I’d like to play advocate for my fellow “cretinous engineers” and point out that most of them are allowed no input on this. This sort of BS is the fault of the execs looking to make a few extra bucks and the directors/VPs looking for their ticket into the boardroom.

Two things that jumped out to me here:

One of my all-time favorite quotes from Grassroots Motorsports: “The S2000 has about as much torque as a #2 pencil rolling across a desk.”

Are you sure you didn’t need the BigManHorn edition? All that chrome really makes a difference when you’re hauling mulch home from Lowes.

1) (not an expert) Natural language processing, as performed by Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, requires a lot more processing power and data than what even a modern phone or tiny living room box can provide. So, the voice file is sent to a server somewhere for processing, then that server decides what needs to be…

Underrated response to the post.

I’m calling BS/wishful thinking on this one until Porsche says it. I don’t know for fact, but I imagine that even a detuned GT3 engine is worth more than the Boxster it would go in. No one is going to pay $130+k for a Boxster, plus it would piss off GT3 owners (an important customer base for Porsche).

That was one of the more horrifying moments in an already dark show... However, I think it’s important to have those societal warnings. Man in the High Castle, 1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, etc... all warrant study.

There are literally dozens of us!

The riveted construction supports your theory that it’s aluminum.

In Torch’s defense, it took me a few semesters of thermo to fully grasp the difference between power and energy... Those equations are easily mixed.

Not related to the discussion at hand, but that truck looks so out of it’s element I thought that was a tilt shift photo at first.

Ah yes, good old cool mountain air. How I wish I had that every other summer when both the battery and Bosch Blue coil on my VW would fail.

Psh... Amateurs. At 60+mph, even driving rain usually blows over the top of the car.

Automatic star for an Archer reference.

And idiots tossing around that one hot potato of a project not importance enough for managerial oversight. That’s the best kind of scope creep.

That Jaguar blue is absolutely gorgeous! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in that color.

I live in South Carolina, here it’s more like “idiot runs red light, truck driver traveling through green light doesn’t even know anything happened until his trailer wheels bounce violently.”

This would still be a good validation/test case for FEA on future designs if the investigation turns up enough detail about what happened. It could lead to interesting developments in crash structures.

This happened about every other time I drove my dad’s Jetta TDI. Just when you think you have the friction point, the hill brake drops and the engine stalls. I finally figured out I just had to give it a lot more gas and be ready to back off once it bites. It’s not a bad feature if you know how to use it, but…