Please point out where, then. Because I can't see where he states that the maximum is 1.

So, his statement is true, as long as the coefficient of friction is 1 (or less). I mean, that's what he says.

So, is it perhaps that you have trouble reading?

I don't think that I'd be able to bend that door like that. So I'm glad I have this little friend within reach in my car:

And apparently it will come with two pills. A blue pill and a re...

It will vary from person to person. I will accept it as a 280 mph car if wheel horsepower and Cw (Cd, drag) coefficient show it can hit 280 mph. Others will want real-world proof.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Christian von Koenigsegg holds patents on the FlexFuel sensor. (The thing which analyses the fuel real-time, measures how much petrol and how much ethanol is in it, which allows the motor management to adjust to whatever mixture of regular, E85, E10 or pure ethanol is in your…

Great place to start! AMD stands for "Advanced Micro Devices." Nvidia stands for Nvidia. Both companies are best known in the computer and video game industries for making graphics cards (also known for our purposes here as Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs) and other bits of hardware that go inside a number of…

Kevlar really was an accidental discovery, because it was behaviour of compounds that was not known before. Kwolek stumbled upon it, so to me that's a "discovery".

It is street legal, because in rallying you have to drive the car from rally stage to rally stage on public roads. But it's hardcore, so no sound deadening, in tarmac trim it has spring rates that can help you pulverise a kidney stone, should you have one, getting in and out of the car is a feat of acrobatics because…

As mentioned in reply to Orlove and Zach: depending on options, the work done to the car can be as much as €60000, plus the cost of the car.

As mentioned in reply to Orlove: depending on options, the work done to the car can be as much as €60000, plus the cost of the car.

Mind you, it isn't exactly cheap. The work on the car is quoted as €60000, depending on the options you tick. There is about 500 hours worth of work done to the car. Oh, and the DS3 Sport Chique 150 itself is some €24500.

You can walk into a Citroën dealer right now (admittedly, that's kinda tricky when you live in the USA) and order a Citroën DS3 R3 rally car.

Despite primarily being known for bulletproof vests these days, Kevlar was invented with one primary purpose – to replace the steel in tires with something stronger and lighter, while still maintaining flexibility. In 1964, Kwolek was in her lab at DuPont, still trying to concoct a new fiber, when her latest attempt…

You can't, because the energy isn't stored in chemical bonds (which you mention in your clarifying post below). When a lithium cell gets charged, the current pulls lithium ions though the electrolite into the negative electrode. Discharging the cell allows the ions to migrate back, driving a current to power whatever…

The V-sign, with the knuckles outward, is also known as "The Longbowman Salute". During the many spats between Enlish and French armies, back in medieval times, the French would apparently cut off the two fingers of any captured longbowman, rendering him useless as an archer. (It would take years of training to handle…

So, in a proverbial nutshell, this is a 21st century version of Frontier - Elite II.

The Safari Rally laughs at your 60 km stage. The last Safari rally in WRC, back in 2002, had 12 stages, driven in 3 days, of which the shortest stage was 74 km. Three were 106 km in length.

OK, we'll just agree to disagree.