The system could have also interrupted the throttle the moment the tires slipped, but it didn’t because it had been disabled. The system is more than capable of preventing this from happening; it didn’t because it was turned off.

What if someone accidentally bumps your car from behind (or actually crashes into it.) If the parking brake isn’t engaged, the impact could snap the parking prawl, resulting in your car rolling away, possibly into another vehicle, object, person, etc... and causing even more damage/injury.

What if something fails in…

We are still discussing this video, no? This video wasn’t about someone plowing into a turn at 100 MPH. This video was someone accelerating from a stop, spinning the rear wheels, and losing control. That is IMPOSSIBLE to do with the traction control enabled, even on ice, on the worst tires you can buy.

Why would I need to tell them I set the parking brake? I also don’t tell them that I locked the car. Or that I put it in Park. Or that I turned the lights off.

Setting the parking brake is PROPER operation of the vehicle. I don’t even do it intentionally. It’s just habit from years of driving a car the way you are…

Sorry, but you are just flat out wrong in everything you are saying here. Everyone is trying to tell you this, but you aren’t listening.

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.

Yes, this is dumb, lazy, wasteful, excessive, etc...

But IDGAF, because the engineer in me thinks this is fucking awesome. This is like a Bugatti. If you buy it just for what it does, then you’re really just a douche. This is something you buy because you admire the craftsmanship behind it, and how it was designed and…

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.)

A bird strike should never cause this kind of event. This isn’t even a normal “blade out” event from the looks of it. It’s like the entire front portion of the engine obliterated itself.

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...

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