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Oh no, they are using electric linear motors. If I had to guess the current draw is hundreds, if not thousands of amps. And it’s not like you can get by with extra batteries or caps, since the suspension is working all the time, and it wont have it run out of juice.

Sounds like they would have been fine if it wasn’t for the mothers hyperbole. Either there was a better way to ask for warm food (which violates some kind of company policy. There are lots of stupid policies out there, good luck going thru life without encountering one), or the girl would have cried for the rest of…

One of the difficulties in making automotive electronics is that they have to resist a lot of vibration and moisture. I’m not saying that automakers are the only ones that can make that happen, but packaging is a concern many electronics firms don’t face (or at least didn’t, until recently)

Because the power requirements are absurd.

Yes! lets combine the suspension, differential and transmission into a single unit!

If I remember correctly, it also meant that the wheels could not be inline left to right, and one side is slightly forward of the other.

Came to post that

Well turns out people lie on the internet. My faith in humanity is forever shattered.

That’s a rather old problem. The great thing about the jury system is that it is relatively immune to corruption. You can’t get friendly with the jurors thru gifts, free lunches and campaign contributions, because until the trial there is no telling who will be a juror. But you can do that with a judge, and there will…

I’m by no means an anti vaxxer, but they have one point I can’t disagree with. Manufacturers should not have a blanket immunity from liability. Actually, no one should have a blanket immunity from liability (I’m looking at you, guys with badges).

Not enough blue lights. Everyone knows that in the future all other colors will be outlawed. Seriously, I saw some grey on the interior. Needs more blow lights.

Funny, I hate that car, but like the commercial.

None of these cars transcend class. They are for people who want to replace the current class system with a different one, where you aren’t upper class based on your income but rather by how much of a snob you are. Cars don’t make snobs, and they aren’t going to get rid of them, but lets not pretend that one kind…

You see a great deal of this in soviet design, and not just in aircraft. With famously bad build quality and non existent maintenance, the design has to be extremely rugged and reliable to succeed. The BMW model would not work under those conditions.

So what is more expensive, training a pilot, or building him an aircraft to fly in?

All metals burn if the fire is hot enough, or if there is plentiful oxygen. Burning metal produces metal oxide, which can be turned into dust that is spread out by the force of the flames and explosions. If the metal in question is radioactive, the resulting oxide will be radioactive too, so you have a bunch of…

Oy! Words matter. If an electric motor is said to have one moving part, then it should have one moving part. If there are more than one, then it doesn’t have one moving part. That’s not to deny that electric motors are much simpler, mechanically, than an internal combustion engine, but lets not make them out to be…

If you don’t need a traditional transmission, designing a sufficiently strong power train should not be that difficult, as long as you don’t need to make it a front wheel drive. All you need is bigger, stronger gears. Trying to pass that much force thru a CV joint on the other hand, would be tricky.

Right, but an electric motor is still outputting 0 power at 0 rpm.