Yes, good point about #1. I wonder if this is just for simplicity. It’s a lot harder to keep a mental map of where other ships are if you are constantly rotating that plane. Seems like it would be something computers would be able to take care of, though.

In Star Trek II, you can clearly see the Enterprise and Khan’s stolen ship moving over one another from a top view. I think this was the result of Kirk being tricky to avoid Khan while his ship was damaged, so while rare, it’s not something that has never happened in the Trek universe.

I drive a car that does 0-60 in 5 seconds, but when I drive my wife’s much slower car (8 sec 0-60 if it’s lucky), I like to see how how high I can get the average MPG display (without driving like a mobile speed bump). It’s more about planning ahead so you don’t have to speed up or slow down more than necessary.

Insights are made of aluminum. If it had rust, something would be seriously wrong.

I’m used to thumbs up, waves, random shouts, picture requests, etc while driving the NSX, but a month or so ago I was out for a drive, and was pulling out of a parking lot when a guy in a relatively new 911 convertible coming the other way spotted me. He pulled into the parking lot, turned around, chased me down, and…

Reality: how many of them were totaled after sliding backwards into a tree, and how many are actually left?

I thought the new Supra was expected to be a shared platform with the 6 series.

I saw some SUV with camo wrap on my way to work in Chicago this morning. Couldn’t tell what it was. Any guesses?

The first and last one are indeed Bolingbrook, though the last one isn’t my car.

You might enjoy some of these pictures I’ve taken:

I wonder if the names on Amelia Island are due to the well known car show that takes place there. https://www.ameliaconcours.org/

The reason they have to do this is because nobody dims them when someone is approaching from the opposite direction in China.

Am I the only one who checked the byline before reading the article, to make sure I wasn’t about to read an article by Torchinsky suggesting we drive on roads made of astroturf or something?

I thought the new Accord didn’t have a transmission at all, at least not in the traditional sense.

Better. I was a little disappointed that only one of the utes was doing a burnout.

Watching the video at work without sound, it’s difficult to determine where exactly the “oh shit” moment was, but in my experience hitting the brakes in a nose-heavy FWD car will not cause the rear end to swing around even when done under less than ideal conditions.

Except that you’re going to be asking the tires to do even more work by pushing more power through them, which results in even less turning, and also increase your speed in the process making the situation even worse. Why not just stab the brakes for a second to bleed off some speed, hopefully enough to allow you to…

That sounds like a great way to make a FWD car understeer right into a ditch. Why would you want to transfer weight away from the (front) wheels which are already failing to find enough traction to keep you from understeering?

I took these at my local Acura dealer last week when I had my car in for an oil change. At least not all of them have forgotten what Acura used to be. Too bad the signs on the windows say “not for sale”.

I’ve actually heard good things about the RLX Sport Hybrid, which came out before the NSX.