Any bike sold in Europe absolutely has emission standards it has to meet, and those standards are routinely raised. Those same bikes are sold here in the same configuration because our market isn’t big enough to make a special USDM bike for. I have a 10 year old bike with egr and a catalyst bigger than the one on my…

I don’t think anyone is saying that. I personally would just like to see better competitors. It’s obvious that the leaders are the best because they have something special. Just wish other teams would figure out how to replicate it.

Same in Motogp and WSBK. Good on the champion for being an amazing rider, but fuck it’s boring to watch him win after this many races and years.

I’m not reading it wrong, I’m reading what she wrote. Two electric motors at both ends means two in the front and two in the rear. It should read “By installing a high-output electric motor at the front of the car and another at the rear of the car...” or something similar. Wouldn’t be such an issue, but the quantity…

They are everywhere around Seattle. Last time I was there I saw more leafs than any other electric car.

While it’s possible for Bottas to keep the title going this weekend, for it to mean anything, Hamilton will need to do absolutely terribly for about 2 races while Bottas does really well. Available points are nose diving at this point and the gap between Bottas and Hamilton is big.

This says this car has four motors, which is incorrect.

Wow. It’s almost like water cooling and overhead cams are good design choices... Looking at you, Harley.

Well, that was quick. Link is broken.

But that would be, like, perfect. Take good ideas, implement them in a better and more practical way. Not sure that is happening here, but one can dream.

Sure. Let’s have engineers make all of the decisions while they are not in turn checked by anyone else. While we’re at it, let’s have politicians make all political decisions without any input from anyone who isn’t a politician. It’s not like any of these decisions affect the entire population. While all of that is…

Easy fix. If they just advertise that there is a limit of so many refills per hour, problem is solved. Universal gets to keep their fraud protections and consumer is informed.

In case you didn’t read the articles posted on this, people are markedly more likely to die when struck by these vehicles. That’s why it’s concerning to other people what people do in public spaces. Do what you want in your own back yard, but when you go out in public, your actions and decisions have consequences, and…

Yeah, higher closer to the windshield and over the front suspension if I understand it correctly. There is a slope from the front of the car to higher back end of the hood. No way the vertical wall that is a suburban’s grill is safer than a ford taurus’s front end. Hell, even if you do hit the windshield on a car or…

Lol! Why do I care about someone’s mud puddle hobby? Off-roaders are even worse with their heavy-gauge steel bumpers and tubular steel crash frames. That stuff should be, like you said, off-road. Buy land or trailer it. Pull it with a truck that’s been engineered for the road, not crushing cars.

To be clear, it’s not the hoods themselves that are the issue, it’s the vehicles they’re put on. I think the current hood requirements are great. The manufacturers should be required to abide by the current hood space requirement while having a maximum frontal surface height. You want ground clearance? Make it up…

Yeah, on a car. Not a truck or SUV where the hood is so high a pedestrian has no shot of ending up up there. Top of the front surface of a vehicle should be no higher than the waist of the average adult female in the U.S. Any higher than that and a lot of people are either going under the car or bouncing straight off…

But if trucks are actually being used to haul things or to drive to haul things, then the stats over a sufficiently long time would show roughly a 50% split between fatalities involving an empty truck and a truck hauling something. That is, assuming a truck isn’t more likely to kill someone in a loaded or unloaded…

Or a pickup truck with an empty bed. Or a suburban carrying 2 people. 

It’s both. Both parties have shitheads that cause accidents.