I own this bike and it’s legit. I used to race enduros and for my dainty ‘eighth of a ton’ gorilla body I can toss it around like I used to toss around my old CR500. With the stock suspension and the correct springs for your weight you really want to limit your jumps to about a meter or so. Pol has some serious $$ put…

If you ever get to Japan, go to a 7-11. The food will blow your mind. Actual edible Oginiri with the most clever packaging you will ever see. You crack the package open and all the layers are separated with plastic. The rice stays soft and the seaweed stays crisp.

Vulnerable exhaust, skid plate bolted to the engine and not to a frame (risks cracking the engine). Standard BMW executive ‘off road’ treatment. It will look great in the starbucks parking lot.

The 90's Ford Contour/Merc Mystique had the ugliest engine. Because all the plastic had razor sharp edges from badly made molds. The ugliness was your mechanics blood all over the place :(

I think by now it’s clear that flashing emergency lights mess with the cars cameras. It’s time to mandate radar + Lidar + vision for all self driving systems now that radar and lidar got cheap.

Even outside of an exclusion zone, ‘the least maneuverable vessel’ has the right of way. And that is almost always the seaplane.

Car manufacturers build a crash cost into every car and it’s very clever. Plastic bumpers that click into headlights and tail lights instead of a separate cheap bracket. They know exactly what it costs to repair a 20mph speed difference rear ender and they calculate that out so that the new car is barely worth fixing,…

In British Colombia this is a failure for a motor vehicle safety inspection. You aren’t allowed to have anything on the exterior of the vehicle that is ‘sharp enough that a child could cut their finger on’.

Ever driven a DIY EV with a manual? It’s the most unsatisfying boring gear change you can imagine. There’s no real change in power or sound. The motor RPM just drops so you don’t explode your old brushed warp 9 motor.

We don’t need a 4 speed gearbox in a EV. But a simple planetary 2 speed for off road vehicles could mean an improved crawl mode. Right now they burn battery like crazy at low speed trail crawling because the motors aren’t that efficient doing that. Watch a Rivian off road and it’s struggling to keep the wheels…

Canada here. We use L/100km. It’s easy to quantify in your head how much fuel you just used being a multiple of 100, and there is a linear relationship to something like going from 5 to 6L/100km vs 22 to 20L/100km.

Spotify failed to calculate the number of subscriptions people will cancel after they fuck over their customers when they pulled this shit. At least offer customers x months of free premium as a ‘I’m sorry’

Vision + Radar + Lidar = Triple redundancy for safety.

Unless you are a republican. Then it takes 3 weeks and catches fire every time. 

Remember when Tesla was ‘losing money on every car they made’? Guess what? This is the NORMAL BUSINESS CYCLE. It is the result of building new electric car manufacturing facilities and dropping 11 figures on R& D. You lose money on the books when writing down the R&D. Every car is still cash flow positive. Every…

Not to worry. Now the cops can steal your car and it will take a year before you can appeal to get it back.

Lidar used to be expensive. precision rotating mirrors in big bulky beacons. But tech marched forward and now it’s vibrating lenticular lenses on a chip. And it’s cheap. There is a reason every other self driving car company has test mules driving around equipped with lidar.

Double new car life and all of a sudden your old beater is cost effective to keep going. What a surprise.

BAN GLUED TOGETHER BATTERIES LIKE TESLA AND RIVIAN SELLS!!!.

The DIY guys who build alternator powered motorcycles (and bicycles) are known as the low budget ghetto crowd. It’s cheaper to use a nice motor then you can downsize the battery because your motor was really efficient.