Remove weight from the rear end of pickup trucks?

I’m guessing they’ll be using more of a “pressed chopped strand” type of CFRP rather than the woven sheets that we think of for “carbon fiber”. More like what’s used in the BMW i3 or Lamborghini’s “Forged Composites” stuff. That should be a lot more repairable and maybe less brittle, even if it doesn’t quite have the…

They’re cool.

As they teach 1st year Engineering students: “Always avoid a complex solution to a simple problem.”

Seems like an unnecessarily complicated way to gain entry to one’s vehicle.

Did you write this response in 1950?

What happened to Tesla? I genuinely know they are pretty safe, but what happened to whatever dumb hyperbole Elon used to describe it as the safest car ever?

Oh yeah, slightly oversquared engines.

nothing, I said stroke may not exceed a 1/4 inch over bore. I gave no minimum criteria, but I’ll calculate something based on a bore of 3.5 inches since that is fairly common and give a minimum stroke. first let’s do a maximum and since displacement based on my suggestion =pi*(bore/2)^2*(bore+1/4)*# of cylinders the…

Perfect engine = (current engine + 20% more power)

It is. That ambulance is made of cantdentium.

Here is a vehicle that will make 5000 horsepower all day long. Sadly it is “track only”.

no it wont. you can build a faraday cage pretty easily.

Yeah, if only fuel costs were important to trucking companies...

After the nuclear blast, probably in bottle caps

When the UPS guys at the sorting center get replaced by robots they’ll need another way of damaging your package.

Boring.

... weird old hot rodder’s tricks that seem too strange, too goofy to be true.

I think your vision of what neural networks and machines can do, is about 10 years out of date. The goal in neural network research, has been to get past rigid instruction/result programming, and replace that with learning and improvisational ability. Vision has been the weakness of automation, understanding what is…

And when they do that, do they suffer reprisals from other cops for doing so.