I know the MDS engines are very particular about oil weight, but it sounds like there are some non-MDS failures too.  I wonder what the percentage spread is?  I believe the MDS cars really need 5W-20, and I’m guessing there are a fair number of people that go to Jiffy Lube and end up getting 10W-40 or whatever is most…

This is pretty much what I’ve said from the start.  If you can’t protect for every situation in an environment, you have to control the environment instead.  Ports have been largely autonomous for years, but that’s because there’s a big fence around where the AVs operate, and if anyone opens the gate to that fence the…

The €10 million figure amounts to approximately 0.1 percent of the Agnelli family’s net worth

I’ll throw my hat in with you. This website has some nice comparisons to previous outbreaks: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-deadly-is-the-coronavirus-compared-to-past-outbreaks. The reality is also that there could be far more people already infected that don’t show symptoms and may never show them. That…

And here is some data about previous pandemics: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-deadly-is-the-coronavirus-compared-to-past-outbreaks.  H1N1 was probably just about as bad, though maybe not quite as lethal.  It’s really hard to tell at this point because there can be a large number of people not being tested…

There is one of these in my company parking lot.  Knew they weren’t common, but didn’t know they were quite that special.

Vaguely tell people not to show up if they feel bad, but don’t incentivize them to do so, and keep their work open anyway.

I mostly agree. I don’t think anyone would have predicted a basic complete shutdown of air travel for several weeks. That’s a catastrophic event that is very difficult to plan for vs just reduced demand due to some other thing going on (like an eruption or something disrupting travel in a particular sector). A…

It’s money.  We’re pathetic when it comes to IT and infrastructure investment.  We buy the old out of date switches and parts that are less common and have less service available then complain when things break.  For a few weeks we had nearly daily shutdowns as the network crapped itself and couldn’t handle the office…

We all pretty much have laptops, so remote meetings are no issue. We also have converted over to G Suite, so sharing documents and whatnot isn’t that bad either. It’s working with actual CAD data and the few things that are on the local servers where things would grind to a halt. Our drawing database is also locally…

Not opposite in quite the same way, but at one point I had a 67 Dart and a 2000 Jag XKR at the same time. The Dart was manual everything and even had a carb at the time. Manual brakes, steering, shift, no A/C, etc. The Jag had everything. Cruise control, heated seats, automatic climate control, a radio you could…

While I agree that it is physically possible for that to happen, I have zero faith that can happen within the incredibly short timeline it would have to.  My company is a prime example.  We have a VPN and the capability to log in from home to access the local servers.  The problem is that infrastructure is woefully…

Maybe you didn’t read what I said. I specifically pointed out that people would be going to grocery stores because they are essential. My point is that everyone is going to be going to a grocery store despite the pandemic, which is going to be a ton of people gathering in one place all touching stuff. You can’t get…

That’s not really realistic. Not everyone can just hunker down and not go anywhere or do anything for a month or two. At that point everyone is going to be going to a grocery store for supplies, which there is really no way around. The whole world can’t just stop because of something like this.

The in-house engine is the main thing that raises my eyebrow.  That just seems very unlikely.  I wonder if it’s really based on some production motor, though potentially heavily modified so there’s very little left that is actually production.

I think at last count I had somewhere around 13 different car’s (and truck’s) parts on my 67 Dart. Some of those have even been removed and replaced by other parts that still aren’t for a Dart. I’ll see if I can’t make the list:

I guess I should have specified “most of the time”, lol. I agree, half the fun of a fun car is having fun with it and doing things you can’t do in a normal car. But what a lot of people seem to forget is that you can also just drive it like a normal car.  It’s not like an F1 car where you have to drive it fast to…

Yeah, I can’t say I was stupid reckless when I first got my Viper at the grand old age of ~25, but I can say that I have learned things and look back on some of the things I did and think “that was pretty dumb”.

Does it matter if it has a negative ground?

Lol, I drove a car like that once.  I was thinking more rate of acceleration compared to amount of control actuation.