10MW of solar generation would likely not be enough for that location. Solar only has a productive window per day of around 5-6 hours, meaning you’re only producing 50-60MWh on a good day. Based on that, it would only have enough to charge up to 600 x 100kWh vehicles, assuming negligible charging inefficiencies. And…

You can still buy them, now with a USB interface:

A true level 4/5 system is probably going to require leveraging an ‘all of the above’ approach to paint a more complete picture of the surroundings. None of these systems (optical, lidar, ToF camera, radar, etc) seem sufficient on their own, for reasons you’ve already touched on.

Okay, maybe /vomit was too strong of a reaction, and it looks significantly less.....offensive in it’s non-Wilderness-edition trim. But I do genuinely think that Subaru has kind of gone off the rails with their styling recently.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the VehiCross a lot. But I don’t think there’s any shame in saying that it’s an objectively ugly vehicle. But that’s okay! Function coming before form is how it should be for an serious off-roader.

It’s like they hired the one person in the world who thought that the Isuzu VehiCROSS wasn’t ugly enough as their chief designer.

Unfortunately, most of their cars have been hit by that same stick in the past couple of years (Forester, Outback, Legacy, etc). In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the only good looking car in their stable is the BRZ.

How do you differentiate between a semi constantly hauling at the max 18,000lbs per axle and one constantly transporting bulky but light material at half that, doing theoretically 1/4th to 1/16th of the damage? Or one whose load varies?

Yeah, I’m not seeing $23k worth of improvements to the standard $43k base Transit, which itself is already more expensive than it should be, considering it used to start at $32k back in 2020.

Because the damage increase does not have a linear relationship to the weight increase, it’s more like an exponential. A semi that weighs up 20X what an average passenger vehicle weighs causes an estimated ~5000X more wear/damage per mile (per WSJ), yet does not use 5000X more fuel, and therefore does not generate…

This, or deciding that working on your own car is just not something you are good at and walking away permanently. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was when I fucked up a front axle replacement in my daily driver forcing me to miss work (costing me more than if I had just had someone else do it from the…

1995 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4.

I would imagine fantails are similarly safer than an open tail rotor.

I wonder what the specific wording of that requirement is though. Like, theoretically, the steering wheel and steering rack are bolted to the same chassis, therefore voila!, physical connection achieved.

Moral of the story: If the roads where you live are cratered like the surface of the moon (Detroit, Philly, NYC, etc), maybe low profile tires aren’t for you. Ask your doctor.

I believe they also use lower-tension piston rings to reduce the drag between the piston and cylinder, which probably allows more oil to seep by.

I’ll see your Audi A7 PHEV, and ‘raise’ you a Volvo S60 Recharge T8 ER. More electric range (40mi vs 26mi), better gas mileage (31mpg vs 27mpg), more powerful (455hp vs 367hp), faster (0-60, 4.3sec vs 5.7sec), $25k less expensive, gets the full $7500 tax credit instead of $7000, and plenty of room in the front and…

What if I have backseats, but they aren’t large enough to put anyone with legs back there? Does it still count as a 2-seater?

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Side airbags or no, this thing doesn’t have the most confidence-inspiring safety record when compared to other similar vehicles of the time: