That’s the document I was trying to find! Yeah, that local news report is misleading. Had it occurred past V1 the plane would have taken off then landed. It’s not like my single-engine Cessna where a failure below pattern altitude could be a code brown moment.

Yes, twins can take off on one engine. Past V1, the max abort speed, the procedure is to take off.

This may well have been staged, but not everyone who owns/drives a Lambo is a complete asshat.

I think she’s counting on the Lambo driver having very good insurance.. I’m surprised she wasn’t holding her neck and speed-dialling a compliant doctor.

Hope her insurance has a pretty high cap. 

This isn’t an issue. Modern CPUs us like, .8v, but the PSUs only put out 5v and 12v, and generally only use 12v for the CPUs. What they do use, however, is VRM modules to knock that voltage down to the desired voltage. This is what they’d do with any CPU. Even 20 year old CPUs didn’t run at 5v or 12v. 486's from the…

I totally agree. One major part of industrial engineering is obsolescence planning, and there are companies that are...not very good...about this. It’s a major issue, not very sexy, but very much a strategic risk. It’s not a good feeling to learn that one of your suppliers is no longer making parts for that…

It’s also design laziness. You would think when they design a car, they’d go for the current tech, but they’ll usually just go to things they already have tested and/or have a supply chain already set up for. Particularly for things like power window electronics.

That’s very much the accepted pattern in the software world. With hardware, it’s possible the new chips would still need extensive safety/reliability testing and validation before being considered equivalent to the old ones.

This is all due to poor supply chain planning and a religious devotion to just in time manufacturing to appease Wall Street because excess inventory looks bad on a balance sheet.  So many industries are suffering because everyone thought it was 2008 again and it isn’t.  The bonkers thing is that older IC’s aren’t that…

So, as someone with experience in this, when would you actually start looking to move to newer tech?

This is good stuff.

Yes and no. The high voltage battery needs to be completely isolated from the car when the car is off for safety reasons. So you need “something” to power the relay that makes that connection when you turn the car on. And the simplest and cheapest something is a good old-fashioned 12V system as used in billions of…

Great article, more in depth stuff like this please.

I recommend 2. A little one designed for the cigarette lighter for laptops and such, and a bigger one you put straight on the battery. My 600W is undersized for some tools, but has run a circular saw before. You just push slow to keep the draw down.

Inverters can be very useful but spend the extra money and make sure it’s a pure sine wave. Your devices will be much happier.

My truck has one from the factory. In 3 years I may have used it once or twice.

IMO - the inverter in the F150 Hybrid (or whatever they market it as) is a really cool and useful idea, as it’s more than a place to plug in a laptop or coffee mug.

That requires it to be still running at the end of that year.

HELL YES this is ND!

You know, I feel like if you’re going to go through the trouble of ditching the normal front fork suspension for something like this, you should probably take the time to show it off and do something different in the front. I honestly didn’t even notice the forks were gone at first and now feel like they really missed…