If we put the NRC in charge of highway safety, we will never get another highway built. Surely there is a better solution.

This is one of those things that seems simple on its face, while actually not being particularly effective.

Ok, I’ll join you in the attempt to bring further civility.

Which part did I BS? The part about lifting the rear being the limiting factor of brake performance, or that the vast majority of sportbikes have a weight distribution within a few percent of being 50/50?

I don’t think that entirely correct.

Why is that ideal?

So, the law does the right thing, but for the wrong reasons, and that makes it wrong?

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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.

Think of it as a driving plane. Or a way for private pilots to save on storage costs. Why rent an expensive hangar for your Cessna when you can drive your plane home from to local airport and park in a large shed?

But unlike a flying car, a plane you can drive home is a concept that actually makes sense.

Of all the problems that flying cars have, that is not one I would loose sleep over. Planes have been managing aero forces with flight control surfaces for as long as there have been planes.

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…