So after 1 sec, you’re going at 32 ft/s, after 2s you’re going 64 ft/s, 3s you’re going 96 ft/s. Your average speed over each interval would be half your final speed, assuming a nice constant acceleration. So it would take 2.5 s to fall 100 ft, and at the end of 10s (a high, but reasonable definition of ‘few’) you’d…

Lancia truly is Italys Saab. Once great rally bred quirkiness, engineering ingenuity, and European prestige reduced to shilling decade old American iron.

“Lancia still exists!”

I suspect it’s due to how downright trivial it is to point the laser pointer at an aircraft coupled with ignorance about the effect.

why am i having these kinds of issues with a $140k+ car?

If they really cared about getting women into motorsports they would have chosen Oprah. It would have made her care a bit about women in motorsports which would have made her realize that there aren’t many women in motorsports because they don’t have as many opportunities.

Saleen’s going after that super-lucrative Lotus Evora segment of the market.

Most things we yell at dont listen. I once yelled at an aircraft fuel control for a solid 20 minutes, it just sat there, not functioning properly.... im assuming it was mocking me

As a fellow engineer, I scoff at the use of engineering as a label for the application of basic physics. If Järlström wasn’t supposed to use the witchcraft known as engineering to prove his case, what was he supposed to use?

As an engineer myself, i applaud the way this man yelled at the stop light.

Traction control is the mongoose to the Viper. Or the Viper to the mongoose. Either way it’s bad. I don’t know animals.

Backlick for a dollar? That’s a good deal.

Technically legal is the best kind of legal.

Being an asshole for driving with high beams and also being incompetent and lazy to no replace your damn bulbs should cause immediate dismissal from Jalopnik

I have to agree with this statement. People who blind everyone else so that they can see, because they are too lazy/incompetent to fix their own cars should have their licences suspended. It’s such an “I only care about me” thing to do.

“Instead of fixing it, I drove around for a couple weeks using my brights, because I’m a lazy asshole.” 

“crossovers so that Average Joe Plumber American will buy their cars thereby subsidizing their enthusiast offerings....”

The article says the intersection has all way stop signs which means it is supposed to be a three way stop. And it had no lanes marked at all so there were technically no turn lanes. Your take proves exactly why they did this. People didn’t know what the hell was going on there.

I approve this story, especially the part about telling children to run out into a busy street to do the manual labor while adults supervise.

Meanwhile, literally anywhere else: