I thought it would be less obnoxious if they just had a layover at an airfield before the jump and processed everyone there.

This steer by wire system allows a variable steering ratio, so that the rotation to full lock can be higher at high speeds. But you don’t ever want to induce lag in a steering system on purpose. Rather it’s better to use a damper to resist abrupt input.

And anyone who’s ever tuned a PID controller would know that the highest force condition will result in the most lag. If the gain was cranked up high enough to have no lag sitting still it, the system would probably be unstable at speed. They maybe could have solved this with a more powerful actuator, but that’s a lot…

I think there’s some evolutionary basis for sympathetic puking; since our primitive ancestors were all eating together, if one got poisoned the rest were soon to follow. I’m surprised anyone on the flight didn’t puke, but since they were all exposed to norovirus I’m sure they all are today.

It doesn’t really come across in photos, but whenever I see a Lucid Air in person it seems oddly sinister.

The original MSRP was around $100k. I saw one out in the wild once, and it was cool to spot it but I can’t imagine paying that much to have to see it in my driveway every morning.

“...a brief, one-time visual and audio signal to alert the driver each time they exceed the speed limit...”

You forgot the part where Iacocca wasn’t one to give up and quickly found a way execute his vision with they TC by Maserati, losing Chrysler just over a half billion dollars in the process.

Tournament staff loses their authority to tell people where they can and cannot go as soon as the flashing lights roll up. Once the police arrive at a crash site the priorities are protecting other first responders and preserving evidence. Where someone else told him to go is not legally relevant.

That works fine with a solid axle, but keeping track width constant in an independent suspension makes the cv shaft length change throughout the travel. You can sometimes accommodate that amount of cv plunge in a road car, but it would be very difficult to do in a truck.

Yes. Any suspension other than a solid axle is inherently going to have variable track through the travel range. It’s just how geometry works. I’d be concerned if raising the ride height resulted in clearance issues within the vehicle itself, but the fact that it buckled the floor just underscores the fact that trucks…

GM bought Saab because they wanted a European luxury brand in their portfolio. They were looking at the trajectory Audi had taken through the 80s and 90s, and figured they could do the same with Saab, but they ran out of time and money before they could get there.

The reason why the mainstream Saabs didn’t sell is that GM completely misread the segment. They tried to push it into their “premium brands” portfolio thinking it would compete with BMW in the lease-and-run luxury market. But long-time Saab customers were usually looking for long-term ownership and were turned off by…

“Sometimes, especially when used in cycling or track and field, the competitors can appear squished or stretched when the camera isn’t closely calibrated to the speed of the action.”

How is this news? Victorinox has sold a number of bladeless models (like the Manicure and the Jetsetter) and bladelss variations (Flight versions) over the last few decades.

Echoes of Apple’s “you’re holding your phone wrong”...

Shark fins are for satellite radio, not terrestrial. Rather the AM/FM antenna has been moved usually to the rear glass. And I don’t think anyone who regularly has to clear snow and ice off of their car misses the old whip antennas.

Living in Upstate NY.

Short of running hardware straight down into the frame,  there’s pretty much no way of attaching these to the vehicle that I would trust. They’re probably anchored to the LATCH points which don’t have that high of a load limit. While rear facing could be safer in a head on crash if they have adequate head restraints,…

All toddlers are effectively psychopaths. Most of us outgrow it.