Speakers are set up differently more because of how the sound flows than how your ear detects directions. Low frequency tones tend to flow around obstructions (like the speaker enclosure) while high frequency tones tend to be blocked. It took me a while to find concrete numbers on which frequencies are the easiest to…

Modern cars do a wonderful job of keeping out high-pitched sounds, and human hearing is already dreadful at precisely locating high-pitched sounds vs. low pitched sounds. I think it’s time for emergency services to ditch the sirens and install thumpers instead. Engineers might be able to isolate drivers from the sound…

On nearly every bus I’ve seen, just opening the door should activate a brake interlock. Something must be very wrong with this bus if the driver opened the door without the brakes applying at full strength. The only way I suppose he could’ve gotten around it is if he left the driver’s window open and reached in to…

One of the Toyotas (#9) suffered a flat tire as a result of contact and damaged the car limping it back to the pits. IMO it was completely driver error because he was driving back very quickly and the carcass of the tire severed a hydraulic line which left the driver without the ability to shift gears.

The J1772 connector was developed by SAE. They’re basically the standard defining group in the automotive industry. The CHAdeMO connector wasn’t developed by a standards group, but it was at least agreed upon by a consortium of Japanese auto manufacturers. Tesla designed a plug on their own and started using it in…

If someone releases a CHAdeMO and a J1772 CCS adapter for the Tesla plug, their existing charging stations could already be used to charge existing EVs. Tesla is the one trying to force a new, non-standard adapter.

To reattach the rear bodywork they would need to shut the engine off (since the mechanics would need to touch the car again). The penalty for working on the car with the engine running? A stop-and-go, where they’d have to shut off the engine and get it restarted.

Yep, I think Adam got too aggressive and knocked Corvette out of the race. If this wasn’t a 24 hour race, the Corvette might not have even been on the podium after that damage.

Is anybody else not digging the FIA WEC live timing chart? I want to know manufacturers and team names, not a picture of the freaking car. I haven’t studied the entire P2 field to know which team is running which chassis with which paint job, and I can only differentiate the Porsche and Toyota P1s by the red…

Rather than believe that a single android spontaneously gained sentience and started a revolution, I hope the story revolves around Markus discovering he was programmed to free other androids. It would raise many more questions about free will and whether any decision Markus made was actually his decision at all. What…

I’m sure the hospitality industry would kill for pleasant looking, pleasant acting workers that didn’t draw a wage and never required a sick day. Imagine how much of a boon it would be to have a fully staffed restaurant at 3 in the morning when your competitors were either closed for the night or running on a skeleton…

You probably weren’t traveling at rush hour. I’m not in NYC and during the morning and afternoon rush I always see people running down the stairs, shoving a leg or arm into a closing door, and prying it open wide enough to squeeze on instead of waiting 2 minutes for the next train. At the major transfer stations the…

They had a truck in one of the DLCs, B class, and it was a lot of fun. Horrible top speed but drove like nothing else. They had to put it into its own multiplayer hopper though because people were using them to cause crashes instead of racing.

My bad. For some reason I only heard the part about couch co-op and didn’t hear the ‘or online’.

That would make sense. I can’t remember the last time I had friends over for split-screen gaming. If I bought this game, it’d be months between completing missions. At least a Switch can be packed up with 2 controllers and taken anywhere.

Just what I want in a racing game, slow-mo cutaways that take the camera away from the road ahead.

I’m paranoid about my roof. I had an ice damn pull down an eavestrough one winter, and every time the wind starts to gust I’m convinced that I’ll have to rake all my shingles off of the back yard. It doesn’t help that my house is old and leaky so even a moderate gust can make my house whistle like its in the middle of…

For some reason, I would play that game until the map was completely clear. No idea what it is about Ubi Collect-a-thons, but I 100% most of the ones I’ve played.

Ah, you’re trolling. There’s no way that’s an actual response so I guess you got me good.

Ok.