Most of this is due to improperly installed HID conversions (Putting HID bulbs in without projectors/fake projectors).
It's actually dumber than that. It's putting in the wrong HID bulbs. You can get ones that put the arc in the right place, the same place that the halogen filament would be.
I use extra bright rear fogs on my car to deal with asshole tailgaters
I use the phone to call the cops on people who activate a white light on the rear of their car while proceeding forwards, because it's dangerous.
If you don't want people behind you, pull your slow ass over. That's what I do when I am driving the minivan over the grade and someone inevitably catches up to me. I just get the fuck out of the way, both because that's what I would want them to do for me, and because what do I want them back there for anyway?
If you won't get out of the way when someone wants to go faster, you're not just part of the problem, you're the whole problem.
The location and color of the various car lights are fairly standardized.
What? Who told you that? The landscape is complicated for all but malaise-era cars due to the existence of multiple technologies both in production and the aftermarket, and it's about to get a whole lot moreso with the proliferation of LED headlights, active-aiming headlights, and headlights like the ones discussed in TFA with other active light modulation technologies.
There are better solutions to this particular problem such as collision avoidance systems.
Audi provides those, too.
I'd rather put money into something that can "see" much further down the road than a complicated lighting system and the driver's natural vision.
The only company with more self-driving tech on the road than Audi is Mercedes. Tesla is supposed to come right up to speed with an upcoming software update, we'll see.
In practice diesel cars average about 25% efficient, gasoline cars about 20%. They're slowly improving, mind you.
Mostly the gassers, and mostly by becoming more like diesels. I'm not complaining, though; far from it. I'm looking forward to the trend proliferating. After all the time I've spent cursing FoMoCo, it feels odd to be singing their praises now, but Ecoboost has got me doing that.
What I want is a diesel PHEV Impreza. We don't get any diesel Subarus here yet, though. Motortrend suggests that the world may get a PHEV diesel successor to the Tribeca, perhaps by 2017 Subaru will suck it up and do what it takes to offer diesels here. But I want the smallest vehicle in the range, not the biggest...
6: Is it bad for the environment if spilled? Propane if spilled will eventually disperse in the air (or go boom). Gasoline and diesel spills make Superfund sites.
Eh, you can clean all that stuff (plus oil, too) up with fungus and diesel fuels are actually hilariously biodegradable if they don't have funky synthetic additives. It's the synthetic oils that are a bitch to deal with. They persist in the environment for orders of magnitude longer, nothing eats them. But if you just leave diesel fuel in your tank too long, you'll grow algae in it. Diesel fuel is only environmentally problematic when introduced to waterways... but so is the average bottle of shampoo.
1000kg of batteries would hold about 200kWh of electricity. That's only 80 miles of range. Which is way less than you'd practically need for a road train.
I don't know that's true. You'd have to add charging infrastructure, and charge trains while they went down the tracks. You'd have to be able to insert a charging rail every 80 miles or so. It seems feasible, if you could charge (and run off it) the whole while the train was crossing it. That seems like something which could be done.
In my imagination, the bogeys are all motorized, and the cars get batteries. That way you could split up trains in motion, strip out every other car or whatever you wanted. And it would make a scheme like this more viable. You'd need a new standard for connecting air brakes. You could connect generator cars and run them over long hauls which don't yet have charging infrastructure installed.
Note: Most supercars today are actually hybrids to improve performance, not gas economy, so there is that.
People keep saying that, but it's not strictly true. The hybrid system does improve economy. It's true that it also improves 0-60 times, etc. But you could throw shitloads of motor at the problem and do that. You would just have to burn more fuel.
battery charging efficiency of about 75%
To which charging cycle does this apply? TFA didn't specify.
Thank you Toshiba, my Excite is a nice piece of hardware but no way to upgrade.
An educated person would not have purchased a Toshiba tablet to begin with. It's true that Apple users don't have to educate themselves, but that's only because there's nothing to learn. They can buy in and take their chances and deal with whatever problems crop up and however Apple chooses to deal with them, or they can fuck off. An Android user has the option to become educated so that they can make a better decision. Before buying a Moto G I looked into how Motorola treated modders (voiding their warranty, which is sleazy but standard, otherwise accommodating them) and into how the community treated Motorola devices (quite well) and now I have excellent aftermarket support, with many ROMs to choose from.
There has to be more differences in the formulas that just the sweetener me thinks.
I didn't phrase my post at all well, and ended off on a tangent... but this is exactly the question I meant to ask with my subject.
I'm really curious if there are other differences besides just the sweetener between diet and non-diet drinks.
Your thread with drinkypoo is exactly what I've been pointing out for at least a decade: many vocal proponents of the "Linux on the Desktop!" community, while seemingly well intentioned, have no interest in hearing any feedback that isn't glowing. They have no interest in hearing what actual users want from their tools.
Bullshit, coward. My response is "you don't get a better experience from Apple, at least with Android you can fix it, with Apple you're just fucked". But hey, let him go to Apple, let him see how much fun it is to be trapped in a walled garden. What Google is doing is harder than what Apple is doing, yet they're still doing at least as good a job without having to step on your neck in the process.
I don't think that the Android experience is ideal, I just think it's better than sucking on Apple.
I haven't rooted the ECS on my car, either. Fortunately, it seems to be delivering an air-fuel mixture to the engine and igniting said mixture per requirements which allows me to get from point A to point B without having to mess with it - exactly what I want from it.
Except actually, it's tuned specifically for the EPA test, and if you were to diddle the maps, you could get both better cruising MPG and more maximum power output. And if only you knew what you were talking about, you'd know that. But you dipped into car analogies in an attempt to get easy karma, and in doing so you moved out of your sphere of knowledge — you know, cowardice.
But you realize that Google is pretty incompetent as a consumer support vendor?
They are more competent and scrupulous than Apple. That's not a very high bar, but it's good enough to drive a purchasing decision in this case. Obviously, Microsoft is not even in the running.
"Only because people keep trying to shove things into init that don't belong there" - that must be because those "shoved things" are needed for some reason
The question is whether they need to be in PID 1, or in a process PID 1 can't live without, and the answer is no, that is not the Unix way. That is the Windows way.
"It didn't need it." - it obviously does hence the emergence of replacements like Launchd, upstart, systemd
Launchd is not Linux software. Launchd is universally hated by all those with experience with it, so that is a self-defeating argument, thanks for using it. Please bring up SMF next. upstart does not have the interlocking web of requirements that systemd does.
You must be lucky on Debian.
It's not luck, it's foresight. I use it only for servers, so none of the software I run depends on systemd, and I have pinned systemd back so that it can't be installed even if I upgrade. And I am still running wheezy, and will keep doing that right up until Devuan becomes viable, or I give up and jump to something else.
My desktop is still running Ubuntu on the rare occasion that I boot into Linux any more. All the fighting and bullshit since systemd became a thing has kept me pretty solidly in Windows 7, about 95% of the time. In fact, I finally went so far as to pay for a Windows 7 license because windows "just works" while various forces keep breaking my Linux. Literally the only thing that works better on Linux any more is driver support. If I want to use my scanner, which I got cheap because Canon abandoned support from it from their driver for Windows 7 and later even though they are still using the same protocol, I have to boot Linux. But that's not Microsoft's fault, it's Canon's. I know of no scanner manufacturer which is not a complete fucking piece of shit about this.
You just seem to parrot the party line propaganda from the tin-foil hat systemd-haters.
Unlike systemd developers, I listen to users.
It takes some time to really understand how systemd works.
That is much of what is wrong with systemd. It only takes a few moments to understand how sysvinit works.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
