I think you replied to the wrong post, considering mine was all about braking systems.

Note the post I was replying to. They were asking why a previous poster had correctly stated that extra braking power wouldn’t help stop faster.

Wasn’t one of the first major Tesla battery fires caused by a tow hitch laying in the road? I know they used them as one of the objects demonstrating the armor when it was added. I think that’s just become their default “thing in the road that’ll fuck you up”

If you’re not having them generate power the motors will basically freewheel. If they are generating power that power has to go somewhere. Again, there’s a reason locomotives with dynamic braking (train-speak for motor braking) have huge resistor grids. They’re generating a pile of power and since they have nowhere to…

Most certainly. I’ve heard that with careful use of regen you can get surprising efficiency out of EVs in mountains, but I haven’t driven one myself so I have nothing to go by except randoms on the internet.

Because the grip of the tires on the road are the limiting factor in an emergency stop. There’s pretty much nothing on the road that can’t lock up the wheels if you mash the brake pedal at highway speed.

I’m not sure if you’re just tweaking the parent poster’s statement to point out the thing that many “normal” people do, or legitimately saying that. Both make sense.

Seriously, I thought that was basically mandatory when having the police close off a public road for a speed record. Have one of them set up at around your top speed point using their own equipment and have them issue you a “ticket” to frame.

seeing these make you realize how rehearsed and practiced they really are.

This is so much better of a way to word it than I had, I’m definitely stealing this version. It does cover pretty much every situation.

I love cars and motorcycles as much as the next guy, but I don’t want to hear it constantly. I love engine sounds, but I don’t want to hear them revving at all times of the day.

The AC requirement obviously isn’t a safety issue, it’s an additional challenge which does a good job at testing actual street usability. They’re looking for more than just “street legal”. Running the AC puts a constant additional load on the cooling system which a lot of borderline legal race cars might not be able…

I wonder why they decided this has to be the end...

In my opinion all of the rules of the road boil down to one simple concept:

Nothing.

I agree pretty much entirely. In a competitive situation the goal is to win, so you do what gives you the best chance of winning. If that’s not fun to watch, that’s the problem of the game and/or competition organizer, not the player. If they don’t want players to use a certain strategy then they should nerf or ban…

Except the LLV is for all intents and purposes a custom body on a Chevy Blazer.

My account is from April 2004 and I definitely recall using my email address as my username for years, then at some point that changed and I don’t remember when or why.

As the guy said, the F-450 makes sense for the rich people towing big stuff. I know some horse people who are probably already considering one of these. If you need the capacity you need the big truck, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want to be comfortable for a 1500 mile road trip.

Ah how I wish I lived in your radio market. I am not a sports fan, and unfortunately for me in the Cleveland market Clear Channel has decided to run sports on the rock station. They also put it on their AM station but of all their FM stations they chose my favorite to switch out for sports.