Right. You have a plane so you can fly. I have a boat so I can swim. It all makes sense.

True human achievement has surpassed boating. We have jets now.

Good to know. I was literally just commenting about the appearance though. It looks like a Mazda 3, but if it were a balloon that’s over inflated.

Not to mention it looks like a Mazda 3 that can’t shed the baby weight.

The human IS racing. You take out the human and you remove all the danger, all the narrative, and most importantly, all the chances for me to fantasize about being in the shoes of the driver. The things that make it interesting inherently involve having a driver.

Any DAY now....

The problem with doing what you described (called a proportional controller) is that it’s completely undamped which results in “ringing” which is oscillation about some natural frequency. Best case scenario your control system is ringing and never really operating nominally. Worst case scenario your car is “ringing”…

Ok, but the 5252 thing is just because of a unit conversion. Has nothing to do with the physics. Not being able to run the wheel speed to that point means nothing.

Yes. Everything you said is factually correct. However, you’re equating the ability to modulate voltage to being able to actually do it in a way that’s advantageous for handling. One of those things us easy and the other us not. Motor controllers can be completely solid state (i.e. no firmware). They’re incredibly…

I don’t know where you heard that. Power is just torque x rotational velocity. Since this is direct drive, wheel torque x wheel speed = motor torque x motor speed - driveline losses.

Those are two very different things. While, yes, they do have the ability to control how much voltage is applied at any given time, the control system needed to determine when that given time is and how much to change that voltage is quite a bit more complex.

Your wife’s gonna be pissed when she sees you used the kitchen scissors on your car.

Well he’s right. That’s clearly photoshopped. Shadows are all wrong. /s

NASA Utah 6 Hour Enduro was last night at Utah Motorsports Campus.

It’s weird. They don’t always show up on my phone, but when they do, fuck those ads.

Nailed it.

PIN Number, VIN Number, ATM Machine. I LOL out loud every time I hear some idiot say these types of things.

Oooh, he called you a bitch. You might need a dumpster swimming pool if he can come up with more sick burns of such great caliber.

I thought that’s why Philly made Yuengling? Surely they don’t drink that stuff.

To be fair, the difference between saying, “KER System” and “KERS System” is indistinguishable. Those that write it have no excuse, but anyone you hear talking about it could be saying it right or wrong and you wouldn’t be able to tell.