I’m not arguing we ban anything. I’m making a counterargument to the statement “SUV’s and trucks are superior in most ways for every day living.” 

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Most of the weight is from additional extras(mostly electronic addons), not crash resistance. I would actually expect the newer car to take more damage, as the name of the game is reducing impact energy, which it done by expanding crumple zones.

An EV sedan will have better range than an EV SUV on the same sized battery, or it will have equal range on a smaller battery. This is because the SUV will weigh more and have worse aero.

An NVMe riser that plugs into a PCIe slot is going to run at full speed. The m.2 slot is just a small 4x PCIe connector, all the riser card does is route pin to pin from the standard PCIe slot to the m.2 slot.

An NVMe riser that plugs into a PCIe slot is going to run at full speed. The m.2 slot is just a small 4x PCIe…

I’ve never turned off headlights, but I have shut trunks and doors. Not actually shut them until they clicked, but closed them to just above the locking point. I do it that way because I don’t know the exact reason why they left it open, perhaps they have a reason, and I don’t want to risk locking them out, but I…

There is only one correct answer to this, the Mythbusters wedge truck

It’s somewhat ironic because the workers themselves apparently had the foresight to stash money away in the good times for the lean times(i.e. now while they are on strike), but don’t understand why GM might want to do the same.

There are different levels of flash storage. eMMC is like the Nissan Versa of flash. Yes, it is technically flash, but only barely, and you use it because it’s cheap, not because it’s good. Consumer-grade SSDs are significantly faster and have much higher write endurance, as well as protection against errors. eMMC is…

The problem is that this was easily avoidable. The max read/write cycles is a known value for whatever NAND(the actual chips used in the storage) they chose to use. You can query the SSD to ask it how many reallocated sectors it has, this will give you a good indication of how much longer the drive can live at it’s…

*could have been fixed. If it’s already causing chips to fail, it’s too late for a software fix, the damage has been done to the hardware and what remaining logs it does need to write will end up killing the car. The issue is that the memory cells of the SSD have a finite number of read/write cycles they can endure.…

A bunch of yokels from half a world away managed to kill nearly 3,000 on 9/11 because we fucked them over in the Afgan war against the USSR. How did we fuck them over you ask? We supplied them with weapons and training and told them we’d help them rebuild after the war, but once they finished the objective we cared…

Someone came out to an HDPE with BMW CCA NJ chapter in a GT500 a few years back, he was getting passed by 328i’s. The last GT500 was a straight line monster, but not so great at turning. The guy’s instructor, who also happened to be the classroom instructor, said it was absurdly twitchy around the turns.

If it was at Shennandoah in like ‘17, that was me. That was not fun times. No idea why it blew, it happened under braking going into the Carousel, well after the shift, and the shift wasn’t a money shift. Blew a hole in both sides of the block and the oil pan, cracked a connecting rod, bent the crap out of the other…

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOhzG0YKp3hOWe_sdiEoz0g

Normally I’d be out there with him, but the wife is pregnant and leaving her home alone to watch the 2.5yo was not going to win me any points.  He does surprise the crap out of a lot of people with how quick that thing is.  To be fair though, he does have something around 550hp thanks to some Dinan mods.

My father has one of the least reliable BMW’s in recent years, an ‘09 750Li. He has nearly 200k miles on it and tracks it regularly. According to the dealer his car has, by a huge margin, the fewest problems than any other F01/02 they service, and any N63 with anything near his mileage. I think part of the issues…

If I’m being realistic, an entire e46 M3 drivetrain in my ZHP. If realism isn’t necessary, a S58 in my ZHP. I like me some straight sixes...

the Miata’s engine is shared with basically the entire Madza lineup, the diesel pickups share their engines with larger commercial vehicles, the i8 shares it engine with the base Mini Cooper, and the 760Li shares its’ engine with all of Rolls-Royce. Only the Century V12, which has since been cancelled because its not…

I find it deeply disturbing that I, a normal person with zero expierence with towing or driving large trucks can legally rent a 26' truck(which is 34' long) with a 15' trailer, totalling ~50' of articulated vehicle. Also that those people driving coach bus-sized RVs require zero training to legally do so.