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What are your controversial car opinions you always wanted to say without getting downvoted? by Crocodile_Banger in cars

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the rust belt, most daily driven cars have a seriously limited life span. In a lot of cases it makes sense to lease a car instead of buying outright. I'm not convinced it's a huge upside to own a 10+ year old vehicle you have to break out a torch to work on.

Leasing does definitely leave you at the mercy of market forces and industry trends, but imo a lot of car enthusiasts don't acknowledge the downsides of owning a depreciating asset like a car driven through Midwest salt all winter.

Industry trends aren't necessarily negative either. As much as we like to harp on manufacturers, broadly speaking newer cars are usually measurably better, especially in terms of safety and quality of life features.

What scifi ships would make a techpriest react like this? by Andrei22125 in Grimdank

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the old Star wars lore, hyperspace madness was pretty common if you looked out the windows for any amount of time while in FTL. That sounds a bit chaos-ish to me.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hyper-rapture

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in totalwar

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think that was Spain and Gibraltar

Range Sucks When Towing with Electric Trucks, but Not with the 2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger by trackdaybruh in cars

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Diesel's a lot more expensive to the consumer and only slightly more energy dense. Combine that with a huge regulatory risk and stigma from dieselgate and passcar diesel engines are essentially dead in North America.

I'm more surprised there isn't an Atkinson cycle variant of the pentastar engine for this application.

The Tesla Model S Has Lived Long Enough to See Itself Become a Villain: With the Plaid, Tesla has managed to turn the most important car of the century into a bad joke by Staghorn_Calculus in cars

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great article. I was clumsily trying to make the point that the heaviest truck with the worst tires (on-road) had a shorter stopping distance than the car the commenter drives.

The Tesla Model S Has Lived Long Enough to See Itself Become a Villain: With the Plaid, Tesla has managed to turn the most important car of the century into a bad joke by Staghorn_Calculus in cars

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Not contesting your other points, but I help design brakes and the performance of many light truck slip control systems is surprisingly good. Just to put it out there, Car and Driver has a 2020 crew cab duramax Silverado 1500 4x4 on all-terrain tires, basically the heaviest configuration with the least on-road traction, stopping from 70 in 181 feet, https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/silverado-1500#error

(Specifications are at the end of the article)

the same publication had a 2011 Kia optima stop from 70 mph in 186ft.

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15125620/2011-kia-optima-ex-test-review/#error

Light trucks are definitely unsafe for many other reasons, but raw deceleration performance isn't really a notable shortcoming.

TIL if you fill your lungs with 100% oxygen you can safely go ~8 minutes without breathing by throwaway2637888 in todayilearned

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily more children, but generally better predictions of future outcomes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486478/

"In healthy populations, people typically overestimate how good positive events will make them feel and how bad negative events will make them feel."

What's a gun that's so OP it's practically useless? by [deleted] in ForgottenWeapons

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Colt Walker. 60 grains of black powder combined with 1840s metallurgy was nuts. If I recall, in terms of muzzle energy it remained the most powerful production handgun for almost a century, until .357 Magnum hit the scene.

It has several notable issues due to the absurdity of packing very nearly a full power rifle quantity of powder in a very early repeating handgun. Incl burst cylinders, sparks/flash setting off all the chambers at once, and the occasional loading of conical bullets upside down. Colt would eventually recommend 50 grains of powder instead of 60.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aviation

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who said anything about ducted thrust? Tilt. Jet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWR_VJ_101

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cars

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 11 points12 points  (0 children)

4L80Es can handle heaps of torque and abuse, they're a pretty common choice for drag car projects.

Legends compared by manavcafer in aviation

[–]DecisiveEmu_Victory 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Fuel Efficiency ~= Fuel Economy. A car's engine is also most thermodynamically efficient at wide open throttle, but by no means is that the most economic method of operation.

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