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Volvo introduces Pedestrian airbags, and its loving stupid. http://youtu.be/X2Aw4eZoijk
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popup hoods have been a pedestrian safety thing for a while now. I haven't seen them much in the states, but in europe they are much more common (maybe even required by law?) http://world.honda.com/news/2004/4040824_02.html http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/02/nissan-skyline-to-adopt-pop-up-engine-hood/ Looks like the volvo one just adds a little extra bag onto the windshield as well though. peepsalot fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Aug 25, 2012 |
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Aug 25, 2012 08:53
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Soon we'll have to drive around loving jumping castles just to prevent killing the idiots who are too stupid to look both ways before crossing. Content: Motor Trend's second "greatest drag race" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaS7n6qKQe4
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Aug 25, 2012 09:17
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^^ I wonder if they used one of the two launches the GTR gearbox can do. ^^Hello Spaceman posted:Soon we'll have to drive around loving jumping castles just to prevent killing the idiots who are too stupid to look both ways before crossing. It's actually one of the reasons the MINI got a visual redesign in 2007. The old design did not meet pedestrian impact standards. Where I work, I have to dodge jay walkers glued to their smart phones on almost a daily basis. We had at least one hit and injured this year. Which resulted in several company wide notices about not j-walking. Which of course didn't help. The result is having to protect people who won't protect themselves. Annoying, but that's society. Extra note: If you live in NYC, jay walking is a loving art. The best ones are attentive and calmly stroll across traffic. The bad ones are hit by cabs. I miss NYC. Aurune fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Aug 25, 2012 |
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Aug 25, 2012 09:37
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Hello Spaceman posted:Soon we'll have to drive around loving jumping castles just to prevent killing the idiots who are too stupid to look both ways before crossing. Yeah, I know right? We should be fitting loving spikes to the front of our cars. After all, how else are we going to teach these idiots to look both ways if not by impaling them on loving spikes.  What the gently caress is wrong with you?
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Aug 25, 2012 10:24
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mutt2jeff posted:Volvo introduces Pedestrian airbags, and its loving stupid. The thing about airbags is everyone thinks that when you crash, they deploy 100% of the time, always. They don't. Working at an auto auction for pushing 15 years now, I've seen literally thousands of cars that have been in accidents. A not small percentage of those had airbags that did not deploy in a crash for whatever reason, including some devastating frontal collisions that resulted in serious injury or death. They help, but always wear your seatbelt, and if you're a pedestrian, watch where you're loving going because you can avoid being hit better than a car can avoid you. e- also, lol @ the BR-Z in that Motor Trend video. It got crushed, then did a donut because it's a happy lil car. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! The fact that you can buy a Mustang or Camaro that runs high 11's/low 12's from the factory loving blows my mind. 11.6 from a Mustang, goddamn that's fast. e2- Also from the Motor Trend channel, the guy that started the Pro Touring scene is pitted against the ZL-1. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Aug 25, 2012 |
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Aug 25, 2012 12:27
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You know what gets hit many hundreds or thousands of times more than pedestrians? Deer. I cant wait until what would be a minor deer strike totals a new car because that airbag went off and hosed everything up. In other news, enjoy this hour and a half recap of the "Camel Trophy", the land rover years. http://youtu.be/UGWp8R-IqoE
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Aug 25, 2012 21:18
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psychoticmeow posted:Yeah, I know right? We should be fitting loving spikes to the front of our cars. After all, how else are we going to teach these idiots to look both ways if not by impaling them on loving spikes. I've been involved in a pedestrian accident. A commuter stepped out of a taxi and immediately ran across the road. He was hit by one car, which flung his body under the wheels of my car. The crunch of his legs and skull under my wheels is what killed him. No amount of airbags could have saved him. Cars are dangerous, sure, but people are stupid. That's what the gently caress is wrong with me.
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Aug 25, 2012 21:40
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Hello Spaceman posted:
 or did you just want to tell your cool story
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Aug 25, 2012 23:41
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I can't wait to see a big airbag deploy in the middle of a windshield when one of those things hits a bird or something.
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Aug 26, 2012 01:28
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Or you know, maybe if the taxi was fitted with something to soften the impact that meat bag wouldn't have bounced so far and fallen beneath your vehicle? Peanut President posted:I can't wait to see a big airbag deploy in the middle of a windshield when one of those things hits a bird or something. Sounds like something the Mythbusters could put to rest with a bird cannon. I don't know if they'd build a deer cannon though... Here, have a Datsun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEyXVYavc0M Anarchist Mae fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Aug 26, 2012 |
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Aug 26, 2012 02:54
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velocityJE posted:so get rid of all airbags, i see your point. good job I was talking about pedestrian airbags. psychoticmeow posted:Or you know, maybe if the taxi was fitted with something to soften the impact that meat bag wouldn't have bounced so far and fallen beneath your vehicle? Tell me more about the physics of getting hit by a car at 50 miles per hour.
