C&D is also perfectly willing to do the kinds of launches that you would never do to your own car.  Most of the other guys won’t go fully balls out on the launches.

To be fair, the person most likely to die in a bus crash is the driver, so relying on the same driver to then unbuckle all the kids that can’t work the buckles themselves would be problematic.

gotta go big or go home

Volvo had a FWD transverse I6 for a long time, it can be done, it’s just not very pretty packaging-wise.

I would argue the packaging aspects of a flat-6. They are very wide, which leads to serious packaging issues. For a FWD car you either have to put the entire engine ahead of the front axle(and live with a really bad weight distribution), or have the rear cylinder bank shoved up against the firewall and live with…

this is probably closer to a sunburn than road rash.

The Night King couldn’t pass the wall due to magic, and didn’t have the means to destroy it until he had a dragon. If Dany hadn’t gone up and saved Jon the Night King would likely still be trapped north of the wall. At bare minimum, he would have had to assault the wall manually which would have seriously depleted his…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Eagle_Eye

Considering most of the other cameras are fixed in place, I don’t see the issue with a camera that’s just moving slower than the cars.

I’d much rather lose 2-3 minutes off a session to verify it isn’t for me than risk getting kicked out of the event for not coming in when I got black flagged.  Having said that, I’ve never had a black flag waved that wasn’t a full-course black flag, so it hasn’t happened to me yet.  I have had to go in and talk to the…

The only person I’ve ever seen kicked out of a BMW CCA track day was driving a GTI.

I’ve always been taught that if you can see the black flag it is for you. You go in and verify with the head official that the flag was for you. If it wasn’t, you get to go back out. If it was you get to go park and talk about what you did wrong. Not to mention you check every single flagging station for flags and you…

True, I always forget the shroud is on the “wrong” side.

Not deactivating until the headlights crest the hill is no worse than a human controlling the high beams. As for the bouncing, they already adjust that to stabilize the beam as best they can.

What they are talking about is a high beam that is on 100% of the time, but creates a shadow around oncoming cars so you don’t blind them. This video shows pretty clearly what they can do:

I don’t think that’s correct, both my first 2 cars had a separate high beam projector, and the lows didn’t shut off when you switched to highs. My current has a separate high beam, but it only turns on when you flash the high beams. The primary bulbs are HIDs so it just lifts the shroud when its only normal high beams.

I would bet the Empire State building would qualify.

Last I checked, this is still sucking the tailpipes of an M550d touring, which has 394hp and 561 torques from a quad-turbo 3.0L I6. And a -60 of 4.6 sec.

You are assuming the market’s hand isn’t forced by governments simply making new ICE vehicles illegal. There are already 9 countries that have ICE phase-outs on the books, starting with Norway in 2025.

Some are, some aren’t. Car and Driver got 41 mpg out of a 330i on a real-world 75mph highway drive(EPA rating is 34). However other turbo cars fell far short of their EPA claims.  BMW seems to typically beat the EPA highway test in the real world.