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Zero cars have souls.

further evidence for why david tracy is probably the smartest writer in automotive journalism right now. but let’s be clear that by “smartest,” i don’t mean vapid intellectualism; i mean this: david takes the science and engineering behind new materials and breaks them down in an accessible way. this is rare. really…

Can we let Formula 1 die? And do this instead?

“Mow the yard?” No, Stef, just no. “Mow the lawn” or “cut the grass” are the only two acceptable options.

These are amazing. I know it wasn’t, but due to the limits of then-modern photography I always picture life 50-100 years ago as washed out and grainy. Really interesting to see modern life shot that way.

The mini-figure crash engineers designed it this way on purpose. You see, the shedding of the blocks bleeds energy to protect the plastic occupants. You should have seen the damage when crashing 1930s tin cars into barricades. Yeah, the outside looked better but the damage to the occupants was gruesome. If you look at…

Meanwhile in America, 70 years old wannabe-King/despot pretends to know how to drive a big rig in front of as many cameras as possible.

Hum, i’m taking guess, so here is what i thought it happened:
Seems to me that the truck working the blade is using a detached support trailer, which is basically a set of wheels placed somewhere near the end of the blade. in the last picture you can see some of it on the floor, behind 2 of the service men.
Considering…

They do. One of them is called SBX-1, and it’s allegedly deployed somewhere in the Pacific to also keep an eye on the DPRK. Unfortunately, there’s only one of them, it’s expensive to maintain, and relatively expensive. We also have the Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) DDGs (SPY-1D radars) in the region that can do…

I’m not even sure I can wrap my head around a car bifurcating itself in a head on collision with another car. It makes absolutely no sense at all that something like this would happen. I can think of a lot of ways the car would be damaged, but split in half does not compute.

The answer, as always, is ‘more.’ Things can always get more ridiculous. And the big corporate nation states are aggressively pushing us back to the fiefdom ages of old. Carve out their own private corner of the world and everyone becomes indentured servants of whatever that corporation wants. They don’t want…

I used to have fun in a 2005 Grand Prix with that. On long road trips, I’d wait for my friends to fall asleep, then change the instrument cluster to km/h. The face didn’t change, the needle just jumped up to 130. Then they’d wake up and freak out. lol

Think connecting a 12V battery to a 6V system might have contributed to that a little?

Can not unsee.

200 years from now, it might look something like this:

Not sure why, but I always get a happy feeling inside whenever I see something that’s built to last. Old machinery made of cast iron, stringed instruments that are over a century old and still played, high-quality tools handed down through generations, stuff like that.

I think that’s his entire point. Aircraft carriers of today are not combat ships anymore. We keep building them to be fighting ships when in reality, they can be easily sunk (says the author). In reality, they are just glorified air bases used to project power and they should be built as such. As I see it, the…

Good. Seriously fuck this guy and everybody like him. They actually slow traffic down because everybody needs to brake to let them in.