My latest touchpoint for SAE shenanigans is Baja with the wimpy little B&S engines- I had genuinely forgotten that FSAE was up at 100hp! Wild.

Nah this is their car from 2012 or 2013 I think, back in the golden years back before The Ecocar Conglomerate took everyone of value and Baja and IREC scraped up the leftovers. The final nail in the coffin was when the graduate students split into two factions over electrification. Last I heard it pretty much…

A go-cart. Or maybe in a nice Formula SAE chassis with all the aero...

Ah, you’re saying do a sweeping update to all lights and parking meters that would include the power delivery requirements for an EV?
I could get on that. Most of that infrastructure needs updating anyways.

Why the sure-to-fail mechanical pop-up box?
Why not just plug directly into a port on the ground, like those outlets in gymnasiums? Make the UI app-based by QR code or NFC.

The power delivery requirements of a street light or parking meter are a far cry from what would be needed to charge a vehicle at a decent rate. You’re still going to have to do major infrastructure upgrades.

If you expect all new technology to be instantly as good as the existing tech it intends to replace, you’ll be eternally disappointed. This is a major milestone that deserves respect in its own right. Remember how fucking terrible the first cell phones were? Or the first automatic transmissions?

I think we’ll start…

Hi, hello, it appears you haven’t read my post very well.
I specifically advocate for appreciating both. I never downplay the awesomeness of noise. You’d be mad to...

I’m just saying that people are nuts if THATS the deciding factor- while it is wholly a different experience, I’m just saying that the noises made by EVs…

BOTH of these things can be exciting you fucking tit.

Ungreyed, because that’s genuinely hysterical. You’ve painted a delicious word picture- thank you.

And for you and everyone else, I do GET that there’s something special about bone-shaking noise that EVs will never live up to. Again, my argument isn’t that EV woooobles are a drop-in replacement for an NA V12 at 8k…

The Venn Diagram of people who think that electric performance cars don’t sound cool and people who have masculinity issues is pretty much a circle.

That sounds rad as hell. Does it sound better than ICE? Wrong question- it sounds different because it IS different. You can appreciate both for different reasons.

Honest question, do we have any evidence that Tencent has a technical/developmental role in the Riot structure?
I got the impression they brought Riot under a business umbrella and left the technical work largely untouched.

Jason, do you play DnD?
I think you’d adore DnD.

ALL HAIL THE PEOPLE’S KING

Okay kiddo, want to discuss at all what was wrong about his assessment?

I’m with him and I totally get his reasoning here...

But I can’t help but feel like there’s some money in this from Riot.
Mostly because if they ARENT already approaching people with contracts to switch over publicly, they’re making a colossal mistake.

Where’s the edit where the car is 2020 and the roundabout is COVID?

“West Germany’s most famous ventriloquist”
The diction here implies that West Germany had a large and competitive market of ventriloquism, which I love deeply.

He could be trans, a crossdressing enthusiast, or simply an incredibly talented prosthetic makeup artist, who knows!

All we know is that Luke confidently and repeatedly used male pronouns and the creator goes by “PrinceOfFluffey”, so the dude identifies as male, or at least prefers male pronouns. Easy as that.

Fair counterpoint! The article definitely made it sound like there was a much more significant drop in traffic along the route.