Lithium is a salt and mining for it is nearly identical in method and environmental impact that mining for any salt would be. Lithium is in salt lakes and barren deserts and has a lower environmental footprint by kg than steel, plastics, or rubber. But it looks dirty so it will get a lot of focus. cobalt and nickel on…

Sweet. A camera in the shower with no user control of the security. Nothing bad will happen with that.

Sweet. A camera in the shower with no user control of the security. Nothing bad will happen with that.

Hands down it’s following too close behind distracted driving. You can correct for a lot of mistakes if you leave 3-5 seconds of space between you and the next guy. Also just because you stopped at a light doesn’t mean others will. Leave at least a cars distance at all slow downs and stops. A collision is the space…

I like this guys priorities. 2 fast cars and a home with aluminum siding.

I can’t be the only one that reads this and thinks she should just use a car share service. Getaround and Zipcar were every other block in that town last time I was there.

Well these cameras don’t have to be mounted on out board wings like this and once they aren’t you don’t have to worry about broken mirrors which I’ve seen plenty of.

That’s a difference between gas and electric. In gas cars they know the car will only last so long due to the engine and transmission failing. In electric cars that failure rate is so low that there is no reason that the average age of cars on the road wouldn’t increase by a few more years and repair of minor issues…

Here’s that cars history.

As an aircraft engineer I’d have to disagree.
Your system is still a redundancy system but now has codependent redundancy systems working together which are very unlikely to function better than an entirely internal redundancy system. Simple markers on the road with a second set of cameras would work as well or better…

This seems like it would be true but it isn’t.
Modern power windows are cheaper to manufacture than manual windows and are more durable for several reasons but mainly due to knowing the forces being put on them, E.G. you never over crank a power window. power auto-locks and windows are a mandated safety feature in…

#COTD

It also means secret service and onsite security had full control of the vehicles and could provide a barrier of safe vehicles.

As someone who grew up with an astro it is way harder to get out of the astro than any other minivan made today or then for that matter. Also the ride is trash.

Tesla has a worse track record on doors, windows and locks...

Yep, both old and new in both autos and manuals. Full size trucks to Suzuki Samurais.

That would make sense in a 20 year old 3 speed auto. First gear in the Broncos auto 10 speed is 4.7:1.

My 4runner auto crawls uphill without gas and if it had the low that the 10 speed has here it would crawl even better.

Sure... But an auto gets you even lower gearing than the manual due to the torque converter and the power to the ground can be more accurately controlled using the brakes which don’t have lash while the driveline can then be kept in tension and you don’t have to deal with driveline tolerances and lash. I’m unclear on…

Why is no one pointing out that because of how torque converters work the auto will have much more torque in it’s lowest gear than the manual? The functional gearing will be lower even though the physical gears are not.

Plus when you take the torque converter stall ratio into effect you soon realize the automatic has far lower gearing than the manual. Just saying.