As an American the first thing you can do to gain a little perspective is to think of America not as a single country, but as a collection of multiple geographically bound cultures that happen to share a common top level government. Even within each state that differences between an American living in a metropolitan…
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"Well, if Nissan isn't going to use the IDx roof..."
Yes, driving and steering the front wheels is not somthing two guys can just hack together out of RWD parts. They would have to have started out with a Cord or a Miller to reasonably get a finished product that was FWD.
Judging by the schematic it looks like it is RWD via belt or chain driven by a mid-mounted differential.
Bruce Maddox? I didn't know you served on an excelsior class ship, and how were you demoted from a commander to a NCO? Was it after you lost the Data case?
Better than the "robots" the soviets used to stabilize Chernobyl.
The tricky part to building a 100 mpg car is building a 100 mpg car that meets safety standards and costs that same as a Toyota Camry. It's comparatively easy to 1. build a cheap super light car that gets 100 mpg but crumples like tissue paper in a crash and 2. build a super light car that gets 100 mpg and meets…
I think a big reason SUVs became popular is because, in the beginning, they were held to the same safety and fuel economy standards as trucks, which were lower than for cars.
I guess it could be considered a conspiracy theory to people who believe the market is customer driven rather than manufacturer driven...
Is it a conspiracy theory to believe that auto companies only build and market SUVs and crossovers because they can sell them for a higher markup than the trucks and hatchbacks that they are based on? Or is that just how the market works?
Also I feel safe in saying that if we had maintained a large navy during the inter-war period in the 1920s and 1930s we would have just lost more ships and men to the Japanese in our mad scramble to modernise our navy with carriers.
Seeing as keeping a large standing navy around only makes sense if our navy where to engage another navy in large blue water battles It makes total sense not to needlessly spend money on maintaining a navy for the purpose of fighting the 1980 Soviet navy in 2015. The Russian navy today is rusting in siberian ports and…
Greatest automotive marketing idea of 2014? Getting people to buy an otherwise normal hatchback but with a lift-kit for an extra 2,000-3,000 dollars.
Bear Gman,
Yes, I would suspect boom operators must have a high level of spacial awareness much like fighter pilots and astronauts. As I said in a previous reply though the astronauts on the ISS still use looking through windows on the station to supplement "looking through a straw" video feeds that they use to monitor docking…
will the cameras be good enough for visual inspection of the planes?
Yes, it's hard to think of a better backup system then a slab of transparent silica for either a LCD screen or VR based refueling control system. There is a reason why the astronauts on the ISS pretty much exclusively use the cupola windowed observatory to dock or assist in the docking of spacecraft. Sure they are…
Since the fuel probe can only operate in a small volume, there isn't a need for the operator to look at much besides that area.
That makes a bit more sense and reminds me of an old military branch joke.