Someone below already explained this in detail, but this is about increasing throughput/bandwidth, not decreasing time of flight/latency. As can be observed even with home wifi, signal strength(not time of flight) directly impacts bandwidth and gets weaker with the square of distance. Increase signal strength with a…

I just bought an e93 convertible from a relatively young guy, car was largely unmolested, and I took it for a quick spin before buying, but didn’t romp on it. Towed it home and took it for the first real drive only to realize that it had the ‘burble tune’ installed. I bought a tuner/license just to turn that nonsense…

Good catch, I was unclear. Was referring to the old generator-powered ones specifically.

This is a very strange article. Niedermeyer’s visit to the swap station and discovery of the diesel-powered superchargers (which were the deployable temporary type, Neidermeyer’s photo below), was nearly a decade ago. The huge trailer generator seen in the image powers just 1 x 150kW V2 cabinet= 2 V2 posts. This is…

It’s not THAT heavy. To compare it to something similarly accelerative, it weighs about the same as a Chiron with two passengers in it. 

“For example, over the course of 100,000 miles, the 85 kWh Tesla Model S’s range estimate remained relatively flat, while the 100 kWh version’s range dropped significantly.”

Probably NP, but I got my running, riding GL1500 for $1k so it’s hard to really convince myself this is worth triple that.

Came here to post this. If 9000lb trucks are gonna be common, as seems to be true with the hummer, Silverado and to a lesser extent the Lightning, we need the crash structures to be aligned or it’s gonna be mayhem.

Not to take away from the impact of private jets, but my suspicion is that this was a ferry flight to Van Nuys for maintenance. 

Yeah, as turbofans got higher and higher bypass, I was wondering when we’d get to this point.

I remember reading about a concept for a sonic boom weapon a while back. Believe it was a Russian concept. I think you’d need something larger and draggier than a missile to have a significant effect though.

The diesel is interesting, but I talked my buddy out of buying a gas one of these a couple years ago in favor of a similarly priced xterra. I think it was the right choice

Yeah, I spent all of my 20s riding in NYC and have had two incidents, neither too bad. But having just hit 35 my risk profile changed a bit, and while I still ride, all the bikes live at our house in VT, and I’m mostly on roads that barely have cars on them.....and I bought an 80s goldwing.

I dunno. I love these things and this looks like a good one, but it’s just hard to forget that these used to be $2-4k cars all day long. 

Funny, I never saw an Excursion and thought, “you know what this needs? another foot of front overhang.

I’ve had a few S30s including one rusty enough that I swapped everything over to a clean shell. Even that car didn’t have rust on the TOP of the rockers, bottom sure, but not the top. I suspect that one is pretty far gone with that and the riveted floorpan... That said, it looks reasonably complete, you could probably…

These things are absolutely gorgeous in person. Unfortunately I’ve only really seen a handful, which means it’s unlikely to depreciate into my price range any time soon. That said, I don’t think I like the addition of that spoiler. The ones I’ve seen in person didn’t have it so I will withhold full judgment until I do.…

So, looking at that thing, I feel like there is a chance it extends like the old mercedes monoblade wiper.

Yeah, that used to be true, but again with adaptive cruise control/automatic emergency braking being more common, many systems now will apply the brakes. I know that’s true with essentially all recent Subarus and Toyotas I’ve driven recently.

Eh, I think there is a little bit of truth to this, main reason being that if there are any hills, cruise will actively decelerate the car on the downhill which wastes the energy. This is particularly true of modern cars that have ACC and will actually apply the brakes with cruise rather than overrunning the set point.…