> and their Monoball kit swap the rubber bushings for ball joints and aluminum housings that allow for far more precision.

BMW called...

> a record of 83G over .04 seconds was set in the 1970s

nah you just keep your hand on the tiller like a sailboat

were they actually functional they would be ducts. like these:

> The other option is infinite gears,

The first use of a thermostat involving a feedback control loop is circa 1620, a car has several, that setup has none, short of the meatbag operating it deciding it’s to cold or blowy.

The analogy exists because of the traveling salesman problem, not because it’s a great analogy. it’s a combinatorial optimization problem.

My observation when this was new was that it was likely to eclipse their profit for the previous decade if not more. That’s like 100 billion dollars. Frankly if the penalties were not in fact large then everyone would look at flagrant violations of the law as a cost of doing business. willfull cheating on this scale…

among other things... also noise.

transfer of control is one of the more problematic pilot error areas, even with repeated training and sober people who are supposed to be paying attention. there’s no reason to expect that it would be better in cars with the general populace.

Nah, all the boxes are purchased by companies entertaining customers and employees and then deducted as a marketing expense.

it’s only got one :p which is 9.73:1 or therebouts

yeah that accounts for the somewhat lower than p90d 3.2 second 0-60 but it’s still 700+ foot pounds of torque once the tires hook up

really when they start shipping people will have to start evaluating their numbers...

It will not deploy below an angular momentum of 15MPH. 15MPH is still a pretty decent hit. Above that it really should have deployed.

This is why we have a standardized albeit flawed benchmark in the form of epa 5-cycle testing. So that at least we have numbers that we can all agree were derived in the same way.

is the car cooled to 7c while the champange is installed?

been magically standing for two millennia

Given than the total worlds production of palladium is about 300 tons annually catalytic converters are recycled.