Yeah, I understand it isn’t the main goal, but in *most* situations it does reduce stopping distance. I guess on snow/ice the difference between static and kinetic friction isn’t large enough to make abs more effective than just mashing on it.

I’m gonna go ahead and chalk this up to inconsistent testing procedure. If all 4 lock up immediately there is no reason at all to think the number of driven wheels make any difference. If they weren’t locked at the same time for each non-abs test, then the test was inconsistent, as any modern car should lock up all…

The JPS 935 k4 was one of my favorites.

The JPS 935 k4 was one of my favorites.

As i mentioned, not carbureted, ‘05 Speed triple definitely has a fuel pump.

Fuel injectors wouldn’t be spraying enough water into the intake charge to hydrolock the engine.

Yeah you’re right, the car is likely fine. I’ve actually accidentally run my motorcycle on water a few times (clogged fuel filler drain allowed water to get in the tank) Water being more dense than gas it sinks to the bottom, building up until it’s high enough to reach the sump. My fuel injected bike just ran poorly…

The car is likely fine, I’ve actually accidentally run my motorcycle on water a few times (clogged fuel filler drain allowed water to get in the tank) Water being more dense than gas it sinks to the bottom, building up until it’s high enough to reach the sump. My fuel injected bike just ran poorly then stopped…

The Fisker Karma was not all electric.

You know, I was gonna say all things considered this doesn’t look as bad as I was expecting... then I saw this. Yikes

I’m shocked that an overpressure strong enough to peel the car like that didn’t do serious damage to the occupants.

I’ll take this opportunity to tell my parking ticket horror story. I’ve lived as adult in Manhattan for about 7 years, and I’ve kept a car and a motorcycle here the whole time. I’d say I get 1 or 2 $65 street sweeping tickets a year on the odd times I forget or just can’t get around to moving the car, but I did have…

Is the Tesla photo from the Faraday Future reveal? I always thought that did more to promote Tesla than to help FF.

Yes, I get that you’ve seen higher power cars put down the power without slipping, I have too. Especially if those are drag cars running low 60' times that isn’t surprising.

Also, this car apparently has ITB’s I suspect there is a ton of tuning just to get this thing running, haha.

Ok, yeah I’ll give you that this particular car actually has reasonably large diameter wheels, so my Datsun rear end argument doesn’t really apply much here. This car is running pretty modern wheel/tire diameters.

The main issue is that knurled or not, the coefficient of friction between rubber and steel is substantially lower than that of rubber and asphalt. Couple that with the fact that the contact patch is smaller for two wheels than it is between a wheel and a flat surface and you’ve got substantially less traction.

No, I’m not, just makes me more likely to reply.

Gonna have to call this one as well. Of course the tire will wear more quickly than the drum, but the knurls will absolutely wear down on steel...to the extent that there is a whole industry around re-knurling and in-situ tungsten carbide application to the drums.

Well that was a bit snarky. Two comments.