By the proportion it is really tiny. If compared to the previous gen Elise, which is a small car with pretty much the bare minimum that a modern car should have, this one looks even smaller. Not sure how true this design is to one that is good for the road. On a second look, this looks to be 1/2 scale. The height of…

Until some idiot hits you at 40mph.

I think it’s to do with the nature of this memorial. If it’s about something good that happened, such as the Lincoln Memorial at DC, then it will be great to make it “for family and friends”. In this case, the last thing it should be is another “attraction” for tourists. I really appreciate the aspect where much of it…

Taught a class two years ago and had my students go to the zoo to find something they can improve on through design. One team felt that ideally the animals don’t need to be on display because through onsite observation of the visitors, visitors were going there with the goal of being entertained, not educated. So the…

Ok maybe this isn’t the point but when the bullet proof windshield gets shot, visibility goes to zero, can’t drive out of the situation, can’t get any situational awareness(visually crippled), therefore can’t really give enough info when radioing for back up. I don’t really know if they’ve put this through a simulated…

Glacer Massacre!!!!! Seriously, wtf are they(both the organizer and riders) thinking? Downhill riding where your fellow competitors are the ramps for “sweet jumps”???

Never had a close look at the Miata before, but my friend took his dad’s Cayman S out and I’d imagine the cargo space to be similar. I CANNOT live with that kind of space. At a bare minimum, I need to be able to fit my MTB in there, which the GT86 can.

Over here a used S2000 would cost roughly the same as a brand new GT86, and they are really hard to find, not to mention a clean one. So my choice was obvious.

As a GT86 owner I have absolutely no brand loyalty when it comes to this car in particular. Subaru/Toyota/Scion. Who cares? BRZ is sold at much higher price tag here over the GT86, but the GT86 didn’t have manual available for the first year and a half so I didn’t make the move. Once Toyota started selling manual…

I wish there is an effective way. We can fail students on individual classes and they have to retake them, but to get them to wake up and realize that this isn’t the path for them, it will take a lot more. It’s a long and complicated matter. The real problem is that our fundamental education (K1~12) as well as the…

Instead of a hinged cover, will a sliding cover be a better choice? Too complex?(I’d think the entire F35 program is about embracing complexity)

When I was in college more than a decade ago, it was the days when we transitioned from analogue to digital but as freshman, we had to do all of our presentation boards manually, including all the design illustrations. I was not a graphic design major, did not have a proper graphic design 101 class or required to do…

Very soon we when we choose which tires to buy, we will also consider how they sound on the road, cus that’s gonna be the loudest element without an internal combustion engine and exhaust. Sound design on tires? There I just created a new specialty!

What’s the point of e-voting if I have to go to the specific location to do it? Saves paper?

Not sure of Mold-Tech is gonna be laughing or crying at this. The texture where tires run through will wear out more than the rest of the surface, and we will see drivers trying to take unconventional “dry lines” like F1 drivers on a wet day.

All I can think of when putting the words “plastic” and “road” together:

About 10+ years ago a lot of Taiwan’s taxis looked like this, and the drivers were obviously very throttle happy and had phobia against braking. Then the public started to express their opinions with such exciting rides and more than half of the taxis here now are boring Toyota Wish. I think it’s time to bring the bad…

So are they gonna show a movie in 2016(I suppose) that sets in the 80s, and not even the cool form of the 80s but the ghetto form? Or that these ghost busters are too damn poor to be cool for today?

I had the luxury of learning manual on a fork lift when I was 12. My family had a warehouse and a Toyota 1.5ton capacity diesel fork lift. It was simple, 2 gears + fwd/revs, and two more levers for lifting and tilting of the forks. Since it’s diesel, the clutch had a pretty wide range of biting point, so it was easy…

From the picture I thought that’s a movie about female prison inmates.