Most manufacturers also put in a throttle cut so when the brake pedal is applied, the engine cannot exceed a certain load or throttle %. There are multiple systems put into place to try and keep things like this from happening - but with how modern cars are getting so connected and software driven it’s entirely…

This is a good theory, but I’m not sure it’d work.

Rental chains negotiate comically low prices with manufacturers to buy vehicles in bulk and they work directly with the manufacturer for the fleet sales, so the manufacturer would have to step in to work out the process to give cars to independent dealers and then take…

Got into a good “college” not “collage”.  Fix and delete this comment, lol.

Agreed. There’s an Air Fuel gauge, a toggle switch that does who knows what, a boost gauge, and a twin gauge. Someone was modded at least once, and who knows what was done or how it was handled/driven by the modder.

Also on a car THAT clean and well maintained, but no shot of the engine bay, on a car notorious for a…

There’s a great video series about the horsepower and censorship behind these platforms done by SmarterEveryDay on youtube “Who is manipulating Facebook” where he interviews someone from inside these platforms who discusses their internal resistance to letting machine learning algorithms detect and block this horrible…

Its really simple - micro-turbines aren’t as efficient as larger ones and regardless of size they require more skilled maintenance and parts. We have a bajillion rigs on the road and its expected that they can be fixed anywhere by anyone with a basic mechanic skillset 9 times out of 10.

That’s half true. The real cause was that states (at one point) entering the union had the choice to be a slave state or a non-slave state. As time went on the “Anti Save States” pushed against that option and made it so that the majority of potential states being added to the union were going to be non-slave states.

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Nothing against SOG, but these tools are all gimmicky. The Q1 is 2.4oz and the size of a fat highlighter, so it won’t go easily in a pocket and makes a horrible pen (as it’s SUPER heavy) for a bottle opener, a crappy pair of scissors, and a flathead screwdriver - AND it doesn’t explicitly say the pen is refillable,…

Depends on the industry. If it’s a military contractor? Regularly. Often. Constantly. We are a military industrial complex after all. There are books and books and books by economists that have addressed this for years. The idea of the “world is flat” shows the example of global corporations and that they’re…

There’s no “engineered well” to the point where they don’t leak. Even welded pipes leak at some point, and flanged & gasketed pipes leak a lot sooner. Gaskets degrade, welds crack, bolts break, etc. The ground shifts/shakes/expands/contracts regularly, and even the best “engineered” pipelines eventually have…

If F1 allowed it then yes every F1 manufacturer would do it. In terms of “the rest of the automotive world” in this application I doubt it. The difficulty is translating such bleeding edge engineering and production techniques to an engine that very well may cost 5% or less of an F1 engine. Increasing reliability…

Actually I’ve personally seen numerous valve springs fail on pushrod engines and DOHC engines (engines were on load cells) for destruction testing where we were taking a production engine to see when/where/how it failed for the purposes of trying to verify simulated MTTF and MTBF data - so yes, I have seen them fail.

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The comment was formula 1 engines. Formula 1 engines have a camshaft. The Koenigsegg does not, that is correct.

I was at an SAE powertrain conference over a decade ago and even then the concept of electric actuators had been beaten to death, but it still kept getting brought up as a “novel idea” by youngins that hadn’t sat on a single MTTF or MTBF analysis of the concept.

The problem is simply energy - not technology - for these…

Did you read that whole article? That’s a pneumatic spring ONLY - not actuation. Mechanical springs tend to fail at high rpm relatively quickly, so pneumatic ones are more stable. The actuation still utilizes a camshaft - and variable valve timing is banned anyway.

One should never say “yes but formula 1 uses it!”…

“This solar-produced gas can be burned directly, or converted into other forms of fuel, like diesel.”

Carbon Monoxide & Hydrogen gas combustion is *not* an efficient gas, nor does it compress easily. Additionally, it is hard to isolate the gas and store it without the presence of nitrogen & oxygen, which dramatically…

This isn’t actually new. There are multiple elements that ripen/soften tomatoes, but this dates back to 1994 - there are even documentaries about “Flavr Savr” and some include the previous team that developed it.