Because in their mind, they have their foot on the brake pedal, so if they push harder it will stop. They don’t equate the car going forward with their foot being on the wrong pedal, they just panic and push on the “brake” harder.

There’s a typo in this article. I believe you meant Ford Mustang.

This reference never gets old :)

Luckily, they all got an extra hour in the ballpit.

To be completely accurate, Peak Oil won’t really happen when there’s Not One Drop of oil left - there will always be oil in the Earth, probably lots of it.

I hadn’t had enough coffee when I wrote that and feel like the idiot that I am. I should have known better, I drove one of the bastards for 3 years.

Um... All Modern GM V8's are 2 Valve/Cylinder.....

Damn near every high performance V8 from GM uses two valves per cylinder still. Ford had the Triton engines with three valves as well.

Corvettes still have 2 valves/cylinder, along with the 5.3 truck I just bought.

But how fast can it squeeze juice out of prepackaged bags?

There is no way on earth* that this doesn’t increase the rolling resistance on the cars. I suppose the question is whether or not the system can be made efficient enough that the energy gained is worth it.

That’s what testing is for!

They should be more correctly called “Power Stealing roads”. Cars running on this road will transfer some of their energy to the road thus allow them to generate power. How much this affects the cars MPG is unknown but these roads will affect rolling resistance and in turn the cars traveling across it. Conservation of…

So do they manage to do this without increasing rolling resistance to the cars? If the road deforms more than typical asphalt, they really wouldn’t be capturing lost energy as much as taking energy from people’s cars (which aren’t exactly thermodynamically efficient to begin with)

Someone set it to test the speaker system but he “disappeared” and no one else knows how to turn it off.

“though I think they have some designed with a bore through the middle most of the way back for shorter but more powerful burns)“

This is really interesting, but I think cutting it in half and mounting it changed the burn sequence a bit. My understanding is that a standard (single-stage) Estes engine is really 3-sequence: The propulsion, followed by a delay layer, then the eject charge. It looks like the first sequence ignited around the glass…

I would have to say that dip is maybe the most disgusting of all tobacco habits. Playing football in college was the first time I really saw it. Sitting in rooms next to guys with their spit cup was the most revolting habit i can imagine.

Because driving a car with a cage without a helmet is a death wish...

Wait wait wait wait what?