What, with a screwdriver? Do you have any idea how much those things cost?

Can we all just take some time to appreciate how forward-thinking this styling was? Whether one likes it or not, those round and bulbous lines look like they belong on a car from the 1990s, yet this car was released in 1982 when all other cars were designed to look like they were made out of Lego.

Luke! Haven’t you been the one who has been trying out steering wheel controllers as well? If I’m not mistaken, Assetto Corsa should have support for the Rift, and the next Gran Turismo game should support Playstation VR. I would loooove any sort of review or article on how VR works in the racing genre. I would expect…

My physics professor used to refer to this study of insurance data where they compared survival rates of cats with fall heights. Supposedly the highest mortality is for cats falling out of the fifth floor, since that height is the height it takes for the cat to reach its terminal velocity. Any higher than that, and…

They seem to have a pretty huge overlap with the “ANYTHING APPLE RELEASES IS SENT FROM GOD” crowd. This is a group of idiots I’d be perfectly happy to spend my entire life ignoring.

I would go for magic. And yes, I’m well aware that there are planes that have wings both in the back and in the front, but in realistic terms, having a center of lift far away from the center of mass is a good way to get shitty dynamics. And having tiny little wings (and no other visible control surfaces, unlike in…

Well, the rear might rise, and then the nose would probably immediately dive and the car would do a hilarious faceplant. I can only hope that they will include proper aerodynamics in the final version.

I had this discussion with a friend of mine a while ago. Imagine a series where it’s mandatory to drive a certain number of laps with a human driver, then a certain number of laps without. This means that the AI would need to work not only against other AIs, but against other humans as well. It would also add an extra…

In my experience in Europe, it’s also closely connected to how solidified the class system is. In some countries where the cultural gap between upper and lower classes is large, tattoos are stigmatized as being a “working class” thing (along with smoking, for example). In other societies where the division between…

This is why tuners are not builders of sports cars, and definitely not race cars. It’s an aestethic endeavour, basically you’re turning a car into a sculpture.

Coming from a country where driver’s ed is a bit more serious (typically two years of private practice with your parents in the passenger seat, followed by 10-30 one-hour lessons, special lessons in night driving and evasive maneuvers, followed by one theoretical test and one practical), this is an angle that is…

I was under the impression that European petrol is sold by their RON number (i.e. 95-octane fuel = 95 RON fuel), while American fuel is sold by octane = (RON+MON)/2 or something similar? So that US 91-octane fuel is similar in properties to European 95-octane fuel.

If pedestrians can dictate the way my car looks, can we also ban jewellry on pedestrians, since it tends to scratch the paint on any car that runs them over?

Whatever solution they settle on, it will probably be the safest one they can think of. As I wrote earlier, incidents where the driver’s head is struck are extremely rare, but incidents where the car ends up with it’s belly in the air are common. When a marshal was killed by a stray tire a few years ago, they had…

Yup, especially with the design that Mercedes demonstrated it will be a massive problem to extract a driver from an upside-down car. What many people don’t realize is that the reason why we’re still having open cockpits isn’t due to some weird stubbornness, it’s simply because it’s damn difficult to construct a closed…

The commentators were talking about exactly that, but Brundle’s position was that the halo device might very much make it more difficult to extract someone in a car that’s upside-down. He mentioned one incident where he himself was in the cockpit, and he simply fell out of the car by undoing his seat belts.

Is it that hard to realize that VR could add a whole new dimension and sense of immersion to existing concepts?

My first thought was that the nature was uncannily similar to Velen from The Witcher, which makes sense since the Czech Republic is a neighbouring country to Poland.

To be fair, though, the SM looks more like a spaceship out of a futuristic 1930's fantasy than it looks like a more modern car. Aldairion was arguing that it looked much newer and more modern than other car in the 1970's, and this definitely holds when compared to both the Audi and the Citroën.

If anyone wants a differently cropped version of the beautiful image above: