The T-56 and TR-6060 are notable examples of transmissions with helical reverse gears.

Piezos make more sense. They’re used to detect positional movements from micrometers to millimeters, are extremely cheap, wouldn’t get obscured by dirt, etc. There are various positions you could mount them in the suspension. You could easily detect patterns in grooves that would be undetectable to drivers and at much…

Eh, it would be fine. They’re designed for it, and black boxes have been recovered from similar situations after similar times and been fine. Hell, with Air France, they were even able to read data from a maintenance datalogger that wasn’t even designed to be crash survivable.

Also, algae and reefs are a shallow water…

In Illinois (and presumably maybe elsewhere?) you can use your phone if you are stopped AND in park or neutral. I doubt many people realize that caveat, but there could be someone out there deliberately throwing it into park before checking facebook at the light.

Um, you blocked out the name in the text.. but not the pic. That name goes quite well with the story, though.

Yeah, it’s definitely a ferret. Wouldn’t be the first time a ferret was used as a stand-in for a wild animal. I imagine a Marten would not just stand around playing with a person standing there sticking a camera in its face.

Great, another excuse to have Richard Quest back on talking about airplanes all day.

Under national standards, crossing white lines is *discouraged* but not illegal. Does vary state by state, and even city by city, though. Then there are sometimes separate laws within x feet of an intersection.

Yeah, the turbo setup on the 13B-REW is just so elegant in its simplicity:

Cop is saying he has his high beams on, hence why both lights are illuminated, but it’s hard to tell the difference between high and low beams in the daytime. Driver turns on fog lights to prove that the low beams are on because the high beams can’t operate while the fog lights are on.

When it comes to police, Phillip Turner is hardly a “regular citizen.” He’s a “citizen journalist and video activist,” does a lot of first amendment audits where he films police stations and other random stuff to see if he gets bothered by cops. He’s cool as a cucumber because he is interacting with (and getting…

The $90k price of the jamming rig is pretty deceptive. Sure, they were able to expediently configure $90k worth of lab equipment for that purpose. Now that they’ve figured out the techniques, they could build custom hardware to serve the same purpose for a couple hundred bucks.

It’s sort of like, I *could* use my $5k…

I would venture a guess that the majority of drunk driving *is* drunk AND tired driving, a) because mostly it happens late at night, and b) because alcohol does make you more tired.

And anecdotally, everyone I know who has had a DUI (a handful of people) have all gotten them after falling asleep drunk in their cars.

Yeah, except it doesn’t necessarily help in fog, though in most foggy situations you will have your wipers on.

Well, seeing as how when you take a 401k loan, you are paying the interest to yourself and it isn’t simply evaporating, and for most of the past few years, you would probably pay more interest back to yourself than your money would have earned in the 401k, it would have actually been a pretty reasonable thing to do…

CNN is showing an image of this bizarre creature. I would be surprised if they’re actually showing a naked woman, but then who can really tell? I’m guessing it’s a dude.

Obviously there’s the angles and the colors involved, and the relatively low resolution, but the main culprit is simply the video compression algorithm that didn’t think those parts of the image had changed enough to warrant including in the video.

That’s a C-17, BTW. The winglets are the most obvious difference, aside from the proportions just being different (C-17s have more of a short and fat appearance). The engine diameter is also a bit larger (overall, but especially proportionally) on the C-17.

Brake-checking is usually illegal. Specifically, in most states, it can be classified as assault as it is intended to cause injury or fear of injury.

I’m sure they ferry them around in cargo aircraft just like the US does.