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Does the small overlap test replace the normal overlap test, or is it in addition to? Does the design sacrifice performance in the hit a wall head on category in order to pass the small overlap?

Well yes, but: The modern destroyers are getting to be battleship sized.

What is the point of having the wheels in their high drag configuration?

Ok, so it’s rather cool looking (save for the butplug rear panel. Whats that all about?), but what is the point?

Its been a little while since I dealt with circuit design, but if memmory serves me right transistors have a 0.7V drop. In order to do DC to DC you need at least one to create AC, and two to rectify back to DC. That 2.1V which is already pretty close to what the LED is dropping. Then there is the transformer itself,…

Most LED’s (all the I know of) don’t run on 12V, so there needs to be a DC to DC converter there to drop the voltage down. It might be a bigger heat source than the light.

KPS nerd, you are awesome.

The local x axis needs a center or zero point to measure against. If the center point is centered on the cube, the cube doesn’t move (everything around it does). That center point needs to be anchored to somethings, but there is absolutely nothing in out universe that is standing still. You can only move at a certain…

Travels it’s own body length in relation to what? It certainly can’t be its current position, because that means that the probe never moves.

Could you elaborate a bit?

36,000mph in relation to what? Once you are in space it becomes somewhat difficult to gauge what you should gauge your speed by. So it could be both a great deal higher and lower.

Thats a valid, but partial counterpoint. It’s not just a matter of charging station availability, its also a question of charge time. Gasoline pump delivers around 10gpm. You can get 400 miles of range in well under 5 minutes. Even a high end charging station needs roughly 4 times as long to do roughly half as much…

While I agree that Tesla certainly set a new benchmark, I don’t think this technology will scale up well, so we can’t yet apply it to mustangs.

Simpler solution that should please most. Put a red light behind the engine start/stop button. If it’s on, the engine is running. Some luxury cars can idle rather quietly, so I can see missing it. The rest of the dash has all kinds of lights, so it can be genuinely hard to tell (especially if there is no tach) big red…

Worry not, when I become emperor, a complete sunroof confiscation plan is fairly low on my list of priorities.

Which is why I think manuals are going to become the expensive options. Automatics can do everything for most everybody. If you are one of those people who insist on a manual (like me) it’s going to cost extra.

That is true. If you have a fun car, it can be an automatic and still retain a good deal of its fun. If you have a miserable car, it can be much less miserable with three pedals.

Oh absolutely. Also, the base corvette. I mean, if you are going to pick example to be offended about, you might as well go big, like all the guys talking about their porsches.

Ever driven one of those cars that technically had enough power, but had a completely non responsive throttle? No matter what you did, it just did it’s own thing, ignoring your pedal input entirely? Or the kind that would happily rev up when you press the pedal, but all the happened was a great deal of noise with…