No, do not recommend that. Then they move to red states, and vote in the exact same taxes they moved to get away from. I’m currently in a county where the “moved heres” typically retired northern transplants who moved to get away from high property taxes and stretch their retirement dollars further within the past…

The Tesla is also gearless meaning continuous power delivery without rev drops or 1/2 second increments with 0 power transmission.

He did. He said crossplane or nothing.

Proper book torque on a 1/2 ton GM pick up is 140 ft/lbs. Generating that with the provided roadside kit wrench that realistically offer about 8-10" of leverage can be a challenge. However group consensus is at 100 ft/lbs is more than enough to keep the tire on and much more achievable in a pinch.

I learned the hard way to tighten the lugs with an impact, drive around the block, then re-snug with whatever lug wrench you have in the car with the spare. Proper torque is great and all, but if its more torque than you generate while on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, then you have screwed yourself.

Yes, I wish everyone had this attitude.

Got to see this car on campus a few weeks ago, and talk to some of the students. Ironically they were parked outside of the 60-year old asbestos filled Civil Engineering building I spent too many hours in designing things that shouldn’t move. But I was also impressed at their wealth of knowledge and not just book…

Clemson has a whole off campus facility CU-ICAR in Greenville (about 30 minutes away) Here they partner with auto manufacturers such as BMW, Honda, Ford, Toyota, and OEM manufacturers such as Michelin to perform research. NASCAR teams from Charlotte even drop by from time to time to borrow the wind tunnel.

I’ve been saying this for a while now. The tech will be there in the next 5-10 years. The biggest hurdle will be figuring out liability. When you buy a self driving car, who insures it? When self driving tech fails, who is at fault. I’m not talking about this adaptive cruise control on the market now, i’m talking full…

I live in a fertile row crop area on the eastern sea board, 300 acres wont put food on the table. Margins on row crops are so thin that it is currently taking about 1,000 acres just to go full time. That number has been steadily increasing since the 80's.

Or unless you got stuck while mending a fence that the cows just got out of, in the rain, after dark, and in KY there is likely to be several hills and a creek or 2 to cross. I promise when on the farm if it goes wrong, it will go wrong at the worst time.

Pretty much correct.

I’d love to see the break down of the trucks on this list. An F-150 work truck with a V-6 and manual windows owned by a plumbing company will get beat all to pieces and its re-sale value will fall like a rock. An F-150 Platinum driven 15K miles a year to and from an office while towing the occasional boat on the…

Yep, for $30K you can get sooooooo much HP out of the LS platform. And lets face it, the Miata is pretty much the epitome of small sports car.

You inserted logic into a stock market equation. Stock price, as far as my unqualified opinion goes, is a funcion of psychological factors. Nothing you have is worth any more or any less than anyone wants to pay. Tesla is in the news, people want to be a part of it, Ford is still making truck like they have since…

Had this happen to me, I get calls all the time from legitimate collection agencies, attorney offices, real estate offices from a town about 2 hours from me. Some jack leg put my phone number down as his and he apparently owes a lot of people a lot of money, and has told a lot of real estate agents he wants to buy a…

Yep, damn units got me again like I’m back in Physics 1.

Good question, based on basic kinematics it should be 261' for a flight time of 7.3 seconds. The total elevation difference may have been a total of 558', but the total drop due to gravity should be much less.

“Fired it a straight line a high-powered rifle bullet will travel for miles, but the nagging effects of gravity starts slowing a bullet down the moment it leaves the gun barrel. Eventually it will come to a complete stop.”

I was like you just a few years ago. Student Loans, car insurance, phone bill ect. ect. kept me at home with the parents. After paying those basic bills I had enough to go out to dinner once a week, and take an occasional weekend trip, but certainly not enough to afford a mortgage. And I made almost double the average…