I think we can start a whole new thread on the subject of “Inventions that found new life in applications their inventors never thought of”. It will be rather fascinating. In fact, dear op who might be reading this, can you make that happen?

The diffs aren’t tricked. They are just a bunch of gears, so they can’t be tricked. The ABS system detects an undesirable lack of traction, and generated required traction between the wheel and the car body, this allows the differentials to work as intended.

How is that a cheat?

Do we know how VW computers knew when they were being tested (and what they did in response)? All I managed to find so far was that it was a “sophisticated algorithm”

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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.