That would be a hilarious engineering design exercise: “Design a men’s urinal for the following train..”

You’re correct.  Forgot to update after the speed fix.  still within a minute tho.

At 1G of acceleration, with a pivoting chair, a rider would only see a ~42% increase in actual gravity (vector math, down at 1g + accel at 1g = sqrt(2) at 45 degrees). Bumping accel and decel to 2g changes the time very little, about 90 seconds, but increases the load on the passengers to an apparent 2.23G (sqrt 5).

read it wrong, fixed it. :)

Yeah, but grandma would complain when her hip dislocates from the fancy train. LOL

6500 MPH is ~9533 FPS. 1 G of acceleration would be 32'/s squared, so just to accelerate to 9533 FPS at 1G would take just under 5 minutes at a constant 1g. During accel, you’d have covered 352 miles. Decel is the same time and speed. So, assuming san fran is 2900 miles from NYC (google maps), that leaves 2196 miles…

Username checks out.

Also none of the RWD.

LOL, I’m 6'4", had to take the visors off to see out the top of the windshield.  Miss that damn car every day, even though my friends said I looked like BigBird humping a tic-tac driving it. (white NB).  

LOL, read this as Kartoffelfahren.  Potato-driving. 

Saw the thumbnail on Jalopnik home page, legit said out loud “damn, that’s a cool looking miata..”

I’ve seen a lot of people nay-saying about EV charging infrastructure in the US, but I’ve also seen a great deal of interest from the power companies. Not so much in sales/revenue generation, but in dynamic load adjustment. Here in E. Washington, the local power company, Avista Utilities will pay 50% of the cost to…

I think the biggest gain from these semis has nothing to do with emissions, but rather driver safety. It’s got to be so much easier to drive, especially in traffic or over hills, I think it'll make it a quick favorite for truck drivers.  Single pedal driving a truck sounds amazing compared to chuffing gears in stop…

Your comment made me think of this:

That used to be true.  It’s not anymore.  The Camaro, ATS, CTS, etc beg to differ.

Permanent magnet motors induce a current in the stator at high RPMs. if you can get it down to get the RPMs down, you can make it way more efficient at high speed.

So, a chevy volt with a class I hitch for dump run trailer?  I commute 70 miles a day, take road trips all the time.  Charge at home and work (but mostly at work just because I can).  Only buy gas when doing long trips.

As the owner of an 88 fiero and a '16 volt, yup.  

Second only to the volvo 240.  Miatas were still 3 years off.

Welcome to the Fiero Cult! Excellent job getting this back on the road.. Between THE fiero forum and the various facebook groups, there are so many of us ready to help with the most obscure issues, it is really a fun car to play with.