Oh! Derp. You meant six months of driving not on a cross-country trip. Sorry. I read that completely wrong. Point well taken. The equivalent of six months wear.
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I feel like you misunderstood what I meant by "control." I mean experimental control - like the ability to manipulate and measure it - knowing what that "imperfection" is. Treating a test track like a lab, you could add certain incremental amounts of, for example, water (or mud, or gravel of various size, etc.) on the…
I just don't understand it from an engineering standpoint. If you want to test the car's reaction to a turn at a given speed and radius/bank angle - I'd figure you could do more in your controlled test track (i.e., telemetry, high speed video analysis, manipulation of the surface with gravel/sand/water, and whatever…
Dude. All I've ever been saying is that reducing the number of people in the line of fire of the car would reduce risk in the unlikely, accidental, case that it overshoots the target. This is consistent with whatever point you think you quoted there. If you don't like my suggestion, fine. This conversation has gone on…
It's really become obnoxious. It's as if manufacturers are afraid to say their car wasn't optimized on the Nurburgring. It's as much marketing as anything, clearly, if a LR is spending "development" time on it. What, pray tell, can engineers learn from the 'ring that they can't learn on any other test track?
The parallels between aviation and stuntwork are meant to have been clear here.
Cue the spit jokes.
I'll say it again a different way: safety precautions are taken to mediate ACCIDENTS.
My only point is that the camera may need to be in the straight-on-shot, but surely no human genuinely needs to be, and certainly not the dozen or so seen here.
Yes. This was quite possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
1) I'm from STL too, cheers.
The idea that food and water didn't make this list (granted, it was about prepping the car) is more than a little ridiculous.
Six months? With months of side-trips, sure. But as a single trip, itself, it's a comfortable week. Two weeks if you take smaller highways and "stop" often. Beyond that - you're filling whatever amount you choose with (non-driving) sights and activities.
Shouldn't this be number two?
A cross-country drive is stressful in and of itself. If you take the time to make sure your car isn't an additional source of worry, I can guarantee you'll have a much better time.
4.) Have Spare Parts Specific To Your Car
7.) Bring A Compass
The last thing you want on a cross-country drive is to be stuck on the side of the highway with a flat tire and no spare because you needed the room to pack all your stuff. Bring tire plugs and tire goo to help out in a pinch.
