I think you have it backwards. They probably didn’t code in pain so much as they created a basic AI with learning capacity, and over the generations of robots and the AI learning it started emulating the pain it observes in biological life. Then they just never bothered to block it out of the code. As an example, the…

My understanding from the research I did is that the over the counter ones have very little affect. When they say adds a point, it means a 10th not a whole octane as in point one or .1 octane. For the ones that work at all. There are some additives that do significantly add octane rating - the 100 octane gas available…

SoCal has some amazing roads, I admit, but they are usually so crowded that you might as well be walking them. Big Sur, too. If you want an amazing driving experience, start in Red Bluff and head across to Fortuna via 36, crash in Mckinleyville Holiday Inn Express, then head back across 36 again the next day. Don’t…

*engage edgy mode* They should have skipped PCH and went to Cholame if they wanted some real CA Porsche history.

Your transmission is wrong. What you need is a hybrid automated/manual manual. So it has a clutch you operate with your foot, but you can hit a button that moves a little hydraulic (or whatever) servo that is attached to the back end of the pedal and takes over clutch duty when you are in traffic. Best of both worlds!…

The FX keeps looking at me, but I can’t justify it when my SM510R is 60 hp/55 tq and 240 lbs - before I did some mods. I’d have cross shopped a 14.4 FX against my 701 Husky if there was one, but given the way weights go up with the higher numbers it would probably be even more of an elephant at like 370 lbs. And I’d…

I made this decision a couple years ago, and ended up finding an almost-new Atom 3S locally which I love, will probably never sell, however the correct answer is Caterham, Radical, or GTR depending what his driver skill, upkeep budget, and patience/tolerance is.

I have an Atom 3S that I track and currently DD (California and I usually walk to work), they can be easy to register depending on the state - you can even get them smog exempt in CA.  However, I’d go with a Caterham, Radical, or GTR.  I’ll put a response below for why.

I race both MotoGP and F1 and so I understand why they have that rule. Well, technically, I have a car with a front wing and a supermoto, but I still get it. Though they could just stick a 3k rev limiter or something on the bike.

FF Daytona was on my short list before I found a lightly used turbo Atom. In the end, I’m very glad that I got a roadster, as the various tin top kit cars I’ve been in have all been hot as **** inside for various reasons, though a Caterham or FF Cobra would have been more logical since they don’t handle like a 930…

People think it is common because there was a rumor when they started requiring the brake lever guards that it was because people we grabbing each other’s levers to make them crash, but iirc it was really for in case the bikes bump (which does happen a fair bit) the lever won’t get bumped.  Except in the MotoGP video…

Concourse De LeMons and the historic races are the best reason to go, imo, though the historics are not free. I’ve been invited to put my car on display a couple times (no, not at the LeMons one) but that would require my ginger butt driving all the way there and back in stop and go traffic with no roof or AC. Big fat…

I’m friends with a couple exes. I was friends with some others before, but lost track over the years. But I’m a ginger, so I have cobwebs and clock gears where my heart should be. In fact, my last ex whom I broke up with 2 months ago I probably talk to more than any other friend I have since she texts me and I’m one…

This really upsets me. Not because someone is going to die from salt overdose, but because it makes me feel really old.  When I was in college, I basically lived off of 5 cent ramen packets.  2000% inflation.

A Benelli without a triple? What daring! What outrageousness! What insolence! What arrogance!

Ariel Atom 3RS. I have the 3S. There is nothing that feels more special, it is a roadster (no top at all, sucks sometimes but worth it), it is European, and they tend to be reliable because the motors are from a Civic Si and even run the same maintenance intervals. Here’s mine:

I have SB100 on mine, the original owner did it through a service but supposedly they don’t sell out anymore. Just the first few years did. The bikes is different because they are production non-street legal vehicles that are being converted, rather than a kit. I use the term kit loosely, the original owner showed up…

Your booty ends up the direction your face is supposed to be.  Very unstable.

You could try to get it in on a kit car SB100, how Atoms and Caterhams and the occasional Radical are registered. You need street legal lights and a non-vta crank case, and separate receipts for the chassis and motor. It’s more involved than that, but my Atom has no smoggies as long as I keep a K24 in it.  Might work…

I have a 3S and while I’m happy with it and don’t plan to upgrade, the dash looks like it will be better (the shift lights are blocked by the wheel in the 3 and the shifts come fast) and the lack of side pods on this turbo version should be a nice improvement. The pods are constantly full of junk from the road and…