Oh, so only like, one of the top 2 or 3 most dominant F1 cars ever.  Ok.  That is fucking awesome!

They should call it “Worse Pilot”, so you’d be like, this thing is worse than me, I better pay damn good attention to what it’s doing.  Only then will these systems dictate the insane amount of mental monitoring they require.

Big presumption of actually having a garage there, which is kind of key to that strategy. 

Underrated comment.

Ha, I’m an engineer from a family of teachers and that is a great way to put it. I was not willing to be shit on. My parent’s and bro are better people than me. But, my company takes training and career development very seriously and having been here 21 years now I get to do a lot of that, and I can see how teaching…

Ha, that is such a shady pricing tactic they have. It’s inexcusable.

I’m at 85,000 miles and have not done the walnut blasting, but have subscribed to the Italian Tuneup running the engine over 3500 RPM every 5,000 miles for 20 minutes. I saw this on the forums and recall a discussion that VW said this was sufficient to prevent DI valve issues. I do change the oil more often, too.

I’ve got a 2016 GTI and currently browsing the used Miata market for a third car, so hope to have both.

I daily a 2016 GTI SE manual and agree it is damn near perfect. I run alt wheels with PS4S tires in the summer and track it as well (track pads when I need them, and Motul fluid changed annually). It will get 37 mpg on a 72 mph highway trip or 35 mpg at 77 mph. I change the oil with Liqui Moly every 7500 versus…

I think it is already beached and grounded due to neglect. But yeah, the video makes the ship look like a hellhole - rats, bugs, endless sun, and likely the scent of feces. Ship looks to be about 350' long and so it’s big, but not enormous. How this situation exists still just defies comprehension...

Hoy shit. You can see the ship on Google maps (where it gets 100% 5-star reviews), it’s about 700' off the beach. The seedy mechanics that make global trade possible never seem to disappoint in their creative horrors. This guy has been there since May 2017.  And I find it impossible that no fellow (presumed) Muslim on…

Has actual autopilot too!  (probably, I guess).

Harsh but fair.

And as they say, winning is nice, but collecting is even better.  Good luck to Silverado Man with that.

That movie has some serious undertones, but damn, Michael Douglas is so, so good in that movie.  

I’m 100% on your side here my friend, but as an engineer, I cannot abide this math. 59/697,195 = 0.0000846, which is 0.00846%. There are approximately 42 million African Americans in the US.  0.00846% of that is 3,555.  I’m not endorsing sheer numbers or percentages as a fair metric to assess this situation, I’m just…

I’m guessing a lot of folks have very little concept of wheel & tire weight. My GTI has 225/18 wheels. With a Michelin AS3+ all-season they weight abut 48.5 pounds. I bought a set of summer wheels for my PS4 tires, and that combo is 42.0 lbs. Just hefting them around from the basement to the garage each year is a…

This is the same guy who was found twice before asleep at the wheel. Once crashed into a lamppost and once at an stoplight. In both cases...drugs, and yeah, sleep meds are drugs. He obviously did NOT have a heart attack, unless the crash miraculously cured him of it.  He was asleep and is damn lucky nobody was…

Yeah, I recall my CFI offering it as an opportunity so of course I said yes. I was using weight as what might be called apparent weight, what the wings are feeling, also load factor.  Weight is a force so it can change, as opposed to mass which does not, unless one is puking out the window in a steep turn.

Yes, pretty forgivable aircraft and hauls a ton with plenty of power for a single. It was probably hot, and who knows what the CG was.  Low-altitude stalls/spins are nearly 100% fatal.  Even a ballistic parachute would not have recovered at that altitude.