Yup. I suppose they could try to lather it with a thick layer of something along the lines of pavement, and hope they never deal with a crash that takes a chunk out and then starts a fire...

I've been involved in testing these kinds of things on composites, and they're generally considered serious weaknesses. I mean impact won't break the bridge in half, but it could cause serious damage that would then need to be repaired (somehow).

Was that bit made of composites as well? I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned material... Though the phrase "resurfacing" implies to me that they were just dealing with the pavement.

I'm interested to see how it holds it up to sudden loads from accidents and things maybe falling off cars, and to see how they might repair parts of it. And I wonder how it deals with a little thing called fire...

If you click on the expand button, and then squint until your eyes want to cry, you can read, "THIS IS AN ADVANCED AIR BAG" and then stop reading since it's a worthless sticker.

CF will go into bridges before housing, but it might get there. My guess would be for high-rises.

Yeah........nope. I've dealt with a total of 3 Windows 8-infected computers in my life, and that's already way too much. I'm an engineer, so an interface designed for tablet users is my worst nightmare (now a piece of software designed for Tablet PCs, like OneNote, though...).

Yeah, back in the 90's Windows (when it came around) was also really terrible. Today, though, I wouldn't trade Windows 7 with any other OS.

Tires and car are rated for a load and a related pressure, and any warranty/guarantee associated with it comes from use under those conditions. And, no, a station wagon, like other cars, has a maximum allowed GVWR, and if you exceed that then you can void your warranty depending on whether or not the part being…

I'm starting to think that hypocrisy is the single most important concept that people who tout their political beliefs need to learn (on both "sides", for sure).

So if you take a station wagon and load the whole back with cinder blocks, and do thousands of miles like that, should you get to claim a suspension replacement under warranty? This is pretty much the same thing. Or like trying to use your Ram to tow a 747 and then claim warranty when the tires blow out.

Realistically, both of those are unobtainable. I get that there's an order of magnitude difference in cost, but there are multiple order of magnitude between the cost of those and what I can afford. So, you gotta say that you're discounting the F1 ;)

People don't buy new cars for $1 mil+ just for aesthetics. That just does not happen and any company that banked on it would never even get enough funding to make the damn car. It's great that you're a designer, and like the styles of certain designers, but other people in this world are engineers and, similarly, like…

Last I checked, the F1 wasn't available without a stick...

Wait... You really choose the F40 (you know, the car that beat the top speed of the 1-year-older 959 by a little over 1 mph) to illustrate a case of NOT big dick waving using numbers, and the P1, which is muuuuuch more supermodel-like (unlike you like your supermodels carved out of wood by me - not saying the F40 is…

I cannot recommend this enough. You made me laugh louder than I have in months, and considering I'm sitting on the couch I've also been sleeping on for the last week (fucking bed bugs), that's a legitimate achievement.

Also, I'm pretty sure that bamboo's real strength is in compression, while CF's is in tension, so they could work together, but one would not be a good alternative for the other in a truly optimized structure.

Getting into this first generation of driverless cars takes a great deal of faith from people who've spent their whole lives in control of motor vehicles. Trusting the car to be safe and not kill you is a big deal. Making the car look cute and friendly immediately puts people in a more accepting frame of mind. It…

It will, however, be reincarnated thanks to the good people at McLaren. If anything, I believe we should hold a wake.

Try dealing with the UC system's safety people post the lawsuits from dumbass-chemistry-PhD-student-who-doesn't-know-what-a-pyrophoric-material-is-dies-from-choosing-not-to-wear-basic-PPE. Actually, try dealing with them as a composites lab, or as a high-powered electronics lab.