Text Drivers are Killers
Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Suppose gun companies bragged about guns DESIGNED to break the law and kill innocent people.!!! Musk makes manson look like a choir boy.
Psychopath Elon Musk announces ASSAULT VEHICLE that will do 0-100 in 4 seconds
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"Psychopath Elon Musk" Chicken Little
For if Elon Musk is a "psychopath", then aren't we all?
Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer and industrialist; and btw, also literally a "rocket scientist". He's an asset to the nation, if not all humanity.
And while muscle-cars might seem passé to some, an all electric muscle car seems like a fun idea.
One of the thrills to a muscle-car enthusiast is the throaty growl of the engine.
An all electric muscle-car would write a new chapter on that.
In addition, there is some political stir about making electric cars noisier, because some pedestrians don't hear them, particularly in urban environments, (a persuasive argument against jay walking).
Interesting to see how all that plays out.
"Psychopath Elon Musk"
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Those that abuse the language as Chicken Little has here, damage the language by weakening it.
For if Elon Musk is a "psychopath", then aren't we all?
Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer and industrialist; and btw, also literally a "rocket scientist". He's an asset to the nation, if not all humanity.
And while muscle-cars might seem passé to some, an all electric muscle car seems like a fun idea.
One of the thrills to a muscle-car enthusiast is the throaty growl of the engine.
An all electric muscle-car would write a new chapter on that.
In addition, there is some political stir about making electric cars noisier, because some pedestrians don't hear them, particularly in urban environments, (a persuasive argument against jay walking).
Interesting to see how all that plays out.
"Psychopath Elon Musk"
- piffle -
* Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
Text Drivers are Killers
Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Are you insane??? Why do we make cars that will do twice the speed limit?. Why do we put internet access in cars.? The car makers design cars to get in crashes since that makes them more money. Car crashes mean car sales. THINK, you blithering idiot.
I deduce we have never met.
I've never reviewed your profile, or your résumé.
But from your #5 I deduce the following:
- On the emotion to logic spectrum, you not only lean heavily toward emotion, but you do so to the exclusion of logic.
- You do not have a college degree in engineering.
- Your posts tilt toward extremisms.
One at a time:
Several reasons.
Your Utopian view of marginally adequate vehicles already exists, like these little beauties in Jakarta.
But in addition to not meeting U.S. safety or pollution standards, they also bog down going uphill. And Americans are too impatient for that.
In addition, running most automotive engines at full throttle all the time tends to wear them out quicker. They last longer if they're not at their limit most of the time.
For emergencies.
To give passengers something to do.
To give stranded motorists additional communications options, in a breakdown, collision, or other emergency.
For directions, or other information (nearest restaurant, fuel station, hotel, etc.)
The opposite is true.
Cars are much safer today than they were just a few decades ago.
It's more than just the collapsible steering column, seatbelts, and air-bags. It's also:
radial tires instead of bias ply
4 wheel power disc brakes
anti-lock brakes
stability control
In my lifetime, stopping distance have been cut nearly in half by these multiple incremental advancements. Yet the posted speed limits don't change.
Chevy doesn't close its budget gap doing collision repair.
Manufacturers prefer their $money up front, selling cars better designed to avoid crashes, than causing them.
That's not only market driven. It's also government mandated, NTSB, etc.
It all comes down to operator/owner responsibility. Neither is dangerous if used with a little common sense.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
not true.....do we have background checks before you can buy a car?......
reductiones ad absurdum
One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower
than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.
It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA
Top Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.
Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitro
methane per second. A fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate
but with 25% less energy being produced.
A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the
dragster's supercharger.
With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive,
the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition.
Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by
which quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are
determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front
temperature measures 7,050 deg F.
Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the
stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water
vapor by the searing heat of the exhaust gases.
Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of
an arc welder in each cylinder.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After
halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust
valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel
flow.
If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro immediately builds up in
the affected cylinder and then explodes with sufficient force to blow
cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
In order to exceed 300 mph in 4. 5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an
average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph (well before half-track),
the launch acceleration approaches 8G's.
Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed
reading this one sentence.
Top fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under
load.
The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm.
Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and
for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimate $1,000.00 per second.
The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.428 seconds for
the quarter mile (11/12/06, Tony Schumacher, at Pomona , CA ). The top speed
record is 336.15 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony
Schumacher, at Hebron , OH ).
Putting all of this into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter 'twin-turbo' powered
Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and
ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the
advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears
and blast across the starting line and pass the dragster at an honest 200
mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment..
The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down
hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and
within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the
finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200
mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed
you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course.
Those Top Fuel engines are producing in excess of 10,000 horsepower now.
The redline is 8500 RPM, too.
Also, they only run 1000 feet, not the traditional 1320 (ever since Scott Kalitta was killed).
Anything else you want to know about Top Fuel engines?
ETA; The top speed is held by a Top Fuel Funny Car at 339+ mph (at 1000 feet).
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Thanks R6,
I don't have a date, or source for the above, but found it interesting when I originally found it, however dated it may be. Any idea how long ago it was originally written?
The obvious question is, in the foreseeable future, will there ever be a self-contained electric (meaning not connected by cable to a nuclear power plant) that can beat such racers?
I'm guessing, with current battery technology, the energy density is simply too low.
I don't have a date, or source for the above, but found it interesting when I originally found it, however dated it may be. Any idea how long ago it was originally written?
The obvious question is, in the foreseeable future, will there ever be a self-contained electric (meaning not connected by cable to a nuclear power plant) that can beat such racers?
I'm guessing, with current battery technology, the energy density is simply too low.
But we also have mandatory seat belt laws, air bags, inspection requirements, registration, liscenses, liability insurance, etc., etc.,etc., guns, none of the above, we got to be the only developed nation in the world that makes it easy for a wannabe mass murderer to act out his wishes
No but we do have personal and insurance requirements before you can operate one
cawacko
Well-known member
It's the same answer every time, Constitutional right.
Almost true.
In New York State there are handgun registration requirements which vary.
In NYC they're reportedly very strict, rendering it almost impossible to obtain one.
In rural NY (most of NY is rural) handgun permits may be more easily obtained, though I don't know the details among the many varied jurisdictions.
I gather it's often handled at county level by the sheriff's department, perhaps in conjunction with the State Police.
And long guns can involve licensure as well, as hunting in New York generally requires a hunting license; and such license can even be specific to the type of weapon:
bow
crossbow
muzzle loader
conventional center-fire
small game (which can include rim-fire)
There's a separate category for trapping, and legal exceptions for farmers / bee wranglers, if bears are destroying their colonies.
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
When it comes to dumbfuckery, TDAK never fails to disappoint. 
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Bullshit alert. If all that was true they wouldn't have the thing running and spinning before take off. Electric, instant, silent, clean,
