Ride-hailing and self-driving cars will only ease congestion once we start combining rides. Like the way buses, trams, light rail, and street cars do it.

That papaya orange is so bright, I didn’t even see the halo. Best halo camouflage yet.

They had no trouble inspecting the cars for decades before parc ferme came along, so that’s a non-issue.

F1 brought in parc ferme to keep teams from using qualifying engines. As a result of that, teams can’t change the setup to adjust to changing conditions anymore. So when it rain, we have a bunch of cars set up for dry running with too much spring and not enough ride height or downforce that have to trundle around…

I test drove a Cooper once (not an S) and loathed every minute of it. Single most uncomfortable and awkward car I’ve ever driven. Sun visor? Smaller than a postage stamp and completely useless. Switches? Poorly labeled and indistinguishable. Seat, steering wheel, gear shift, and pedals? I think they were positioned…

CP. It has a radiator. :P

The 1,500 to 2,000 number is only for Fitzgerald. I have no idea how many other companies there are that do these conversions.

Counterpoint: Those semis drive 2.5X-8X as many miles as the cars do. So one Fitzgerald glider spews as much pollution every year as 100 to 400 cars.

Nice idea, but wrong color. It’s gotta be Brooklands Green.

The car was a ‘94 Integra GS-R. The engine was turning about 6000 RPM to do 120mph. That puts it right at peak torque which is about as efficient as the engine can be. In that operating range, I was probably getting more like .38 lbs/hp-hr (estimating from curves at previous link, can’t find a B18C1 specific curve)…

Here’s the best reference I could find for BSFC. All of the engines, regardless of size, have a peak efficiency in the range of 200-250 g/kW-hr (most of the graphs are in metric). That’s about .33-.41 lbs/HP-hr. Peak power is out around 300-325 g/kW-hr (.49-.53 lbs/HP-hr), so your estimate of .55 is pretty good.

Here are your race tracks.

I don’t know which factory vehicles you are thinking about, but there are plenty of 200-ish HP hot hatches that would easily be able to make it 100 miles. An engine making ~200 HP will burn ~ 13 gallons in an hour. With 200HP available, you should be able to travel much faster than 100 MPH.

The green ones.

If we didn’t have mufflers on our ICEs, they’d be pretty loud, too.

Easy. Add 5kg for each new engine. This would be a cumulative effect, and it would apply for every race the engine is used. So, when engine #1 is in the car, the car must weigh at least 728kg. When engine #2 is in the car, the minimum weight goes up to 733kg. Engine #3 goes with a minimum weight of 738kg.

Danny Sullivan approves!

But the real question is, “How do I get Waze to stop trying to get me to take the HOV/Commuter/Car Pool lane when I only have 1 person in the car?”

Pathetic imitation of a BRM V-16.

Android hasn’t had anything like this before? I am honestly shocked. My WinPho could do this 5 years ago in version 8.0.