Meh, that wouldn’t bother me at all. I’ve ridden in far sketchier situations and just monitored like Aaron did. Just because something looks super duper scary to one person doesn’t mean it is a huge issue to another person. 

And I thought the Honda FIT’s a-pillar was hard to see past. How the hell can I max out my Death Race 2000 score if I can’t see my targets?!

The AP-C looks like a mashup of the Porsche 928 and the Subaru SVX to me. 

Best thing for sale at a Nissan dealership right now is this hat.

Journalism definition: An enlightening window to other’s neuroses.

Nailed it!

Where’s this “h”? I can’t hear it. 

We’ve stuck with the original spelling of aluminum. The “ium” version came from a British attempt to standardize the spelling of various metals.

Every time they were in there cutting spokes with power tools I cringed. Especially when he pushed on a wheel with his foot! I just kept imagining the spokes failing and the car dropping on a hand or foot...

I’m sure it did, but I bought it used and swapped on another set of tires during ownership. That car just didn’t seem to wear the tires quickly, and I had relatively soft tires on it. I wish I remember what I installed.

The weight of a Tesla will have a huge impact for sure. My TDI was not powerful enough to spin the tires, so I don’t think the low end torque negatively affected tire life. The tires I put on it were softer and higher performance than the stock tires, but I still got incredibly good life out of them. I bought the car…

I noticed that my VW Jetta diesel had much longer wearing tires than any gasoline car I have owned. I don’t know what the reason is for that, but the lower HP might be part of it since I couldn’t put as much force through the tires during regular acceleration.

Did you post the evidence to Twitter? Tweet, or it didn’t happen.

Gotta love those small bore 4s. I still miss my CB350f, and actually liked the lack of torque off the line since it made the upper RPMs soooooo smooth and fun. A modern small bore 4 with a screaming high redline would be an amazing ride  

What is going on with that steering wheel? It looks like the center was styled after a handgun!? 

Exactly! For this cavity (marriage joint cavity between the compressor and turbine on a GE 6C), we saw temps of over 600F, pressures of over 200psi, and g forces of around 20,000. Even small temp differences of just a few degrees created a high turbulence zone due to buoyancy dufferences. Those gases did not act like…

Ah, not after college for me. You?

I can’t figure out that acronym...

I see you’re in treatment too. ;)

I wish. My experience was with Patran P/Themal and internally developed code. Other team members ran the CFD, and I got to interpret and implement it. It wasn’t very straightforward, but we got it eventually. Do you work with CFD?