to 0.2, then the software should scale the remaining 0.8 across the full 0-1 value. So 0.2 is treated as 0 and 0.24 becomes 0.05. Then you have no trouble walking before you run. And all of this should be handled at the system level, so the game dev doesn’t need to, and it works across all…

There are plenty of ways to solve this kind of problem that require no hardware change at all. Dead zones and center recalibration have been normal in many kinds of software for decades.

These cars are in California, which requires an even longer 10-year, 150,000 mile warranty on the battery.