I am so done with the “autonomous car” bubble. It is very clear that its nowhere close to being ready outside of niche applications like city streets. A fully autonomous car for all conditions without a human in the loop is decades away and would require a very quick forcible conversion of the vast majority of…

He’s not thinking about the fact that certain vehicles have interesting aerodynamic effects which are not linear for speed. And also that, although the power required to push a vehicle at higher speed increases with each increasing mph, the efficiency of the diesel engine at various rpms, and the various gearing…

Hmmm.. well. Having four degrees, and being a full time graduate and postgraduate professor, I’m going to go with the idea that I DO know what a theory is.

For those corksniffers who say “man, if I could just buy the last good S-class with low miles and modern technology”.... get a 300 already and stop worrying so damn much about what everyone else thinks. Literally: grow up.

These are killer bees, not honey bees. A man-made invasive species. Get off your high horse.

Yeah they weren’t honey bees you fuckstick. They were the type of bees helping to displace honey bees.

So what you are saying is Chevy built a better Ford engine than Ford did.

That joke is right up there with mall crawl. yeah yeah, just because you see them in town all shiny and clean doesn’t mean they don’t get dirty...it just means you aren’t in the dirt enough to see them there.

People bitching that the majority of owners with special trims don’t use them as intended really don’t seem to get the consequences of those people didn’t buy them. Here’s a hint though: every performance car you like would not exist.

I like how you point out that the engine is bulletproof while not refuting his claim that the car is unreliable.

They should get rid of all the marketing people, models, and everything else that sells cars to people and replace them with the engineers who developed each and every part on the cars. Not the bullshit engineers that go into the brochure stories about this or that group identity in “STEM”, but the people who actually…

Women should not be seen as attractive or sexual creatures. This sort of stuff has no place in our post-sexual culture and we should shame our primal instincts. Unattractive people have every right to feel just as sexy as those who invest in their bodies by exercising and eating healthy.

The Ford folks are probably already working on a version that is triggered by different kinds of kicks with a foot to the back bumper.

Except CF is about a fifth the density of steel, so you can use three times as much, get it into a better shape (stress in bending decreases by the cube of thickness - make it three times as thick and it’s 27 times as strong,) and still lose weight.

No, I’m not supporting your argument. Or his, really. There is no layup, it’s randomly oriented chopped up sheets that get dumped into a mold. Cycle times are at like 5 minutes per piece. Workmanship is taken out of the equation (as much as you can with any production process.) And it’s probably better for a truck bed…

Nope, you’re going to be eating crow with that statement. Carbon is much tougher than aluminum and steel. It can absorb more energy before breaking. Why do you think it is used in racecar safety cells? Take a look at this Koenigsegg video, start at :30 and mute it, but try doing that with a steel bumper or aluminum.…

When our fleet guy dropped of one of our first 2017 F-250s he was complaining about how GM was picking on the aluminum bed, and how the bed really is strong enough on the Fords. Then he pointed to the steel plate we bolt to the bed floor of all our trucks because the boxes in the back kept flattening the ridges, and…

@Yoshoobaru

This comment isn’t going to end well for you or mebut for what it’s worth I agree.

Agreed. This is awesome. I don’t even care what others say. The tone of the article is kinda being judgey but I suppose it has to be so as to not officially condone such a thing. People are waaaay too uptight.