F1 intends to migrate tire designs to larger wheels and lower profile designs at the behest of tire manufacturers. The move is not a technical improvement but an attempt to make F1 tires look more like what high performance cars are equipped with. As it is in most forms of motorsport the wheels are small and the…

May I gently suggest to the rising sea level alarmists to read the history of Holland. A brief review show that their are many effective and economical responses to rising sea levels. Also the rising levels will be very gradual and will provide plenty of time to mitigate the potential consequences. In most cases…

Evidently no one at Fitch has never been to Texas. First of all nearly half of all Texan sales are pickups, large SUV’s and off road vehicles such as Jeeps. Good luck on developing an electric alternative to these vehicles. I regularly go to our condo in Vail. Two thirds of the trip is the 716 miles to get out of…

This is a generic drug in a proprietary delivery system. It is available in Europe from a different manufacturer at a fraction of the price. There is an immoral agreement between Congress and Pharma to avoid the use of foreign drugs which is why no one will bring up the subject even though many legislators are fully…

Why not buy the European variety? It is the same drug and autoinject syringes are widely available. This is but one example of an outrageously priced drug that is available in Europe at a fraction of the US price. Various opthamologic solutions are outrageously priced in the US while the same drug (same company) are a…

The drug in the pen is generic, it is the pen that is patented. There are many different auto inject pens that will work in the thigh as required by the drug. These days drugs coming off patent will be offered by one generic supplier licensed by the drug’s patent holder who pays the remaining generic suppliers not to…

Try this: go to your local Costco and look at the LG OLED compared with Samsung/Vizio with HD material. The OLED screen doesn’t look blown out it just has a greater dynamic range due to better (for now) technology. HDR 4K looks much better than 1080P BR due to a difference in specification. Yes, OLED 4K combines…

The topic here is truly hubris. How else can you explain the litany of self proclaimed experts continuing to predict peak oil despite the manifest failures of the many that came before them? Predicting peak oil amongst petroleum engineers is is a fool’s errand that can only attract derision. It has been said that it…

New mapping will be hyper accurate. Right now Google Maps can find the road. New accuracies will allow the system to keep you centered in your lane. It’s a must as dependencies on road markings are dooming current systems. The next thing will be auto-reporting of road works and accidents. Depending on local…

This doesn’t seem to hard. All of you journos have a vested interested in sharing the mpg figures with your readers right? During one of these boondoggles why don’t all of you get together and pinky swear to each other to limit your individual reviews just to cosmetics and avoid any mention of performance. Each…

74mph is the speed at impact accompanied by “shitttt”. I bet the car was driving 95+. At that speed you can drop 20mph with a hard stab at the brakes. Conscious drivers flying at 74mph have few fatalities as they can quickly burn off a lot of speed before impact. Those driving 95mph have little margin for error.

Keep the windshield the same; why add minvan elements that don’t add space? For the rear use front hinged doors which are cheaper, easier to install, you avoid the need for electrical actuators and front hinging will make access to the rear much easier. Tesla’s low floor coupled with a Magic Seat license from Honda…

Several cities in the US once had electric buses that used overhead lines but could travel in other lanes to avoid stopped cars or busses. They were cheap to install and maintain and had no emissions of their own. They however were too successful. They used GM bus bodies with electric motors installed and as such…

The original is narrated by the guy outside the helicopter. He has the perfect voice and attitude which greatly enhances the video. Surprised he didn’t get hired for voice work. Also your video doesn’t show him sliding down the power lines which looks much worse than flying around sitting on the helicopter skids.

Hey, cut Alissa some slack. If she only flies home, her parents pick her up, she sleeps in her own bet and can still wear the clothes she wore in college what does she need to carry? Whatever she forgets her mom will get it. Her money is no good there.

Autorotate sounds like a great idea but one of the common problems with helicopters is transmission failure which often results in thrown rotor blades. Then you are no better than Buzz Lightyear - falling with style. I once read that to keep weight down a transmission was designed with a 1.1 safety factor which…

My wife was a 3rd grade teacher in Aldine, a suburb in north Houston. She took a field trip to the zoo located in the city center. She asked how many of them had been to the zoo before. Several volunteered that they had never been downtown before. I promise that Aldine does not offer the attractions of NYC. More than…

If the copter had been merely sitting on the sled and allowed to move once the propeller hit the target the results would have been far different. There would have been a small cut in the target and the copter would have been on the floor. Also more than likely the propeller RPM’s would be relatively slow as higher…

The original inventor of the GFI didn’t have much selling the product until he used his own daughter in demonstrations held a industry exhibitions. Once show goers saw that it really worked when it had too the concept was adopted and the rest was history.

Why complain about English? It allows learned practitioners to carefully communicate their intents. I find it amusing that words that maybe synonyms in some applications are very different in others. Example: large and big. Most of the time they are not that different but when repeated for emphasis their use is…