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Aug 26, 2012 07:59
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Peanut President posted:I can't wait to see a big airbag deploy in the middle of a windshield when one of those things hits a bird or something. Well, regular airbags don't deploy when that happens, so I'm not sure why they'd decide to throw out any and all knowledge of impacts and just create these to go off when you hit a pigeon.
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Aug 26, 2012 13:06
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Hello Spaceman posted:Tell me more about the physics of getting hit by a car at 50 miles per hour. Why don't you, since you seem to Here, have a Peugeot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLtkJyZ2yhc
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Aug 26, 2012 14:28
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I like this invisible bicycle helmet/scarf airbag thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZGTOLBvek
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Aug 26, 2012 17:04
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Preoptopus posted:I like this invisible bicycle helmet/scarf airbag thing. I could watch the bit at 3:30 all day long. I just don't see something like this catching on, though.
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Aug 26, 2012 18:19
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mlmp08 posted:Well, regular airbags don't deploy when that happens, so I'm not sure why they'd decide to throw out any and all knowledge of impacts and just create these to go off when you hit a pigeon. Yes they do, I've seen it happen.
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Aug 26, 2012 18:47
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Dave Inc. posted:I could watch the bit at 3:30 all day long. I just don't see something like this catching on, though. I made this for you: 
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Aug 26, 2012 19:26
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Fast and Furious: Turbobrick edition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7NKwDBGSBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7NKwDBGSBI
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Aug 27, 2012 00:38
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Sirveaux posted:I made this for you: This makes me unreasonably happy, thanks.
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Aug 27, 2012 01:27
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This seems like a poor decision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6qVhRHfkGQ
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Aug 27, 2012 06:47
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hitze posted:This seems like a poor decision At least he didn't crash like this guy in a late-model GTO, as the cop directing traffic watches in bemused disbelief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5PN3ocLvkQ
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Aug 27, 2012 07:27
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hitze posted:This seems like a poor decision Lewis Hamilton did it a couple of years ago... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0rsGw21rcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk8JlxZiZ8o
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Aug 27, 2012 08:45
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Aurune posted:Lewis Hamilton did it a couple of years ago... They impounded his car for doing a burnout?
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Aug 27, 2012 17:31
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Preoptopus posted:They impounded his car for doing a burnout?
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echomadman posted:Fast and Furious: Turbobrick edition Haha, some of the clips were from outside the office building I work in. Jesus loving christ we have a lot of white trash in this area.
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Aug 27, 2012 21:44
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hitze posted:This seems like a poor decision E36 M3 owner? loving shocking.
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2012 BMW DTM Gearbox Assembly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=?GsDOXmVgsLw Shhhh.
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Aug 28, 2012 23:54
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blambert posted:2012 BMW DTM Gearbox Assembly Fixed that for ya.
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Aug 29, 2012 03:40
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wolrah posted:Fixed that for ya. So that guy in the white shirt. His *job* is to stand there and watch the other guys work? I bet he gets paid more than them too!
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The Locator posted:So that guy in the white shirt. His *job* is to stand there and watch the other guys work? I bet he gets paid more than them too! He's probably their boss and either wanted to be in the film or is there to make sure everything goes perfectly for this bit of advertising/showing off. He could be quality control as well.
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I've never seen such an angular bellhousing before (and the tail housing/rear diff opening is square). Burly. e: Interesting that it still seems to use a starter (there's a hole for the flywheel teeth to come out of). I assumed they just push started these things or did whatever F1 cars do. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Aug 29, 2012 |
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Aug 29, 2012 05:05
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Seat Safety Switch posted:or did whatever F1 cars do. They stick the drive shaft of a external starter motor into the the back of the transmission. Kind of like a giant gas powered rc car. Crappy video here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al6Yz3Nv7dY Edit: This is also why F1 cars have that nifty anti-stall system.
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Do not watch this video while under the influence of mind altering substances.  quote:The last few minutes of a 1984 GM diesel mechanic training "DiscoVision" laserdisc turned into a skipping, garbled mess due to "laser rot".
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Aug 29, 2012 12:12
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SouthLAnd posted:Do not watch this video while under the influence of mind altering substances. It's like an Aphex Twin music video.
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Aug 29, 2012 12:34
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Toyota 86 drift car (with an IS-F V8 shoehorned in) even the Pro's get it wrong sometimes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMymbwaDHU undertyred and lacks a bit of grunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtarthCREqk ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Aug 30, 2012 |
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Aug 30, 2012 05:31
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Pretty cool video of all the effort that went into moving a Giant pressure vessel over roads. http://youtu.be/3PH0idBnJj4
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Aug 30, 2012 21:20
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Moxie Omen posted:E36 M3 owner? loving shocking. This is why I can't find a clean one anywhere
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Holy mother of god the noise.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byJ5NH5t37U
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I just came across this while trying to find if anyone has ever rallyx'ed an S2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJuzn_eFvDw The water spray kills me.
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