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OwlFancier posted:I think trying to go that fast in one would be absolutely terrifying. It's not that bad, but god help you if there's a bump.
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Apr 30, 2021 11:55
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Groda posted:It's not that bad, but god help you if there's a bump. That's still pretty impressive though. The original Beetle was about the same weight and could barely get above 60mph. Most modern cars have speed limiters anyway because the standard tires on there would explode if they let the car go as fast as it could.
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Apr 30, 2021 12:08
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:That's still pretty impressive though. The original Beetle was about the same weight and could barely get above 60mph.
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Carbon dioxide posted:This is in the owner's manual. speaking of car manuals, i had a ford taurus with a manual that said "driving 65 mph uses 10% more fuel than driving 55 mph" in a section trying to tell you to drive slower to save gas. i have always wanted to know how that sentence got written and approved for publication. not just for the obvious reason, but also because 65 mph was the sweet spot for getting the most miles per gallon out of that car
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Apr 30, 2021 16:53
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Splicer posted:I have data irritable bowel syndrome I call dibs
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Apr 30, 2021 22:40
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Splicer posted:I have data irritable bowel syndrome That must give you terrible datarrhea.
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Apr 30, 2021 22:49
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Ariong posted:That must give you terrible datarrhea. Makes it hard to keep a firm log
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Apr 30, 2021 23:29
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Lutha Mahtin posted:speaking of car manuals, i had a ford taurus with a manual that said "driving 65 mph uses 10% more fuel than driving 55 mph" in a section trying to tell you to drive slower to save gas. i have always wanted to know how that sentence got written and approved for publication. not just for the obvious reason, but also because 65 mph was the sweet spot for getting the most miles per gallon out of that car
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Apr 30, 2021 23:57
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zedprime posted:What year? Federal speed limit was 55 from 1974-1995 with an optional rural option up to 65 from 1987-1995. It was so widely ignored there was tons of outreach including getting car manufacturers to emphasize 55 on the speedo and in the manuals. The shittiest was when they made it illegal for speedometers to read out any higher than 85.
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May 1, 2021 00:02
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 Ferrari from that era.
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May 1, 2021 00:11
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Elviscat posted:
"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?" "Actually,..."
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May 1, 2021 00:12
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Captain Hygiene posted:"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?" "I am legally not allowed to know how fast I was going."
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May 1, 2021 01:10
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zedprime posted:What year? Federal speed limit was 55 from 1974-1995 with an optional rural option up to 65 from 1987-1995. It was so widely ignored there was tons of outreach including getting car manufacturers to emphasize 55 on the speedo and in the manuals. it was an early 00s model year, so i don't think the really old "drive 55" campaign was still part of the reasoning for that manual
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May 1, 2021 04:39
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Look, the Heisenberg Uncertaintity Principle says you either know exactly where you are or exactly how fast you're going but never both at once. It's a fundamental law of physics.
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May 1, 2021 07:17
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I never actually knew they were limited to 85 by law. Huh.
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May 1, 2021 12:20
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Can I put lay out the dial so that “50” is right at the top, “0” is right at the bottom, and the gap between “85” and “0” is sixty‐three and a half degrees? Then let the needle just continue right around so that “20” could be twenty miles per hour or one hundred and twenty or two hundred and twenty.
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May 1, 2021 12:44
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Platystemon posted:Can I put lay out the dial so that “50” is right at the top, “0” is right at the bottom, and the gap between “85” and “0” is sixty‐three and a half degrees? Then let the needle just continue right around so that “20” could be twenty miles per hour or one hundred and twenty or two hundred and twenty. Officer I swear, I was going 25
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May 1, 2021 15:22
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Zamujasa posted:I never actually knew they were limited to 85 by law. Huh. A lot of cars are also manufactured with a "governor" device that is designed to limit the top speed of the vehicle. Sometimes this device is there because of local laws, other times it is because the manufacturer has some business reason to include it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_(device)
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Captain Hygiene posted:"Sir, do you know how fast you were going?" I got pulled over in high school for going....92? My car was an old 84 thunderbird, And I had to have this exact conversation.
