This way the next poorly designed ignition switch will not only disable the safety systems, but steering as well!

Lets add lack of adjustability and longevity to the list of issues. Oh, I don’t know if longevity is an issue, but with those flex ribs being attacked by every chemical found on the road bed, and UV from the sun, I’m guessing we’ll find out soon enough.

So one set of a-holes were going to settle their differences with another set of a-holes via a water gun fight. That is about as good of an outcome as one can expect. Of course, the police had to get involved and escalate everything.

I’m glad to see that the engineers responsible for the F355 went on to have prosperous careers at BMW designing the 335i.

Obstacle avoidance gets much harder when the ground is uneven. Go over the ditch or around? If you go over, straight, or at an angle? Which angle? What if there is a body of water, or unstable ground? Tracked vehicles have an advantage, but they are still vulnerable to rolling over.

I’m not sure that I agree with the less technologically challenging part. Controlling an aircraft (outside of takeoff and landing, and absent extreme maneuvers) should be considerably easier than controlling a ground vehicle, because there are few objects to avoid in the air.

The amount of skills, people, money, and effort in the world is finite. The more we apply to less effective applications, the less there is left over for more effective ones.

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.

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