okay but then the charge pressure would surge and have to vent back out through the compressor housing, possibly stalling the compressor. which is what happens with no bypass valve on a traditional setup when the throttle body closes. which is i thought why bypass valves exist, presumably for the health of the…

That the guy who has crashed makes the guy who hasn’t feel inferior by morbidly stating that something is probable unnecessarily.

I’m sure she’ll grow up to eventually love the D.

Maybe we should start with universal indicators colours.

Also FWIW Malaysia is a pretty well-developed “third world” country and the medical facilities there are excellent. Being that close to KL and in fact being right in an international-level racetrack complex you wouldn’t have too much to worry about if it came to receiving medical attention.

When I was in college, I had a modified SV650 bobber with no mirrors. As I was on my way to class one day on the interstate, I noticed that all these cars kept pulling out of my way. At first I was like, “best day ever”, then I realized there was probably a cop behind me. I pulled over, and the cop came up to my bike…

If I could march backward in time, I would hope to score in high school as well.

Oh, I assumed it was a MotoGP specific bike, as in not consumer grade.

The revision is good. But think more functionally. If oil water etc are fine, I don’t need to see anything. Dark Cockpit they call it in aviation. You can just have a System Warning area that can tell you in full language any annunciations.

Gonna counter this from an enthusiast perspective. Can I glance at that display and see (without actually reading the individualy displayed data) that all systems are within normal parameters?

Sorry, but no. Your hypothetical cluster looks awful. It’s cluttered and jarring to look at. The nice thing about analog guages is that you can just glance at them and know from the position of the needles where everything sits. I don’t need to waste concentration to read any numbers. The little map strip along the…

Exactly. Round gauges are very quickly readable. Just because you can display information more... “efficiently” in different ways doesn’t mean you keep all of the subtleties that make a round gauge work. That mockup... aside from being horrifically ugly, takes way more time to parse than a simple set of dials.

Ditto. You can also qualitatively determine acceleration by how fast the speed needle moves (without doing any mental calculations). Raw numbers are, in some sense, meaningless and carry only relative meaning which is much better reflected by an analog gauge.

I disagree. This is one place where despite it being a bit of a skeumorphism, it’s one that makes sense. With analog gauges, you can get a pretty good sense of which way they’re pointing just from your peripheral vision. You don’t have to consciously read the display, you can just glance enough to get an idea of the…

Yeah it’s definitely an afterthought. I was just amused that everybody blames design decisions on the engineers. Designers say we make them compromise because our design is bad. Systems think we’re lazy because we can’t meet their contradiction requirements. Management thinks we’re lazy and wasteful because we can’t…

The Harlem Shake thinks this joke is tired.

1989 Triple black T-Top L98 Trans Am. (This is not mine, but it was identical but with T-Tops)

Thank god that didn’t take place in an NFL game, they would just find a way to take it back.

Lifehacker seems to ignore a rather logical reason for brand loyalty: Solving informational asymmetry.