True, my bad.

My bad. But I think Azerbaijan is going to join the EU anyway. Who cares tho.

Not by most reckonings. Generally, the border between Europe and Asia does pass through Azerbaijan, but it is north or Baku. Generally the line is drawn at the Greater Caucasus Mountains, though of course there are other options, drawing the line at the Lesser Caucasus Mountains would put Baku in Europe:

No. Your map is wrong. For example, Turkey west of the Bosphorous is Europe, east of it Asia.

Not Europe?

With san marino there was a logical reason - there was already an Italian grand prix. And san marino is only 100km away. I mean, if you hop in a helicopter and go way up there, you can see it from the track. If you squint and it’s not cloudy.

Dat turn 8 doe. Holy fuck! Teams are going to spend some money there.

I think the idea itself is flawed... I think no matter what, a transmission will always be better at delivering the power from the engine to the wheels. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling this technology will never out perform a regular transmission. And even if it does, I suspect repair costs for this tech will…

Oh, I meant that they might haven’t progressed as much in this technology as they were hoping for. Still weird from Koenigsegg... Would be nice if someone puts a DCT in it, if that’s even possible.

The problem is that it isn't a transmission. They made a ridiculous high-tech system of electric motors and clutches to do the job of a transmission. Why they did this? I don't know. As I said, someone told me it was to save weight, but if that's the case, then it's a failure, as the Regera is slower to 60, and slower…

The google car should just have a printer on the side that can print out the cars insurance information for when this happens

Could you perhaps explain the rules in plain ol’ english? or French, or German, or Spanish... really, anything not legalish-engineerish?

It’s hard to see how that lighting covers 60% of anything. Unless they are saying that the lightbar itself sticks out enough that it is the only surface to be considered.

The fact that in the whole 131 pages of that document there is no definition of what “reference axis” is makes it a very infuriating document and the quoted rule a completely inscrutable rule. Is the reference axis the direction along the straight line connecting the two tail-lamps, is it the vertical axis bisecting…

You can’t give the middle finger to the world with 2 lights...that’s not how that works.

This reg is way too detailed while ignoring the basics: you really just need lighting redundancy and, for crying out loud, red turn signals suck. Every last one of them.

Why are they allowed to do that while other cars can’t?

“... a continuous strip of redness all across the rear.”

Like BMW?