That sounds plausible; would be interesting to see a further split between short-distance (IE city buses, commuting etc.) and long distance travel

Kind of surprised transit buses are less efficient than cars; is this worldwide or just US?

I feel the fish-out-of-water nature of this is one of the key attractions of this, but there could be something in trying to build something more optimized; Not sure how you’d best build for a road circuit with occasional big jumps.

Hmm, yeah... nothing... bar $49K being roughly double my total bank balance, and that doesn’t even cover insurance, shipping, etc...

Hmm; an EV probably makes sense as a bond car; quick for chases, quiet for sneaking. I kind of wish they’d pick something more anonymous as a more semi-realistic option, though. I’d probably go with Tesla Model S; It’s notably quick, the frunk would make a good, relatively hidden space for an armory, the autopilot…

For anything like this, I’d expect redundant sensors. I don’t know what standards these have to conform to, but I believe SIL3 rating requires dual independent encoders, and I’d have thought a system capable of taking down the plane should follow something similar. Two sensors would allow error checking between them,…

A couple of my workmates apparently wound up having to transport several meters of stage truss to site on the London underground at one point; I’m not entirely sure of the why or how, but I believe it.

1, I guess, but only because it offers the easiest way out. I don’t think the payoff is worth it on either of these, so I’ll take the first one, enjoy 24hrs of driving the living shit out of an italian exotic while vaguely hungover (side note; since the car is not really “real”, has no real history, and will be…

Pretty much everything with anything is a trade-off in some way; if you allow a car to be able to hit >200mph safely & reliably, you’re likely going to take a hit somewhere else. Even if it can functionally hit those speeds, you’ve likely got to alter things like the aerodynamics etc in a way that will either make…

Why? it’s a race engine; not exactly that surprising. BRM was getting 600HP out of a 1.5 in the 50's

Safety engineer here; Pretty sure those lines are showing the keep clear zones on the car. See how they’re concentrated around the front, extending an undefined distance ahead? The stuff round the sides & behind indicates a lower lethality, but still high risk, of harm from flying debris, limbs etc.

My main issue with colored tyres is what they’ll look like dirty, once they’ve been worn in a bit. Black hides road dirt pretty well; if you run with brightly coloured tyres, the dirt’ll stick out like a sore thumb, and it’ll never really look clean.

I see no shame.

Here you go

Personally, I think the slightly more modern blacked-out chrome look works better; chrome would maybe push it a bit too hard towards the fake vintage, and make the more modern bits (windscreen, mirrors etc.) stick out; the more distributed modernity blends it a bit better. I’m not a huge fan of chrome generally,…

That works a lot better than it ought to. I was expecting worse, but it looks pretty well worked out. I think the steel wheels help; I was expecting stock Porsche alloys, which’d look rather tacky. I’d be interested to see a bit of what’s under the skin, some work-in-progress stuff.

Interesting; I presume those sketches were for one of the alternate proposals, then. It’d be interesting to see.

looking through, there have been a few attemps;

Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather have the xk220; I was just running the numbers for the sakes of comparison. also, extreme’s kind of subjective; I’ve never considered the xj220 an “extreme” vehicle, it’s too elegant and smooth.

hmm; my natural inclination was to say weight, but they’re damn near identical.