“Forward gears use helical cut gears, which automakers prefer to use in manual gearboxes because they’re smoother and can withstand more force.”

Actual combustion engineer here:

Looks more like the light-pole did the trick. The phone pedestal offered no resistance whatsoever.

I mean... is $85 a year really that much? There’s 23 races, so it’s less than $4 a race and you get access to all sessions and all support races. Watching the F2 races has been really interesting this year because at least a couple of the drivers are moving to F1 in the next year or two and it’s cool to watch them…

“Queue up pedantic know it all commenters on this article.”

Plugging a radial tire should only be considered as a last resort.

Material Scientist & Engineer / metallurgist here. Tesla is using a custom cold rolled 300 series stainless steel, so similar to type 304 and 316 austenitic stainless steel. Marketing name “ultra-hard 30X”.

Bentley needs to be more like Koenigsegg and build a car that’s so slow it only needs a one-speed transmission. Very irresponsible.

There are lots of things, mainly knowledge retention and application. Specifically, I have noticed a dangerous trend in my area concerning right of way etiquette: “Dangerous courtesy”

Highway onramps are for accelerating up to highway speeds.

Zipper merging and really noticing the difference between added lane merging and merging. Learning they don’t have to stop and yield with added lane, just keep with traffic, learning the difference between these two signs.

The thief taunted police by tossing jars of Grey Poupon out the window as he drove. 

We get one pageview per slide, so this helps us really crank up our metrics, which means more ad sales, which means more money.

“Carvana actually had an agreement with the city to use the fairgrounds, but that agreement only allowed them to use some of the fairgrounds.”

OTA NPR during the prime drive-time hours is *really* repetitious. News at the top of the hour and half-hour that is usually the same stories at 8:30 as at 6:00, most stations repeat the entire 6AM hour of Morning Edition from 8AM-9PM and the local one here (VPR, which to be fair has really expanded local news in…

That’s not what Tesla is being investigated for.

Two years is pretty outstanding life for wiper blades. Most manufacturers admit that their blades are living on borrowed time after 6 months.

I’d argue that first owners and lessees certainly did benefit from the long transferable warranty in that it propped up the residual value of a used VW. That may be hard to quantify.

It’s really important to note VWoA did this not because consumers didn’t care about the coverage, but that the dealers were bitching because they were losing money in F&I by not being able to sell people bullshit extended warranty contracts. They also bitched about the loss of income in service since warranty work…