It doesn’t matter what kind of tires you have on. Traction control will not allow wheelspin. They are not two different things. Traction control and stability control ARE the aids that help the average Joe get a better time.

People who don’t use the parking brake “because it’s an automatic, and that’s what ‘Park’ is for.” Not only does it annoy the shit out of me, but it annoys the shit out of them when I borrow their car, park it properly, and then they drive 30 miles with the parking brake on.

I went to an indoor karting track I’d never been to before here in Chicago two months ago, and wound up setting the 6th fastest time of the month. The following month I went back a second time and got 10th fastest. I felt pretty awesome (considering there are a LOT of fast people who race here.)

Then I looked at the…

This might be true for VERY low-production, ultra-exotics made by teeny-tiny companies (where they make, like, a handful of cars a year), but it is absolutely not true for the major exotic manufacturers such as McLaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc... Those companies have EXTREMELY advanced driver aids. Hell, the McLaren…

The aids were absolutely turned off for this. Modern cars don’t let you get a toe out of line when they are all on. Even my BRZ has near-telepathic levels of traction/stability control when everything is on, that make it impossible to get even slightly sideways, even on glare ice.

Way to take a genuinely good question, and turn it into a sexist argument. People like you are what is wrong with the internet (among other things.)

Or maybe he just [mistakenly] assumes that people won’t nitpick his use of the word autonomous. Teslas, as with MANY vehicles these days, are autonomous in some regards, and not in others. They have, for example, autonomous emergency braking. And autonomous cruise control. They are not FULLY autonomous from a…

I once gave the order for all 50 transit buses in our fleet to stop indefinitely at their next time-point during a snow storm. I was just the lowly dispatcher. Heads of operations wanted to keep service going as long as possible (not quite as ridiculous as it sounds; our job is to run as long as possible to help…

I didn’t find any of what they said to be “incomprehensible,” but I do agree that the sound mixing guy needs to actually sit down and have a listen to what we are hearing. For the first race, we didn’t have our living room back together, so I thought it was just the shitty TV speakers, but getting our 5.1 system up…

Yeah. Chicago here. I feel your pain.

Is my BRZ salty enough?

Pretty sure I was making a joke...

Also notice how they added functioning turn signals to the mule just to throw everyone off.

I’ve had some interesting experiences with returns from Amazon. First, I was ordering some bookshelf speakers, but I accidentally ordered 8 ohm speakers instead of 4 ohm speakers. Upon receipt, and realizing my mistake, I called them. They told me I could return the L/R channel speakers, but the center channel was not…

Credit where it’s due. The transition from informative to infomercial was so subtle it took me a moment to understand what had just happened.

Lol, I wouldn’t say that the Camaro is McDonalds and the BRZ is Sushi. It’s more like the Camaro is pork, and the BRZ is chicken, and it just depends on what you like more!

When LeMans is over, the guy in 4th place doesn’t go, “Damn, I missed podium, but if there was lap times that took “feel” into account, this Toyota would have destroyed those Audis.”

You’re right. You don’t.

Ugh. Again, when I said they aren’t in the same league, I wasn’t saying the Twins are FASTER. I meant that they handle completely differently in terms of how they feel.

It’s also worth noting, and this has been brought up in other discussions, that the guy driving the Camaro who beat everyone at Nationals is known to…

You might want to re-read my post. I wasn’t complaining. Also take a closer look at my profile picture ;)