This right here. It seems like he figures that if he just keeps up with this entitled baby bully behavior, people will default to letting him by and that can work when you’re dealing with cooler-headed people (or doormats, but I don’t think there’d be many of those in racing), but at some point someone(s) will have eno…

The way ZF does it (the same rack, IDK), there are two sets of teeth, one driven by steering wheel shaft input, the other the electric motor. It would basically become a manual rack in the event of an electrical failure, much like an old hydraulic rack if the engine stalled, though maybe even easier to steer as I…

They don’t work, but the theory is, if you leave the vehicle idling for extended periods for no reason, you can get a ticket. I’m sure it varies at discretion of the cop (who probably leaves their cruiser idling for hours every day), but I think it’s probably only ever enforced when people move their car into the…

Well, they already forced “stability” control on everyone, so what’s more useless tech that has to be shut off at every restart?

It’s not about traffic lights so much as asshats who leave their cars idling for long periods of time for no reason, sometimes not even occupied.

That might have been me. I posted before that if I had stupid money to make stupid vehicles, one would be a radial engined car essentially like a Gee Bee Z/R series racing plane without wings with a manually controlled CVT, the idea of which would be to replicate the feel of adjustable prop pitch. There would still…

Yeah, it was a Focus-priced replacement based on the cheaper Fiesta that was slower, with less interior space, worse mileage, shittier handling, and it looked the way it looked. I have never seen very many of them (and, while the Ford dealers have had pretty empty lots with vehicle demand lately, Eco Sports could…

Yes! And I think the fines should be assessed according to traffic volumes at the time. Want to drive like a dumb shit during rush hours, you can pay a fine that factors in the inconvenience of however many average vehicles can fit in the length of the backup for however long the backup lasts. Don’t pay the fine, you d…

I watched a lifted Expedition in front of me in a Boston parking garage hit the corner of a concrete drop in the ceiling, peeling the roof back from the windshield about 8". The garage has all kinds of signs at the entrance warning of low clearance and, even then, he could have gone around the low clearance section if…

The fines are too lenient. They should have to foot the bill for the entire police detail, cleanup, and engineering evaluation, plus a punitive number that would vary according to a formula that factors in the estimated inconvenience to other motorists based on the average number of vehicles that would pass under the…

Yeah, my 2017 Macbook Pro with its notorious shit keyboard of chipped keys (but, hey, it allowed them to make the case 2 mm thinner or whatever unasked for nonsense than the previous bulletproof model!), shadow-spotted retina display, and nearly unusable battery they fake recalled is pretty much ancient. Two models…

I’ve had 2/4 Macbooks that would disagree with you. They really are Tesla—trash build quality and stupid, inferior ways of being different just for the sake of it released into the market without proper testing, and blame-the-customer-attitude, but very good software. Tesla just needs to do the fake recalls where they…

This is what gets me about the homebuild registration. Some moron can build an unsafe POS like this and get it registered, but something from overseas built by an actual manufacturer and passing domestic testing and regulations is a no-go.

Electric motors aren’t like car engines. That 1000 hp capable motor isn’t analogous to a 8.0 V10 vs a 2.0 I4 in terms of fuel efficiency and weight. In some ways, the bigger motor is even more efficient as there isn’t much weight penalty for it and it can handle more heat (less wasted energy). It all comes down to the…

I think it’s not just weight/power here since 1000 hp makes that a very low ratio whatever the weight, but weight/power under a specific weight ceiling (I would suggest whatever number is low enough to dispense with damn electric steering assist).

It’s just too easy with that engine having so much empty space around it, the rest of the engine compartment doesn’t even know it’s there.

Yeah, what women were in the running for the job? Transportation Design is a small field globally and there are very few women in it. I would also imagine that most of the ones that do exist are on the younger side and haven’t had the chance to advance their careers far enough to be appointed design heads. Also, with…

As the rare weirdo who has no interest in Porsches and would buy a Lotus over one without even a hint of consideration for the former and agree that the Evora is a great deal used, I wouldn’t actually pay that much for even a new car, so yeah, it’s a very selective fanbase.

Of course, they do have some kind of…

My older nephew is a nervous type and was very timid and terrible behind the wheel (crashed into two garages!), so my BiL and sister had him take a teen emergency driving course or whatever they call it that’s like high-performance-driving-light and it transformed him. By that, he’s collected a bunch of speeding…

Around Boston, until the traffic came back (though the problem drivers still exist where the traffic isn’t), it’s a mix of people driving like they’re looking to recreate the last scene from “Vanishing Point” or dangerously slow and frightened/indecisive/confused (and probably driving a CRV). The latter category are…