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May 2, 2021 14:32
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Lutha Mahtin posted:A lot of cars are also manufactured with a "governor" device that is designed to limit the top speed of the vehicle. Sometimes this device is there because of local laws, other times it is because the manufacturer has some business reason to include it. Governors, as a discrete device, aren't really a thing anymore since almost every car has an electronic engine controller that can just be programmed with a speed limit. And they are, usually to whatever speed the tires the car comes with are rated for.
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May 2, 2021 14:47
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The German luxury automakers discovered that they could build monstrously powerful cars, electronically limit them to 155 mph, then charge extra to take the limiter off.
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A whole lot of interesting techniques were used after the "speed wars" between Japanese motorcycle manufacturers, basically the Japanese government said "stop dickwaving about top speed" and the various manufacturers all used different methods so that noone could claim which bike was fastest, from blanking the speedometer above a certain speed, to electronic limiters, to nothing, but claiming the bike's top speed was that of "the agreement" (170MPH IIRC)
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May 2, 2021 18:49
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:I got pulled over in high school for going....92? My car was an old 84 thunderbird, And I had to have this exact conversation. Hey I had an 84 thunderbird too! Goddamn that thing was a turd. 5L V8 making what like 150hp? Ugh, couldn't even get that thing to spin the tires when in the wet. But it did teach me the importance of parking competently so I could actually open the huge rear end door wide enough to get out.
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Volvos are all made with a 160kph limiter now, AFAIK.Phanatic posted:The shittiest was when they made it illegal for speedometers to read out any higher than 85. When you're going fast, does the exact speed even really matter?
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May 2, 2021 20:25
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I had a car once where the speedometer actually had an electronic problem that made it read out like fifteenish mph slower than it was going. Got a rundown from the garage and everything. Didn't help me with the speeding ticket, they said I should have been gauging off other traffic. If I had I'd have been going fifty over
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May 3, 2021 01:30
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KozmoNaut posted:When you're going fast, does the exact speed even really matter? When this car hits... slightly above the speedometer's limit, you're gonna see some serious poo poo.
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Elviscat posted:A whole lot of interesting techniques were used after the "speed wars" between Japanese motorcycle manufacturers, basically the Japanese government said "stop dickwaving about top speed" and the various manufacturers all used different methods so that noone could claim which bike was fastest, from blanking the speedometer above a certain speed, to electronic limiters, to nothing, but claiming the bike's top speed was that of "the agreement" (170MPH IIRC) In Europe there became this kind of fear about bikes so fast the cops couldn't catch them etc around the time of the Honda Super Blackbird and the magic number was 300 kph (so about 185 mph). So after that there were just a rash of bikes with a listed top speed of 299 kph, because obviously that's fine.
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I literally yelled "gently caress you" at the screen so gj
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May 3, 2021 19:19
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OwlFancier posted:I literally yelled "gently caress you" at the screen so gj Turn on your monitor.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:A lot of cars are also manufactured with a "governor" device that is designed to limit the top speed of the vehicle. Sometimes this device is there because of local laws, other times it is because the manufacturer has some business reason to include it. I should clarify that I meant the speedometers, not the cars themselves; it was more that it suddenly made sense as to why most of the older vehicles I've been in topped out there, while any of the more modern ones tend to have arbitrary maximums. E: nothing's quite as funny as seeing 150mph or higher on a speedometer. Make half the range useless, sure.
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May 3, 2021 23:43
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OwlFancier posted:I literally yelled "gently caress you" at the screen so gj
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KozmoNaut posted:Volvos are all made with a 160kph limiter now, AFAIK. Fun fact: if I had been going 95 in that highschool speeding incident, I would have gone straight to jail (at least that’s what they told me)
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That illustration was funnier when I thought that the character’s left ear was his melty left eye.
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May 7, 2021 07:15
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I love that the last one says a very understated "not beneficial for skin or eyes" when the diagram is showing it piercing the cartoon man entirely and coming out the other side.
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May 7, 2021 08:41
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thankfully they sell firearm laser sight mounts that fit their 6000mW laser, ensuring that it is never improperly pointed at anything
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Why not mount the big laser in the 10kw range on a stick? If it's punching though skin and bone who needs bullets?
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Outrail posted:Why not mount the big laser in the 10kw range on a stick? If it's punching though skin and bone who needs bullets? Usually higher powered lasers take far too much power to be practical as weapons. Particularly as portable weapons.
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