This was tried during or after WW II on a B29 Bomber. They molded little flaps into the tire sidewalls to spin up the tires in flight.

Planes would have a significantly less problem with unsprung weight in the wheels too I’d think? (no idea just making that assumption since planes aren’t going offroading or even city streeting in daily use)

I have a feeling that this is a problem that doesnt need solving or using an electric motor to spin them up just isnt worth the extra weight complications etc. to get a few extra landings on a set of tires.

I think the next tech breakthrough will be in hub motors in the main gear. It would allow the plane to taxi around without engines running, allow for spin up prior to touch down and braking after landing.

I remember reading an article about this very idea a few years ago. While in theory it would reduce tire wear the added complexity, weight and cost made it very not worth it. 

The pinnacle of all cupholder achievement was Chrysler’s NS minivans, with ratcheting adjustment, and it’s all been downhill from there.

Does it need to be pointed out that there are stainless-steel-bodied Deloreans built in 1981 that still haven’t “attracted rusting surface contaminants?”

Shell, which is about the only company that had stations, is basically closing all of their retail stations. All of them. They are keeping the commercial ones open for big trucks, but I would presume those use a different, and much larger, fueling port.

Give it an on/off switch and I am all for it. I want to enjoy a car, and however they can best connect it to me that is fine. I love the way a v8 sounds a feels, but I don’t know that I actually care how they accomplish that, I just want the sensory parts to me. If anything I really hope car makers give options of how…

Stewards keep close track of the passengers.

Yes. Tons of it, and you know a lot of the dorks hell bent on buying these fully expected to fuck their digital waifu on top of their personalized anime bedspread. 

Well done on the headline. It’s true and deceptive clickbait.

I’d be concerned about frame rust on that Tacoma - that’s in the range of those that Toyota was forced to repair via class action, but if it wasn’t repaired, you’re sore out of luck now.

It was right there..... Come HAIL or high water. 

Are we assuming cooling modifications would be fair game? Because if not, I feel like the Miata keeps pace right up until the point its radiator, transmission or differential melt going full throttle top speed endlessly

I remember a commercial for a 1980 (or so) Honda Civic (the economy model at that time) which said it could go the entire distance of the Indianapolis 500 without a pit stop. Granted, its top speed would depend on whether it caught a tailwind, but maybe it could qualify for the 1911 race.

This is the current one.

It’s a well-known cliché that the deep sea is more alien and less explored than outer space—and apparently this is true. We’re able to keep track of faraway objects such as the Mars Rover (including reception of visual images), but we can lose a submarine on our own planet?

But look at it, Johnny. Look at it! It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, man! Just let me go out there. Let me get one wave before you take me. One wave. I mean, where I am I gonna go, man? Cliffs on both sides, I’m not gonna paddle to New Zealand! My whole life has been about this moment, Johnny. Come on, compadre.…

Yes, that is pretty terrible...