You also don’t really have an option - last time Obama’s motorcade was in town, police had so many road blocks in place that you literally couldn’t go anywhere. If you were in the path of the motorcade, you watched it - if you weren’t, you sat and talked with your temporary neighbors while you waited for the…

Let’s also not forget that gas is legitimately more expensive to sell in such a crisis. Stations likely have staffing issues, which means they have to settle for paying higher salaries. Power is likely out, so now they have to run generators to keep all their systems going (on gas which has a $20/gal market value). …

One could argue that they don’t (i.e., Honda) - but in all seriousness I’m sure it’s a combination of exotic materials, thermal insulation, and cleaver packaging.

Initially all the teams bar Mercedes had the MGU-H (i.e. the turbo motor/generator) hanging off the inlet side of the turbo to try and distance it as much as…

There is such a thing as an electric turbo. They’re used in F1, and basically consist of a motor/generator unit that is tied to the shaft of an otherwise standard exhaust-driven turbo. In low-boost situations they’ll use the electric motor to spool up the turbo quicker, and in over-boost situations they’ll use the…

I could see that - mp3 is really good at encoding human voice or really anything audible to the human ear, but it would do a really bad job at encoding inaudible frequencies which may have useful data (vibrations, etc).

Even still, that hypothetical 128GB SSD could store 174 hours of 96 kHz/24bit FLAC audio.

Just make it a policy that the data is only available to the NTSB, and not to the airlines themselves. With a basic public/private key encryption model you could even enforce it at a hardware level.

Recorders only capture the last two hours of flying

Sometimes just keeping it simple makes the most sense.

That said, I’m surprised they’re using SS as opposed to Ti for those worm clamps...

You’re right, just think about how much rear bumper cooling you’ll lose

At least they make you re-test at 65. In most states you basically have your license for life.

When I took my test in NY, it was essentially a test to see if you could park. At no point did I ever feel my “driving” was tested. I had to parallel park, do a three point turn, and reverse into a standard parking space. I also had to navigate the complex worlds of a stop light and a stop sign. Essentially I just…

My mom’s Mazda 6 was hit in the side a few thousand miles after new. Pretty serious hit - I think something like 5 airbags went off. Insurance actually paid to have the car essentially cut in half, stem to stern, and have a whole new right side welded on. I don’t really remember the numbers (it was 14 years ago),…

That’s because those tires probably haven’t been driven at speed. Static camber is all but meaningless in a race car (other than a reference point, since it’s all you can measure in the garage) - it’s where it ends up when dynamically loaded that matters.

One of the clearer examples of this is if you look at a NASCAR…

That’s what I’m thinking.... if you shoot out the tires and the engine, it’s going to be staying there a while, not leaving sooner.

That must have air suspension or something, as that thing looks like it could get high centered on a runway

^^ This is the point of the car. It doesn’t need to do everything well... it only needs to do one thing well, and if it can do that one thing better by abandoning the other things, then it should.

People who buy this car will have more than one car. If they want a confortable highway cruiser, they have a car for…

The black cord I showed is the full tether. The tether is made up of a bundle of several of those gold cords (which is really a Xylon rope, similar to Kevlar - just stronger). The bundle of gold cords is then wrapped in a UV-blocking material, as Xylon deteriorates quickly in UV light.

The actual wheel tethers are about as thick as your finger - what you’re seeing here is one or two fibers from the bundle which were exposed.

NY’s law is worse. The exhaust law has basically two clauses: