Just like those awesome EVs from China, eh?

I see what you did there

Not taking sides here, but as a former UH-60 crewman, I’m curious as to how it was camouflaged. The aircraft themselves are typically uniformly painted OD green in a flat finish. I’ve hung camo over a Blackhawk in the field during FTXs and it was always green/tan/black to go along with the woodland camo theme we had…

The tech seems cool, but not sure what the point of all the bullshit ICE sounds is going to be. Want your car to sound like an angry turbo-4? Buy an car equipped with an angry turbo-4

Although...if they can add those sounds, can they make it sound like a 6.0L v12?  Because I would do that and giggle all day long.

Our AirBnB in Paris had one of the all-in-one: it took *forever* to dry our clothes. It could have been a worn out machine, or more likely, we were using it wrong, but it was not ideal.

Cool concept, and I’m totally fine with doubling the total cleaning time if it cuts the total energy required, but I would want to see…

cotd

I will say, 300k miles (or even km!) is an insane amount of miles on a single clutch. Mostly highway miles, yes?

I mean, yes and no. There is a big difference between a 3.0L turbo I6 burning gasoline and a 15.0L turbo I6 burning diesel. Semi-truck engines also have jake brakes which passenger car engines do not.

Regardless, I’ve put over 90k miles on a clutch with regular rev-match down shifting and engine braking and overall…

Once upon a time I brought my BMW into the dealership for warranty work and apparently, I had a lot less wear on the pads and rotors than I should have. I had the service writer mansplain (I’m a man, he was a man, so it was weird) that engine braking can do considerable damage to the engine and gearbox and it’s much…

It’s already happening. On a recent work trip, as I was flying home, two gentlemen in their late 20s of central or eastern European origin were the very last ones to get on the plane. By 5 minutes. I think the airline may have even held the plane for them. Regardless, one of them was speaking quite loudly on his phone…

wth is going on with that Top Gun ride-along?  Since when does a Super Hornet come with high bypass turbofans slung under the wings?

It leads to the question, once again, of whether AI is being developed too quickly.

just going to leave this here

I’ve looked for that setting on our SLK and haven’t been able to find it. :(

sounds like Toyota got it right early on.  Nissan for sure did not.

I suspect that they saw that the trim level was the most popular initially, so then they built a shitload of them, and now have extra.

On my older cars (MY 2003 Nissan, MY 2007 M-B, MY 2011 BMW) the automatic sensors were crap. My lights would come on every time I drove through an underpass or even an extended shadow. To avoid my very expensive xenon bulbs from going on and off 3-4 times a commute, I would switch them off in the day time and auto at…

agreed on the e-bike thing.  they’re faster and heavier than traditional bikes and I would be wary about using rim brakes.

I race cross country mountain bikes. If they made automatic shifting as quick and seamless as say, Porsche PDK, I’d be open to trying it during a race.

and by seamless and quick I would want it to keep me between 125-150w at 70-80 rpms for 90% of the course but also know when I want to stand on the pedals for a quick…

hydraulic disc brakes are overkill for casual biking and maybe even road bikes, but utterly clutch for mountain bikes